Had Scott not cut the days for early voting, he might have been able to pull it off. Unfortunately, the blatant crude attempts of Scott and the GOP to suppress the vote in Florida simply demonstrates why we need Federally legislated National standards for voting in Federal issue elections. Likewise, the office of Secretary of State, and those of lesser election officials should be non partisan.

Scott tried everything he could do to suppress the Democratic vote, and it backfired on him big time. Serves him right. And Obama still won the popular vote and electoral vote.

This ought to be investigated with some indictments and Rick Scott ought to be in jail and ousted from being governor. The rightwing tried every where in the swing states to use voter suppression but especially in Florida. The republican party has truly become a joke.

The real story here is that America is supposed to be the worlds leading example of how to run national elections. Oops!

It is clear to me that Florida’s voting problems were deliberate efforts by the Republican Legislature and the Governor to supress minority voting. The shorter hours and long lines affected Metropolitan areas more than the small towns and rural areas where the concentrations of red neck Republicans was greater. The new voter ID laws introduced in several states by Republican Legislatures are further efforts to frustrate the votes of the poor, minorities and elderly who statistically favor the Democratic Party.

Its time we set national standards for voting and for redistrictng. (The House majority is a consequence of Republican gerrymandering after the 2010 census… not a vote for a split government… the majority of voters voted for House Democrats.)

At this time, the Republican Party has demonstrated a willingness to do whatever it can, legal, shady and illegal, to maintain power including buying votes and intimidating voters. The Democratic Party has done similar things in the past, though not quite so well organized across the nation.

We need party-neutral national standards and procedures for redistricting, for voter identification and for voting processes which make it uniformly easy to vote.

In Oregon, for example we vote by mail in the comfort of our homes. This system has been in place for more than a decade, makes it easy for every registered voter, and has a miniscule fraud rate. It could easily be a national model for voting processes. The checks and balances within the process are worthy of the finest quality control procedures in manufacturing.

I lived in Florida for way too many years, almost 30 in all and I finally escaped to NYC late last year. My wife and I could not be any happier. On election day I went to vote, but was a little anxious and unsure of what the conditions would be like, so I went way early in case of lines.

I guess I had lived in Florida far too long…

As I said, I got to my polling place hours early, worried about parking and long lines. My polling place was in an elementary school so I was even more worried about parking. I pulled in and grabbed the first spot I could find. 15 seconds down.

I walked to the front doors, saw a nice sign with large arrow pointing to another set of doors at the end of the building to enter for voting. I walked down and entered, making a mental note of the numerous and abundant empty parking spaces directly in front of the polling place. 1 minute 45 seconds down.

The room had about 8 voting booths with curtains around them and at least two workers as you walked in to help and answer questions. I told the worker my address and he pointed me to the right precinct table. 2 minutes down… SERIOUSLY!!!

I went to my table and they could not find my name. I showed them my voter registration card and drivers license and they gave me an affidavit envelope and a ballot to vote. They explained that my name wasn’t there yet because I had just registered to vote in late July, but it would definitely be on their list for the mid-terms. 4 minutes 30 seconds down.

I went in to vote and filled out the affidavit envelope in about 45 seconds. The ballot was ONE HALF OF ONE SIDE OF PAPER!!!!! Simply divided horizontally by the various parties and office. On the top line from left to right, were all the Democratic candidates, for all the races, from the presidential to the congressional seats. I joyfully filled in the ovals with my pen. 5 minutes 45 seconds down.

I took my envelope with ballot safely sealed inside back to my precinct table, where it was put in a large, heavy duty bag with a huge lock on it. The volunteers and I chatted for a minute and they all assured me again that my name would be on the generated list next election and thanked me for voting.

Total time to vote, including walking time from my car and a brief chat at the end, 7 minutes 45 seconds… give or take a few seconds.

Yes Florida is a huge, pathetic, but very deliberate joke.

BUT… AND THIS IS THE HUGE BUT!!! The joke is on the voters of Florida because they elected an ultra right-wing, tea party conservative governor who is hell-bent on doing what he sees as his duty to the party by doing all he can to keep minorities from being able to vote. Rick Scott does not give a damn about Florida or its voters. He only cares about his profile in the party and he wanted desperately to be “the Gov. that delivered Florida for Mitt Romney”. Damn all the poor voters that had to suffer for hours, stand in that wind and rain and loose time from work.

I don’t understand why none of the articles I have read about this fiasco have NOT called out Rick Scott as being TOTALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS MESS!!!! Or pointed out the fact that …

FLORIDA VOTERS YOU DO NOT HAVE TO TAKE THIS ANY MORE!!!!

YOU CAN GET SATISFACTION BY VOTING RICK SCOTT OUT OF OFFICE IN THE NEXT ELECTION!!!!!

GOOD LUCK!!!!

Jon

The facts are starting to come out about Obozo’s fraud machine and how it likely tipped the election in his favor. Hat tip to Rachel Alexander at Townhall. Go there for the many links to evidence that are embedded herein, but are disabled for this posting.

I have no doubt that some of you leftist freaks who are reading this right now have participated in voter fraud, but are too chicken to admit it.
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Obama Likely Won Re-Election Through Election Fraud
Rachel Alexander
November 11, 2012

There were many factors that hurt Mitt Romney and favored Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election. The Democrats portrayed Romney in the worst light possible; as a wealthy, out of touch millionaire who wanted to return women to the 1800′s. The left wing media predictably did everything it could to perpetuate that false caricature. Obama’s race was an advantage; voters of all persuasions, particularly minorities, still cannot get over the allure of the first black president. The 47% of Americans on welfare were predisposed to vote for the food stamp president over Romney, wanting the free goodies to keep on giving, despite the long-term unsustainability.

In spite of those odds, polls indicated that Romney was going to win the election. The economy is close to Great Depression era conditions, and unemployment is almost as high as when Obama entered office. Economic conditions became so dire after Obama took office it prompted the rise of an entire new movement, the Tea Party. Presidents rarely win reelection when the economy is in the tank.

So how did Romney lose a race that numerous reputable polls and pundits predicted would be an easy win, based on historical patterns? The most realistic explanation is voter fraud in a few swing states. According to the Columbus Dispatch, one out of every five registered voters in Ohio is ineligible to vote. In at least two counties in Ohio, the number of registered voters exceeded the number of eligible adults who are of voting age. In northwestern Ohio’s Wood County, there are 109 registered voters for every 100 people eligible to vote. An additional 31 of Ohio’s 88 counties have voter registration rates over 90%, which most voting experts regard as suspicious. Obama miraculously won 100% of the vote in 21 districts in Cleveland, and received over 99% of the vote where GOP inspectors were illegally removed.

The inflated numbers can’t just reflect voters who have moved, because the average voting registration level nationwide is only 70%. The vast majority of voters over the 70% level are not voting because they want to, they are voting because someone is getting them to cast a vote, one way or another. Those 31 counties are most likely the largest counties in Ohio, representing a majority of Ohio voters. This means the number of votes cast above the 70% typical voter registration level easily tops 100,000, the margin Obama won Ohio by.

Videographer James O’Keefe, known for his undercover videos exposing left wing fraud, caught a Virginia Democratic Congressman’s son on video in October explaining how to commit voter fraud. Patrick Moran, the son of Rep. Jim Moran, told O’Keefe’s videographer that in order to make a vote for someone else, you’d need two pieces of identification, such as a utility bill, explaining, “they can fake a utility bill with ease, you know?” He went on to advise the videographer that he should also call the voter and pretend to be a polling company in order to make sure the voter isn’t intending to vote. He said that Democrat attorneys would be located in the polling places to assist him if challenged casting one of these illegal votes.

In another video, O’Keefe’s videographer tells a DNC staffer from Obama’s Organizing for America that she intends to vote in both Texas and Florida. The staffer laughs and says, “It’s cool.” The staffer then prints out a voter registration form for the undercover videographer and advises her on what to do if she gets caught.

These are just the known instances of attempted voter fraud. How many instances occurred that were not discovered? Obama’s Organizing for America looked up voters in swing states – many who would not have bothered voting otherwise – and got them to vote. How did they get them to vote? They may have given them rides to the polls, they may have offered to fill out and return their ballots for them, or they may have voted ballots for the ones who were not going to vote.

Many on the left believe there is nothing wrong with committing fraud in order to ensure Obama’s reelection. It is a common tenet on the left that the ends justify the means. Saul Alinsky, the 1960′s radical who inspired Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, taught community organizers like Obama that dishonesty is acceptable if it achieves your political goals. And when caught, Alinsky teaches radicals to deny the wrongdoing and change the topic to put their accusers on the defensive. One Obama supporter brazenly posted on Facebook that he was voting four times for Obama, asserting that the ends justify the means.

Aiding Obama’s win was a devious suppression of the conservative vote. The conservative-leaning military vote has decreased drastically since 2010 due to the so-called Military Voter Protection Act that was enacted into law the year before. It has made it so difficult for overseas military personnel to obtain absentee ballots that in Virginia and Ohio there has been a 70% decrease in requests for ballots since 2008. In Virginia, almost 30,000 fewer overseas military voters requested ballots than in 2008. In Ohio, more than 20,000 fewer overseas military voters requested ballots. This is significant considering Obama won in both states by a little over 100,000 votes.

Voter fraud has been in the works for years. At least 52 employees of the left wing group ACORN have been convicted of voter registration fraud. ACORN itself was convicted of the crime of “compensation,” paying its registration canvassers bonuses to exceed their quotas. In 2008, 36% of ACORN’s voter registrations were invalidated. Left wing political pundit Chris Matthews admitted last year that pretending to call someone from a polling company, then voting their ballot for them, has been happening in big cities since the 1950′s. He admitted he knows that kind of voter fraud takes place in Philadelphia.

Strong-arming people into voting who really have no desire to vote undermines our form of government. People do not choose to vote because they are uninformed about the issues and candidates, are lazy, cynical, or are content with the status quo. Voting someone else’s ballot for them is cheating the system and essentially giving yourself two votes.

When people claim that Obama won because the economy was improving, or because Americans generally think he is doing a good job, it is not true. He won through dishonest methods and rhetoric. Many of the votes cast in the swing states were cajoled, some legally and perhaps even more illegally, into supporting him. If voter fraud becomes acceptable, then maybe Donald Trump is right: it’s time for a revolution.
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Have a nice day!

The tenth rule of the ethics of rules and means is that you do what you can with what you have and clothe it in moral arguments. …the essence of Lenin’s speeches during this period was “They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.” And it was. — P.36-37 Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinsky – One of the most influential men on Obozo’s belief system

GOP the voucher party.

I can only wonder if Florida had their Sh…t together in 2000 and Gore would have won instead of Bush.

Yes Fla is a mess Early voting much shorter in an attempt to make Obama lose Well Fla -and GOP billionaires like Rove Trump lost GOP blocking everything Must stop or GOP will die off . Boo Hoo Hoo

I live in FL. We were going to try and vote early but the long line discouraged us so we waited until election day. Arrived at our precinct place to vote and were greeted at the door. Ask which neighborhood we lived in as there were 3 precincts voting in 3 separate rooms in the building. We entered our room, showed our ID, signed and got our ballots. Found open voting booths, filled in the ballot pages, went to the machine……….done. No waiting. As we were leaving, others were coming. Doubt if anyone needed to wait very long. We live in a Republican area of the state…….wonder if that makes a difference?

We are more than a conqueror!!

Until elections meet national standards we will have this partisan farce go on. The two parties shouldn’t be allowed to control elections, because both are conflict of intrest. They try to steal our rights to shift the election one way or another. Arizona is a classic example of this sham, 334,000 votes still need to be counted in Phoenix alone. Here they have done everything to deny democracy to the residents. Is it different to the voter supression used in Ohio and Penn.? Republicans stand in front of the flag and call themselves patroits until election day comes, then they become survivalists. Even Russia holds us up to ridicule. With all the technology we have, we could do this from home with computers, with password encripted votes cast. We already know how many people are registered and what address they live at, so what’s the problem. The states that have set out to deny democracy to their residents shouldn’t be allowed to display the American flag on any public building till they adhere to the requirements of free and fair elections. As of now they denegrate what has made this country great.

Amen to that Lynda.

America voted to save the country from going backward,so lets continue the trend and get all these right wing Republicans,back in there bubble.

Amazing that every where there were problems the country election board was headed by a Democrat surprise surprise!!!
And still no mention of 4 states that failed to mail out absentee ballots to our troops on time so they didn’t get to vote…..surprise surprise they all had democratic governors.
and who insured that absentee ballots from all the states never arrive for our troops why that great patriot barak obama

Florida also has so many crooked businesses. That is why I don’t do business with any company from Florida. I wonder if that has something to do with all the illegals in Florida, or people that just want to do some type of business and don’t know what they are doing, or people that just want to thieve money from the older people and anyone else who lives there and the country.

hi muffin-top. still posting, huh?

There IS hope — whispers of “Election Reform” are surfacing, and even though concerns about preserving States’ Right of Self Determination may raise ugly heads, We The People seem to have hit a point of “Give it a break — THIS is too ridiculous to allow to continue” — particularly since it surfaced in a large handful of states where it had never been an issue before, and since, due to changing demographics, it is set to happen AGAIN in two years, all OVER the place.

Don’t let the cockRoachublicans get a solid foothold, they may manage to make it WORSE if they get it together the NEXT time. As Rachel Maddow’s commentary about this subject mentioned, these lines, this chaos and ineffiency — this was very much On Purpose. Intentional. By Design.

THIS time, shame on them. NEXT time, shame on US — if we LET it happen again!!

the guy who shot trayvon should be let to put a shot in scotts head with his 9mm and the country would understand that more of why he,d do that scotts an idiot and needs to be ended get him out of office or even better out of life it self then we wouldnt have to worry of himreturning