Marathon Pundit: Desperate supporters of Mob Banker using race card over Mark Kirk's vote fraud fears: UPDATED

Saturday, October 09, 2010

Desperate supporters of Mob Banker using race card over Mark Kirk's vote fraud fears: UPDATED

I've made about a dozen posts about vote fraud crimes in Illinois' Metro East area--better known as the eastern suburbs of St. Louis. Chicago and Cook County have a long history of cheating on Election Day.

Mark Kirk, the Republican candidate for the US Senate, was secretly recorded discussing his strategy of combatting vote fraud, which--and here comes the truth--is almost always carried out by Democrats and those who support them. The Democratic nominee is Alexi Giannoulias, the failed Mob Banker. Here's what Kirk said:

These are lawyers and other people that will be deployed in key, vulnerable precincts, for example, south and west sides of Chicago, Rockford, Metro East…where the other side might be tempted to jigger the numbers somewhat.

Just last week two Metro East men pleaded guilty to absentee vote fraud. Last week! Two months ago a pair of Chicago men were found guilty of similar crimes.

Okay, as for Rockford, the Forest City doesn't have that tradition, but perhaps Kirk has some information that the Democrats might try something this year. Winnebago County, where Rockford is, suffers from the state's highest unemployment rate at 14.6 percent.

But Red State points out that Democrats don't like the word "jigger."

Specifically, the Rev. Albert Tyson of St. Stephen's AME Church remarked, "The problem I have is that it sounds so much like another word." Yep, that word.

From Wikipedia's entry on Jigger (bartending):

A jigger or measure is a bartending tool used to measure liquor, which is typically then poured into a cocktail shaker. It is named for the unit of liquid it typically measures, a 1.5 fluid ounce (~44 ml) jigger or shot. However bar jiggers come in other sizes and may not actually measure a fluid jigger.

Kirk means that illegal votes could be mixed in with legitimate votes such as mine.

At Right Nation last month, Wall Street Journal reporter John Fund, the author of Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy, remarked that vote cheaters get nervous if they think someone is on to them.

Just like shoplifters. Only vote thieves are worse.

UPDATE 9:15pm CDT: Look what a friend of the blog sent me. President Obama used the same word to describe a break-in. From New York Magazine last year:

If I was trying to jigger (emphasis mine) into … well, I guess this is my house now, so it probably wouldn't happen. But let's say my old house in Chicago. Here, I'd get shot. …