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-Lurid Crime Tales-
CBS4 Investigation Finds Dead Voters Casting Ballots In Colorado
[DENVER.CBSLOCAL] A CBS4 investigation has found multiple cases of dead men and women voting in Colorado months and in some cases years after their deaths, a revelation that calls into question safeguards designed to prevent such occurrences.

"We do believe there were several instances of potential vote fraud that occurred,"
No. If they were dead when "they" submitted their votes, that is actual vote fraud that occurred. The only potential is the number of times each of these known corpses voted, which unknown living people made it happen, and how many unknown corpses aided by unknown living people also voted unknown times.
said Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams after reviewing the CBS4 findings. "It shows there is the potential for fraud."
That, too. Which is why scrupulously keeping the voter rolls up to date, strictly limiting absentee voting, and requiring photo I.D. on voting day are all critical.
The cases of dead men and women casting ballots ranged from El Paso County in southern Colorado to Denver and Jefferson County. CBS4 discovered the fraudulent voting by comparing databases of voting histories in Colorado against a federal death database.

The CBS4 investigation has triggered criminal investigations in El Paso and Jefferson counties along with a broad investigation by the Colorado Secretary of State’s office.

"It’s not a perfect system. There are some gaps," acknowledged Williams.

One of the most glaring cases was that of Sara Sosa in Colorado Springs. She died on Oct. 14, 2009. However,
you can observe a lot just by watching...
CBS4 uncovered voting records that showed ballots cast for Sosa in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. Her husband, Miguel, died on Sept. 26, 2008. But CBS4 unearthed records showing that a vote was cast in his name the next year, 2009.
Fascinating.
Posted by: Fred || 09/24/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "We do believe there were several instances of potential vote fraud that occurred..."

I'd bet dollars to donuts that the significant majority of the "several instances of vote fraud" voted Democrat.
Posted by: Crusader || 09/24/2016 0:04 Comments || Top||

#2  DENVER.CBSLOCAL] A CBS4 investigation has found multiple cases of dead men and women voting in Colorado months and in some cases years after their deaths, a revelation that calls into question safeguards designed to prevent such occurrences.

"We do believe there were several instances of potential vote fraud that occurred,"

Does the author of that statement mean that these dead people may actually have voted? This would be an important discovery of previously unknown powers of ghosts, and an exciting contribution to science.
If not, then the facts claimed by CBS4 mean there definitely was voter fraud.
Why the word "potential"? Does the author believes in zombies?
Posted by: Grins Snese4215 || 09/24/2016 7:40 Comments || Top||

#3  6 months after any gubernatorial election all voter registrations are cleared. Everyone must re-register to retain the vote. That's a purge every 4 years to clean out the deadwood. Cross check it with DMV records (that include street IDs*) and jury duty files. That'll keep a lot of party hacks busy.

* many states have laws that require new drivers licenses if you change address.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/24/2016 9:43 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Obama used a pseudonym in emails with Clinton, FBI documents reveal
[Politico] Words fail.

Mentioned here repeatedly; as his Secretary of State, she had to be communicating with POTUS in some manner. If she had no active classified email accounts, that sort of narrows the available options. He's in it up to his neck and people within the inner circle and WH Communications Detachment are fully aware.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 09/24/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It doesn't matter. We no longer have an "opposition party".

Its been said that Clinton could strangle an innocent on national television and still be elected. What hasn't been voiced strongly enough is that Obama could be recorded as laughing while watching and the do-nothing "opposition party" would make a meek statement of protest and subsequently withdraw from any further action.
Posted by: Crusader || 09/24/2016 0:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Cockhold huh? Seems too obvious....
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/24/2016 0:42 Comments || Top||

#3  And it goes without saying that our alleged "opposition party" won't pursue this at all.

But we're all fine with it, right?
Posted by: Crusader || 09/24/2016 1:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Pseudonym? ChoomGang4ever
Posted by: Penguin of the Desert || 09/24/2016 1:13 Comments || Top||

#5  Precisely why nothing has been done or will be done about HRC's classified email scandal. The trail leads directly back to the Champ. He's her insurance.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/24/2016 2:02 Comments || Top||

#6  Just a bunch of frat kids playing frat games.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/24/2016 5:57 Comments || Top||

#7  Mr. Hankey.
Posted by: Black Bart Glutch4583 || 09/24/2016 6:23 Comments || Top||

#8  Barry Soetero? Using his previous name?
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/24/2016 7:24 Comments || Top||

#9  What email system was Obama mailing from?
Posted by: Betty Dingle3997 || 09/24/2016 8:09 Comments || Top||

#10  What email system was Obama mailing from?
Posted by Betty Dingle3997


Bingo! Secure systems talk to secure systems.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/24/2016 8:25 Comments || Top||

#11  Politico doesn't note the president's pseudonym. No matter, it is probably known to every hacker worth the title.
Posted by: Shick de Medici6262 || 09/24/2016 8:39 Comments || Top||

#12  Wussyboy? Hello.

How about some "context " on the particular postings ?
he used a "pseudonym" ? But you can't or won't tell us what it is. Or give us any context to the time and details of the postings .
Is there a reason for your discretion and tact? Who do you work for, who pays you ? Politico has an agenda, perhaps?
Posted by: Clereting White5441 || 09/24/2016 9:46 Comments || Top||

#13  A curious omission. More likely embarrassing than a national security issue. So let the guessing games begin!

SmartGuy
ChoomMaster
DroneStriker
Posted by: SteveS || 09/24/2016 9:58 Comments || Top||

#14  towelie@clintonemail.com
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/24/2016 10:17 Comments || Top||

#15  Politico leans left, as I recall. And yet they are reporting this, if incompletely. What is casting the shadows we see on this wall?
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/24/2016 12:59 Comments || Top||

#16  Barackenaten? That Friendly Guy? Shit Midas? Mierdas? Choom Boy?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 09/24/2016 15:00 Comments || Top||

#17  MasterOfAllMasters@gmail.com

The server story had two components: the security breaking (which she got a pass on, and O therefore will too) and the the C.Foundation quid-pro-quo operations, which O may or may not have been involved with--and I think she's cunning enough to have kept him out of that loop.
Posted by: james || 09/24/2016 16:59 Comments || Top||

#18  James, you don't know cunning.
Posted by: KBK || 09/24/2016 20:04 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Legislation to prohibit cash payments to Iran
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The GOP-led House approved legislation late Thursday to prohibit the United States from making cash payments to Iran and require that Congress be notified before any future claims settlements with Tehran are conducted. The bill passed by a wide margin, 254-163.

The measure, an election-year broadside, won ample support from Republicans aiming to rebuke the B.O. regime for paying Iran $1.7 billion in cash earlier this year to settle a decades-old arbitration claim. Democrats have accused Republicans of trying to score political points with the bill.

Since the initial payment was made the same day Tehran agreed to release four American prisoners, GOP politicians decried the payments as ransom, a charge the White House has rejected. Citing Iran’s status as a leading state sponsor of terrorism, Republicans have contended the untraceable cash will be used to finance terrorism around the world.

Although the bill targets Iran, politicians also passed an amendment that would bar the US from paying cash to other designated sponsors of terrorism and North Korea. "Cash does not leave a paper trail," said Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., the Foreign Affairs Committee chairman and the bill’s sponsor. "Cash is the currency of terror."

The B.O. regime has threatened a veto of the bill, calling it "an ill-advised attempt to respond to a problem - so-called ’ransom’ payments to Iran - that does not exist." House Democrats accused Republicans of trying to score political points. Rep. Eliot Engel of New York, the top Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, said holding Tehran’s money until Iran released the Americans "was a pretty shrewd bargain."

But by using the word ransom, Engel said, Republicans turned the bill "into a political hot button - a poke in the eye of the administration." An initial $400 million payment in euros, Swiss francs and other foreign currency was delivered on pallets on Jan. 17, the same day Tehran agreed to release the prisoners. The remaining $1.3 billion was paid in cash installments made on Jan. 22 and Feb. 5.

The administration has said the arbitration payment and prisoner release were separate, but later acknowledged that the cash was used as leverage until the Americans were allowed to leave Iran. Republicans on a House panel pressed Treasury Secretary Jack Lew Thursday about the cash payments at a Financial Services Committee hearing on the condition of the financial system. The exchanges became heated.

Lew insisted the payment wasn’t ransom. He said it complied with sanctions rules and said settling a contract dispute for less than what the Iranians had claimed "saved the American people billions of dollars." Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, the committee’s chairman, cut him off. "Can you trace the money?" he demanded.

Posted by: Fred || 09/24/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  One side *might* step up and represent this country.

The other clearly doesn't.
Posted by: Crusader || 09/24/2016 0:17 Comments || Top||

#2  what traitors voted against this and how could they possibly justify their votes? Announce and denounce their names
Posted by: Frank G || 09/24/2016 9:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Follow the money:

U.S. Grants Airbus, Boeing Permission to sell aircraft to Iran.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/24/2016 10:13 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm glad the Republicans were nice enough to close the door after the horses got out...
Posted by: Raj || 09/24/2016 14:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Will they have the balls to actually latch the gate? I don't think so.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 09/24/2016 21:46 Comments || Top||

#6  haha..

As if Obama or Hillary are subject to any mortal law...

They believe they are above it. Sadly so do a lot of their followers.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/24/2016 22:57 Comments || Top||



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