Keith Olbermann Rails Against Voter Registration Fraud

  •  October 22, 2008

Not, of course, the tens of thousands of instances of voter registration fraud perpetrated by ACORN and its agents in states all over the country but rather that one case of voter registration fraud involving some Republican guy that broke as a story last week.
Because tu quoque is such a persuasive argument.


Can we just admit that all voter registration fraud is bad? And that some Republican guy engaging in voter fraud does not excuse the tens of thousands of fraudulent voter registrations ACORN has filed all over the country after receiving $800,000 in cash from the Obama campaign for “get out the vote” efforts?
Probably not. Because for the left, voter registration fraud is ok as long as it helps liberals.
By any means necessary, right?

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  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/white_folks_greed_runs_a_world_in_ Joel

    Obama’s What? Who? Me? ACORN? Relationship? He gives the word disingenuous a whole new meaning.

    Let’s play a game.

    Who said this?

    Obama Acorn

    “I’ve been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work.”

    If you answered “The One” — ding! ding! ding! ding!

    You know how I know Obama said that?

    It’s on his freakin’ website.

    read the rest….

  • Oswaldo

    Oh, so NOW you’re concerned about accuracy!First tell me where anyone has hinted at throwing out ALL of ACORN’s registrations and then we’ll talk about what percentage of their million plus registrations are phony.
    (I have asked you twice now!)

    Okay. Not all of them, but one-third of them, which is just as bad:

    Mickey:

    200,000 fradulent registrations in Ohio alone. Pay attention

  • Jack

    You keep saying “tens of thousands.” I realize that you live in a fantasy land but here in the real world it’s more like hundreds.

  • dannyboy

    “One Man, No Vote!”

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/white_folks_greed_runs_a_world_in_ Joel

    It wasn’t an ACORN rally dipshit. Did you not watch the video. About 12 different Charities, Churhes, Colleges, immigrant groups, and unions were represented and in attendance. Acorn was one contingent.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob
  • http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

    Ollie B. said — Your comments about the liberals is just plain ignorant. I am glad the voter fraud was discovered and I hope everyone involved is prosecuted to the full extent of the law. So quit blaming Obama for trying to help Americans cut through all the red tape and exercise their right to vote.

    Are they ignorant? Sound spot on to me. I agree we should prosecute everyone that is committing voter fraud starting with ACORN. Then the federal government should defund ACORN because they are partisan. Lastly, Keith Overbite is a disgusting Human being and its puzzling that he is actually still on the air.

  • http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

    Voter registration fraud is illegal and a Crime no matter Who OR What group engages in it. The deliberate and countless, multiple, repeated practices of Voter Fraud registration and the encouragement ACORN continued practicing Should be looked at as a Disgrace by all American Voters. BUT as usual Dems accept it And are trying to cushion any Crimes committed by turning the focus off themselves. The USA is our country. We have a system that we all need to protect and abide by in order to secure Democracy. We really need to stop Anyone or Any group from destroying what is precious to US. No matter what or whom.

  • http://sonofasillyperson.blogspot.com/ sonofasillyperson

    all you need is a driver’s license and local address… [and it] can be a daunting process. And many people give up because the process is so confusing.

    Maybe we should just do away with the whole ‘show your ID before you board an airplane’ thing then, too, if it’s so confusing. Come to think of it, all the hassle you have to go through to get a passport is just ridiculous too – we should let anyone and everyone into and out of our country, no questions asked.

    OK, obviously that’s sarcasm. People, there’s a process for everything in this life – get used to it. And there are agencies everywhere that will aid you in the process if it’s confusing. Grow up.

  • Oswaldo

    We really need to stop Anyone or Any group from destroying what is precious to US. No matter what or whom.

    Of course, Zsa Zsa. But, while I agree that phoney voter registrations are a problem, they are dwarfed by the gargantuan and alarming possibility of discounting the votes of hundreds of thousands of honest Americans. Throwing out all the registrations gathered by organizations like ACORN (Democrat-leaning) and Outreach (Republican-leaning), hence divesting legal voters of their constitutional right to vote, because of a small percentage of phoney registrations is like using a machine gun to kill a fly.

    You keep saying “tens of thousands.” I realize that you live in a fantasy land but here in the real world it’s more like hundreds

    Exactly Jack. And such fantasizing is doing more harm than good, as I said above to Zsa Zsa who is also against destroying what is precious to our country, namely the right to vote freely, but perhaps has a different viewpoint about how to guarantee that right. I’ll refer once again to what I feel is an objective look at voter fraud with this clip:

    What is Voter Fraud?

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    John McCain speaks at ACORN rally.

    We know. You tell us that all of the time as if it is some kind of trump card.

    Do you have a point with it? MAKE IT.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    Jack – You keep saying “tens of thousands.” I realize that you live in a fantasy land but here in the real world it’s more like hundreds.

    Are you kidding? In Lake County, Indiana, ACORN turned in 5,000 new registrations. The authorities there started reviewing them, and quit after they found that the first 2,100 were all fraudulent.

    Care to revise your statement? Remember, that 2,100 is just one county and they’re not even done reviewing yet.

    Probably don’t care, egh? You’re committed to lying about the whole thing while calling those lies “the real world”.

  • patriot

    Ollie, here’s a spoiled brat for you. President Bush wanted a new US Attorney in New Mexico because the one there, a holdover from the Clinton Administration, wasn’t doing enough to investigate voter fraud. Bush fired him -a political appointee – and a few others. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and their democrat comrades in congress cried foul, ignoring the fact Bill Clinton fired ALL of his US Attorneys, because ONE was investigating him in Arkansas.

    How prescient of President Bush to want to prosecute voter fraud and have free, honest and fair elections.

    How whiny of the spoiled brats in congress, Pelosi & Reid and their comrades to try to corrupt our elections process in their favor, as though they can’t win an election honestly?

  • Oswaldo

    Likwid, Pay attention.

    I was answering Proof’s question which was: “First tell me where anyone has hinted at throwing out ALL of ACORN’s registrations”

    I said, Okay, meaning I acknowledge that nobody said ALL the registrations, but that Mickey did say: “200,000 fradulent registrations in Ohio alone.” That corresponds to roughly one-third of the 600,000 or so registrations involved.

    Which is why I said:

    Okay. Not all of them, but one-third of them, which is just as bad:

    Using the adjective “fraudulent” means they are no good and should be thrown out.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    Oswaldo – That’s bullshit, Likwid. Anybody can Google the matter and see that you’re twisting the facts.

    I don’t see you doing that. What facts were supposedly twisted? Back up your charge.

    As for “LikwidBrain” = guilty as charged. I am a “carbon based” lifeform made up of mostly water.

    What are you? Probably a robot, huh? An O-bot for fraud.

    BTW, Likwid, this also comes from your Lake County reference

    Good to know that they have systems in place to counteract the massive attempt at voter fraud engaged in by your friends at ACORN.

    But really, was that supposed to make your point? You’re not fooling anyone here. We know what the goal is. It is to overwhelm the system, thereby engendering distrust along with the easier possibility of voter fraud. With hundreds of thousands of fraudulent registrations handed in by your friends, the opportunity is ripe for fraud. You know this, which is why you defend it so passionately.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    As for the O-bot fraud supporter’s assertion that I was “twisting the facts” and if you Google, you’ll find this out:

    And in Lake County, home to the long-depressed steel town of Gary, the bipartisan Elections Board has stopped processing a stack of about 5,000 applications delivered just before the October 6 registration deadline after the first 2,100 turned out to be phony.

    That comes from CNN, not me.

    I don’t expect an apology from Oswaldo. He is a liar, after all, and casting aspirations on his honest opponents’ characters is his stock in trade.

    It’s all about Obama’s “unity”, folks. The “unity” and “change” is fraud and tearing down the very fabric holding this republic up.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    I acknowledge that nobody said ALL the registrations,

    Good! Because you asserted that erroneous piece of nonsense in two different threads.

  • http://www.wethepeopleforum.com/forum/forums.asp golfmann

    as though they can’t win an election honestly

    Can they?

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Throwing out all the registrations gathered by organizations like ACORN

    Phony straw man argument alert!
    Osweirdo: No one is suggesting that ALL of ACORN’s registrations should be thrown out. Can you provide a link to anyone outside of the little voices in your head that is suggesting that legitimate registrations be thrown out?
    Our concern is the hundreds of thousands of illegitimate and illegal registrations ACORN is responsible for.

  • ollie-B

    Can we just admit that all voter registration fraud is bad? And that some Republican guy engaging in voter fraud does not excuse the tens of thousands of fraudulent voter registrations ACORN has filed all over the country after receiving $800,000 in cash from the Obama campaign for “get out the vote” efforts?
    Probably not. Because for the left, voter registration fraud is ok as long as it helps liberals.
    By any means necessary, right?

    Rob,
    You sound like a spoiled brat who whines when he can’t get his way. You seem intelligent, so I will not waste my time explaining the “get out the vote” efforts. But, unlike North Dakota, where all you need is a driver’s license and local address, to register to vote in other parts of the country can be a daunting process. And many people give up because the process is so confusing. Nobody wants voter fraud. Your comments about the liberals is just plain ignorant. I am glad the voter fraud was discovered and I hope everyone involved is prosecuted to the full extent of the law. So quit blaming Obama for trying to help Americans cut through all the red tape and exercise their right to vote.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    Oswaldo the vote fraud endorser said, Exactly Jack.

    Uh, no. Jack was wrong.

    Okay. Not all of them, but one-third of them, which is just as bad

    So now you admit that one-third of ACORN’s registrations are fraudulent. But wait a minute, you just said that Jack was right.

    You’re not very consistent. That’s the problem with lying, Oswaldo. You’re going to have to remember all of your lies and keep them straight.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    200,000 fraudulent registrations in Ohio alone

    Potentially fraudulent. A few could be typos and honest mistakes.

  • Oswaldo

    LikwidBrain says:

    Are you kidding? In Lake County, Indiana, ACORN turned in 5,000 new registrations. The authorities there started reviewing them, and quit after they found that the first 2,100 were all fraudulent.

    That’s bullshit, Likwid. Anybody can Google the matter and see that you’re twisting the facts.

  • Oswaldo

    Our concern is the hundreds of thousands of illegitimate and illegal registrations ACORN is responsible for.

    Hundreds of thousands? Where do you get that figure?

  • Mickey

    Jack

    200,000 fradulent registrations in Ohio alone. Pay attention.

  • Oswaldo

    BTW, Likwid, this also comes from your Lake County reference

    Widespread fraud unlikely
    While Rokita and others are looking into the Lake County situation, experts said they saw little chance of voter fraud.
    In Indiana, local election officials must verify every application through a variety of sources — including the BMV, state Department of Health, a federal Social Security database, and the Department of Correction — before they are added to the voter rolls.
    The state’s voter ID law, one of the strictest in the U.S., also helps prevent voter fraud, experts said.
    The controversy, Persily said, “is distracting from what may be the real problem — under-qualified, overwhelmed precinct workers and the use of new voting technology and voter registration databases.”
    “These issues with ACORN may prove to be tiny in comparison with the problems we see on Election Day,” Persily said.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    ollie-B – But, unlike North Dakota, where all you need is a driver’s license and local address, to register to vote in other parts of the country can be a daunting process. And many people give up because the process is so confusing.

    Bullshit.

    Nobody wants voter fraud.

    Except for “liberals” who whine like spoiled brats when they get caught.

  • ashley

    And in this election… with the known ACORN fraud going on… we need to investigate every vote and prosicute every instance of voter fraud… and ofcourse it happens on both sides but in this election it is seemingly happening with the lefties in gross amounts!!!!

  • Mickey

    Ollie,

    Voter fraud has been a tactic of the Democrats for decades, especially in Chicago. It was in Chicago that the Kennedy campaign benefited from this slimy practice. You seem intelligent enough to grasp this, so here’s the deal…

    Anyone caught registering illegal voters (aliens, felons, etc) ought to face mandatory jail time and lose their voting privileges. If they are working at the behest of an organization, the organizations needs to be fined and precluded from registering any voters in the state where the offense was committed. That sentence could be mitigated by 5 percent for every illegal voter or voter registrar that enrolled illegal voters turned in, up to a maximum of 80 percent sentence reduction.

    Any person who registers illegally should face a mandatory one year prison sentence. If the person caught trying to register is an illegal alien, that person ought to be deported to his or her country of origin and be precluded from entering the United States and/or from participating in any kind of illegal alien amnesty program.

    Any person caught voting more than once ought to face a five year prison term. That sentence could be mitigated by 5 percent for every illegal voter or voter registrar that enrolled illegal voters turned in, for a maximum of 80 percent sentence reduction.

    Anyone concerned with the hardship of procuring ID ought to consider the following: Virtually every single government program, school and medical assistance plan requires ID. If ID can be produced to facilitate receiving benefits, ID can be produced to secure voting rights.

    If a citizen does lack proper identification, he or she ought to be given a provisional ballot, one of different size and color. Under no circumstance should provisional ballots be counted prior to the voter’s proper ID being produced and verified. If after 30 days that person cannot produce proper ID, that ballot shall be destroyed.

    Enough is enough.

    Democrats and Republicans who have long complained about voter fraud, ought to embrace the idea.

  • Ken

    But, unlike North Dakota, where all you need is a driver’s license and local address, to register to vote in other parts of the country can be a daunting process.

    I’ve registered to vote multiple times (due to changes of address, not fraud) and it was one of the simplest things I’ve ever had to do. Why don’t you tell us which states are so difficult?

  • ashley

    Anyone concerned with the hardship of procuring ID ought to consider the following: Virtually every single government program, school and medical assistance plan requires ID. If ID can be produced to facilitate receiving benefits, ID can be produced to secure voting rights.

    If you need an ID for an airplane ticket, passport, beer, cigerattes, at the doctors office, etc… the OFCOURSE you need one to vote… the votes have to be counted and we are only allowed 1 per person… how else would be control that… And it is NOT hard to get an ID or register to vote… it is very easy in every state I’ve ever lived in… and a state issued ID is only about $7 dollars or something very inexpensive so everyone can afford one… YOU NEED AN ID TO VOTE… period end of story!!!

    This concept isn’t rocket science!!!

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Hundreds of thousands? Where do you get that figure?

    Oh, so NOW you’re concerned about accuracy!First tell me where anyone has hinted at throwing out ALL of ACORN’s registrations and then we’ll talk about what percentage of their million plus registrations are phony.
    (I have asked you twice now!)

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