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Jerry Brown: Doing His Best to Kill Voter ID in California
by Thomas Del Beccaro Do you believe voter fraud is a serious issue in the United States today?  jbrown I assure you Jerry Brown – the California Attorney General – does not. Do the videos of ACORN exposed by BigGovernment.com concern you? How about facts like these: In Washington state’s disputed 2004 governor’s race, which was won by 129 votes, the election superintendent in Seattle testified in state court that ineligible felons had voted and votes had been cast in the name of the dead. In Milwaukee, Wis., investigators found that, in the state’s close 2004 presidential election, more than 200 felons voted illegally and more than 100 people voted twice. In Florida, where the entire 2000 presidential election was decided by 547 votes, almost 65,000 dead people are still listed on the voter rolls–an engraved invitation to fraud. A New York Daily News investigation in 2006 found that between 400 and 1,000 voters registered in Florida and New York City had voted twice in at least one recent election. Does voter fraud like that concern you? It doesn’t concern Jerry Brown. How do I know? It’s really quite simple. Senator George Runner of California submitted a simple and straight forward Voter ID initiative which, in part, requires that California citizens show a government ID before they vote. Senator Runner fashioned his initiative on voter identification requirements upheld by the US Supreme Court. In other words, Runner’s initiative is consistent with the law of the land. Also, keep in mind, as John Fund of the Wall Street Journal points out – time and again- “members of a bipartisan federal commission headed by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker came out in support of photo ID requirements . . . [in part because] . . . Voters in nearly 100 democracies use a photo identification card without fear of infringement on their rights.” When faced with a similar Voter ID Initiative, in 2005, then California Attorney General Lockyer provided the following title and summary for the initiative: “VOTER IDENTIFICATION REQUIREMENT. INITIATIVE STATUTE. Requires that voters present one of four types of picture ID before voting.” Why did Lockyer do that? Because Attorney Generals are required by California law to clearly and truthfully state the “chief, purposes, and points” of such initiatives. But all of that doesn’t matter at all to Jerry Brown. For his part, Brown summarized the Runner Vote ID initiative as: LIMITS ON VOTING. INITIATIVE STATUTE. Prohibits citizens from voting at the polls, unless they present a government-issued photo identification card. Establishes provisional voting for citizens at the polls who fail to present government issued photo-identification card. Why did Brown do it that way? According to Brown’s office: “Sen. Runner fails to acknowledge the troubled history of voting in our country where some have erected discriminatory barriers including poll taxes, literary tests and requirements that one own property in order to vote. Sen. Runner justifies his new restrictions based on claims of widespread fraud, but empirical evidence is to the contrary; such cases are extraordinarily rare…These restrictions are all new, and they derive from Sen. Runner and his partisan allies…” And you thought ACORN was the problem? Well, Jerry Brown is part of the problem as well – which is why Senator Runner filed a lawsuit, on October 14, 2009, against Brown for his “unfair, partial, argumentative, confusing, and misleading” Ballot Title and Summary. Oh, and perhaps the best/scariest part? Jerry Brown wants to be Governor of California again. I am sure that ACORN cannot wait for that possibility. Link ------- pic of from the article |
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Jerry Brown needs my boot upside his head.
As for voter fraud - somebody is intentionally voting in place of all those dead people! Okay, from now on, a thumb print or finger print MUST go on every ballot. Any ballot determined to be false is tracked down to the originator and that person serves a year in Sheriff Arpaio's prison for every fake vote cast. Our government is not legitimate unless the election is legitimate. Live Free |
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Jerry is looking nice and tan in that pic. Or is that Brown. We should flush the brown down
"HEY thats my opinion whats yours" |
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The same thing happens over and over again. Both side are corrupt.
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How lame is that? Why don't you just be quiet, instead of opening your mouth and showing how totally ignorant you really are? Can't defend your mascot? But you can state both sides are corrupt. Piss poor! Do you have a problem with showing you are a legitimate voter? I sure do not! |
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I LOVE PIE!!!!!
This "socialist shock doctrine" scheisse was discussed briefly on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, episode 152 (released 14 May 09) during the "Overtime" segment. It's available on iTunes.  |
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Hey Pie yout got a hole, so shut it! |
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Not having to show A VALID ACCEPTABLE ID to vote in an American election is like...
Not having to show A VALID ACCEPTABLE ID to be President of the USA.......oh wait.... |
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In plain English then (your second languish) You are an illegal, and therefore refuse to show proper identification. Link Or maybe you don't even vote, but just like to B!tch. OK, B!tch, or Illegal, which is it? |
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What are you talking about? You’re not making any sense? When did I say I'm not in favor of Voter ID? Either you're a far-right idiot or a far-left idiot you can't read simple comments. Now I'm going to explain this in simple words seeing as you barely have a very simple mind. I said that both sides are corrupt when it comes to voter rules. ...Oh and English isn't my second language, it's first and only.  |
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OK, it is settled then. You are a b!tch. GOP never came up with anything like Acorn. Who'd you vote for in 2008? |
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Go back in time to the 2000 elections, it's fair to say that there was something fishy there. Not to sound bias, but it should of been looked at more. Unfortunately I wasn't old enough to vote in the 08' election, but i will be there for the 10'. |
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What happened in the 2000 election was that large member-financed groups like the NRA got the word out about Al Gore's lies. Al Gore was bashing the oil industry - NRA and others pointed out that his family was heavily invested in Occidental Petroleum that was raping South America and destroying tribal lands.
Even Bill Clinton credited the NRA with defeating Al Gore by getting the word out to its members. That's why the McCain-Feingold Campaign Fianance Reform law was created - to silence the NRA, to make it legally punishable for groups like the NRA to speak of a specific candidate within 60 days of an election. Meanwhile, Leftists got busy creating groups that could skirt that law, groups like MoveOn.org, that because of their particular tax status could say whatever they wanted. Those are key points that I remember from the 2000 election. One more - both Al Gore and GW Bush swore on the campaign trail to finish the job Clinton had started with the Iraq Liberation Act and the massive bombing of Iraq in December, 1998. Once a Republican was elected, Democrats suddenly pretended to have amnesia and pretended Bush was starting a war, invading a sovereign nation (as if there wasn't already an ongoing war there) and so on. For the sake of their political games, Democrat politicians lied like the assh*les they are. Democrats ARE YOUR ENEMIES. Live Free |
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OK, so you weren't "old enough" (18) in 2008? And you want to reference back to when you were 10 years old? I had no idea I was conversing with a mouthy child. Had I, I would have spanked your a$$ and sent you out to play. Get lost! And what was fishy in 2000 was Al Gore being the little B!tch that he has always been. Hate to burst your tiny bubble, but Al Gore (D) didn't invent the Internet either. |
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What's scary is that's what happens when 10 year old's are fed political bias in their schools. They grow up believing whatever they were taught in their public schools about "who's right" (democrats) and "who's wrong" (republicans). Just think how all these kids you see in Obama praise videos are going to turn out in 10 years. Godumb4ya is a perfect example of why public schools need to keep politics out of the classroom completely. They're not old enough to be able to form accurate opinions by themselves until after high school, so whatever opinions their teachers feed them they take as fact, since that's the only side they ever hear. |
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