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...Some 46,000 New Yorkers are registered to vote in both the city and Florida, a shocking finding that exposes both states to potential abuses that could alter the outcome of elections, a Daily News investigation shows.
Registering in two places is illegal in both states, but the massive snowbird scandal goes undetected because election officials don’t check rolls across state lines.
The finding is even more stunning given the pivotal role Florida played in the 2000 presidential election, when a margin there of 537 votes tipped a victory to George W. Bush.
...The News found that between 400 and 1,000 registered voters have voted twice in at least one election, a federal offense punishable by up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
...Of the 46,000 registered in both states, 68% are Democrats, 12% are Republicans and 16% didn’t claim a party.
That’s 31,280 Democrats, vs. 5,520 Republicans involved in this form of voting fraud.
Can we find a way to fix this before the November election?
Update 8-22-04: The previous title of this post was “Dems 5 Times More Likely than Repubs to Illegally Register to Vote in Both NY and Florida.” But we have to take into account that there are more registered Democrats than registered Republicans in NY to start with, so if members of both parties were equally likely to do this, we would still see more Democrats than Republicans in the absolute numbers.
This NY Daily News article provides info on the ratio of Democrats to Republicans in NY state:
The new poll also found that Republican Bush appears to be a viable option for New York voters in a state where Democrats have a 5-3 enrollment advantage over Republicans.
Putting these numbers together, we find that Democrats appear to be only 3.4 times more likely than Republicans to commit this form of voting fraud.
It’s a very strange way of speaking; I would call it sepulchral.
Listen to those tones – he wants them to be rich, flowing, melodious—and contrast that to the horrific accusations he’s making against the very soldiers with whom he served. The emotions he’s purporting to feel don’t seem to match the things he’s saying.
This reminds me of his taking a camera with him into combat. It seems to be all just a show for the cameras.
John Kerry: . . . razed villages in a fashion reminiscent of Ghengis Khan. . .
Paul Gallanti: John Kerry gave the enemy for free what I, and many of my, uh, comrades in North Vietnam, in the prison camps, uh, took torture to avoid saying. It demoralized us.
John Kerry: . . . crimes committed on a day to day basis. . .
Ken Cordier: He betrayed us in the past, how could we be loyal to him now?
Kerry’s tones are sepulchral; and it’s like the ghosts of the men he thought he was burying, have returned for justice.
Update 8-22-04:
Dole told CNN’s “Late Edition” that he warned Kerry months ago about going “too far” and that the Democrat may have himself to blame for the current situation, in which polls show him losing support among veterans.
“One day he’s saying that we were shooting civilians, cutting off their ears, cutting off their heads, throwing away his medals or his ribbons,” Dole said. “The next day he’s standing there, ‘I want to be president because I’m a Vietnam veteran.
“Maybe he should apologize to all the other 2.5 million veterans who served. He wasn’t the only one in Vietnam,” said Dole, whose World War II wounds left him without the use of his right arm.
That’s Kerry’s famous “nuance” for you: defaming his country, slamming the very veterans who served with him and accusing them of war crimes, including some who braved torture so as to avoid defaming their country themselves—and then later daring to call those same veterans, his band of brothers.
As used by Kerry, “nuance” is just another word for baloney.
