One of my coworker’s favorite expressions was, “Is this the hill we want to die on?” She meant we needed to choose our battles carefully, so that when we fight it’s for something important. Election integrity, for instance.
Voter fraud is as old as our Republic. But it hasn’t always been widespread and well-organized. This is an overview that will help show how we got here. This Heritage Foundation publication provides great information on the basics of fraud and safeguards to maintain election integrity. It’s not hard, or complicated. It just requires a willingness to fight.
When researching I found that fraud mostly goes one way. Democrat Party candidates benefit from it way more often. Yes, there is Republican voter fraud, but Republicans think small scale. Republicans (to quote Newt Gingrinch) have been busily concentrating on campaigns, while Democrats focus on elections. Two very different strategies, priorities, values, and rules of engagement.
Newt drilled deeper: Republicans play a sprightly and genteel game of badminton while the Democrats grunt in the mud playing contact football. For all of the pink hats Democrats wore proudly four years ago, Republicans are the real pussies.
Historically, the Democrat machine in Chicago perfected voter fraud. The dead voted in large numbers. Street people were recruited with cigarettes, lunch, and sometimes a little walking around money to go vote for the Democrat candidates. They organized buses and rode herd on them. Other big cities with a large labor union presence were also able to organize in a similar fashion, and naturally the Mafia had it’s fingers in this pie, too.

The 1960 Presidential Election was, until now, the biggest and most outrageous example of American election fraud. Kennedy won because of fraud in Texas, Illinois, and West Virginia. Lyndon Johnson organized an efficient voter fraud machine in Texas to get himself elected to Congress years earlier. He used that to bring Texas into the fold for John F. Kennedy in 1960. The Chicago Machine was easy to engage on JFK’s behalf–all it took was a few phone calls and a lot of cash. And one of the members of the family (I can’t recall who) was the bag man who made the rounds in West Virginia paying enough to the right people to secure the votes for Kennedy.

Nixon knew there was fraud. Eisenhower urged him to fight it. But Nixon thought challenging it would create a Constitutional Crisis and tear the country apart, so he conceded. Nixon set a terrible precedent, and it gave the Democrats confidence that Republicans wouldn’t fight. Every time the Republicans submitted, the Democrat cheating grew more brazen. Appeasement is always a losing strategy.
Kate Domenick wrote in The American Thinker, “Is it gentlemanly to allow an election to be hijacked right before your eyes? And what does “tearing the country apart” mean? A civil war? Why? Because someone finally pulls back the curtain on corruption that we’ve lived with for decades?
If the citizens are the body politic of democratic republic, voting is its life’s blood. Voting gives vitality to a free country, expressing the will of the people in a tangible way that, as we are often reminded, has consequences. Steal the vote and you sap America of its energy and purpose. What’s the point of living in a country that is ostensibly self-governed if our votes don’t count?”
Election corruption is part of our history. The election of Rutherford B. Hayes and the activities of Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall were our biggest voting scandals before 1960. It was mostly on a smaller scale. A widow might vote her recently deceased husband’s ballot considering it a last kindness rather than a crime. Or, in my home town my father (who was the official responsible for overseeing the elections in our county) was disgusted by the local Democrat party faithful who swooped in on the nursing homes and registered the mentally disabled to vote and then “helped” them vote. Or a really slick politician like LBJ would make cheating an art form and steal a Congressional seat.
It wasn’t until the Washington state Democrats stole the gubernatorial election from Dino Rossi in 2004 that I saw what big league voter fraud looked like for myself. Rossi was young, personable, attractive, well spoken, intelligent and came across with vigor and integrity. He ran against a woman who had no particular leadership or political skills. Dino Rossi was a rising star with a bright future possibly in national politics.
Rossi won, but the Democrats refused to give up. They came back again and again finding “more ballots” nine different times until they squeezed out a two hundred vote lead and ran Dino and the GOP out of money and out of energy. Badminton vs. contact football as Newt said. Encouraged because the Republicans folded, they pulled this exact play again a few years later in Minnesota electing Al Franken.

Ms. Domenick wrote about urban voter fraud through intimidation and supression:
“My own run-in with the vagaries of the voting system came as I prepared to cast my first ballot for president in 1972 in the city of Philadelphia…My enthusiasm dimmed, however, when I was met outside the polls by a burly gentleman blocking my way into the building.
“I’ll go into the booth with you,” he said. Stunned, I stammered and sputtered with rage. Absolutely not! My vote was secret and sacred. This is America! He smiled benignly and said, “How will I know you voted the right way if I don’t go with you?” Furious, I stomped home and returned with my husband, who made sure I was allowed to vote alone. Then I dutifully reported the incident to the Committee of Seventy, a “watchdog” group for Philadelphia elections. The person I spoke with laughed and said, “Well, you got to vote, right? This is Philadelphia, after all.”

The passage of Bill Clinton’s Motor Voter Act in 1993 is when things started to go wrong bigly. Some believe it should be super easy to register. I don’t. I believe you should have to expend a little energy to register and to vote. That way, only those who care will vote and that seems like a good thing to me.
Motor Voter made voter registration effortless. You can register when you go to the DMV for your Driver’s License, apply for welfare benefits, sign up for a library card. No need to show ID or proof of citizenship, just check the box YES that asks if you are a US Citizen, whether you understand what you are doing or not.

The grand bargain of the MVA was strict requirements that each jurisdiction would scrupulously clean their voter rolls of those who had passed away, moved away, were incarcerated or otherwise ineligible to vote. That was supposed to make the law palatable for those who were reluctant to support it.

The 2000 election of George W. Bush and 37 days of hanging chads and lawsuits convinced us to toss out the old fashioned paper ballots and go high tech so we never had to watch that spectacle again. Enter the electronic Voting Machine. Just one more way we have learned technology is convenient but it sure isn’t our friend.


The 2000 election debacle led to the establishment in 2005 of the bipartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform chaired by Jimmy Carter and James A. Baker III. They issued a report titled “Building Confidence in U.S. Elections” that noted mail-in voting was ripe for fraud and best avoided, even if ballot integrity safeguards like signature matches and postmarks on ballots were in place. These safeguards were stripped out of Pennsylvania law just before the 2020 election effectively institutionalizing voter fraud.
The Commission’s report also called for strict voter ID and purging voter rolls, but when these are attempted there are legal challenges and cries of “voter suppression” which is code for racist.

With Obama’s 2008 election it got worse. He appointed evil radical Eric Holder as Attorney General. He went to work immediately purging the DOJ of conservatives and larding the place with Marxist attorneys. The Civil Rights Division, responsible for enforcing the clean up of voter rolls per the MVA, was prohibited from doing that or protecting voters like Ms. Domenick from intimidation.
Now our voter rolls are swollen with foreign nationals, the dead, felons, and other ineligible voters. Just one more broken swampy thing.
PDJT enlisted a Voter Fraud Commission to work the problem, but it was rendered ineffective by the Resistance. Voter ID laws passed in various states but many were struck down by Obama judges. Judicial Watch won lawsuits in several states to clean up their rolls, but I don’t know whether the states actually followed through.
Nancy Pelosi has been working feverishly for two years to pass legislation that would expand early voting, permit late voting, have widespread mail in voting. Think she has an agenda??? It’s all done somehow under the excuse that to do otherwise is to be………rayciss.

Domenick writes, “A history of corruption in elections and a concerted effort to remove the guardrails on securing the vote led us directly to the election of 2020…We are where we are today because our collective inaction has allowed the machinations of the few to go on far too long. There is no shortage of ideas on how to ensure election integrity. What has been in short supply is the will to fight for it…It’s possible that the 2020 election was finally a bridge too far… If nothing else, it is a tipping point. Either we stop the kind of skullduggery that went on in this election, or we effectively cede the country to the elite few who are willing to take the time and effort to steal it from us.”
I pray Cue is right. We have it all. This is a sting. Because some things are worth fighting for, even worth dying for. So what do you say, folks? Is this the hill we want to die on?
Love, Sylvia
Flag Friday…
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I thought this scene was revealed yesterday. Might be another angle. CJ Truth just posted it minutes ago.
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Great post. Thank you.
I say this is the hill we’ve been given…to live or die upon.
Forward!
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Good morning everyone and happy Friday!!!!! 😻😻😻

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Loony Graham:
Spit!
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