This is classic big government mentality which enables classic political corruption. It is not the Daley machine that ruled Chicago with an iron fist or Boss Tweed's Tammany Hall, it is a modern day version of Democrat and leftist groups that are changing the face of corruption.
"Walking around money', traditionally used to buy votes is now handled by large fronts such as ACORN and other "community organizations" as well as groups of progressives, socialists, anarchists, etc., that have founded and formed political groups to buy, intimidate and corrupt the vote. The money, in an ironic twist, 'trickles down' from international groups to American groups to state and local chapters which in turn give money and instructions to local 'unaffiliated' traditional groups to do their bidding, which is to steal elections to gain power.
Money, corruption and the intimidation of voters had long been a staple of the Democratic Party, but the modern incarnation by leftists is a well oiled machine that buys whole societal communities through government bribes, creates chaos and illegal activity at all levels of the electoral process and punishes those that do not toe the line. Meet the perfect storm called the Obama campaign.
This just a current example:
Voter rolls stuffed with dead and absent registrants
Sue Sautermeister, First District Election Commissioner in Madison County, tried to purge the rolls, but ran into trouble when it was discovered it takes a vote of three of the five election commissioners and the purge cannot take place within 90 days of a federal election.
Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann is the first to admit the situation with voter registration in this state is terrible.
"It is terrible," he says. "Combined with the fact that we don't have voter ID in Mississippi, anybody can show up at any poll that happens to know the people who have left town or died -- and go vote for them."
"Whenever we have a third party determined by payment, for example, as they did in Benton County -- 'walking-around' money -- and they determine what that vote is going to be, they've taken your vote, whether they may have voted like you would have or not, they've still thwarted the process and they've still have taken your vote away from you," added Hosemann.
Sue Sautermeister is working hard in the First District of Madison County to start a purging of the voter rolls as soon after the election as possible. She has file drawers full of names of people who haven't voted in years and are known to be dead.
"We have people who registered in 1965 who have never voted," she says. "We have 486 people (registered who are) over 105."
Sadly, it was the Press that brought down most corrupt political machines. Today, the Press is part of one.
