PROGRAMMER admits he wrote code to FLIP the ELECTION FOR GOP!

REAL FRAUD = TALLEY FRAUD BY SOFTWARE = ROVE

GOP = THE REAL VOTER FRAUD!

GOP always BLAMES OTHERS for the FRAUD THEY COMMIT!

IMPACT OF GOP SUPPRESSION OF VOTER:

1. 10% of Hispanics = Less Likely to Vote

2. 6.7% of African American = Less likely to vote.
3. 5.9 Million Americans disenfranchised from voting = felony convictions served
4. 37% of disenfranchised voters are African-American = 13.1% of American Census
5. 10% Voter Suppression of Minority Vote = Rutger University = PHOTO ID

Voter Fraud = Virtually Non-Existent = FEW CASES OF GOP FRAUD

14 Cases/ year 2002 – 2005 GOP = BUSH = Ashcroft investigation found

“you more likely to get hit by lightening than to find voter fraud.”

— An Ashcroft attorney said

20 Cases/Year = Republican National Lawyers Association = Most dismissed Clerical Error

10 Cases/Year = Carnegie Corporation Project 2000 to 2012 = attempted to impersonate another voter

99.9% of 30,656 Claims of Voter Fraud = CLERICAL ERRORS = Brennan center

VOTER ID LAWS USELESS in Reducing NON-EXISTENT VOTER FRAUD = NO ADDED FRAUD DETECTED = “Voter fraud – votes knowingly cast by ineligible individuals – does not exist in Montana.”

VOTER FRAUD = A GOP CRIME = TALLEY FRAUD + TOSSED REGISTRATIONS + FAKED REGISTRATIONS

“He (LBJ) wanted to call on senators and representatives to pass a civil rights bill — the most sweeping since Reconstruction. And most of his staff counseled him against it. They said it was hopeless; that it would anger powerful Southern Democrats and committee chairmen; that it risked derailing the rest of his domestic agenda. And one particularly bold aide said he did not believe a President should spend his time and power on lost causes, however worthy they might be. To which, it is said, President Johnson replied, “Well, what the hell’s the presidency for?” (Laughter and applause.) What the hell’s the presidency for if not to fight for causes you believe in?”

— President Obama – Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act

“He (LBJ) knew that only the law could anchor change, and set hearts and minds on a different course. And a lot of Americans needed the law’s most basic protections at that time. As Dr. King said at the time, ‘It may be true that the law can’t make a man love me but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.'”

— President Obama – Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act

LBJ = Knew how to Pass Laws
LBJ = Knew politics and no one loved legislating more
LBJ = Was charming when he needed to be
LBJ = Was ruthless when required.
LBJ = Could wear you down with logic and argument.
LBJ = Could horse trade
LBJ = Could flatter = “You come with me on this bill and 200 years from now, schoolchildren will know only two names: Abraham Lincoln and Everett Dirksen!”
LBJ = Knew that senators would believe things like that.
LBJ = Liked power + Liked the feel of it + Liked wielding it.
LBJ = Had a Deeper understanding of the human condition
LBJ = Had a sympathy for the underdog, for the downtrodden, for the outcast.
LBJ = Knew what being poor felt like. “Poverty was so common, we didn’t even know it had a name.” = Family home didn’t have electricity or indoor plumbing.
LBJ = Teaching at a so-called Mexican school came to understand the persistent pain of poverty for other races in a Jim Crow South = Deprivation + discrimination + injustice
LBJ = Knew he had a unique capacity, as the most powerful white politician from the South to ultimately dismantle for good the structures of legal segregation.
LBJ = KNEW he’s was the only guy who could do it = famously saying the Democratic Party may “have lost the South for a generation.”
LBJ = Had an iron will + those skills he had honed so many years in Congress = He won Passage of the Civil Rights Act + Desegregation + Voting Rights Act + Fair Housing Act + Medicare = EQUALITY FOR ALL + END OF OPPRESSION + HARD WORK IS REWARDED!
LBJ = “We want to open the gates to opportunity. But we are also going to give all our people, black and white, the help they need to walk through those gates.”
LBJ = “It never occurred to me in my fondest dreams that I might have the chance to help the sons and daughters of those students (he had taught) and to help people like them all over this country. But now I do have that chance. And I’ll let you in on a secret — I mean to use it. And I hope that you will use it with me.”
His cousin Ava remembered sweltering days spent on her hands and knees in the cotton fields, with Lyndon whispering beside her, “Boy, there’s got to be a better way to make a living than this. There’s got to be a better way.”

“Yes, it’s true that, despite laws like the Civil Rights Act, and the Voting Rights Act and Medicare, our society is still racked with division and poverty. Yes, race still colors our political debates, and there have been government programs that have fallen short. In a time when cynicism is too often passed off as wisdom, it’s perhaps easy to conclude that there are limits to change; that we are trapped by our own history; and politics is a fool’s errand, and we’d be better off if we roll back big chunks of LBJ’s legacy, or at least if we don’t put too much of our hope, invest too much of our hope in our government….I reject such thinking.”

— President Obama – Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act

“Medicare and Medicaid have lifted millions from suffering; not just because the poverty rate in this nation would be far worse without food stamps and Head Start and all the Great Society programs that survive to this day. I reject such cynicism because I have lived out the promise of LBJ’s efforts. Because Michelle has lived out the legacy of those efforts. Because my daughters have lived out the legacy of those efforts. Because I and millions of my generation were in a position to take the baton that he handed to us.

Because of the Civil Rights movement, because of the laws President Johnson signed, new doors of opportunity and education swung open for everybody — not all at once, but they swung open. Not just blacks and whites, but also women and Latinos; and Asians and Native Americans; and gay Americans and Americans with a disability. They swung open for you, and they swung open for me. And that’s why I’m standing here today — because of those efforts, because of that legacy.

And that means we’ve got a debt to pay. That means we can’t afford to be cynical. Half a century later, the laws LBJ passed are now as fundamental to our conception of ourselves and our democracy as the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. They are foundational; an essential piece of the American character.”

— President Obama – Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act

“Our rights, our freedoms — they are not given. They must be won. They must be nurtured through struggle and discipline, and persistence and faith.”

— President Obama – Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act

“Still, the story of America is a story of progress. However slow, however incomplete, however harshly challenged at each point on our journey, however flawed our leaders, however many times we have to take a quarter of a loaf or half a loaf — the story of America is a story of progress. And that’s true because of men like President Lyndon Baines Johnson.”

— President Obama – Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act

LBJ = “We have proved that great progress is possible. We know how much still remains to be done. And if our efforts continue, and if our will is strong, and if our hearts are right, and if courage remains our constant companion, then, my fellow Americans, I am confident, we shall overcome.”

“We shall overcome. We, the citizens of the United States. Like Dr. King, like Abraham Lincoln, like countless citizens who have driven this country inexorably forward, President Johnson knew that ours in the end is a story of optimism, a story of achievement and constant striving that is unique upon this Earth. He knew because he had lived that story. He believed that together we can build an America that is more fair, more equal, and more free than the one we inherited. He believed we make our own destiny. And in part because of him, we must believe it as well.”

— President Obama – Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act

OBAMA = Unsparing critique of Republicans = Accused GOP of using voting restrictions to keep voters from the polls = Jeopardizing 50 years of VOTING RIGHTS for millions of black Americans and other minorities.

“The stark, simple truth is this: The right to vote is threatened today in a way that it has not been since the Voting Rights Act became law nearly five decades ago,”

— President Obama – 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network conference – GOP erodes the landmark 1965 law

“Across the country, Republicans have led efforts to pass laws making it harder, not easier, for people to vote. About 60% of Americans don’t have a passport. Just because you can’t have the money to travel abroad doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be able to vote here at home.”

— President Obama – 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network conference – GOP erodes the landmark 1965 law with identification in form of a passport or birth certificate to register.

GOP efforts to curb access to the ballot box “has not been led by both parties. It’s been led by the Republican Party. What kind of political platform is that? Why would you make that a part of your agenda, preventing people from voting?”

— President Obama – 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network conference – GOP erodes the landmark 1965 law with identification in form of a passport or birth certificate to register.

“I want to be clear: I am not against reasonable attempts to secure the ballot. We understand that. There has to be rules in place. But I am against requiring an ID that millions of Americans don’t have.”

— President Obama – 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network conference – GOP erodes the landmark 1965 law with identification in form of a passport or birth certificate to register.

Obama: = ‘Real Voter Fraud’ Comes From ‘People Who Try To Deny Our Rights’

O.OOOO2% = 2006 DOJ showed 40 votes out of 197,000,000 votes were Fraud = “bogus” claims by GOP.

“Let’s be clear. The real voter fraud is people who try to deny our rights by making bogus arguments about voter fraud.” = GOP

— President Obama – 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network conference – GOP erodes the landmark 1965 law with identification in form of a passport or birth certificate to register.

Obama BLAMES GOP efforts to curb access to the ballot box = Effort “has not been led by both parties. It’s been led by the Republican Party.”