Video: Chicago’s long history of electoral irregularities explained
posted at 8:27 pm on February 6, 2008 by Allahpundit
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They led us to believe it was corruption — because the truth was too terrible to reveal. A short clip, my friends, but the quote of the day lies within. Click the image to watch.
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“utter stupidity”… sums up chicago politics pretty well.
Texas Rainmaker on February 6, 2008 at 8:31 PM
It’s good to know that democracy is in safe hands.
Pent. on February 6, 2008 at 8:33 PM
And Huckabee taking the South?
Same.
silverfox on February 6, 2008 at 8:34 PM
The 49th ward is where that lawyer who keyed that Marine’s car lives. It’s commie land.
LtE126 on February 6, 2008 at 8:34 PM
OMG!
I kept looking for The Onion symbol.
Vigilante on February 6, 2008 at 8:35 PM
Nice of the guy to not point to where the utter stupidity lied.
Dusty on February 6, 2008 at 8:37 PM
“Democracy is an illusion” — Hari Seldon
[if he didn't say it, he should have]
rockhauler on February 6, 2008 at 8:37 PM
the malicious intent is that someone that utterly stupid was in charge
modin5540 on February 6, 2008 at 8:39 PM
Invisible Ink, Invisible Ballots, Invisible Voters.
The Democratic Party…Don’t worry, we’ll let you know who you voted for. And if not, don’t worry. We’ll find someone to vote for you.
PappaMac on February 6, 2008 at 8:42 PM
The worst part is their votes count as much as ours…assuming they have working pens of course. I’m with Boortz…there just HAS to be some sort of test for voters’ votes to count.
SouthernGent on February 6, 2008 at 8:48 PM
I still remember that English paper with the ‘how could so many people be so stupid?’ headline after Bush got re-elected
Good to see the right isn’t above having the same attitude towards not only the left, but their own as well
Thumbs up.
Reaps on February 6, 2008 at 8:53 PM
I like his frankness: “utter stupidity”
jediwebdude on February 6, 2008 at 8:55 PM
It’s a good thing the pens didn’t work. People that stupid shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
amerpundit on February 6, 2008 at 8:59 PM
The news casters acted as if it was funny.
THAT was not funny. It is fraud.
tickleddragon on February 6, 2008 at 9:00 PM
Ha. I thought he was going to say it was a mistake or miscommunication. I cracked up when he said what he said.
amerpundit on February 6, 2008 at 9:02 PM
Here we go,so now the excuses are getting better,
more to the point,more fraud!
Is the card punched properly
is the chad hanging
can’t find the cards
can’t find the sealed box that has all the cards
the cards are contaminated
funnyhow,all liberal cards can be read
not funny how all Republican vote cards can’t be read
need to have experts from Broward county fly up to read
the cards.
now INVISIBLE INK can’t be read,duh use ultra-violet light
this needs to go to court,then to the Supreme court
And I can’t wait for Liberals who care so deeply for the men
and woman in uniform of America’s Armed Forces,to take the
absentee ballots from oversea’s and try to launch another
court challenge,and try to DENIE the SOLDIERS their right!
canopfor on February 6, 2008 at 9:05 PM
Did that guy say that instrument wasn’t a pen, it does not have any lead?
News2Use on February 6, 2008 at 9:08 PM
“Haha, isn’t it just hilarious when people flout democracy?”
You stay classy, Chicago.
CP on February 6, 2008 at 9:09 PM
I totally agree!
dawgyear on February 6, 2008 at 9:09 PM
Just like Chicago deep dish pizza.
It’s not real pizza.
Kini on February 6, 2008 at 9:12 PM
Um, that’s IS against the law.
Dumb or not, a vote is a god given right. That’s why we have so many liberals.
Kini on February 6, 2008 at 9:15 PM
Probably the same invisible ink Daly Sr. used to steal the 1960 election from Richard Nixon.
peacenprosperity on February 6, 2008 at 9:18 PM
Explains the Obama campaign. “He runs on invisible ink”
William Amos on February 6, 2008 at 9:20 PM
I’m thinking he or she gets them to vote with the invisible ink, they are noted as having voted, and then this dude or woman fills in their ballots. That’s my thinking. No way the poll worker thought those things had some magical ink that the machine could read or some crap.
RW Wacko on February 6, 2008 at 9:21 PM
Bring out your dead! Like St. Louis is any better.
funky chicken on February 6, 2008 at 9:24 PM
Blasphemy!
Jeff_McAwesome on February 6, 2008 at 9:46 PM
So it is a “joke” now to screw with voters? A lot of seniors would fall for that. Why is the prankster’s “joke” not being taken seriously?
nottakingsides on February 6, 2008 at 9:59 PM
Diebold! They obviously made those pens without ink in an attempt to steal the election.
Spolitics on February 6, 2008 at 10:01 PM
Question to be answered: Who came up with the idea of the inkless stylus and why?
shick on February 6, 2008 at 10:12 PM
Rove, you magnificent bastard!
Harpazo on February 6, 2008 at 10:18 PM
Talk about being as dumb as a box of rocks….
Zorro on February 6, 2008 at 10:20 PM
“We are convinced…uh…that it was just utter stupidity”
Jaibones on February 6, 2008 at 10:21 PM
I guess the obvious question is why? Why are they never inclined to see the malicious intent of voter fraud, massive numbers of missing ballots, multiple ballots, dead people voting, people misled — however stupid they may be — about voting procedures, dates, etc.?
Jaibones on February 6, 2008 at 10:25 PM
If this is anywhere close to the truth, it proves my theory about the NEA’s plan to dumb down the electorate!
lsutiger on February 6, 2008 at 10:29 PM
Until we get rid of the NEA, it’ll never happen.
I am with you. We should have some knowledge of what our actual civil rights contain and an understanding on how this country’s freedoms are distributed.
You break the law, you loose it. You do well to the community and you are rewarded.
Sounds simple, don’t you think?
lsutiger on February 6, 2008 at 10:33 PM
Well, hang my chads!
jgapinoy on February 6, 2008 at 11:11 PM
That’s what happens when
DemsDims run a city and the elections!azcop on February 7, 2008 at 12:15 AM
I was wondering if they were pulling a scam on Republican voters. But anyone who uses the phrase “person of privilege” has to be a lib and a Dim. Chicago is feeding on its own.
Mallard T. Drake on February 7, 2008 at 1:02 AM
I have worked every election in Chicago as a poll worker since 2002.
The “red stylus” does not resemble anything which comes out of the big blue box the CBOE supplies polling places with. So the idea that it was mere stupidity is not credible. Somebody else noted how dirty that ward is. It’s very dirty. It’s basicly where all of the hippies who camped out in Grant Park in 68 migrated and settled.
The number of ballots disqualified, around 20, seems to me to be about the number of Republican ballots I handed out last primary election I worked.
Someone asked how it could be that the CBOE could have identified the voters who were defrauded by name from the blank ballots. My guess is that they gleaned this information from getting a confession from the pollworkers and then looking up all of the people who marked “Republican” on their Application for Ballot.
The CBOE has no interest in being forthright about the intent and exact circumstances about this, and unfortunately that’s how another manifest incident of vote tampering by progressives will be forgotten as an incident of “benign incompetence”.
Hiney Von Pewps on February 7, 2008 at 1:37 AM
The targetting of republicans by churlish progressive pollworkers is also the only scenareo which games out with a consistent motive and execution.
In other words, “Hey, Look what I brought. Let’s give this to all of the Republican voters and tell them it’s invisible ink!”
Hiney Von Pewps on February 7, 2008 at 1:44 AM
Ugh! Spoke too soon.
Looks like Mallard T. Drake was right.
http://www.rubbernun.net/archives/001680.html
Hiney Von Pewps on February 7, 2008 at 1:51 AM
Some great coverage here:
http://morsehellhole.blogspot.com/
Hiney Von Pewps on February 7, 2008 at 2:08 AM
I like how they cut the guy off right when he was probably telling who the people were trying to vote for. Jump Edit FTW!
Neo on February 7, 2008 at 3:45 AM
IMO, the way Huck governed makes this more accurate:
silverfox on February 7, 2008 at 3:52 AM
MOVE ON.ORG supports this message
MSGTAS on February 7, 2008 at 8:01 AM
“And now for a lighter moment on this Super Tuesday”
Is that’s how a Chicago anchorwoman should lead a story on voter fraud?
Mig on February 7, 2008 at 9:05 AM
As a Chicagoan born and raised (no longer live there though) let me say how shocked and amazed I am to hear about voter fraud. Sure I’ve had people working for the DNC posted outside asking who I was voting for and not allow me into polling places when it wasn’t the correct answer and have seen stories every year of the thousands of dead people who vote in every election; but I’ve never thought of elections in Chicago and thought the word ‘corrupt’ in the same sentence. My world has been shaken to its core.
/sarcasm
bad analogy since Chicago Deep Dish pizza is superior. Voter fraud and fake pens/pencils are not. ;)
MannyT-vA on February 7, 2008 at 9:18 AM
Were those judges from Florida?
srhoades on February 7, 2008 at 10:22 AM
maybe they were voting for the invisibleman
Drtuddle on February 7, 2008 at 10:53 AM
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