{"id":3452,"date":"2008-10-13T05:11:28","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T10:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3452"},"modified":"2008-10-13T05:11:28","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T10:11:28","slug":"acorned-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3452","title":{"rendered":"Acorned Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas starts counting their dead voters<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Linda Kay Hill, a homemaker and Louisiana native, died Aug. 2, 2006, of a heart attack, her husband recalled, and is buried at Houston Memorial Gardens in Pearland. But Harris County voter records indicate she \u2013- or someone using her identity \u2013- cast a ballot in the November election that year. Linda Hill of Woodwick Street voted in person on Election Day, records show.<\/div>\n

She is among the more than 4,000 people whose names are listed both on Harris County\u2019s voter rolls and also in a federal database of death records, a Texas Watchdog analysis<\/a> has found.<\/p>\n

And dozens of those people, like Linda Hill, have apparently cast ballots from beyond the grave, records since 2004 show. One expert says the number of deceased names used to cast ballots may be higher than what Texas Watchdog\u2019s analysis found.<\/p>\n

Instances of dead voters\u2019 names being used to cast ballots were most frequent in three elections, the November 2004 general election, the November 2006 general election and the March 2008 Democratic<\/strong> primary, the analysis found.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So on the one hand, you have Democrats whinging about electronic voting machines, and <\/em>continuously yammering about the 2000 election which, by any rational measure, was crazy but legal – basically, trying to subvert confidence in the system…<\/p>\n

…while they actively work to flood the system with counterfeit voters.<\/p>\n

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The findings come as the group ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, has faced scrutiny in multiple states for allegedly improper voter registrations \u2014 including players for the Dallas Cowboys, not in the Lone Star State, but in Nevada. The group\u2019s Nevada offices were raided<\/a> by state officials earlier this week.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s as officials in at least six states may have improperly removed tens of thousands of voters from the rolls or prevented them from registering, the New York Times<\/em> reported Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I used the word “Counterfeit” advisedly:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is subverting the ballot,\u201d said John Fund, a Wall Street Journal <\/a><\/em>columnist and author of Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy<\/em><\/a>. \u201cJust like you counterfeit dollars, we take it seriously, if you counterfeit votes we should take it equally seriously, and we should punish people seriously for trying to subvert democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That law will never pass, of course; way too many people from one <\/em>of those parties are actively profiting from that subversion.<\/p>\n

Or so it’s starting to look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Texas starts counting their dead voters: Linda Kay Hill, a homemaker and Louisiana native, died Aug. 2, 2006, of a heart attack, her husband recalled, and is buried at Houston Memorial Gardens in Pearland. But Harris County voter records indicate she \u2013- or someone using her identity \u2013- cast a ballot in the November election […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}