http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/286557/yes-v...
http://www.fairus.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle...
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11352/1197406-373-...

Also, the real news which tends to get buried in stories that cover the subject, is that only cases where abuse is suspected.. and reported.. and investigated.. and then later someone is convicted do we even hear about the issue. What should be getting everyone's attention is not the relative handful of the actual convictions, but the scores of cases where no scrutiny and no investigations or checking are even done.

The real problem isn't so much with people voting twice or voting using someone else's identity -- the problem is much more that people that shouldn't be allowed to register are doing so, and many of those do cast ballots and never receive later scrutiny.

Fraud also occurs when a person that is not legally eligible to register affirms they are eligible and registers anyway.

Of course, how does anyone know if there isn't some systematic mechanism to check (after the fact/vote)?

Most of the checks are done in the registration stage, not at the voting stage itself -- minus checking the voter with an existing registration. Yet, through (what I believe, are often misguided or through the lack of foresight), attempts to 'reach out', "Motor Voter", etc to 'enable everyone to vote' has produced situations whereby people that aren't allowed to vote, are very likely doing so. Examples: In several states, convicted felons or those incarcerated are not allowed to vote, non-citizens are not allowed to vote, people not registered are not allowed to vote. While states like OR that do exclusive mail-in balloting -- thereby, placing a high burden on verifying details 'up-front' early in the process -- not all states are equally careful. In many states, it is woefully too easy for persons not eligible to register to squeak through the process. If elections officials don't check stringently after the fact as to whether the registrations are technically correct (not just whether they exist or not), then there is almost no way to know if some ineligible person has illegally voted or not.

Ironic twist, isn't it?

As we all know, no Chicago politician could engage in deception or malfeasance, or could they???
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/Latin-Ame...
https://www.numbersusa.com/content/news/october-3...
https://www.numbersusa.com/content/news/january-2...
https://www.numbersusa.com/content/news/january-9...

As a former Democrat, I find your defense of the current state of affairs and tendency to not question reports as these very curious -- well, actually disturbing would be more accurate. While Republicans have done their share of evil deeds to undermine working and middle class Americans, so too, have the Democrats. For example, Clinton signed 2 of the most destructive laws which have come home to haunt America's workers: NAFTA and granting China MFN status (Most-Favored Nation). The US has hemorrhaged MILLIONS of good manufacturing and service jobs as a result.

No administration EVER (recently, at least) has forced a total and accurate count of the true scope of unemployment in the US. When the Federal Government starts reporting unemployment using U-6 instead of U-3, then we'll have taken the first baby steps down the road to honesty and progress.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemplo...

Right. Which begs the follow-up question: deceiving by 'accident' or by design?

I have known people that worked for the US BLS and can tell you it is a large bureaucracy and employs several thousand people. One would think, that such human resource potential combined with newer technical means, that timely and accurate counts of actual unemployed should be possible. Yet, they are collared (for a number of reasons) to their old and tried-and-trued methodology of ESTIMATING the unemployed and many of their methods rely heavily upon phone interviews and sampling of sub-groups / sub-populations to gauge the overall numbers.

I would suggest to think one step further down the road in all this: the current methods exist for a reason and such reason exists because some people benefit (and others do not). In short, the reasons are political. Who benefits by unrealistic/inaccurate employment estimates? (and, the tragic counterpart must also be included: who are the losers? )

Finally, of course the government itself has a vested interest in excluding [from being officially 'unemployed'] as many people as it can to minimize program expenditures. So, it is no disaffected objective bystander by any means.

Eric Holder may very well be the worst USAG in US history.
Obama seemed to mess up the worst on the most important cabinet positions (eg. Holder, Napolitano, etc)
Hey Holder, are you still stonewalling Rep. Issa for all the F&F documents he requested from DoJ? (Yea, we all know the answer to that one). He's a disgrace to the country and the Federal government,

I concur with the comments about the 'transparency' and the like.

But Ralph, to engage in profiling would be direct and likely to eliminate or solve the problem. Not only that, some people would likely be offended by such a practice..and, as we all know, that's the worst possible outcome.
/Sarc off.

Long time Blazer fans will know his name well: Jake O'Donnell. What a *#&@*@(!)!&%*#@ !!!

And correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that one of the perps had a 'brush with the law' (via a traffic stop, or DUI - something of that nature) prior to the killing of Dani. I know our local LE people work very, very hard, but there was a chance the perp(s) could have been identified and removed early on, and Dani might still be alive today.

The one very small silver lining to this story is: Sheriff Craig Roberts of Clack Co. took the initiative to get Clack Co. in the Secure Communities program. It screen all incoming persons into the jail by legal status and works with the Feds to get illegals into the hands of ICE for subsequent removal. He was the first sheriff in OR to get Secure Communities going, and the effort was largely in response to the murder of Dani Countryman. Good job Sheriff Roberts.