The Greensboro Watchman

Dear Editor:

There are many good reasons for the citizens of West Alabama to support the Democracy Defense League. These are some of the reasons I joined:

1. The League is non-partisan. The only agenda is open, honest, and fair elections.
2. The League is interracial and non-discriminatory. We want the entire community to be involved.
3. Our goal is clear: let every voice be heard, let every vote be honestly counted, and let the balloting process be above reproach.
4. Our intent is to hold our leaders responsible for their actions. We want integrity to be rewarded and dishonesty to be punished.
5. We have learned from the past. We need to work together for the good of future generations.
6. Together we have strength. We need each other.
7. West Alabama is one of the most beautiful places I have seen. We are unique. We need to work from within to solve our problems, or we will lose our uniqueness.
8. I want the world to know that we care what happens here. This is not some God-forsaken backwater place where we think, “It’s every man for himself and Devil take the hindmost.”
9. Voting is important enough to die for, important enough to live for, and important enough to give up time and money to protect. If you don’t believe it, ask your parents and grandparents.
10. “Don’t get involved” is not an option.

Sincerely,

Caroline McCord Greensboro, Alabama

The Greensboro Watchman

Dear Editor:

The recent voter fraud has hurt West Alabama in more ways than one.

Not only do the voters have less confidence in the integrity of our elected officials, but the fraud serves to discourage honest voters from going to the polls. Many people now feel their vote does not make a difference because corrupt people have negated the one-man, one-vote theory.

In addition, the entire area has become less attractive to industries and economic development due to the corruption of local officials.

No longer do the people have respect for many of their elected officials because they believe that many of them were not honestly voted in but were elected through voter fraud.

Roosevelt Po-Ro Johnson Sawyerville, Alabama

The Demopolis Times

Dear Editor:

I believe in the principles of democracy and have taken a stand. Inadequate voter registration laws have allowed the Black Belt to become a breeding ground for a serious and criminal situation – voter fraud in elections – esp. local.

In every election since relocating in Greensboro I have voted, but felt disenfranchised. The first time I voted at the Armory I was angered and dismayed – scores of people loitering around inside the polling place wearing t-shirts advertising their candidate. No identification required for voting. AN INVITATION FOR FRAUD.

One election I was going to be out of town – 300 miles away, not just going to Akron for the day so I went to the clerks office to vote absentee. I was initially impressed with the legal application of the voter laws. This was quickly cast aside as my sealed ballot was tossed into an open cardboard box on the floor. I saw on television that in Iraq’s recent election ballots were placed in a secure box at the polls. AN INVITATION FOR FRAUD.

I read in the area newspaper about the alleged intimidation of elderly and ignorant in absentee voting, addresses used where the houses are uninhabitable, etc. The winner of the senatorial election stated that he got a large number of absentee votes because he knows how to work the system and trains his people. The local newspapers run a story circuit clerk, whose husband is running for office, has absentee ballots sent to her personal post office box in her hometown. AN INVITATION FOR FRAUD.

In January 2005 a few angered and concerned black and white citizens formed the DDL, a non-partisan organization dedicated to the elimination of voter fraud through legal means. To me this is not an issue about what race is in control, it is an issue about preserving the democratic principles upon which our nation was founded for all people.

Respectfully,

Pattie C. Dismukes Greensboro, AL

Moundville Times

Dear Editor:

Recently there has been quite a stir in West Alabama about alleged voter fraud in several elections. We need to clean up our act; this affects more than West Alabama.

Fraud breeds corruption. Corruption draws criminals, who figure politicians and law enforcement either don’t care or can be bought. Criminals bring drugs, prostitution and gangs.

Dishonest government teaches our children that it is all right to use any means to get what they want. Children will start lying, cheating, stealing, and vandalizing if they see adults getting away with it. By the time they are teenagers, behavior problems become more serious; theft, drugs, and violence follow. Do you think I exaggerate? I have worked for many years with street police, alcoholics, drug addicts, dealers, sexual deviants of all kinds, pimps, prostitutes, thieves, murderers, and other criminals who wind up in the mental health system at some point. Not one of them ever told me he thought it up all by himself or herself. They all saw someone in possession of power getting away with something illegal or unethical, lining their own pockets with someone else’s misery.

Voter fraud is theft. A dishonest person is usually dishonest in several ways. Voter fraud usually requires participation of more than one person; it involves conspiracy and cover-up.

Honest people who want a decent place to do business and bring up their children avoid communities with a reputation for dishonest government. No one wants to invest in a community where they know they will be without any power or influence in important decisions.

Dishonest government brings poverty and degradation to all its people. West Alabama will never prosper until we stop tolerating such mistreatment. People who want a chance to succeed will continue to leave the area to look for homes and jobs elsewhere.

West Alabama is not the only area affected. If our representatives should be elected fraudulently, remember that they will be voting on statewide and nationwide issues. All of Alabama and the nation are watching us to se what we will do about this situation. Let us be known for honesty and integrity in all our dealings with others. We cannot just stand by and wait for someone else to take care of this. In this time of international unrest, we do not need to be held hostage by our own neighbors.

Sincerely,

Caroline McCord

The Demopolis Times

Working at the polls on election day is a service everyone should experience at least once in their life. If you haven’t done so, you may not know what I am about to say. If you have, you know exactly what I’m about to say. We’ve seen this going on for a long time.

Polls open at 7:00 a.m. Poll Officials are scheduled to be at their location by 6:30 a.m. in order to open their boxes which contain the registered voter list, a list of absentee voters which has to be struck from that registered voter list, a computer print-out list of the registered voters in that particular District and Box, and instructions for voting, pens, ballots and etc. Those are the particulars and when carried out properly should be no problem in getting everyone who is registered to vote to cast their ONE vote. One Person – One Vote!

Now with new computerized voting machines, you would think it would be pretty simple to mark your ballot, take it to the machine, watch the ballot disappear into the machine and know that your ONE vote had been counted. It’s not the mechanics on election day that is the problem, it is the people who have decided that ONE vote is not enough for them. So, a game goes on to see how many times they can vote, and if they are a candidate running for an office, VOTING FOR THEMSELVES, for example, the end justifies the means; BIG TIME.

Here is how the game is played: A group of people plans their strategy. Shall they use intimidation to make the voter feel they are not capable to mark their own ballot? Or shall the use of coercion be used where the voter is bullied into believing their Social Security or Medicare/Medicaid check will be stopped if they don’t vote the way the group wants them to? Will a pay-off suffice the need of the voter? And above all, POWER over the people under the guise of religious faith, civic and community service, help for the children; would that be the catch to this game? And there’s always the “Anything goes as long as we don’t get caught” syndrome. So the plan is set and the day gets started with their thinking “We’ll vote early and we’ll vote often.”

HERE IS WHAT HAPPENED ON ELECTION DAY, TUESDAY, MAY 3, 2005, AT THE NATIONAL GUARD ARMORY AND THESE ACTS OF VOTER FRAUD HAPPENED MANY TIMES THAT DAY: A wave of self-appointed helpers swept through the voting place as they worked their plan. Some voters, maybe a very few, actually needed help because of poor eyesight, health reasons in moving about or could not read. By federal court ruling, any registered voter who desires assistance for any reason is entitled to assistance by anyone of his/her choosing, including election officials. The VOTER must specifically notify an election official for help. The designated helper may assist the voter, but cannot do so in a partisan fashion. Many voters were brought into the polling place by someone they might or might not have known, and the election officials were told, “I’m helping him/her vote” but the voter’s voices were not heard. As a matter of fact, most of the time the voters never opened their mouths.

How many times these self-appointed helpers could go out and bring another voter into the voting place was as many times as it could be done in a day. THIS HAPPENED A TOTAL OF 27 TIMES BY A PUBLIC OFFICIAL, ACCORDING TO MY TALLY.

To take the pen from the voter’s hand and vote the ballot is ILLEGAL, AN ACT OF FRAUD, and is punishable by law. And to fraudulently alter or change any person’s vote or to purposely take a marked ballot from a voter and damage it as a spoiled ballot so another ballot can be obtained, and/or otherwise prevent the person from voting as he or she intended is a FEDERAL OFFENSE. The act is punishable by CIVIL and CRIMINAL PENALTIES, 42 U.S.C. 1973i and 1973j. A person who is not an election official cannot stand by a voting machine while the voter is placing their ballot in the machine and/or take the ballot from the voter’s hand and place it in the machine in order to see exactly how that person has voted. That is intimidation, is considered interfering with the voter’s PRIVACY and is a FEDERAL OFFENSE. Another person cannot disturb or attempt to prevent any voter from freely casting his ballot.

One self appointed helper (who is a public official) gave the nod to another self-appointed helper to deliberately go to my table where a voter was signing his name in the book as a qualified voter. The voter had not asked for assistance, but the person that got the nod told the voter she was going to help him with his ballot. She them proceeded to take the voter to a table to help him vote. The voter did not need assistance. It was an act of intimidation, an attempt to prevent a voter from freely casting his private ballot, and to assure that his ballot was marked to the helper’s satisfaction.

Who needs to know about what goes on at the polling places in Perry County? YOU DO! And the ALABAMA ATTORNEY GENERAL does. The UNITED STATES ATTORNEY’S OFFICE does. THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION does, and the ALABAMA SECRETARY OF STATE does.

Sara B. Clements
Perry County

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The Fox News Channel has been running an expose on voter fraud and the anti-American impact it has had throughout our entire country. Alabamians should be embarrassed by this but, thank God, this crucial issue is finally getting exposure.

And, by the way, this exposure was initiated when the Democracy Defense League documented, via sworn affidavits, that votes were for sale in Perry County and passed this information along to the U.S. Justice Department, Alabama attorney general and The New York Times.

On the Fox News Channel, Albert Turner Jr. was interviewed live. On national television, he said that strict election laws were needed in Alabama and that our legal penalties needed enhancement.

Only time will flush out his actual sincerity since his political ally, Sen. Bobby Singleton, continues to deny the existence of voter fraud.

All of this just goes to show, once again, that when you turn the lights on the cockroaches will run for cover, call you a racist, and publicly say whatever it takes to get the heat off. It’s fun to watch them squirm.

Perry Beasley
Co-Chair
Democracy Defense League
Greensboro