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John Fund explores the real divide the country faces with the looming election. Through wary thoughts on voting integrity, he shows how eletions can be decided by the votes of dead people, illegal felon voters, and absentee voters that simply don’t exist. If nothing is done to address the growing cynicism about vote counting, rest assured that another close presidential election that descends into bitter partisan wrangling is just around the corner…. More >>
Stealing Elections, Revised and Updated: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy
John Fund is an outright partisan hack. The myth of voter fraud is a front for the ongoing republican efforts to purge hundreds of thousands of minority and poor voters from the voter rolls in swing states like Ohio and Florida. If you want to buy this book go ahead, but its just another piece of propaganda from the folks who brought you the Iraq debacle, the Katrina tragedy, the politicization of our Justice Department, the retributive outing of a CIA operative, the housing disaster and wall street collapse/bailout, pentagon/retired military trading of republican war talking points for access to military purchasers, the cocaine fueled corruption at the Interior Dept. — the list goes on and on and on and on. Fund is un-American and, in a more honest age, would be tarred and feathered for the lies and distortions he has penned. Rating: 1 / 5
This book is one skirmish in an ongoing Republican propaganda war whose aim is to limit voting by the poor. They do this because contrary to media assertions, most of the poor (Appalachia as well as inner city), vote democratic. Convincing everyone that get out the vote organizations (for example Acorn) that work in poor areas are committing fraud is one of the central line of attack in this effort. “In Justice: Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Bush Administration”, by former US Attorney David Iglesias, discusses the politicization of the Justice Dept. as another prong of this attack.
Iglesias shows that he and other US Attorneys were pressured as early as 2003 to purge Democrats from voter rolls wherever possible, based on flawed assertions of voter fraud. Iglesias investigated the claims for more than a year, finding nothing, before realizing the whole thing was politically motivated. For his “lack of cooperation” he was asked to resign in 2006 as part of the Gonzales Justice department firing scandal, which is part of an ongoing investigation.
So, take Fund’s assertions in context — ACORN was a bogeyman of the last election based on trumped up charges of fraud — purging democrats from the voter roles “won” Bush Florida (and the presidency) in 2000. Rove & Co. continued the practices throughout the Bush administration and Fund is merely a water-carrier for this criminal effort to take away poorer Americans’ sacred right to vote. Rating: 1 / 5
This book addresses important issues that will shape
the very future of our Nation! Rating: 5 / 5
John Fund is a right-leaning pundit who has made a living writing conservative pieces for many years. Unsurprisingly, this book fits comfortably within that body of work. It is inaccurate to characterize this book as “objective” or “non-partisan”. It is not. Like most of Mr. Fund’s works, this book is for conservative readers who want their point-of-view reinforced. Rating: 2 / 5
The other reviews of this book are largely correct, in that it uncovers a lot of problems with the election process, and offers some solutions. So I won’t go into what this book is about. I want to talk about what this book leaves out…
What I can’t understand is how a 200+ page book about ’stealing elections’ does not once mention the problem of voting machines. This is a huge problem because of the potential for abuse they provide, but it is not even mentioned in this book once, even in passing.
If you want to learn more about problems with ‘butterfly’ ballots, absentee ballots, provisional ballots, voter suppression, double-voting, etc. etc., then you will be happy with this book. If you were looking for an understanding of voting machines and the potential for vote fraud that arises from their use, don’t buy this book. Instead, google ‘hacking democracy’ and watch the video. That will get you started. Rating: 3 / 5