False Robocalls That Wreaked Havoc On Chicago Elections Linked To GOP Activists

[MerryBlooms]

Yeah? I'm totally shocked.

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2014/11/12/3591417/chicago-robocalls/

Jerks. I hope they're prosecuted.

[TheMastersNemesis]

1. Won't Happen Unless Democrats Do It.

[mikekohr]

56. Illinois' Attorney General is Lisa Madigan (D) Chicago

a no nonsense States Attorney. And I don't suspect she will tolerate this nonsense.

[RKP5637]

2. Republican AKA liars and cheats, the only way they win as they have nothing of virtue. n/t

[MerryBlooms]

3. Republican politician philosophy is choose their voters, not the voters choosing them.

[RKP5637]

4. Yes, quite true! n/t

[tanyev]

5. I thought they hated 'Chicago-style' politics.

[Peregrine Took]

51. In the 19th ward -not a hair's worth of difference between the "R's" and the "D's"

I heard Rahm didn't want Quinn and none of the ward boss's were pushing him.

[City Lights]

6. No surprise there.

The GOPee can't win without cheating. Fuck them, up, down, and sideways.

[GusBob]

7. This sort of thing pisses me off to no end

it will get worse because they will skate scot free....lol the one lady was a voter fraud activist....sure, yeah, right

[Stellar]

8. Yes, I received one.

That is the ONLY call I have ever received from a political group, Dem or Republic0n. I was like, WTF!!!!!

[MerryBlooms]

9. Wow, I wonder if you'll be contacted during the 'investigation'?

Let us know.

[Stellar]

10. Oh Please, please, please!!!!!!!!!!!

I'll be waiting.

[MerryBlooms]

11. lol, yeah- but it would be a pleasant surprise.

Scooch over.

[1StrongBlackMan]

17. Question ...

What are the demographics of the represent you serve(d)?

[Stellar]

43. I'm not sure I understand the question but....

I'm in Congressman Bobby Rush District...which is about 70% A.A's now, but when I first moved here, it was about 45% African-American. I voted against Rush when Obama was trying to unseat him and that's was one that Obama lost. (and my district is still voting Rush into office. I haven't seen or heard from him in many years).

http://rush.house.gov/our-district/map-of-the-district

[1StrongBlackMan]

45. You answered my question ...

a majority African-American district. I wonder how many majority white district election judges got similar calls?

[Stellar]

46. Good question.

[Omaha Steve]

12. Well DUH

Do they have the death penalty in Illinois?

[MerryBlooms]

13. I'm curious to see if this will make the national news.

[midnight]

14. This was posted in Wisconsin, but talks more to election

activities. It's long but fascinating about the new math that is being used to win elections.

http://archives.kpfa.org/data/20141112-Wed1300.mp3

[MerryBlooms]

18. Thanks, I'll listen right after Stephanie Miller.

[MerryBlooms]

25. "Beg, borrow or steal the lower level elections."

Which is exactly what has and continues to happen, and is ignored by the party and media!!
(I'm just over 25 min. in)
Maddening.

[midnight]

41. It is sure fascinating what they have planned for the next Presidency.

[MerryBlooms]

35. I made it through... man oh man.

Thanks for sharing this episode, I've passed it along.

[midnight]

42. OOps. Didn't see this before I posted above, but seeing your

visual, you understand!

[Ezlivin]

15. Remember the Republican-led investigations?

Remember how they blustered on the media about "election integrity" and "the right to vote"?

Remember how they quickly called for investigations, saying repeatedly that fair, free and honest elections were the bedrock of a successful democracy?

Remember when all those political operatives had to stand trial? Remember when they were sentenced?

Remember how good you felt when you saw someone defending true American values?

Yeah, neither do I.

[Botany]

16. I have a deep sense that that the 2014 election was very dirty

Electric power cut to voting locations in Florida, 40,000 new voter registrations
being lost in Georgia, N.C. reports of machines flipping votes, TN's weird results
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025795373 , 32 Republican Sec. of States
using a software that "spots" voters who might be "double voting" from one
state to another, Walker's win in Wisconsin, and all the people in Kansas voting
for the person and a policy that is crushing their state.

Something stinks

Bottom line republicans cheat.

[MerryBlooms]

20. I think it was probably one of the dirtiest,

the republicans had to win and win big going into 2016.

Right with ya.

[marions ghost]

44. absolutely continuing

the tradition of election theft.

[valerief]

30. Nice list of their most recent legally accepted election crimes.

[Botany]

34. I could have added more but our .....

.... "strong democratic leadership and liberal media" will no doubt expose and
lead a fight against these crimes.


I heard the other morning where voting machines did not show up for the first
few hours @ an African American precinct in Louisiana and so the working people
who showed up at 6:00 had to leave and go to work and couldn't vote.

And now it turns out that the head of the Florida Democratic Party was a republican
plant.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017224941

[Martin Eden]

19. They identified the culprit, then the story simply vanished from the news.

Will he be prosecuted, or will this go down the memory hole?

Rethuglicans go to great lengths to combat non-existent voter impersonation fraud (intended effect is to disenfranchise poor people) while they systematically engage in actual fraud.

The fact that these Republican tactics and crimes are not a major national scandal is an indictment against the corporate media.

[MerryBlooms]

21. Supposedly,

Rahm is all over it, so we got that going for us.

[Botany]

23. They have been doing and getting away w/this crap for years

In 2002 RNC head Ken Mehlman and James Tobin ran a phone scam
in New Hampshire and nothing happen to them.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/13/AR2006041301673.html

[louis-t]

36. Actually, Tobin was convicted, but won his appeal.

[Botany]

39. As I remember Tobin had a friendly republican judge for his appeal

In Ohio 2 women were convicted of rigging the recount for the 2004
vote in Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) but a GOP judge let them walk
on appeal.

The rot and the well placed operative is all over our government,
democratic party, and the media ..... America really needs to clean
house.

[Demeter]

22. Acted on their own, eh? Find out who pays their defense lawyers.

[MerryBlooms]

24. Spot-on!

[KansDem]

26. So, who's going to prison?

[on point]

27. The real voter fraud that is out there - needs these people to go to jail for 20 years

[brooklynite]

28. Had dinner with a friend in Chicago who's deep into the local Party

They've identified the voice on the calls, and they're reasonably sure of who leaked the phone numbers of the Election Judges.

[MerryBlooms]

33. Does your friend think this has legs?

I'd love to see this story on the national news and these people prosecuted.

[valerief]

29. Ha! Prosecuted for election tampering. What a quaint concept.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

31. How did they get the list of election judges?

[Iliyah]

32. GOPers are VOTER FRAUD

[blkmusclmachine]

38. And so are their secret black box vote "counters."

There's the REAL Voter Fraud!

[Thor_MN]

52. The GOP does Election Fraud. A case of voter fraud yields 1 vote.

A case of election fraud yields thousands of votes. The GOP and purchased media keeps braying about voter fraud because they want to divert attention from election fraud.

[blkmusclmachine]

37. "I hope they're prosecuted."

[ut oh]

40. At worst these people

will get a slap on the wrist, because there is an (R) behind their name.

[WillyT]

47. K & R !!!

[cstanleytech]

48. Anyone want to buy a bridge? Because if you believe this

" while the Republican Party has denied involvement and distanced itself from the party members who it claims acted alone." then I have a great one overlooking the bay in San Francisco.

[geretogo]

49. Like good gangsters in the Capone tradition that they are , the GOP uses operatives in the field

that can never be traced back to the Godfather in GOP headquarters , and because they own the media
the people never suspect anything .

[AgingAmerican]

50. Election fraud

nt

[Judi Lynn]

53. Thank you, MerryBlooms. n/t

[LiberalLovinLug]

54. It just another weapon in the Right's arsenal

Along with voter suppression laws, and gerrymandering. And most likely voting machine tampering and collusion with MSM news networks. Death by a thousand cuts.

It happened here in Canada in the last election. It went to trial and of course no link was found to the Conservative Party that won the election. A "lone gunman" peon was found guilty and fell on his sword. I'm sure he'll be richly rewarded for his actions. ......meanwhile the Cons are still in power, as are the Republicans.

[MerryBlooms]

55. I try to remain positive and hopeful,

but it gets tougher with each election.

[UglyGreed]

57. BTW I must of gotten over

15 calls from GOP candidates in my area. I'm registered as a Independent.