Well, okay. Dean Chambers, of Unskewed Polls fame, doesn’t ‘expose’ anything so much as he asks rhetorical questions, raises a conspiracy theory about the 1980 general election as a way to suggest that there could be funny business involving the 2012 election, and posts some ideas about Democratic voter suppression while using a chart from Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight blog:
For months the mainstream media clearly communicated a message with ONE voice, that Barack Obama was likely to win reelection, Mitt Romney was a weakened candidate that was damaged in the primary process and further weakened when Obama attacked him with tens of millions of negative ads on TV and Romney stood no chance of getting elected. That millions of potential Republican voters, that vote for McCain in 2008 while far less enthused about doing so, did not turn out to vote for Romney in 2012 clearly proves the voter suppression campaign waged by the mainstream media and to some extent by the Democrat Party, worked quite well.
While the overall strategy was voter suppression, it is clear from viewing these stats that boosting the turnout in key swing states (the ones in yellow above) was taking place as well. Without further or more detailed proof, there is objectively two ways to increase voter turnout on the side of those supporting Obama, as it clearly did happen in some key swing states: either get more real people out to vote who will vote for Obama, or stuff the ballot boxes and engage in a variety of vote fraud and vote scamming methods. Odds are quite likely, to maximize their odds of succeeding in getting President Obama elected, that they engaged in all of the above to make it happen. Other information presented on this web site is gradually building the case that the margin of voter fraud exceeds any real margin by which this race was won by Obama. It is beginning to appear that the likely Romney victory, even it was to be close, that many believed was going to happen was actually going to happen if it was reversed with vote fraud.
Sure, that makes, uh…”sense.” Until someone considers the source, which is, of course, a man who finagled with polls until they all leaned in favor of Mitt Romney. Not that there’s anything wrong with that though, right?
Check out the Barack O’Fraudo (which doesn’t even make sense to birthers unless they’ve decided that Obama is suddenly an Irishman rather than a Kenyan, I guess) website here, if you dare.
This article appears in Nov 15-21, 2012.
I work the elections in Arizona. There is the chance of an icicle in hell of either party stuffing the ballot box. The anonymous count (of identified valid voters) is taken by a machine which produces two copies of the count, both signed by five poll workers of at least two parties. The anonymous ballots, drop off early ballots, and provisional ballots are counted, and the number of ballots used and unused must match the number provided before the polls opened. All the precincts in the county deliver to counting centers where all the counting is done by bi-partisan teams and pairs. All early ballots are signed, all signatures matched by image to signatures on file from voter registration. Everyone votes, once at most, and all legal votes are counted, the last provisional ballots having to be checked for validity by hand.
I imagine similar care in the three other States in which I was an active registered voter. From what I could see, casting votes on election day, any kind of dirty trick would be hard to pull off, no matter the intent to do so. Ballots are counted in and counted out. Registered identified voters are signed in and checked off at the polling places, one registration, one vote. Others, whose identify or registration is not proven, may cast a ballot that will be counted only if their right to cast it checks out. I have never been to a place like the Texas precinct that lost its ballot box until the rest were counted and then showed up containing the exact margin of victory required for the party candidate to win.
The only places I have seen election fraud are in movies. The most recent credible incident was fifty years ago. Where does this turkey get the nerve to assert that the election of Barack Obama was based on ballot box stuffing or vote fraud? How about calling the effect of advertising “voter suppression”? Media blitz is free speech. Voter suppression is purging the rolls, invalidating registrations, rejecting voter identifications, or otherwise intimidating or inconveniencing a class of voters expected to be loyal to your opposition.
The election came out as Nate Silver predicted. Statistics do work.
The Teabaggers don’t like statistics though, because facts & logic to them are some type of hippie supported liberal dream. As long as they got Dean Chambers, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity & even local nutjobs such as Jon Justice that’s all the proof they need to know that Obama somehow won this election fraudulently; who needs facts & logic when you’ve got racism & vitriol? To them someone like Nate Silver is an obvious tree-hugging socialist who uses witchcraft instead of mathematics, statistics & a healthy dose of common sense to do nothing but spread facts and the Teabaggers can’t handle that. The spreading of lies & fear of an evil Kenyan Muslim is the only way to combat the Teabaggers’ worst enemies, which of course are facts, logic and common sense.
When you’ve got all the major media outlets/Hollywood/Unions pitching one guy at the People relentlessly for months and months leading up to election night you don’t have to resort to any crude ballot box stuffing tricks.
How about U.N. Reasonable?
The results of the 2012 (S)election were a foregone conclusion…
Wall Street would win no matter which “candidate” was placed in office…
vdpphd- Appreciate the insight, but I would much prefer to be able to have independent, meaningful verification instead of relying on your word. No what I mean?
Incredible.. just incredible… sounds just like what Rush LImbaugh posed the other day, preceded by ” just a thought…what if? “
These people just cannot accept the fact that President Obama won, despite all efforts of the Republican Party to disenfranchise minority voters in the Key Swing States.
People will not forget the ruthlessness and just plain lies espoused by Republican Party during this election process, or the do nothing Repubican Congress, which gave up 15 seats… but they may forget to vote Republican during the mid-terms.
Good luck with skewing that one.
The election made a really good case for the need for strict Voter ID laws.
Carmine-James Pitaniello, you may be a bit confused. Election fraud is committed by those counting the votes. Not by those who cast the votes. The same folks who have addressed Pima County’s Board of Supervisors had a likely role in preventing Mitt Romney and Karl Rove from making their move in Ohio. This benefits your favorite war criminal, Obama:
http://www.justice-integrity.org/index.php…