Democrats May Steal Election as Voter Registration Grows

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Democrats May Steal Election as Voter Registration Grows

This was posted over at the Kerry/Edwards forum

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1. Democrats May Steal Election as Voter Registration Grows

A Despite Kerry's lagging polls, the Democrats still plan to win this
November.

How?

Perhaps by the old fashioned way: stealing the election.

That's the word from a top Republican strategist in Washington who
tells NewsMax the Democrats have put an unusual amount of resources
into "voter turnout" efforts.

NewsMax's Insider Report reported weeks ago that the 527 groups
supporting Kerry, and backed by the likes of billionaire George Soros,
were earmarking most of the $160 million they have raised toward voter
registration and "get out the vote" efforts.

Approximately two-thirds of the 527 money - or a $100 million - will
go toward these efforts.

Republicans believe many of these voter registration efforts open up
the door for qualified and multiple voting schemes on Election Day.

Worse, the 527's are now claiming they will spend three times what has
been previously reported to "get out the vote."

One pro-Kerry group, America Votes, told the New York Times that its
backers - "labor unions, trial lawyers, environmental groups,
community organizations - will spend $300 million on registration and
turnout in swing states, a sum that dwarfs the $150 million in public
financing the two candidates together will receive for the entire fall
campaign."

NewsMax has also reported that only a handful of states were being
targeted for this avalanche of cash, notably Florida, Ohio and
Pennsylvania.

However, Republicans believe this will lay the groundwork not for a
Democratic electoral victory on November 2nd, but for election theft
on November 2nd.

NewsMax reports were confirmed this Sunday in the New York Times,
which headlined its story "A Big Increase of New Voters in Swing States."

The paper said, " A sweeping voter registration campaign in heavily
Democratic areas has added tens of thousands of new voters to the
rolls in the swing states of Ohio and Florida, a surge that has far
exceeded the efforts of Republicans in both states, a review of
registration data shows."

As it turned out in 2000, Bush won Florida by less than a 1000 votes,
and Ohio by about 30,000 votes.

Republicans have been shy about raising the voter registration and
fraud issue because of the race issue; Democrats have been quick to
say the Republicans are "racist" for challenging voter registration
efforts in minority and inner city areas.

But the Times notes that's exactly where the Democrats have been
focusing their resources.

The paper reported: "The analysis by The New York Times of
county-by-county data shows that in Democratic areas of Ohio -
primarily low-income and minority neighborhoods - new registrations
since January have risen 250 percent over the same period in 2000. In
comparison, new registrations have increased just 25 percent in
Republican areas.

"A similar pattern is apparent in Florida: in the strongest Democratic
areas, the pace of new registration is 60 percent higher than in 2000,
while it has risen just 12 percent in the heaviest Republican areas."

Of course, the Kerry campaign says it has nothing to do with the 527
efforts, but they appear to be happy with the results.

"We know it's going on, and it's a very encouraging sign," Steve
Elmendorf, deputy campaign manager for Senator John Kerry, told the
Times. He added that these efforts "could very much be the
difference" for Kerry.

Steve Rosenthal, the head of another 527 group - Americans Coming
Together, or ACT - told the Times, "I think what's happening on the
streets, below the radar, is what's going to make the big difference
on Election Day." Rosenthal claimed that by Election Day the 527
groups will have registered two and a half million new voters.

A chart in the Times showed that the Democrat registrations are
outpacing Republicans in Ohio and Florida by five times or more.