http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/07/31/159058/miami-dade-investigators-widen.html --- MIAMI — Investigators looking into possible vote fraud in Hialeah, Fla., are now examining at least 31 absentee ballots collected by a suspected ballot broker in two separate instances last week, according to sources familiar with the expanding probe. ... The investigation was triggered by a Miami private investigator, Joe Carrillo, who followed Cabrera last week as she visited several Hialeah apartment buildings and homes and the Hialeah campaign office of Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez, --- Needless to say, Giminez is the Republican. This is an example of where the actual vote fraud almost always occurs -- the absentee ballots. They're totally uncontrolled. There is no meaningful confirmation that the ballot was filled out by the person whose name is on it. The only confirmation is a signature, and the election officials I've talked to say that as long as the sig even remotely resembles the one on file, it passes. They freely admit that even the most halfhearted signature forgery will pass muster. Naturally, none of the GOP vote-suppression tactics address the absentee ballot fraud in any way. They instead choose to address the in-person vote fraud that doesn't exist, in order to conveniently stop nonwhite people from voting. http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/lo...cle_26cf1284-db41-11e1-abc4-0019bb2963f4.html In the Wisconsin redistricting, the GOP house and senate refused to release their papers, claiming attorney-client privilege (even though taxpayer money paid the bill.). After the pasting the Wisconsin Republicans took in the last recall election, the Dems took control of the senate, so they became the client and got to look at the papers. And ... surprise, surprise! The R's were gerrymandering their little hearts out and lying about it. And their current shameless response to getting caught is "hey, gerrymandering and lying about it isn't illegal, so what's the big deal?".
