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liberalitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-10-04 10:25 AM
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indulge me.... what 's is the worst thing that could happen to them...
if it was proven that they committed fraud and stole the election.
both legally and in terms of karma....
it will make me feel good
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-10-04 10:29 AM
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1. The Federal Crime of Election Fraud
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* What additional statutes are available to federalize election fraud when federal candidates are on the ballot?
In addition to the statutes and prosecutive theories given above, there are several specific criminal laws in the United States Code that address electoral frauds which take place when a federal candidates is on the ballot.

42 U.S.C. §1973i (c) prohibits specific types of voter frauds, when they occur in connection with an election where there are federal candidates on the ballot. The most prominent of these are schemes to provide election officers with false information concerning voters' names, addresses, or one's period of residence in the election district in order to qualify to vote; and schemes to pay voters. The payment for voting portion of this statute requires only that the payment be intended to influence the voter to participate in the election. It does not require that the voter be paid to vote for federal candidates, or for any specific candidate. United States v. Bowman. 636 F.2d 1003 (5th/ll Cirs 1981); Dansereau v. Ulmer. (Ak. S.Ct. 1995). The statute does not, however, criminalize payments that are intended merely to make it easier for a voter to get to the polls, United States v. Lewin. 467 F.2d 1132 (7th Cir. 1972). Nor does it prohibit payments made for actions short of voting - such as endorsing candidates.

- 18 U.S,.C. §597 prohibits making expenditures for the specific purpose of stimulating voters to cast ballots for candidates seeking the federal offices of Senator, Congressman or President. This is an old statute that dopes require a specific intent to affect a specific election.
- 42 U.S.C. 1973i (e) prohibits «voting more than once» in elections where federal candidates are on the ballot.
- 42 U.S.C. §1973gg-10(2) prohibits furnishing any significantly false information to an election officer for the purpose of voting in a federal election. Whether a statement is significantly false is determined by whether its importance to voter eligibility under the law of the state in which the vote was tendered. This is a new statute that was added by the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, and it took effect in most states on January 1, 1995.
- 18 U.S.C. 594 prohibits intimidating voters for the specific purpose of inducing them to cast ballots for one or more federal officers (i.e. Senators, Congressman, Presidents).
- 42 U.S.C. §1973gg-10(l) prohibits voter intimidation in any election where federal candidates are on the ballot regardless of the objective of the defendant to influence specific election contests. This is another facet of the new statute criminal law enacted through the NVRA. With respect to both this statute and Section 594, «intimidation» means actual duress caused by physical or economic threats.
- Finally, 18 U.S.C. §608 prohibits all the above forms of election fraud when they occur in connection with votes cast by Americans living abroad under the provisions of the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, which in the principle means by which American citizens living abroad vote by absentee ballot.
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http://democracy.ru/english/library/international/eng_1999-11.html
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liberalitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-10-04 10:32 AM
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3. OOOOOhhhhh yea that's the stuff....
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-10-04 10:30 AM
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2. When poor white trash from red states march on Washington
because their welfare checks and food stamps have been cut off and the cupboard is bare at their local faith based assistance center. The Army recruiting office will be available to them.
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liberalitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-10-04 10:33 AM
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4. sounds like the makings of a hammer films lynch mob
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ozarklib Donating Member (50 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-10-04 10:35 AM
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5. If there was election fraud,
I want to see people go to jail.
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