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Dept of Justice to Monitor Elections in IL

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today that the Civil Rights Division will monitor elections on March 20, 2012, in Cook and Lake Counties, Ill. The monitoring will ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and other federal voting rights statutes. The Voting Rights Act prohibits discrimination in the election process on the basis of race, color or membership in a minority language group. . .

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/March/12-crt-338.html




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hr 347?

hr 347?

"What if the American people learn the truth" - Ron Paul

LibertyIsRising

I'm detecting a bit of

I'm detecting a bit of sinicism here in the comments. You mean you don't trust the government?

Now we will have transparency...some important people from

some important government agency are coming to sort this thing out. I saw it on TV

james williams

Like a crime thriller movie plot

Where the hapless hero witnesses an evil deed and overcomes difficult obstacles in order to report it to a higher authority. For unknown reasons, things go terribly wrong for the hero as he slowly realizes the higher authority is actually the instigator of a massive conspiracy of which the original evil deed was just the tip of the iceberg.

Does this common thriller plot resonate deeply with Americans because we sense that this is a metaphor for what's happening now in our country?

You know what that means!

It means Eric Holder and the Dept of Just Us is going to have boots on the ground to make sure that fraud is perpetrated exactly the way they want it to be, and that there is no outside interference with their criminal activities.

ayep

I agree with this statement... but that's probably just my paranoia speaking... hmmmm... it is quandries such as this that make my life difficult.

Yeah,25 states later.What

Yeah,25 states later.What about previous states?

Libertarian-speak or Austrian Economics

Are these minority language groups?

Eye Wash

Nothing but eye wash to placate the common cattle into thinking there is no election fraud going on. The establishment will give a song and dance to try to show the cattle that all the grumblings of election fraud (Masquerading as voter fraud) is just a bunch of hoopla brought on by the anti-government, militant, domestic terrorist groups. What a joke. The sad fact is most of the cattle will lick from this poison salt block and condemn those that don't lick of the salt block of deceit.

hope for the best

Oh, YEAH! RIGHT!

The same Eric Holder's DOJ that brought you the latest scandal, 'Fast And Furious', is going to monitor the election in ILLINOIS!
Don Corleone is going to make sure that Jack The Ripper is 'following the rules'!
Yeah, it's a tragedy, all right.

I AM
MONTGOMERY SCOTT

sounds like more helicopters

and police cruisers to me.

Prewarned the 2 Counties

Like telling the thieves their coming to these two counties and not to cook these machines. Rest of the counties the GOP can do what they want now.

It may warn them

but, if the outcome shows a high discrepancy compared to all the other counties, you can bet lots of questions will be asked.

Happy Bday Frothy, Love

Happy Bday Frothy,
Love Barack and Michelle

Almost certainly

just a rubber stamp, but there is no reason to not take advantage of the 'moniters' that are there. At least it'll be harder to specifically disenfranchise Paul voters coming in. It can't have any impact on the machines though, unless they plan to hard count the vote too.

Pretest the Machines

Hope they pretest the machines hours before voting starts and watch the computer cards don't get switched.

Is That Like, Eric Holder Monitoring the Border?

Chicago hss it all down

They should be watching the count

and checking the machines!

Dept. of Justice? Is that

Dept. of Justice? Is that sort of like the "Patriot" Act, or the Dept of "Education"?

This doesn't make sense....

Since when does the department of justice have the right to be involved in a private primary? Especially a justice department headed up by a crook put in place by the Democrat Obama?

The very saddest part of this is that a few years ago I might have been happy about this, it might have given me pause to relax thinking that they would be involved...but not any more. When you see as much corruption in the justice department that has been shown lately how do we trust anything they do....it just doesn't work.

It will be interesting to see who wins when Obama's folks are over the elections... kind of a foreshadow of what is to come I suppose.

slm

This is being done so that big media criminals can say

"See, Ron Paul got only X% of the vote which PROVES that there was no vote count fraud in other elections."

The radio talk show liars need a soundbite response to all of the callers who are bringing up the vote fraud.

The Diebold machines will do their thing all under the watchful eye of the Injustice Dept.

Ignore the media's lies and propaganda.

Oh Thank God!

Now I can rest easy...

Finally this election thing is over and we can get on with the collapse of our currency forthwith!

hmmm....

Are they going to smuggle guns in like they did in Mexico?

Only one problem here

Who will be watching the Justice Department?

looks like AG Eric 'need to brainwash ppl on 2ndAmd' Holder

is gonna be busy making SURE that people of Illinois' votes WON'T count!

Predictions in due Time...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGDisyWkIBM

"Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it's realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy." - Dr. Ronald Ernest Paul

What?

l. Who requested this?
2. Why Illinois?
3. Why the Feds if the Republicans are a "private club"?

Inquiring minds want to know. Why are these people only doing Illinois and not all states?

Why do they not monitor every election in the whole United States each and every time? (not sure I want them to...)

4. Maybe they are doing this so that Ron Paulers cannot "take over"...maybe they have "someone else in mind to take over".

SequoiaTrees4RonPaul

wouldn't it be fabulous

.. if this were the one for Ron Paul to come out with the best numbers ... ! the one time that official monitoring took place it'd turn out finally to show true numbers ... ?

... or maybe I am misunderstanding and it there are exactly opposite implications of this ?

Nope...It's Obama's hometown, gangsta ville...

You can bet its merely a precursor, for the kind of cowboy circus we're going to witness.

Get a camera and bring everything you can to document.

160 teams

Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced yesterday that more than 160 teams of assistant attorneys general and investigators will be working on Tuesday, March 20, to monitor the Illinois primary election 2012.

Madigan urges voters to call her office if they encounter suspected improper or illegal activity.

Chicago and northern Illinois voters can call: 1-866-536-3496 (TTY 1-800-964-3013). Downstate voters can call: 1-866-559-6812 (TTY 1-877-844-5461).

Continue
http://illinoisobserver.org/2012/03/17/attorney-general-lisa...

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