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<as for the dead voting you never lived in Chicago.>

Most people on this list are not old enough to remember Johnson's first run for office in Texas. It was very controversial. One of the stories coming out of that election was about two politicians getting names for voter registration in the cemetery. One of them said, we have enough names, the other replied indignantly, we can't finish now, we would be denying all the others a vote. I know this story has been repeated many times about other election, however, the first time I heard the story, it was about Johnson.

I personally witnessed voting machine shenanigans in a Philadelphia primary election as a voting machine mechanic. All voting machines at that time were mechanical machines. Mechanical election machines after they are set up and certified (by the board of elections) do not break unless some voter takes a wrench to one of the voting levers on election day. Philadelphia had three different types of voting machines. I worked on the two types by one manufacturer. To make a long story short, at about 7PM I got call from the board of elections to fix two machines that did not work. What I found was that one lever on both machines was locked out. Coincidently the lever represented the same minority candidate and the two machines were in separate minority voting districts. Those two machines never worked all day long until I fixed them about an hour before the polls closed.

The Florida election of 2000 can be directly blamed on the individual boards of elections also for the failure of properly maintaining the functioning of the mechanical punches for the cards. I believe Florida now have all computer machines. The majority of the machines in New Jersey have computer machines also. I don't trust them. I will be voting with a paper ballot so that there is a written record of my vote in case a recount is required.

It is a shame that this great country has such a problem with honesty in elections and in politics and no stomach to fix them.

Bart

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Lisa DeSutter wrote:

Voting fraud has gone on forever. I lived in Chicago and it was a fact of
life, and yes, dead people did vote.

Yes Lisa there is voter fraud in Chicago, and guess which party is running things there? The same party that brought Mr. Obama into politics.

Hank Roeters, ABR, GRI, e-Pro

Broker Associate

Platinum Partners Realtors

www.HankRoeters.com

Hank@HankRoeters.com

Lisa DeSutter wrote:

Voting fraud has gone on forever. I lived in Chicago and it was a fact of
life, and yes, dead people did vote.

Yes Lisa there is voter fraud in Chicago, and guess which party is running things there? The same party that brought Mr. Obama into politics.

Hank Roeters, ABR, GRI, e-Pro

If you want to read about political corruption in Chicago, try to find a copy of BOSS by Mike Royko.

It was a very popular best seller about Richard J. Daley, the mayor from 1955 to 1976 and father of the current mayor Richard M Daley.

Or read up on John Michael Curley, who was elected Mayor of Boston 4 different times (non consecutive) but is famous for being elected an alderman in 1904 while serving prison time for fraud. He also was elected to Congress once and was a one term Massachusetts governor. And during his fourth term as mayor, in 1947, he was convicted of mail fraud and served 5 months in the middle of his mayoral term, coming out to continue as mayor until 1950

The just don't make politicians like they used to.