Vote Rigging an American Nightmare; Is American Municipal Voting Really Flawed? Why are Strong Mayoral Cities so Corrupt?

Vote Rigging an American Nightmare; Is American Municipal Voting Really Flawed? Why are Strong Mayoral Cities so Corrupt?
By Marc Chamot

But my current article isn’t about Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, Dr Manning, race and Zimbio or myself. It’s about voter fraud in America. Its still happening and I may know why?

Believe it or not, voter fraud is still most common in the United States. A country that preaches to the world about democracy has never been able to put a lid on the problem.

I have been blogging and posting on the Net for about eleven months now. Back when I vented my suspicions about Barack Obama on my blog and Zimbio.com nobody paid much attention to me. It was mostly anti-Hillary R. Clinton stuff I was seeing and I was seen as ridicule picking on a promising presidential candidate.

Now I am a flabbergasted folk! Zimbio bloggers now dominate the anti-Obama postings here and I am speechless! I have nothing more to write about Barack Obama here people are doing it for me! Just awesome!

Zimbio bloggers and writers are the best around and believe me I read most of your political blogs. Zimbio is to the Net as sliced bread was for the consumer. Is Zimbio influential? I believe it is!

What I really love about Zimbio is that no one can hijack the site, and yes unlike they do with the Daily Kos and Digg Zimbio has the best group of writers never seen elsewhere.

When I did my Oprah Winfrey story about two weeks ago, where’s Oprah Winfrey? MIA with Barack Obama lately, is the Oprah Winfrey Show Reputation Damaged?
Newsweek and the LA Times capitalized on the Jeremiah Wright/Obama and Winfrey saga to my story. And the latest Reverend James David Manning attacks on Oprah were somewhat based behind my story on Oprah’s support for Barack Obama when white female fans of Oprah’s and mostly supporters of Hillary Clinton went bonkers over Oprah’s ill-advised support for a male like Obama. My angle was more gender based but Dr. Manning’s was more racial.

My current article isn’t about Oprah, Barack Obama, Dr. Manning, race and Zimbio or myself. It’s about voter fraud in America. Its still happening and I may know why?

If people have been following my articles on my blog and Zimbio. I have been documenting series on what I know through experiences in political corruption in America mainly my times with my former bosses Chinese family corruptive ties with former San Francisco mayor Willie L. Brown Jr.

On my last posting I wrote about Did Barack Obama Supporter & Gary Indiana Mayor Rudy Clay try to Steal Indiana From Hillary Rodham Clinton? Did he try to hand fraudulent votes?

Actually I want to delve more into the subject and add Chicago into the mix because it’s supposedly Barack Obama’s home turf. Voter fraud in Chicago and San Francisco isn’t much different except that the end results end up for fixed candidates.

The real root of the problem is that most cities like Chicago Illinois and San Francisco California have a strong mayor type system of government. A strong mayor government has the total control of every city department including the elections department. They can rig and control the hiring and placement of their polling places and workers and destroy actual balloting results when they want to.

However there are many cities and municipalities across America that are governed by city councils, supervisors and mayors with limited mayoral powers, and to my knowledge these cities have much less occurrences in voting frauds in comparison to their strong mayor counterparts.

Cities throughout America are always debating whether to change city charters through their electorates to rid themselves from these strong mayoral types of governments.

It’s without a doubt that strong mayoral cities besides Chicago and San Francisco, if we add New York, Los Angeles and Houston Texas into the mix they can create serious voter fraud in turning around local politics results in their favor while destroying national and actual presidential results for Americans.

“Municipalities’ elections in America are the cornerstones of true democracy if those are infringed through rigged elections then we have no democracy.”

Something happened back around 2000 in San Francisco California to change all of that. When Willie L. Brown Jr. the most corrupt mayor San Francisco has ever known, rigging city elections were commonplace with this mayor.

When ballot boxes filled with voter slips ended up in the San Francisco bay was the final straw that that city could take from this corrupt mayor. Curbing mayoral powers and city reforms were coming by the boatload!

Dec. 11 -- State elections officials step in to monitor San Francisco's runoff, capping a year of problems at the city's elections department that included ballot box tops found floating in the bay and scores of missing blank ballots discovered weeks late. . See full story here http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/01/04/MNGGC438AP1.DTL

Eventually, voters rebelled in 2000 with the election of a new crop of supervisors, most of who ran on an anti-Brown platform and vowed to lasso developers. Shortly afterward, voters approved measures that weakened the mayor's control over the city's major land-use panels: the Planning Commission and Board of Appeals.

"Mayor Brown's lasting legacy," Board of Supervisors President Matt Gonzalez once said, "is that the mayor's powers have been reined in.''

Then around 2002 the San Francisco city supervisors placed on the ballot an initiative removing the mayor from total control and access to the elections department and it passed by about 60% margin of the electorate. Since then San Francisco has never had voting problems and irregularities since the supervisors wrested control away from the mayor of their own city elections department.

Yes America is still a corrupt political system that perverts third world nations and the Federal government and our hapless sorry FBI can never get a handle on. During the last decade of constant San Francisco public corruption scandals the FBI have 0-no-none prosecution record!

The FBI and justice department used to be a proud American agencies; it’s now staffed with incompetent, idiotic morons that know nothing about investigating and prosecuting American crime.

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