Louie Go ‘Round In Circles
East Texas Congressvarmint Louie Gohmert is so damn nuts that even camera unshy Sheila Jackson Lee strays off teevee to give Louie more time to say something dog dump dumb.
So, Goofy Louie went on Fox News yesterday to say this:
BREAM: Congressman, let me ask, because folks on the other side of this will say those are all scare tactics and there aren’t real cases of fraud you can point to in Texas.
GOHMERT: Well there, well there have been, and you can go back to Duval County and Lyndon Johnson days when he told his, his ah, supposedly his campaign manager, “No, this man in this grave has every bit as much to vote as all the other people in this cemetery.” I mean, those things have been going on. But when you don’t have a requirement for a photo ID, it’s hard to identify the fraud.
So, we need need voter ID to find voter fraud. I’m gonna type this real slow so Louie can read it: if you don’t have fraud, why do you need to find it? Now y’all just stand back and watch Louie’s head explode.
Louie, so we know the speed of light, right? So what’s the speed of dark? You mean you can’t figure that out because you have to turn on the light to read your speedometer?
You can watch the movie of this right here, but it’ll just make you burp.
Thanks Sandy to Jim for the heads up.
On NPR yesterday they reported that testimony from the State at the hearing reported four documented cases of voter fraud in the May primary. Four.
http://www.npr.org/2012/07/09/156509342/texas-defends-voter-id-law
Ergo, let’s disenfranchise a few hundred thousand mostly black and Hispanic people. That makes sense.
1But there is serious voter fraud.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/04/charlie-white-voter-fraud_n_1254311.html
2@ Warner: You clearly don’t understand. That was a *Republican* election chief, so it wasn’t really fraud; it was just a little, felony-level misunderstanding. If it had been a *Democratic* election chief, *then* it would have been fraud.
You must not watch enough Faux News….
3I want to be serious right now, but with the Texas gov
4vowing to drop out of the ACA it is serious and on one web site (politicus) there is an article defining genocide and one
defining practice is to deny certain groups of people conditions that would protect their health and welfare. Please ladies go to pOLITICUS AND READ IT!
Gohmert is East Texas, and East Texas rednecks have reverted to the blatant ugly racisim of the 50’s.
5DJ, I spent 34 years supporting news shows at ABC-TV, including 6 national conventions and being maintenance supervisor the the Peter Jennings studio, TV-3.
I would only watch Faux if I was on the clock.
6I’d never seen a actual “poll tax” receipt until “Brains and Eggs” posted one this morning on his Facebook page. I knew there was a poll tax back in the ’50’s, but the extent of the disrespect, and disdain, for people of color, doesn’t really hit you, until you actually see one of the damned (sorry Momma) things.
If you really stop and think about it…. the biggest voter “fraud” in Texas has come from people who try to keep other people…….. who have a legitimate right to vote…… from being able to exercise that right.
It’s called “voter suppression” and it’s been rampant in the south, including Texas, for decades. Worse in East Texas.
7This is Daniel Denvir’s latest on Pennsylvania’s new found obligation to stop voting righ… er… fraud. Seems Gov. Corbett and Gov. Perry could be brothers (or sisters).
http://www.citypaper.net/blogs/nakedcity/Corbett-contracts-with-Romney-fundraiser-Voter-ID-campaign.html?ref=facebook.com
Is Pennsylvania one step ahead of Texas? Or one step behind?
8from stately Hacienda Mike…..
My Dad always opined that likely most of those folks wudda voted for Lyndon had they been alive. And in truth, from time to time a mail-in vote in Texas is cast by a person who is not alive on Election Day. Clearly that vote should count. No fraud.
So what IS voter fraud in Texas? Beats me. I googled but every single thing I have found relates to the Voter ID statute. Possibly the Voter ID law is a solution in search of a problem.
9Republicans are going to make my head explode. Yes, I watched the video; I want my 5 minutes, 15 seconds back!
As far as allowing dead people to continue to vote, that would allow my dearly missed mother to vote in this election and she would vote Obama!
10I’d like to know why, when the Repubes talk about voter fraud, why they have to go all the way back to Duval county in *1948* for any hint of Democratic fraud?
I guess they’re saying the Demos haven’t done anything fruadulent in 64 years.
Unlike other people…
11The State of Texas is plaintiff in the case before the DC Circuit and so has the burden of proof of establishing that there is suffiicient voter fraud to justify this act. I saw that the normal and predictable claims of dead people voting is being used. You can trust the GOP to claim that dead people are voting each and every time they want to justify a voter suppression law. The GOP tried this a couple of months ago in South Carolina and those claims were debunked almost immediatedly after being made. http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/01/31/415258/sample-list-of-south-carolinas-dead-voters-shows-no-ballots-actually-cast-by-dead-people/?mobile=nc I love this quote from ThinkProgress:
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In many ways, this is the major problem: “dead voter” claims are sexy, getting reported far and wide nearly every election. Yet when the allegations are inevitably shown to be false, far fewer news outlets follow up. As a result, many people never learn that dead voters didn’t taint South Carolina’s recent elections.
Every few years, officials undertake the same Scooby Doo-routine, claiming to have uncovered damning evidence of dead voters, only to ultimately conclude that simpler explanations account for the inconsistencies. Just like Maryland and California in 1994, Georgia in 1998, or New Hampshire in 2004, South Carolina is the latest state to put on the “dead voter” Kabuki performance.
12I may be wrong, but I think the folks who issue “voter registrations” are supposed to be the ones who keep “dead” people off the voter rolls.
In Harris County, it’s a Republican. Has been for years. Probably most in Texas are.
Maybe they get a little bit behind in their book-keeping. ???
13If I recall correctly the story from 1948, there was a precinct box “found” that had ballots cast that matched to the order of rows of tombstones in a local cemetery. The ballots were all cast for Lyndon, who won by a slim majority that did not exist before the cemetery box was found.
I can easily see a similar process in 2000 in Florida. I have read that the count then was 500 or so.
@Miemaw, The State delivers death notifications fairly quickly to local Election Admins. Where I have seen a time lag is in the State reporting felons who have lost their vote and felons who have had their vote restored.
14The infamous Box 13 result that tipped the LBJ v. Coke Stevenson Senate race to Lyndon did not involve voter fraud. It was good old-fashioned post-election ballot box stuffing, a straight steal.
15The only way Louie’s inert head is going to explode is if it comes into contact with its anti-matter counterpart. But if you want to see him seize up, propose that you require an ID to get a concealed carry permit, cuz ya can use it to vote.
16Dead people are reported to the State of Texas. County Clerks are supposed to collate that data with their voter lists.
17Lless — Can the fee for a concealed carry permit be considered a poll tax? Looks like it would be a lot easier for some folks to get a CC permit than some of the other “required” forms of ID.
18To reiterate what several have pointed to, there is vote fraud in this country. It probably happened in Duval County in 1948. But its not done by individuals voting illegally. Its done by government officials that make hundreds of votes appear or disappear as necessary.
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