Friday, October 29, 2004

Items From Battlegrounders on National Review Online

MINNESOTA: VOTE-FRAUD SMOKING GUN Scott W. Johnson

Minnesota is one of the few states that allows same-day voter registration and has become infamous for its lax same-day voter registration requirements. Under Minnesota's registration law, an eligible but previously unregistered individual may register to vote in his precinct by showing proof of residence in the precinct or, in the absence of such proof, having a voter registered in the precinct vouch under oath that he personally knows that the unregistered individual is a resident of the precinct. Although the requirements necessary to establish residence are minimal, they are not non-existent and they are the statutory protection against vote fraud and serial voting.

Among the well-funded and supposedly independent groups supporting John Kerry in the campaign is America Coming Together (ACT). ACT has taken notice of Minnesota's special vulnerabilty to vote fraud and organized a sophisticated effort to exploit it in a manner that violates Minnesota law. In Minnesota the Bush campaign has come into the possession of the following email from ACT to its Minnesota volunteers:

Election Day is upon us. You are confirmed to volunteer with ACT (America Coming Together) on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov 2.

We will be creating name badges that include your Ward and Precinct information for each of the thousands of volunteers that day to make it easier to find a volunteer to vouch for a voter at the polls.

I am emailing you to request your street address, city and zipcode. We've already got your other contact information, but your record in our database does not include this information.

You can save us time on election day by replying today to this email with this information, or give us a call at [phone number with St. Paul area code].

In order to get your badge correct, please reply by Thursday.

Thank you for your help and cooperation. See you on Election Day!

This email is a smoking gun of massive premeditated vote fraud. The ACT effort contemplates the prepositioning of registered voters as volunteers at their precincts of residence to provide the "vouching" necessary to get individuals registered to vote on election day in the precinct whether or not the volunteer "personally knows" the residence of the unregistered voter. It is a recipe for illegal voting in every precinct of the state.

In addition to its offensive ground game in the state, the Bush campaign here has organized a defensive game plan to identify and prevent election-day fraud — a key component of the Kerry supporters' plan for carrying Minnesota. Organized vote fraud — we'll see it on election day!

MICHIGAN: IT WORKED Henry Payne

In its September 27 issue, Newsweek magazine reported that Kerry’s new management team of John Sasso and some ex-Clintonites planned to go on the attack. Their new strategy? “Kerry is betting that the hard truths of Iraq will. . . undercut Bush’s image as a war leader. Kerry now intends on spending - Newsweek has learned - the closing week of the election on Bush’s war.”

But, added Newsweek, “Kerry’s show of strength depends heavily on the news.” Bad news, that is.

One month later and right on cue, The New York Times and CBS News opened this final week with a Monday “October Surprise” bombshell charging that the Bush Administration was responsible for 380 tons of missing explosives in Iraq. The Kerry campaign picked up the media gift and ran with it.

Knowing Kerry’s final week strategy, the Times/CBS story assist to the Democrat’s campaign gave the
“perception of impropriety” (to use a favorite journalistic term) at best, or a deliberate effort to intervene in a presidential campaign at worst. Given the partisan history of the two news organizations in the 2004 campaign, the latter explanation certainly seemed credible.

In Michigan, the story has had the desired effect.

The question of Bush’s competence in dealing with the dangerous munitions has dominated the news – demonstrating the still formidable power of liberal Big Media. After polls showed Bush pulling ahead of Kerry last week, the story seems to have halted the president’s momentum. A new Detroit News poll Thursday showed Bush trailing by five.

The liberal Detroit Free Press, Michigan’s largest paper, headlined its Page 1 Thursday coverage of Bush’s rally of 30,000 faithful at the Pontiac Silverdome with: “Bush and Kerry trade jabs about lost explosives.” In this radio town, local news radio stations have led all week with CBS and ABC reports on Bush’s bungling - as has Michigan Public Radio. Even the conservative talk shows of Beckman, Hannity, and Limbaugh were forced to cover the “Bush lost explosives” story – if only to debunk its flimsy evidence.

Thanks to its media wing, the Kerry campaign’s strategy of undermining Bush’s Michigan strong suit — his ability to lead on national security – is right on schedule.


Just some additional eveidence that the Kerry campaign and their supporters will do and say anything. It is really not working.
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