In a January 26, 2012 column, "Ballot Box Zombies", Deroy Murdock, National Review Online contributing editor and nationally syndicated columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service states in that online publication, "Liberals love to laugh off voter fraud.
It's "a made-up problem invented by GOP operatives," Robert Koehler snickered in the Huffington Post on January 5. Regarding ballot hijinks, Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz chuckled*: "There is almost none." Attorney General Eric Holder tittered*-, "In-person voting fraud* is uncommon."
Murdock continued, 'But the recent news is not so funny', explaining how easily anybody can vote for dead American citizens; and it was found that in some cases, the total ballots cast exceeded the winning margins confirming the need for voters to prove their identity by means of photo ID, just as they are required to do on many occasions any other day by other seemingly less critical situations, I have experienced, as simple as cashing a check at the local bank.
And he was right, because a young investigative journalist named James O'Keefe sent his organization, Project Veritas, to rock-solid and normally scandal-free New Hampshire during its primary voting season earlier this year.
Three Project Veritas vidographers visited towns of Manchester and Nashua and inquired of the poll workers if names of several deceased people were on the voter rolls and the poll workers, believing O'Keefe's people were those names of the registered voters handed out the ballots. When the ballot requesters said that they would leave and get ID the poll workers said that none was required, and the poll workers gave them the ballots, while the entire scenario was being videotaped.
O'Keefe's team members never cast these ballots. They returned them, unmarked, to precinct workers. All of this is available on videotape at ProjectVeritas.com.
Murdock continued: "New Hampshire Democrats seem unconcerned that their voter rolls contain the names of dead people and that, absent ID rules, fraudsters conveniently could vote the ballots of the expired. Instead, Democrats want to indict these whistleblowers.
"They should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, if in fact they're found guilty of some criminal act," Democratic governor John Lynch told WMUR-TV."
Democrats would have us believe that they are rigidly honest and that all persons who come to vote enjoy the same sanctity of honesty and would never vote illegally. But facts uncovered by the Project Veritas organization disprove this theory. Governor Lynch's piousness notwithstanding, there is a no-holds-barred situation when certain elements such as corrupt labor unions collaborate to hire people to vote after providing them with names of recently deceased registered voters.
Also as further evidence, South Carolina attorney general Alan Wilson told the U.S. Justice Department on January 19 that his office has documented 953 cases in which ballots have been cast by dead voters in the Palmetto State. Democrats can giggle all they want, but 953 is a potentially game-changing number of votes.
It seems that wherever Voter ID laws are discussed for potential legislation the opponents are Democrats who claim "voter disenfranchisement" of the poor and elderly and they fight tooth and nail the enactment of any sort of protective measures to preserve honesty and inviolability of the ballot box.
Republicans, however, consider this deadly serious and advocate that protecting the ballot box from any sort of mishandling or mischief is a cardinal rule of the protection of voting rights for all properly registered voters. Despite the NH Democrat Governor's latitudes that Project Veritas people ". should be prosecuted" etc., there is little evidence that he would or has done such.
But relax people, on June 5, 2012, the New Hampshire Republican controlled Senate and House passed a compromise voter ID bill to be in effect for the November 2012 elections. I think we can be certain that the puppet Democrat governor will not sign the bill or veto it outright, but that will be moot as the passage in the legislature was done with a veto-proof majority in both houses.
But as Kimberly Morin of the Manchester Political Buzz Examiner states in her June 6, 2012 article "New Hampshire passes voter ID despite the usual whining from Democrats"
"The integrity of the voting system in New Hampshire will be compromised with this legislation" stated NH Representative David Cote. "I believe that passage of this bill will result in chaos at the polls, and is unnecessary."
Spoken like a true liberal Democrat with duplicity on his mind.
Gerald A. “Jerry” McConnell, 92, of Hampton, died Sunday, February 19, 2017, at the Merrimack Valley Hospice House in Haverhill, Mass., surrounded by his loved ones. He was born May 27, 1924 in Altoona, Pa., the fifth son of the late John E. and Grace (Fletcher) McConnell.
Jerry served ten years with the US Marine Corps and participated in the landing against Japanese Army on Guadalcanal and another ten years with the US Air Force. After moving to Hampton in 1957 he started his community activities serving in many capacities.
He shared 72 years of marriage with his wife Betty P. (Hamilton) McConnell. In addition to his wife, family members include nieces and nephews.
