It looks like 2000 all over again as voting officials all over the country are beginning to throw out ballots saying they are fraudulent.
We all remember 2000 when enough ballots were thrown out so George W. Bush won the presidency by 537 votes, votes that easily could have come from Florida.
Now in Indiana voting officials there say half of the votes provided by ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), an early get out and vote organization, had been fraudulent. They say the voters have been giving addresses that are false, such as with members of the Dallas Cowboys football team and many other obviously incorrect names.
On one occasion, a news reporter went to find the address of a voter and discovered it was at a McDonald’s. Now this very well could be, and if it is, because of these kinds of voter fraud the fraudulent voting ballots should be thrown out.
Now here’s the problem, those voting officials say that the Republicans use ACORN as well as Democrats. However, it is implied that Barrack Obama gets the greatest benefit from the antics of ACORN, whatever those antics may be.
On the one hand, that could be true because Obama has so much money that he could spend a lot of it and he did spend a lot with ACORN, some $800,000 as I understand. So obviously if he spends that kind of money, he is going to have a greater number of votes collected and cast.
The Republican party could have been far short of money and could not afford to match Obama’s spending.
They could not have spent that much with ACORN. That’s their problem, not Obama’s. However, as Republicans normally do, they have spun this to somewhat imply that because he had the larger number of votes that this is somehow connected to Obama’s campaign. Now don’t be surprised if this becomes a pattern nationwide.
Understand now it is not the popular vote that counts during the presidential election, it is the Electoral College vote, which means that while the popular vote counts like in Indiana for example, where the race there is very tight, the popular vote counts in terms of winning Indiana, however, winning Indiana earns Indiana’s electoral college votes and they are the ones that count in the election. So getting a few of Indiana’s popular votes thrown out could very well mean a loss of the entire state’s electoral votes for Obama.
And as we know, a lot of these states have close races and getting a few of Obama’s popular votes thrown out so that John McCain can win the state and earn the electoral college votes, pretty soon, McCain could wind up winning the presidential votes.
That is not beyond imagination.
So what we have to do as voters is make sure that we vote and our vote counts. Now what we can do is take our votes to the polls and make sure that everything is OK. If not, while you have 48 hours to correct whatever’s wrong take the time right then to fix whatever is wrong and make sure that there are no irregularities on your ballot. The second thing we must do is all of us must vote so that no matter what kind of shenanigans they try to pull on us there would be so many votes that it won’t matter. For example, if just 538 more of us had voted in 2000, George W. Bush would not be our president today.
So how many votes we cast does matter and it matters particularly in the presidential elections. So we cannot over emphasize that we must get out and vote.
Another thing is that in Florida our vote, the vote of African Americans, is very very important. The Obama campaign has targeted among others the African American vote and that is important because Florida has a number of ethnic groups such as hispanics, jewish and a number of others. So what African Americans must do is to make sure their vote counts as much as any other ethnic group’s votes count.
And we cannot do that by staying at home on Nov. 4 or earlier.
At one time we suggested submitting absentee ballots but knowing now that the probability of voting irregularities that are claimed it would be much better if African Americans took their votes to the polls and stay their until they’re validated.
Of course, if you can’t and don’t have time to do that, vote absentee because voting absentee is better than not voting at all. And when we vote at least we will give ourselves a chance. When we don’t vote, we don't give ourselves a chance at all. So remember that on Nov. 4 lets get out and vote and overwhelm the poll workers and make sure that if they’re going to throw out votes they cannot throwout enough of ours to matter.
