More than 60,000 illegal voters have been purged from the voting rolls in Shelby County alone so far this year. Shelby County, of course, is known to be a place where the dearly departed are regularly invested with the privilege of the franchise. Many of those who have been taken off the voting rolls so far are not the dead-those are still to come-but those who do not live in the precinct where they are registered, those who have not voted in several federal election cycles, or those who are not citizens, or those convicted of felonious crimes who may not vote under Tennessee law:
Bill Giannini, Election Commission Chairman, confirms, "We've purged, up to the date, 60,000 voters with no number in our minds of where we need to be. We believe, you're an eligible voter or you are an ineligible voter."
Giannini says it's been years of neglect in purging voter rolls that's led to a major effort to pare them down. Giannini cites one of the important criteria is that eligible voters must have cast ballots in at least the last two federal elections, longer than that and you probably won't make the cut. But, Giannini insists, despite the unrest in various political circles over the purge issue, the critics might change their tune after it's over....whenever that might be.
Giannini boldly predicts, "They're gonna be shocked to discover that it's Republicans. It's Democrats. It's Independents. It young and old. It's people who've left the country."
No one is out to purge the voting rolls of those who are legally entitled to vote under the laws and Constitution of this sovereign State. The reality is that those who are complaining about "issues" are the same people who for years have either openly encouraged unlawful voting fraud or (as is much more common) turned a blind eye while it was occurring. Fraud and vote padding is one way in which Democrats like to insure that they keep majorities, because is an honest vote according to law and Constitution is conducted, they are more likely to be defeated.
The other way in which Democrats like to insure that they maintain majorities is through gerrymandering legislative districts to insure that votes in those constituencies go their way. Republicans are equally guilty of using legalized gerrymandering to manipulate the outcome of elections. However, until our system is changed to somehow insure that our political constituencies can't be drawn based on the considerations of the party in control of any State, changes in power will mean a change in the electoral dynamic of most legislative districts.
Memphis isn't the only place where fraud is finally being uncovered, and liberals and Democrats are throwing the usual fit about Republicans trying to deny people the right to vote. There is no real American, Republican or Democrat, who would want to deny any citizen who is duly qualified the right and privilege of casting their vote in a free election. It is Un-American to perpetuate voting by those who are not qualified to do so under the law, thereby impacting the outcome of elections. Those who are whining about people being denied the "right to vote" are part of the same crew that has turned a blind eye to voting irregularities and padding the roles through fraud for many years. Now the chickens are coming home to roost and the squealing is well underway.
Those who have held political power in this State for many years through vote padding, manipulation, and fraud can turn out the lights, because the party is over.
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