Reformist Rowhani surprises with Iran election win
Victor Kotsev and Jabeen Bhatti
USA Today
June 15, 2013The moderate-conservative candidate and victor in Iran’s presidential election, Hasan Rowhani, is known for his negotiating skill over the country’s nuclear weapons program and a reformist some hard-liners in Iran previously saw as too liberal and conciliatory, analysts say.
As a result, analysts predict Rowhani, who was declared the winner Saturday by Iran’s interior minister, might take the country’s top political post and bring hope to the country’s liberal classes but not wield any real power, especially on the nuclear issue.
“A president Rowhani would probably try to persuade the supreme leader that a deal on the nuclear issue would be in the interest of the Islamic Republic, especially if Rowhani believes that it is the only way to avoid a war,” said Bruno Tertrais, a senior researcher at Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris. “But (Supreme Leader) Khamenei will remain the ultimate decision-maker.”
Poor Richard's News: Election officials guilty in Indiana: "Fraud put President Obama on the presidential primary ballot"
We’ve said it before, but it’s worth repeating: Democrats don’t want to acknowledge that election fraud happens because they’re the ones that benefit heavily from it. Case in point: the verdict that just came out of Indiana, where a jury found that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton wouldn’t even have qualified to be on that ballot in 2008 had it not been for massive election fraud.
from Fox News:
A jury in South Bend, Indiana has found that fraud put President Obama and Hillary Clinton on the presidential primary ballot in Indiana in the 2008 election. Two Democratic political operatives were convicted Thursday night in the illegal scheme after only three hours of deliberations. They were found guilty on all counts.
Former longtime St. Joseph County Democratic party Chairman Butch Morgan Jr. was found guilty of felony conspiracy counts to commit petition fraud and forgery, and former county Board of Elections worker Dustin Blythe was found guilty of felony forgery counts and falsely making a petition, after being accused of faking petitions that enabled Obama, then an Illinois Senator, to get on the presidential primary ballot for his first run for the White House.
Morgan was accused of being the mastermind behind the plot.
According to testimony from two former Board of Election officials who pled guilty, Morgan ordered Democratic officials and workers to fake the names and signatures that Obama and Clinton needed to qualify for the presidential race. Blythe, then a Board of Elections employee and Democratic Party volunteer, was accused of forging multiple pages of the Obama petitions.
We will never know what impact this had on the last eight years, but one thing is for sure. Election fraud is real and it has real consequences.
Whatever you do in this year’s Federal election, don’t vote for Liberal or Labor! They’ve rigged it so that no matter who wins, both of the majors receive MILLIONS of your tax dollars in electoral funding! And their corporatist, cronyist policies are so alike it’s ridiculous.
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Poor Richard's News: Update: Ohio poll who admitted voting twice for Obama may have voted 6 times!
We told you a couple of weeks ago about a Cincinnati poll worker who openly admits she voted twice for Obama. Now authorities are investigating whether or not she actually voted SIX times for Obama.
from Fox News:
The Obama/Biden lawn sign remains proudly planted in front of Melowese Richardson’s Cincinnati home, three months after the presidential election.
It seems that President Obama has an especially ardent supporter in the veteran Ohio poll worker.
Richardson told a local television station this month that she voted twice for Obama last November. She cast an absentee ballot and then voted at the polls as well.
“Yes, I voted twice,” Richardson told WCPO-TV. “I, after registering thousands of people, certainly wanted my vote to count, so I voted. I voted at the polls.”
Authorities also are investigating if she voted in the names of four other people, too, for a total of six votes in the 2012 presidential election.
“I’ll fight it for Mr. Obama and for Mr. Obama’s right to sit as president of the United States,” Richardson vowed when asked about the voter fraud investigation that is now under way.
Richardson is one of 19 people suspected of illegal voting by the Hamilton County Board of Elections in the last election.
There 19 people in Hamilton county under investigation. So much for fair elections in the swing state of Ohio!
Oops. He was supposed to cut through his ankle, not the chain.
Cornel West “We End Up With A Rockefeller Republican In Blackface With Barack Obama” (by MOXNEWSd0tC0M)
Marc Anthony supports President Obama, will host fundraising concert & dinner
Barack Obama has yet another celebrity friend in Marc Anthony.
Marc Anthony is the latest Latino supporting President Barack Obama for re-election. The 43-year-old salsa singer publicly announced his support recently in a 30-second video for the Obama re-election campaign, which urges Latinos to vote for President Obama.
Gingrich and His Campaign Investigated For Voter Fraud, 1500 Signatures
Gingrich may be the forgiving sort when it comes to his own campaign, but Virginia election officials are, apparently, not so charitable. From The Brad Blog:
Late last week, SBE Deputy Secretary Justin Riemer confirmed to The BRAD BLOG both the referral to the AG’s office as well as the fact that an investigation into the ballot petition fraud was officially being carried out by the AG.
“This issue has been referred to the State AG by the State Board of Elections, after learning of allegations of fraudulent signature gathering in that case, and a number of others,” Riemer told us by telephone. “My understanding is that an investigation is under way,” he said.
When we asked what “other” cases had also been referred to the AG, he referred us to the AG for more details, though he characterized the petition signature fraud described by Gingrich as “definitely an illegal act”.
“We can confirm that there is an investigation underway,” Brian J. Gottstein, Director of Communication for the Office of the Attorney General of Virginia confirmed toThe BRAD BLOG via email on Monday, “but other than that, we cannot comment about an ongoing investigation.”
Gingrich was a vocal critic of the now-defunct Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), whom he (falsely) accused the group of “adding such notables as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck to the voter rolls,” and even compared it with Hamas (I’m not kidding).
Friedman also posits that Gingrich rival Mitt Romney may have voting problems of his own:
Last week, Romney release his federal income tax forms stating his residence to be “Belmont, MA”. However, as we noted at the time, his specific address was redacted, so it’s impossible to know, based on that return, if he used the address at his son’s house or his newly purchased townhouse in the same small town, as his residence for tax purposes that year.
Notably, Romney failed to release his state income tax returns for 2010, nor any of them for years prior. A 2009 return showing his residence to be income-tax free New Hampshire would be damning evidence of voter fraud in the January 2010 election in Massachusetts.
I’m no election lawyer, but if Mitt Romney voted in Massachusetts, and filed state taxes in New Hampshire, that would be a terrible optic, at the very least, for a candidate who has already gotten a ton of bad press for his low income tax rate. So far, the Romney campaign hasn’t commented on, or provided, their candidate’s 2010 state tax returns.
Any bets on when we will hear about voter fraud in all of these caucuses?
New President of Maldives Rejects Call for Elections
The newly installed president of the Maldives is rejecting calls for a new election following last week’s coup. Mohamed Waheed Hussain Manik replaced Mohamed Nasheed last week after what Nasheed described as an armed coup. Nasheed was the first democratically elected president of the Maldives. On Sunday, Waheed said now was not the time for a new election.
Mohamed Waheed Hussain Manik: “I don’t agree that there is a need to go for a snap election at the moment, and we are not ready for it. The country is deeply divided. And we have—the political landscape has many potholes and deep rifts, and so these things have to be healed before we can actually have a meaningful free and fair election.”
Mohamed Nasheed has vowed to keep pushing for democracy in the Maldives.Mohamed Nasheed: “I’m always worried about being arrested and beaten up and tortured. But we have to do what we have to do. I think the amount of the people that are always around us and the support that we are getting is creating a situation where it is very difficult for the police to drag me out.”
