Everyday new evidence is uncovered which details the level of corruption in the Democratic Party. For many years, both the Republican and the Democratic Parties were plagued with a small but embarrassing amount of bribery and fraud. 1960 was the year that the Democrats put the pedal to the metal and zoomed right past the GOP in the electoral corruption sweepstakes. Many historians today accept that John F. Kennedy only beat Richard Nixon because of voter fraud in Texas and Illinois. In an election that was decided by less than 119,000 votes, serious questions remain to this day regarding the eighty-nine percent turnout in Chicago's suburbs (Kennedy won Illinois' huge electoral prize by just 8900 votes, and won Texas with a razor-thin race due to documented cases of ballot-box stuffing). Since then, Democrats have consistently topped the GOP with regards to fraud allegations.
The contested 2000 presidential election between Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore was a question of electoral law as opposed to fraud, but the 2008 election between Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama included numerous allegations of intimidation and ballot-box stuffing, especially in Ohio. 2012 saw a repeat of the problems in Ohio, with even more claims of irregularities. In 2012, unlike 2008, Republican officials in Ohio were able to collect evidence of multiple cases of ballot-box stuffing, precinct worker intimidation, and precincts reporting one-hundred percent counts for one candidate. The Justice Department, which has the obligation to investigate electoral fraud, announced that the allegations did not meet the threshold that would trigger a federal investigation; this decision was made before any of the evidence had been examined. Eventually someone was convicted, but the great majority of the cases were never prosecuted.
In the run-up to the 2008 election, the national Democratic Party really got their act together. They realized that many traditionally Democratic voters were not registered, while others were not being encouraged to vote. Others needed assistance to reach the polling station. Kudos to the Democrats who put together a well-organized plan to register new voters in heavily urbanized areas, and to guarantee that those voters showed up at the polls on election day. Special emphasis was put on registering African-American citizens, who have traditionally voting for Democratic candidates over Republicans by a wide margin. Democratic activists have expanded this effort to include Hispanic-Americans, who also traditionally support Democrats. This nation-wide drive has had a significant impact on electoral politics. Experts point to Virginia and Florida, both former Republican states but now leaning Democrat, as a good example of the impact of this effort. Both states voted Democratic in 2008 and 2012.
In 2016, the Republicans finally discovered a game-changing strategy of their own, and it had everything to do with the candidates themselves. Well-known businessman and billionaire Donald Trump announced his candidacy as a Republican, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared as a Democrat. It would have been difficult to find two more polarizing candidates, at least as far as Republican voters were concerned. Republicans went wild over Trump's brash style and willingness to speak his mind, even if it meant insulting his opponents. On the other hand, the average conservative voter seems to have a special animus towards former First Lady Hillary Clinton. Vote totals in one GOP primary after another would set a new record. It became apparent that the number of Republican votes was bound to increase substantially, and Hillary Clinton did not inspire the same kind of excitement amongst Democrat voters. The Democrats had no other option but to fall back on their other reliable method for increasing votes: fraud.
With just over two weeks to go before the election, reports are popping up in Virginia, North Carolina and Florida of vote tampering and other forms of electoral cheating. Evidence of fraud has turned up in Texas, Iowa, Pennsylvania and Ohio. To add gas to the fire, Independent Filmmaker James O'Keefe produced an undercover documentary highlighting the Clinton Campaign's efforts to train its volunteers in how to commit voter fraud. The Clinton Campaign subsequently fired two of its campaign coordinators, but the cat was already out of the bag, folks. This election will probably be decided by the electoral votes from one or two of the batleground states. On that list are North Carolina, Ohio, and Florida. Acceptance of this organized effort to steal an election is not only un-American, its criminal. Now we understand why Democrats are so opposed to instituting a photo identification requirement at polling stations, and allegations that the Democratic Party supports amnesty as a method to increase the number of Hispanic-American voters doesn't seem so unreasonable after all. Not only does Donald Trump have to deal with a politically-biased national media, he now must confront potentially rampant electoral fraud and a Justice Department that is determined to protect his Democratic opponent.
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