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Dead People Voting in North Carolina
The North Carolina State Board of Elections is reporting that dead people voted in the 2012 election and that thousands of registered voters cast ballots in two states.
But how can this be? There isn’t any voter fraud in North Carolina.
That’s what Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell claimed last August when he lashed out against the governor of North Carolina for signing a new voter ID law to prevent fraud.
“You can say what you like, but there is no voter fraud,” Powell said. “How can it be widespread and undetected?”
Attorney General Eric Holder, who has filed suit against North Carolina on the basis of racial discrimination, said there is no proof that in-person voter fraud is a problem.
Democratic State Senator Malcolm Graham of Charlotte said the new law is a “step backwards for the state of North Carolina and a blow for those who are interested in fair and open elections. What this does is set forth artificial barriers for those who have constitutional rights to vote. There is no voter fraud in North Carolina. The only fraud is what the GOP is presenting to the citizens.”
Well, it turns out that Powell, Holder, Graham, and everyone else who has claimed there’s no voter fraud in North Carolina are dead wrong.
Elections officials have found that 81 residents who died before election day were recorded as casting a ballot in the 2012 election. While 30 of those voters cast their ballots before election day, Elections Director Kim Strach said, “There are between 40 and 50 [voters] who had died at a time that that’s not possible.”
The Elections Board also found that 765 registered North Carolina voters cast ballots in two states during the 2012 election. Their first names, last names, birthdates, and the last four digits of their Social Security numbers match information of voters in another state.
The cross-check also found listings for 35,750 North Carolina voters whose first names, last names, and birthdates matched those in other states. However, they didn’t have matching middle names and Social Security numbers.
“That is outrageous. That is criminal. That is wrong, and it shouldn’t be allowed to go any further without substantial investigations from our local district attorneys, who are the ones charged with enforcing these laws,” said State Senator Thom Goolsby, a Republican.
Claude Pope, North Carolina Republican Party chairman, said the potential fraud “represents a significant threat” to election integrity, and he praised the Republicans in the General Assembly for passing the voter ID law and “working to protect the integrity of the ballot box.”
The integrity of the ballot box always matters, but it is particularly vital in the upcoming 2014 election, where Republicans could gain a Senate seat from North Carolina by defeating Democratic Senator Kay Hagan—an election that is expected to be close no matter who the Republican candidate is.
Anyone who denies that the voting dead are the Democrats’ most reliable constituency is a liar, an idiot, or both.
Having been born and raised in South Texas, I can assure you that voter fraud is real. As is border violence.
But dishonest zealots – be they Democrats or open-borders nuts – will never acknowledge anything at odds with their preconceived notions of reality.
And Colin Powell is an absolute disgrace.
Is there party affiliation data available for the dead?
KP—I’ll try to find out.
I struggle to think of anyone who has fallen further in my estimation than Colin Powell. It makes me wonder if he has been abducted by aliens and replaced with a collectivist cyborg.
Do you suppose this surge in the fascination with zombies in books, television and film is really being pushed by wealthy Democrat fund raisers to prove to the rest of us that when one is classified as dead…well, one isn’t really dead. “How can they be dead? Don’t you see them walking around? Why would Republicans be so heartless as to deny them the right to vote and often…if they shuffle across state lines? There is no voter fraud. Zombies, yes. But no voter fraud.” I think Bob Hope was onto something.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a6YdNmK77k
I feel Obama stole both elections, more so in ’12 because they had the fraud perfected and I would think the Democrats plan to do it again this year. There has been no outrage, no concern, no plan of action from the GOP even though there is much evidence of fraud. We conservatives will never win if the GOP keeps giving up every election. Does that stupid 1982 “consent decree” or whatever it was that the RNC signed barring the RNC from voter fraud prevention, have anything to do with the GOP’s actions? Maybe someone could use the courts?
These dead are over 18 and residents of the state, right?
It takes gall to deny the existence of voter fraud in any state. I’m not even sure there has ever been a state without it in the long history of American government.
The worst part is that it’s impossible to measure. Is it getting worse? Has it broken elections? Maybe Snowden knows.
This is quite fitting. As it seems that the country is actually being run by the dead.
By all measurements; the people who get caught, the people thrown in jail, the number of ballots found conveniently in backseats, it’s overwhelmingly democrat, but there have been some pretty dirty republicans too. John Fund has documented vote fraud extensively and fairly in his books, Stealing Elections and Whose Counting? How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk.
My wife worked a poll in a neighborhood full of college students. She heard several students talking to each other about voting once in their home state and again here in Indiana. By the way, Indiana requires ID to vote, but an out of state ID is acceptable. Not sure if a foreign passport is acceptable… probably.
Democrats believe themselves so morally superior that they can now dispense with the rule of law. What’s a few stolen elections when the motivation is so pure and noble? When Utopia arrives, we won’t even need elections. A gulag here and there will be enough to secure domestic tranquility.
?What’s the big deal. It’s not as if the government defends our freedoms, protects our property, and let’s us live our lives as we wish.
We’ll know the party affiliation of these zombies for sure if the Democrat Get-Out-The-Vote effort results in long lines of hearses headed to the polls this November . . .
Which party howls and squeals the most in opposing reforms – they are the ones that benefit the most from the fraud. The Democrats don’t even deserve the ‘benefit of doubt’ or presumption of ‘good faith’. Too many GOP legislators fall into that nonsense “my good friend across the isle…we all agree on the same goals, we just disagree on how to get there” stuff.
The problem is that your comment may actually be factually correct – the republicans DO want the same goals as the dems. That, of course, makes them the enemy of liberty. But, hey, what’s a little thing like liberty. A liberal friend of mine made the comment that in exchange for the “security” of the TSA I should be willing to give up a few of my personal rights (like the 4 & 5th A’s), and if the people wanted something different they could always vote it. The concept of individual rights in the face of majority opposition is lost on them.
KP—I’ve been looking but I can’t find any information released on thus report about party affiliation. As for how they actually voted I font think the canknow that. Just that the votes were made.
But what made you think he was so great in the first place? He was someone the Bushes found to be an affirmative action promotee to suit their purposes. His only part was to keep quiet whil e the Bushes were in office. As soon as he could, he mainifested his true colors.
Ditto, with people like Souter, who were presented to us as something other than what they were. It is the RINO establishment who should be letting the Tea Party and true conservatives lead the way to victory. But no, they will keep their iron grip on losing.
Personally, I think the fact that all you need to vote is a body temperature above room temp is whats killing this country . It SHOULD be harder to vote. You should be able to demonstrate some knowledge about the country and constitution to vote. You should be barred from voting if your primary source of income is from the government unless you are in the military. The idiots and the eaters are destroying our Republic one election at a time.
“if a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was & never will be.”
Thomas Jefferson 1816
During the last election, the City of Rio Rancho, NM (highly Republican) was only issued 5 voting machines by the County Clerk (a Democrat). Rio Rancho had hugely long lines at the polling places and many turned away because they couldn’t wait several hours to vote. The Clerk said something to the effect that she had guessed wrong about the number that would be needed.
Totally legal voter suppression. Nothing to be done about it. She retired a couple months later as she had said she would prior to the election. The state legislature has not even brought up any rules about how many voting machimes there needs to be per precinct based on population.
You don’t have to be dead to vote and throw an election, just manipulate the ability of the opposition to vote.
But Denise – up here in the Triangle, my brother told me last year that there is no voter fraud. ‘Cuz look, there are no court convictions! How can he be wrong? After all, he listens to Talk Radio. Well, one show – Rachael Maddow.
I know. That’s what the Dems are saying. This is no big deal because it’s not proof of anything and there are hardly ever any convictions. It’s all just poll worker error. the left-wing media is playing this down big time.
Remember, though, the left doesn’t care if you stand out in front of polls with billy sticks.
It’s only when they lose elections that the left starts worrying about things like hangung chad. otherwise little things like dead people voting don’t matter.
KC, you should note, that it wasn’t that in the greater 35 thousand number, it was not that the SSNs didn’t match, but many states don’t report the SSNs so they couldn’t match them. I would guess that is true of the middle names as well, but I don’t recall. Also, some of the most numerous states, CA TX, don’t report into the database they were checking. So there could have been more.
I truely feel that this fraud is mostly a Democrat phenomenon and is more prevalent than is suspected.
Why do I feel this way? Because the Democrats doth protest too much to reasonable fixes to election law.
I am sure that those 40-50 voting dead were of the shiny variety. And how many were named Lestat?
Or related to the Cullens.