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Chris Matthews: Republicans Will Have To 'Rig The Elections'

flounder

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Chris Matthews: Republicans Will Have To 'Rig The Elections' To Win From Now On (VIDEO)


Posted: 01/22/2013 10:07 am EST







Chris Matthews said that Republicans will have to resort to rigging elections in order to win, in his commentary after President Obama's inaugural speech on Monday.

He was offering post-speech analysis on MSNBC, along with Rachel Maddow, Ed Schultz and Chris Hayes. Matthews said that it would be "frightening" if Republican lawmakers controlled states like Pennsylvania, suggesting that they would try to break up blocs of black, Democratic voters.

Maddow agreed. That could happen in "Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia [and] Ohio," she said.

"There's so much willingness to rig the elections by the Republicans," Matthews said. "They know they’re heading into demographic trouble. They know they're going to be a minority in this country. It's almost like Lebanon — we've got to fake the census now, y'know?"

"And what I see them doing is saying, 'Okay, we know we're never going to be popular again, so we're going to have to rig it," he remarked.



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I hate to tell Chris, but the rebublicans have been attempting to rig the elections for a long, long, time. the call it redistricting, re-drawing the maps for political gain. happens all the time, and in Texas, Tom Delay is a good example of the corruption and redistricting gerrymandering in Texas. now, I said a long time ago, they will wait until the right judges are in there, and he will finally walk, in my opinion. it’s all in who you know, and who ya can hum the best toon to, and how much money you can funnel there from, and the GOP is real good at this $$$ from the last election, and the voting turmoil there from the right, if left up to the right, only white, right, men, will be able to vote. ...







Virginia Redistricting 2013: State GOP Rams Bill Through Senate In Absence Of Democratic Sen. Henry Marsh

Posted: 01/22/2013 1:39 am EST | Updated: 01/22/2013 7:53 am EST







Virginia Democrats are raising hell after Republicans unexpectedly rammed a controversial redistricting bill through the state Senate on Monday, capitalizing on the absence of a Democratic lawmaker and civil rights leader who was in Washington for President Barack Obama's second inauguration.



The Virginia Senate is currently split evenly between Democrats and Republicans, each occupying 20 seats in the legislative body. Democratic State Sen. Harry Marsh's absence paved the way for passage of the previously unannounced legislation by a count of 20 votes to 19.



"The new redistricting map revises the districts created under the 2011 map," writes Talking Points Memo's Evan McMorris-Santoro, "and would take effect before the next state Senate elections in Virginia and would redraw district lines to maximize the number of safe GOP seats."



According to the Associated Press:



After the measure was sprung on unsuspecting Democrats, its sponsor, Republican Sen. John Watkins of Powhatan, defended it as an effort to create another majority black Senate district. What he didn't say is that it would create even more GOP-dominant districts.

The move apparently came as a surprise even to Virginia's Republican governor, Bob McDonnell, who TPM described as "non-committal on the new maps," possibly because of the power play's problematic optics.



State Senator Marsh practiced civil rights law before his election as the first black mayor of Richmond, Va., and later as a six-term state senator.



Virginia Democrats are vowing to challenge the move in court, according to the Washington Post.



“We talk about the dangers of legislating on the fly. Well, this is the ultimate in danger,” Democrat Sen. Don McEachin reportedly said. “The public has no idea what we’re about to do adopting this substitute, nor would they know in the next three days that it would take for this bill to ultimately pass.”



McEachin also called the stunt “secretive and underhanded.”








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Whitewing

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Yes, it's an abomination that only pubs practice gerrymandering of congressional districts. :roll:

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Mike

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Rigging Elections- You mean like allowing black minority voters "7 Votes Each" in the polling booth like they have in some areas that cannot district the minorities apart from the majority?

Agee was by far the choice of the African American voters, however. He received a vote from 67.1% of the African Americans who reported their vote in the exit poll, and 85.4% of these voters said they cast all seven of their votes for him. On average Agee received 6.28 votes from each of his African American supporters. (The other African American candidate received at least one vote from 32.9% of the African American voters, and 78.7% of these voters cast all seven of their votes for the candidate.) Agee was clearly the most preferred candidate among the African American voters, and the ability to express the intensity of their preference was critical to his electoral success.

The Chilton County experience with cumulative voting is not unique. African American voters in other settings have also been able to elect candidates of their choice through this system, as have Hispanic and Native American voters. As these experiences demonstrate, the representation of politically cohesive minority groups do not have to be dependent on where the group's voters happen to live.

A new shape threshold for election districts, if that is what Shaw requires, should not be allowed to become a convenient excuse for systematically diluting the votes of minority voters. If majority minority districts that are sufficiently attractive to the courts cannot be created, then other types of democratic election systems that do not have dilutive consequences, like cumulative voting, should be adopted.
 

ranch hand

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It is one week later and the overwhelming evidence of rampant Democrat voter fraud, corruption and theft throughout Election 2012 continues to pour in like an avalanche. Here are the top ten signs the official vote tallies have been seriously compromised:

10) In a brief "follow-the-paper trail" experiment by a local news team in Florida, at least 94 non-citizens were immediately and effortlessly caught illegally voting.

9) Barack Obama lost every single state that requires voter ID.

8) Numerous reports of Romney voters being turned away at the polls due to someone already having voted with their name, and of Democrats publicly bragging about voting multiple times and about criminally sabotaging electronic GOP get-out-the-vote systems...and an overwhelming number of poll watchers reporting widespread fraud.

7) Philadelphia polling stations where Republican inspectors were kicked out (like the one with the giant tyrant-worshiping mural to Obama on the wall and Black Panthers posted out front) had ridiculous Third World dictatorship-type results: 90% voter turnout, 99% of which went for the president.

6) At least 70,000 voters, almost entirely in swing states, reported significant problems casting their ballot correctly (imagine how many didn't file a complaint) and voting machines in Pennsylvania were found consistently switching votes from Romney to Obama.

5) At least 52 Democrats were caught committing voter fraud, and one poll worker in New York was even caught telling people they had to vote for Obama.

4) In Ohio, where at least hundreds of fraudulent voter registration cards have already been identified and one out of every five voters turned out to be bogus, Democrats were caught shipping in bus loads of Somalian voters who couldn't speak English and "helping" them vote.

3) In scores of precincts all across Pennsylvania and Ohio, Mitt Romney got literally zero votes--a virtual statistical impossibility for a major party candidate in any precinct, let alone over sixty of them.

2) Ten counties in Colorado went from around 50-60% voter turnout in 2008 (about average) to 104-140% in 2012.

1) The numbers just don't add up. Extensive surveys from mainstream, reputable organizations like Gallup, Pew and Rasmussen all demonstrated a huge party identification advantage for Republicans, and the only polls that suggested an Obama win (the only ones the news media would talk about) were ones that wildly over-sampled registered Democrats.

In a disastrous economy, Romney had a nearly 40-point advantage over Obama on the two biggest issues to voters (the economy and the budget), and all the most reliable predictors pointed to a Romney win. Over 5 million Republican voters (who turned out for completely uninspiring leftist RINO John McCain in 2008) either didn't show up or didn't get their vote counted. It's as if they simply vanished into thin air.

The numbers irrefutably indicate that this election was stolen.

For the record, Chicago "community organizer" Barack Obama, who is on the record putting ACORN at the center of his agenda, nearly lost the popular vote in this election...and there has been this much in-your-face Democrat lying, cheating and stealing throughout the process. Think about that.

And as I have noted, Obama has displayed open hostility to free and fair elections in this country at every turn, since the moment he arrived on the national scene in 2007 (see here, here, here, here, here and especially here), just as billionaire Marxist subversive George Soros suggested he should.

Additionally, other important battles across the country--particularly Republican Congressman Allen West's in Florida--have also been blatantly corrupted and hijacked.
 

Steve

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9) Barack Obama lost every single state that requires voter ID.

there is a dispute between where to draw the line..

but many states do allow non-identified people to vote.. encouraging fraud.


It is true that some state laws are more strict than others, and Romney won the four states with the strictest laws: Kansas, Georgia, Tennessee and Indiana. They require a photo ID in order to vote.

The seven other states with some type of voter photo ID law are: Florida, Michigan, New Hampshire, Hawaii (all won by Obama) and South Dakota, Idaho, Louisiana (all won by Romney). Most of those states allow voters without photo identification to cast votes, if they sign an affidavit or confirm their identities in another way. Idaho, for instance, says that a voter without photo ID (such as a driver’s license, passport or student ID) can sign an affidavit that includes the voter’s name and address.

Florida uses signature matching to determine whether a provisional ballot — cast by those without photo ID — should be counted. “Your provisional ballot will count if the signature on the provisional ballot envelope matches the signature on your voter registration application,” says the state Division of Elections. In Hawaii, voters can vote if they give their date of birth and address, and that matches the information in the poll book.

An additional 19 states have laws requiring identification — but not photo IDs. Obama won seven of them.
 
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