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Hidden Camera: "They bus people around to vote." NYC Elections Commissioner
In a video released by Project Veritas, James O’Keefe exposes what everyone except Democrats have known to be true. There is a lot of voter fraud.

In the video, NYC Democratic Commissioner of the Board of Elections Alan Schulkin is caught on hidden camera at a United Federation of Teachers holiday party admitting that there is widespread voter fraud in New York City.

"Yeah, they should ask for your ID. I think there is a lot of voter fraud," said Schulkin, who elaborated on the types of voter fraud that are taking place in New York.

Voter fraud has been labeled as a right-wing myth by the left, but Schulkin, a Democrat, confirmed everyone’s worst fears, going against the grain of his own party.

"You know, I don’t think it’s too much to ask somebody to show some kind of an ID...Like I say, people don’t realize, certain neighborhoods in particular they bus people around to vote," said Schulkin.

When asked about which type of neighborhoods the busing of voters takes place in, Schulkin confirmed that it was minority neighborhoods, adding, "they get busses and they move people around."

Schulkin expressed concern over voter fraud and suggested that Mayor Bill de Blasio was to blame for a lot of the voter fraud taking place in New York City.

"He gave out ID cards. De Blasio. That’s in lieu of a driver’s license, but you can use it for anything. But, they didn’t vet people to see who they really are. Anybody can go in there and say I am Joe Smith, I want an ID card. It’s absurd. There’s a lot of fraud. Not just voter fraud, all kinds of fraud."

Despite having disapproval with de Blasio’s faulty ID program and widespread voter fraud, Schulkin also expressed concerns over safety in the polling locations as well as the potential for voter fraud, specifically with regards to Muslims wearing burkas.

"They detonate bombs in the public schools, which we are using. That could disrupt the whole election...Your vote doesn’t even count, because they can go in there with a burka and you don’t know if they are a voter."

It is clear after listening to a New York City Democratic Election Commissioner that the Democrats are in denial of the fraud that surrounds them.
...public denial, at least. Privately, it is clear from this series of videos, they have no problem with it.
Schulkin confirms that voter ID laws are something that New York City desperately needs as a way to curb voter fraud.
Posted by: Ebbeaper Glolush6876 || 11/02/2016 11:45 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Leaked Memo: Hillary Wants Clinton Foundation To Keep Accepting Foreign Donations
[DailyCaller] The memo, dated April 7, 2015, lays out several proposed changes to the foundation. Regarding donations from foreign governments, the memo states that "There are multiple options for consideration."

"Secretary Clinton’s preference is for the Foundation to continue to accept foreign government contributions, but to significantly increase disclosure," the memo states. "She does not want to limit the Foundation’s ability to operate programs now or in the future."

"We could go further and say the programs are already funded (listing out current funders) and we are not expecting additional funds, but we don’t want to close the door to unexpected opportunities."

A "compromise" option, according to the memo, "would be to say that the Foundation will not accept contributions from foreign governments unless that funding is part of an ongoing program or a disbursement for a completed negotiation."
So, how difficult would it be for the Most Powerful Couple in the World TM to find an "unimpeachable source" to backdate a document?
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 11/02/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...the memo states. "She does not want to limit the Foundation’s ability to operate programs now or in the future."

Yea, 'increased disclosure.' That's really the key.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/02/2016 4:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, you know one has to feather the nest. "We came out of the WH dead broke."

Meanwhile, Hillary is prattling on about Donald Trump's tax returns on the TV. Hillary and "The Art of the Pivot" to soon come to a bookstore near you.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/02/2016 8:15 Comments || Top||

#3  HRC MUST win this election - As the Clinton Presidency (v2.0) goes, so goes the foundation, and obscurity is not a distinguishing Clinton trait.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 11/02/2016 9:38 Comments || Top||

#4  HRC choice, Win the election and get a pardon or go to jail?
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/02/2016 9:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Even if McKacklepants wins she will lose. The whole systems has been exposed as completely corrupt, right up to Obama. He can't pardon her and if she gets in and has a semi-friendly congress the people won't accept her.

She is either going to jail or going the way of Mussolini.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/02/2016 10:22 Comments || Top||

#6  There are too many Americans who are armed for it to go Mussolini.

The American Military will move on Hillary, if the people want her gone. They loath her already. They loath Obama too.

Trump WILL win. He;s vain and narcissistic but he fights. Congress , of course, is largely a can of drooling worms, but there are still a few good men in Congress.

The US isn't over yet. You can't fool all of the People ALL of the time is still true. Just Democrats, it seems. But the long term doesn't favor the Stupid.
Posted by: Spike Slomock5420 || 11/02/2016 11:00 Comments || Top||

#7  You can fool most of the people some of the time and usually that is sufficient.

/who?
Posted by: Shipman || 11/02/2016 13:11 Comments || Top||


Former DoS Official Sez 'Every Cabinet Officer and WH Staff Uses Their Gmail Account'
[PJ] A former top State Department official who worked under Hillary Clinton told John Podesta that the use of private email accounts by Obama administration officials is widespread. "Btw you know as well as I every g*d d*mn cabinet officer and WH staff uses [their] gmail account!" Tom Nides, the former deputy secretary of state for management and resources, wrote to Clinton's campaign chair in a March 2015 email released by WikiLeaks.

Nides advised Podesta on how the campaign should handle the Clinton email scandal. "For what it’s worth. There is only one thing that needs to be done on this email thing. (Which I am sure nobody wants to do). Get a state dept career lawyer to go through all the emails and pull the official ones. I know all the reasons not to do it but it’s going to happen so we should do it," he wrote to Podesta.
Con't.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/02/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And here I thought Google got all their money from Ads and search exposure..
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/02/2016 0:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Google fees (per each):

Delete e-mail: $1
Delete classified or off-color email: $10
Delete secret or incriminating email: $100
Delete top-secret or mistress email: $1,000
Delete compartmentalized email: $10,000
Posted by: gorb || 11/02/2016 0:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Must've been because Gmail sounds more official than Yahoo for the cabinet.
Posted by: Victor Emmanuel Unolugum7824 || 11/02/2016 1:36 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/02/2016 8:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Our company's policy is this:

Anything business related needs to use the official company email address each employee has. Period.

Failure to do so means you are fired. Period.

You can use as many private email addresses as you like for your private stuff but you may not use company computers to access it. Period.
Posted by: European Conservative || 11/02/2016 9:26 Comments || Top||

#6  They think they are untouchable, that is the problem.

When I worked for DOD, any hint that someone was using an unsecured account would bring down the wrath. These people do not fear retribution and punishment.

New policy - Anyone caught using unsecured communication methods will have their hands cut off and their tongue removed from their head.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/02/2016 10:29 Comments || Top||

#7  Hillary won't be President of the REPUBLIC.

She will be Imperitrice . First Citizen. The Palace and the Hope for all Change come true.
Posted by: Spike Slomock5420 || 11/02/2016 11:10 Comments || Top||

#8  My company won't even let you use personal gMail on its devices or network for security reasons. But then, we're serious about protecting our data, not in fostering cheap political theatre.
Posted by: regular joe || 11/02/2016 13:10 Comments || Top||

#9  I'm pretty sure there's a reason they all use GMail accounts...
Posted by: Raj || 11/02/2016 13:41 Comments || Top||

#10  ...Eric Schmidt refusing to comply with future potential congressional subpoenas on those accounts.
Posted by: Raj || 11/02/2016 13:42 Comments || Top||

#11  So in order to hide their activities from FOIA scrutiny they conduct their business on an insecure platform with a huge attack surface and expose their precious information to any foreign entity that isn't electronically deaf and blind?

How much does it cost to bribe a Google intern to download the content of their mail accounts on a USB stick?

The free world is lead be people displaying Bizarro level stupidity.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 11/02/2016 18:27 Comments || Top||

#12  One rather 'wild eyed' theory is that the email scandal was actually created by the Clinton team (knowing that everyone including POTUS does it) and introduced by the NYT in order to portray HRC as the 'underdog.' Underdog status being necessary to win against Trump.

If that theory proves valid, the created scandal appears to have gotten somewhat out of hand.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/02/2016 18:55 Comments || Top||

#13  A 'not so wild' theory that should be examined centers around the foible that both Carlos Danger and Bill Clinton appear to have in common.

'Two things make the world go around... and the other one is money.'
~ author unknown


The Clinton's have the money issue well covered. The 'other'.... if it is in play, is yet to be revealed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/02/2016 19:03 Comments || Top||

#14  I think it is in play.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/02/2016 22:15 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
State raids Delco offices, seeking evidence of voter registration fraud
Pennsylvania state police have raided a Delaware County political field office seeking evidence of possible voter-registration fraud, according to court records. In a warrant filed late last week in County Court, investigators said they were seeking documents, financial information, and lists of employees at the Norwood office of FieldWorks LLC, a national organization that often does street work for Democrats, records show.

The warrant did not specify the nature of the probe, but said agents also were looking for "templates . . . utilized to construct fraudulent voter registration forms" and "completed voter registration forms containing same or similar identifying information of individuals on multiple forms."

A Delaware County judge on Friday afternoon signed the search warrant, but it was not known when it was executed. The warrant application was approved by the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office. Jeff Johnson, a spokesman for the Attorney General's Office, declined to comment.

In a statement Monday, a spokesman for FieldWorks' national headquarters in Washington, said the company has "zero tolerance for fraud."

"FieldWorks is now working with county officials to provide them with information on our program and applications they are investigating," said the spokesman, Matt Dorf. "In keeping with our regular practice, we will work aggressively with authorities to seek the prosecution of anyone involved in wrongdoing."

FieldWorks describes itself as "a nationally recognized grassroots organizing firm founded to help progressive organizations, advocacy groups, and members of the Democratic family take their public engagement and electoral strategies to the next level." It was founded in 2001, according to its promotional information online.

The company did not respond to requests for comment on which campaigns or political groups have hired them to work in Pennsylvania.

In 2012, FieldWorks' voter registration efforts in Ohio sparked some controversy. FieldWorks employees filed thousands of new voter registration cards in the final week before the registration deadline. Some of them were found to be fraudulent.

In that same election, FieldWorks included a cover letter with its mass voter filing warning that it itself viewed scores of the submitted names as fraudulent.

Police in Cincinnati arrested a former Ohio University student in 2012 working in FieldWorks on charges of forging 22 signatures on a petition drive. Police said at the time that FieldWorks itself played no role in that man's scheme to pad his list.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 11/02/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hell kill em all for that stupid stupid light and the bogus warranty.



Oh, nvr mnd
Posted by: Shipman || 11/02/2016 13:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe the evidence was planted by the Princes of Darkness themselves.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 11/02/2016 14:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Are you suggesting that Lucas Electric has meddled in our local elections?
Posted by: SteveS || 11/02/2016 16:30 Comments || Top||


Government
Are you ORDERING me to keep new Clinton email bombshell SECRET?
How FBI boss called attorney-general's bluff before revealing Weiner breakthrough

[DailyMail] An astonishing confrontation between the attorney-general and the FBI director over Hillary Clinton's emails was revealed Monday.

Sources told Reuters how James Comey, the FBI boss, challenged Loretta Lynch, the nation's most senior prosecutor, over whether she was directing him to keep the bombshell discovery of new, 'relevant' emails secret from Congress.

The development was revealed by the news agency hours after the White House went out of its way to back Comey as a man of 'integrity' and rubbish Hillary Clinton's attack on him.

It also slapped down claims by Harry Reid, the Democratic Senate leader, that Comey may have been breaking the Hatch act and influencing the election, saying the President did not believe he was doing such a thing.

The Comey-Lynch confrontation unfolded on Thursday, some time after Comey was fully briefed on the existence of the trove of emails uncovered by agents investigating Anthony Weiner's sexting of a 15-year-old girl.

Lynch made it known that she thought his decision violated department policy, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday.

As Comey and Lynch aides debated last Thursday whether alerting Congress about the emails would comply with longstanding Justice Department policy against announcing overt investigative steps that would influence an upcoming election, Comey asked whether he was being explicitly directed not to do so.

Lynch never gave Comey the order not to send the emails, a senior government official said.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 11/02/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Lynch never gave Comey the order not to send the emails, a senior government official said.

Which sort of tells the tale, doesn't it.
Posted by: gorb || 11/02/2016 0:41 Comments || Top||

#2  COMEY IS A HERO
Posted by: anon1 || 11/02/2016 1:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Comey to Lynch - Sorry, forget your commitment to Bill Clinton at Sky Harbor Airport. It's a bit larger cock-up than we anticipated.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/02/2016 4:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Lynch can't be bothered with more incriminations. Maxed out the pleading the 5th card.
Posted by: Oscar Sponter7020 || 11/02/2016 8:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Not so much about Podesta, Hillary, WJC, Lynch, or Comey or even about Trump as it is about the U.S.A.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/02/2016 9:53 Comments || Top||

#6  Notice that there is no statement that she ordered him TO send them to congress.
Posted by: AlanC || 11/02/2016 9:55 Comments || Top||

#7  Interesting how he came out with the revelations at the same time his boss was pleading the 5th regarding Iran.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/02/2016 10:39 Comments || Top||

#8  An Attorney Genersl of the United States should be like Caesar's Wife. She pleads the Fifth???...she is in the shit up to her neck.
Time to pack.

Now or later, she's history. So are the a LOT of people after this.

Hillary WILL do time.
Posted by: Spike Slomock5420 || 11/02/2016 11:05 Comments || Top||

#9  She probably sent him an e-mail five minutes before the release, just so she could say, "I told him not to."

Oh. She *didn't* do that, so she's not as devious as the Agency GM I once worked for.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/02/2016 11:14 Comments || Top||

#10  I want to know if she ordered the Code Red on Santiago...
Posted by: Raj || 11/02/2016 12:08 Comments || Top||



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