The Political Heirs To Tammany Hall

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The Political Heirs To Tammany Hall

Post by Riddick » 11-14-2022 10:19 AM

Are Republicans "election deniers" & "vote suppressers" because they keep finding voter fraud in critical battleground states? Democrats certainly make that claim, with Stacey Abrams a chief purveyor of that charge. Yet Democrats appear willing to use almost any excuse to oppose good-faith efforts to ensure ballot integrity.

Last year, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights relayed an interesting fact: Georgia is the only state to adopt five of the most common "voter suppressive tactics." Among them: Voter ID laws, proof of citizenship, cutbacks in early voting, and purges from the rolls of those who had not turned out to vote in recent elections.

Democrats act as if this is the end of democracy, but defenders of Georgia's anti-corruption rules and regulations make the point purge laws don't disenfranchise anyone.

"If they [eligible voters] don't heed warnings or respond to notices sent out by election officials, it's their own fault," says Republican Lynn Westmoreland, who has worked on election policy throughout her career. "And if they didn't get to vote then they'll get to vote in the next election." (But, of course, they would have to comply with the laws that those who were permitted to vote did.)

Efforts to rig elections, in truth, are about as American as apple pie, even though the fraudsters have not always been able to steal or suppress enough votes to change the outcome.

National Review's John Fund and the Heritage Foundation's Hans von Spakovsky, for instance, have chronicled a remarkable number of proven cases of past and present crookery, reflected in Al Franken's razor-thin U.S. Senate victory in Minnesota, which made Obamacare a reality, and the presidential election in 1960, where massive Cook County fraud helped JFK capture the presidency.

Both parties have engaged in corrupting elections, but the Democrats seem to have the edge on such activities. Larry Sabato and Glenn Simpson in their book, "Dirty Little Secrets," note that the "pool of people who appear to be available and more vulnerable to an invitation to participate in vote fraud [because of their poor economic circumstances] tend to lean Democratic.”

Mayor Frank Hague, whose political machine ran Jersey City, NJ from 1917 to 1947 was a legendary vote manipulator, controlling the state through bribery, roughing up foes, & destruction & alteration of ballots. But Fund argues nowhere "did voter fraud have a more notorious record than in Tammany-era New York. Tammany dealt with operatives who would guarantee thick bundles of votes for a price."

The immigrants flowing into New York were easily manipulated with Tammany Hall setting up "a 'naturalization mill,' instantly certifying folks right off the boat as citizens–and Tammany voters." In 1996, Fund reminds us, "the Clinton administration similarly sped up the naturalization of up to one million new citizens so that they could vote in time for that year's election."

From the historical record, Democrats would still seem to prefer Tammany-style "democracy." Since the 2020 election, Fund informs Newsmax, liberals have continued to engage in methods "that undermine election integrity that would make honest liberals from Jimmy Carter to Tulsi Gabbard appalled."

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Re: The Political Heirs To Tammany Hall

Post by Doka » 11-14-2022 11:02 AM

There ya go again! Letting FACTS, get in the way of being "Woke and Stupid" :D
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