But I doubt John Fund or that weaselly Hans von Spakovsky will notice:
Four staffers of former U.S. Rep. Thad McCotter, R-Livonia were charged today in connection with the false nominating petitions that led to McCotter’s departure from Congress.
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette described the four as “not simply Keystone Kops running amok … criminal acts were committed.”
He said the petition forgeries and cut-and-paste jobs on the petitions “would make an elementary art teacher cringe.”
Schuette said the McCotter staffers also likely did the same thing in the 2008 elections, using 2006 petition signatures.
Morans.
David Koch
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eric
this goes to show that both sides do it. First the black panthers; now the gray pumas.
Matthew Reid Krell
I guess my first comment got moderated. Oops. Maybe it’ll come back, maybe not.
The Moar You Know
Unpossible. Only brown people can commit election fraud.
BGinCHI
So if we was elected illegally, doesn’t that void the whole House of Reps?
Just checking.
Villago Delenda Est
When Rethugs bitch about something, it’s projection.
EVERY SINGLE MOTHERFUCKING TIME.
The Moar You Know
If a white person does it, it is not a crime.
David Hunt
@BGinCHI: That logic only applies in a Democratic controlled House and Democratic election fraud. That’s not as unlikely as it seems as Democratic election fraud is, definitionally, the only type of election fraud that exists.
Face
OT:
When Bush is not involved, then ABC can call waterboarding torture.
Martin
I don’t see what the problem is. Those 4 almost certainly have state issued ID.
dr. bloor
Not mutually exclusive.
Villago Delenda Est
@Matthew Reid Krell:
You may have used one of FYWP’s “magic words” that toss you into moderation hell automagically.
For example, a casual reference to what is known in a convoluted manner as a “gaming venue”. There are many of these in Las Vegas and Atlantic City, for example. Then there are some parts of the male human anatomy associated with products that are often advertised by massive email advertising campaigns.
Be on your guard!
shortstop
Uh oh. This isn’t going to prompt old Thad to issue another 50,000 words of overwrought prose he thinks makes him sound erudite, is it?
shortstop
@Villago Delenda Est: How did “gaming” get through?
Villago Delenda Est
@Face:
They won’t call the shitstain a shitstain, or a deserting coward, either.
But he is both.
sharl
At that link to the Detroit Free Press site, the photo of the dude at upper left just screams out “TRUST ME!” and “I GOT YER VOTIN’ GRAVITAS RIGHT HEAH!”
Yeah, it’s ‘lookism’, but I don’t care; I’m just a bad, bad person.
scav
Can’t. Stop. Laughing.
Villago Delenda Est
@shortstop:
“Gaming” is just fine. It’s “gamb1ing” that is BAD.
Which is why the industry prefers to call it “gaming”.
Culture of Truth
That is utterly ridiculous. They don’t teach art anymore.
Hill Dweller
Charlie Pierce has a good post up talking about the suppression efforts going on in Ohio. They stopping extended hours for voting in urban, Democratic leaning counties, but continuing extended hours in rural, Republican-leaning counties.
The Ohio Secretary of State just announced a new policy allowing online address changes, but not new voter registrations. In order to change your address, you’ll need four forms of ID. That’s right, four forms of ID to change your address, despite already being registered.
The Republicans are fascists.
Haydnseek
Watch. None of these assholes will ever occupy a room in the Graybar Hotel. Hell, I’ll be surprised if they even wind up having to pay a fine. “Criminal acts were committed.” Yeah, we’ll see just how “criminal acts” by these dicknoses will be treated. Probably a few weekends of picking up trash along the freeway, if that. Fuck it.
shortstop
@scav: No kidding. Pass me that kleenex, I’m cryin’ over here.
Anoniminous
Obviously this is Yet More evidence public schools are not turning-out the skilled graduates society needs. A private school would have taught the students to be accomplished forgers.
Catsy
@Villago Delenda Est: This.
General Stuck
I just about had it up to here with the malignant sense of entitlement puke funneled around the clock by carnival barking pundits, and newsies, not to mention the delicate flowers on the left, fanning themselves at the tone of it all. It all makes me ashamed to be a white man in a white man’s world, and a white man’s world IS precisely why it is fucked up. It is not that they are inherently evil or incapable of acting like caring, moral human beings. It is because they are spoiled rotten by other white people voting for them NO MATTER HOW MANY THINGS THEY BREAK in some gold fever pathos that drives them to the edge of the cliff, taking the rest of us with them. All justified by via some outsized image of themselves as God’s ordination that they are exceptional and must run things and to hell with the rules that don’t apply to them in their pea branes.
So what do they do? They monkey wrench democracy, over and over again, whilst making it harder for people to vote based on fraud that doesn’t exist, except for them cheating from within. Big Fucking White Babies is what they are, that cannot become a minority fast enough. If you ask me, and even if you dint.
The Other Bob
In related news reguarding the election to replace Congressman
LurchMcCotter:On Tuesday the R’s nominated a crazy Tea Party ass, while the D’s nominated the former head of medicine of a major area hospital.
The Other Bob
…and one more thing:
ACORN!
kay
@Hill Dweller:
One of the things that was a sort of “tell” for voter suppression in our history was forcing certain people to re-register. It was a common tactic. The voter would register properly and then new rules would appear that would force a re-register.
Anyway, judges got wise to it as a tactic and disallowed rules that were so extensive that they amounted to “re-register”.
4 forms of ID to change an address sounds like it meets that bar, so look for a legal challenge. It’s a “badge” (indication) of voter suppression efforts the lawyers can draw the judges attention to, because it was common in the south.
They are really going all in.
Just Some Fuckhead
@General Stuck: Oh my gracious, who is the Huey Newton lookalike? mmmhmm!!
NotMax
Mentioned this previously.
A report meriting a front page post? Here’s one yes vote.
Reuters sources: US sweetens proposal for return of Taliban prisoner Bowe Bergdahl
General Stuck
@Just Some Fuckhead:
I’m fer people power, not black or white power. Telling you would frame your comment that way. But I already knew.
Just Some Fuckhead
@General Stuck: Sorry, it was just so different from Hillbilly Stuck that I was moved to comment. I shoulda just let it pass.
:)
kay
@Hill Dweller:
One of the things that hurts us in Ohio is there wasn’t a history of voter suppression, so there isn’t that much (state) case law. This started in earnest here in 2006, so there’s this sort of presumption that voter suprression is ancient history that doesn’t apply here.
You really want to bash your head on the table with the state judges in Ohio. It’s like they need a taped confession.
Anyway, Democrats go straight to federal court, where apparently judges can conceive of malice or ill-intent. Our state court judges seem as trusting as little lambs. “Voter suppression! My word, but you’re shrill! Who would do such a thing!”
Thank God federal judges are a tad more cynical.
burnspbesq
Excellent. Give them the fair trial they are entitled to, and if they are convicted, bury them under the fucking jail. And every time that a Republican dares to utter the words “voter fraud,” throw a copy of the indictment in their face at maximum velocity.
burnspbesq
The Weasels’ lawyers would like a word with you regarding your uncalled-for defamation of their clients.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
It has been so great. One of my old classmates did the “People are voting illegally.” She’s conservative, so I knew what she meant by “people”. So, I have posted just about every link that comes up either here or at GOS about election fraud. There have been so many Republicans that I don’t hear much about it any more.
Caz
That’s why we need photo ID laws!