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Voter Fraud - Did Obama Steal the 2012 Elections? One Viewpoint.

WATCH the video. http://www.westernjournalism.com/did-obama-steal-the-election/ Another video article on Obama voter fraud in 2008: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi0AM9Udwm4&feature=plcp What is interesting is most speakers are Hillary Clinton supporters describing how Obama stole the election from Hillary. vj Read more →

Where to Report Voter or Ballot Fraud Issues For Florida Voters

Tavares, FL - Nov. 8, 2012 If you witnessed any possible illegal voting in Florida, we encourage you to file a voter fraud incident report to these organizations: Attached is an Incident Form for TrueTheVote - I recommend this form be filled out first, since it contains the needed information. Download TTV Voting Incident Report Form 1. File it with your Elections Supervisor. It really helps to have the County, Precinct # and Precinct Clerks' name, plus your name and address and even your state Voter ID number (from your registration card, if available). In Lake County, scan the filled out form and sent it to our Elections Supervisor, Emogene W. Stegall: [email protected] . 2. File it with www.TrueTheVote.org ( also known as the National Integrity Hotline) : Send your incident report to [email protected] . Or call them at 855-444-6100 3. File it with the Florida Dept. of Elections: 877-868-3737 . Or go to their website and read the complaint webpage at: http://election.dos.state.fl.us/fraud.shtml You can fill out the compliant form online and print it out. Unfortunately, the dummies don't let you FILE it online or email it, you have to print it and mail it to a Tallahassee address and... Read more →

Voting Fraud Tricks - Judge Orders Orange County Early Voting to be Extended

Tavares, FL - Nov. 4, 2012 The Orlando Sentinel and other media reported that Democrats sued and got a judge to mandate exending early voting sessions in Orange County, FL (Orlando area). "Suspicious Items" found in the Winter Park early voting location at their Public Library resulted in the center being shut down yesterday (Saturday) in order to detonate the items. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-early-voting-winter-park-extended-20121104,0,7895137.story This is a LONGER article on the same subject by AP's Gary Fineout who writes more details than the Sentinel, even here in a Philadelphia website. For instance, he also tells about similar Democrat actions in other Florida counties. http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/nation_world/20121104_ap_judgeorders1flacountytoextendearlyvoting.html My comments: How convenient that items existed to come up with an excuse to extend the votingin Winter Park. My Google searches indicate the news is being reported by West Coast publications much more than East Coast publications, probably due to them being in a later timezone and able to pick up the AP article and post it before their deadlines, while the article was too late for east coast deadlines. Democrats want all polling sites open today so that certain groups can bus in people from churches after being coached who to vote for. My view is... Read more →

Lake County Elections Supervisor Race Heats Up and Orlando Sentinel Writes About it

Tavares, FL - Nov. 4, 2012 The Orlando Sentinel Lake Section published an article today about the race for Lake County FL Elections Supervisor between 86 year old incumbent Emogene Stegall and opponent Margie Eaton, 48. Read or skim this document to get my perspectives on this race. We support Margie Eaton for the reasons described below. Scroll down to find the link to my entire Voting Guide for Lake County and send it to anyone who has not voted yet. Here is today's Orlando Sentinel "Lake Sentinel" section article - if you have the print version, also look at page 3 for more information on the two candidates. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/lake/os-lk-supervisor-elections-race-20121104,0,2023609.story This is the comment I posted about the article - and why you should vote for Margie Eaton Unfortunately, this is a "spot news" article quoting just the two candidates and ignores what is happening in the elections "industry". All over the country, efforts to corrupt the voting process are going on, and I track them, as well as FoxNews and True The Vote. The reason why Lake County needs Margie Eaton is that incumbent Emogene Stegall is not energetic and educated enough to develop computer analysis solutions to detect... Read more →

Romney/Ryan Campaign Bus Visits Lake Republicans with Ag Commissioner Adam Putnam as Spokesperson

Tavares, FL - Nov. 2, 2012 The Romney Ryan campaign bus visited the Tavares HQ of the Lake County Republicans today and Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam led a pep rally with a speech. Here are our videos of the event, which are on the FiscalRangersFlorida YouTube account: Video 1 of 2 - The campaign bus arrives and Putnam greets the crowd http://youtu.be/hooxEi5nS2Q Video 2 of 2: Putnam gives a speech supporting Romney. http://youtu.be/1JH0QPWpFSQ Pictures of the event will be posted on the FiscalRangers Facebook page in a few minutes: Read more →

Another Florida Voter Ballot Scandal - In Palm Beach County, 500 absentee ballots had DUPLICATES of three Amendments & Missed another one ; AFP Calls for Democrat Supervisor to Resign

500 Faulty ballots aimed to protect Democrat interests were printed by the Democrat Elections Supervisor in Palm Beach County, FL. The faulty ballots were not printed by an outside printer, but by the Democrat Supervisor of Elections office. This incident was reported by the Palm Beach Post on Tuesday. One ballot choice was missing entirely, which was Amendment five, which would require Senate confirmation of Florida Justices, which Democrats don’t want. “Amendment 5 is being opposed by Bucher’s Democratic Party and several other leftist outfits, including the Florida Bar board of governors, the American Civil Liberties Union, the League of Women Voters, and the Service Employees International Union.” The Director of Americans for Prosperity is calling for the Supervisor of Elections to resign, since this is the second apparent attempt to manipulate ballot printing to favor Democrat interests. http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/story/americans-prosperity-incompetent-palm-beach-elections-supervisor-susan-bucher-must-resign?utm_source=constant%2Bcontact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=110212&utm_source=November+2%2C+2012&utm_campaign=constant+contact&utm_medium=email Read more →

FiscalRangers.com Lake County, FL Voting Guide PLUS Tips to Ensure your Ballots & Votes are COUNTED!!

Tavares, FL - Nov. 1, 2012 Here are the FiscalRangers Lake County voting guide & recommendations, followed by tips to ensure your ballots or votes are not denied due to stupid voter mistakes (which are infrequent, but do happen). FiscalRangers.com Lake County Voting Recommendations (Cities not Included) By Vance Jochim Many offices were decided during the primaries, thus I don’t list them here. My bias is I mostly vote Republican and for candidates who are intelligent, create initiatives and exercise sound fiscal decisions. If you don’t have a sample ballot, go to this Lake County Elections page, select your precinct and print or download your specific sample ballot: http://elections.lakecountyfl.gov/sample_ballots/index.aspx President : Romney/Ryan – duh! Or did you forget that Obama ran the deficit up to $1-trillion per year, and the national debt up to $16-billion for your kids. Don't even get me started on all those Executive Orders or Obama failing to provide security, resulting in the murder of a US Ambassador in Libya. US Senator: Vote for Connie Mack, NOT Nelson. Democrat Nelson voted like Obama and is part of the problem we have with the economy. US Representative – District 10: Vote for incumbent Daniel Webster (not Deming).... Read more →

Smackdown Debate between FL Senate Candidates - Republican Connie Mack VS Liberal Bill Nelson

Tavares, FL - Oct. 19, 2012 The only public debate between Republican Connie Mack and Liberal Bill Nelson was on TV two days ago. Just in case you wonder, we are biased towards Mack. Here is the link to the 1 hour, 24 minute full debate - the moderator held the speakers to a strict 1:15 minute limit. TV stations only gave them 60 minutes of air time, but the link below is the full 1 hour 24 minutes of the debate . However, after the first hour ends, and after the intermissions (move the slider forward to the last off air segment at 59 minutes), they repeat earlier segments, so you are not missing anything after 59 minutes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpDF1TwCDxI& This complements yesterday's visit to Lake County's Republican Headquarters in Tavares. Here are my observations: -This is good to watch at least 30 minutes to get a perspective on the two candidates, but many of Nelson's lines come directly from the Obama camp. - Nelson speaks very slowly, maybe to prevent making mistakes, or because his mental processes are slowing due to age (and I am 67). But Mack is a quick speaker, and if you pick someone on perceived... Read more →

How 1938 Austria Became a Socialist, Nazi Country in Five Years

My older sister sent me this - a first person narrative by a woman now living in the US who was a kid in 1938 Austria and witnessed how the Austrians were conned by Hitler to vote him into power, and how he turned them into socialists in five years. A lesson for America today. 1938 Austria Kitty Werthmann is 85 years old. America truly is the Greatest Country in the World. By: Kitty Werthmann What I am about to tell you is something you've probably never heard or will ever read in history books. I believe that I am an eyewitness to history. I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history. We elected him by a landslide - 98% of the vote. I've never read that in any American publications. Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in with his tanks and took Austria by force. In 1938, Austria was in deep Depression. Nearly one-third of our workforce was unemployed. We had 25% inflation and 25% bank loan interest rates. Farmers and business people were declaring bankruptcy daily. Young people were going from house to house begging for food. Not that they... Read more →

Florida Voter Manipulation Games Practiced by Obama Campaign Group

Tavares, FL - Oct. 4, 2012 According to Breitbart.com, here is a new dirty trick being pulled in Pasco County, FL to dilute Republican votes by an Obama campaign organization, Organizing for America. They are sending Robocalls to Republican voters telling them incorrect, earlier dates for early voting. And according to the Tampa Bay Times: "Pasco County Supervisor of Elections Brian Corley is warning voters about potentially misleading early voting information after his office received hundreds of inquiries from voters Tuesday wanting to cast early ballots.Early voting in Florida doesn't begin until Oct. 27 and lasts through Nov. 3. Corley traced one of the complaints to a robocall from Organizing for America, an arm of the Democratic Party." This is an attempt to wear people out if they trek to the polling locations and find they can't vote. Or, it could be a test for the real plan, which is to tell selected voters not to vote until Nov. 8th. Watch for it and be wary. Confirm any such calls by NOT using any phone number or website given to you by such calls, but look them up independently and call to confirm what you were told. If any of... Read more →

Tired of Biased Liberal Presidential Polls? Here are some that are NON-Biased

Tavares, FL - Sept. 29, 2012 Correction: Sept. 30 - The link below shows you results from existing, biased polls that have been corrected by removing sampling biases to get new results. Thus the links on the list go to the original biased polls. Many “Main Stream” media, including some on my media list, are publishing biased election polls claiming that Obama is winning, but it is widely known that the polls oversampled Democrats and UNDER-sample Independent voters so the results are really biased towards Obama, when Romney is really leading when the sampling biases are removed. I still have my classic book “How to Lie with Statistics” and hopefully some of the reporters on this list will get one and actually read it, and then report non-biased poll results. Here is a website listing several NON-biased polls comparing Obama to Romney, and also their approval ratings – and, no, I have not validated these, but the others are known to be biased. This list includes links to articles examining the lack of accuracy of the biased polls. http://unskewedpolls.com/ Why aren’t there journalistic and editorial professional standards on providing non-biased poll results? Maybe that is why more and more people... Read more →

Former ACORN Voter Fraud groups Behind Orlando Vote on Mandatory Sick Leave

Tavares, FL - Monday, Sept. 10, 2012 Below is a great article about the reasons behind the effort to get mandatory sick leave passed in Orlando. It is part of an organized, national effort by progressives, liberals and former ACORN groups to use the issue to attract voters who want another government mandate to get them a reason to vote. So, it is really a get out the vote project for liberals. http://www.floridapoliticalpress.com/2012/09/02/whos-really-behind-orange-county-sick-leave-initiative/ Vance Jochim Lake County Fiscal Rangers Chief Fiscal Watchdog Volunteers Searching for Ways to Improve Local Government Fiscal Management, Efficiency & Effectiveness PO Box 1042 Tavares, FL 32778 Mobile: 352-638-3578 [email protected] www.FiscalRangers.com TWITTER: @FiscalRangers "FiscalRangers" page on Facebook YouTube: NEW 6/2012 - Videos of local political candidate forums and other meetings, like North Lake County Hospital District & Lake County Legislators' Delegation annual forums - visit the youtube channel "FiscalRangersFlorida" CLICK HERE to see recommended internet links related to Local Lake County government fiscal issues. Read more →

Today is National Labor Day, aka Obama Empty Chair Day & Clint Eastwood Speech

Sept. 3, 2012 - Tavares, FL One result of liking a lot of conservative pages on Facebook is they all come up with their own takes on political issues at the same time. Facebook, twitter and the internet are inundated about National Empty Chair Day. If you saw Clint Eastwood's talk at the Republican Convention, you will understand these pictures. If you did not see it, watch his speech first: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoqKdWY692k Scroll down for more graphics... I couln't resist - I took this one: Read more →

FiscalRangers Watchdog to Host Sept. 6th Public Meeting to Explain Coming LOCAL Lake County Property Tax Rate Hikes up to 72% & Understanding TRIM Notices

Tavares, FL - Sept. 2, 2012 - News and local government issues for Lake County, FL by Vance Jochim Updates Sept 4: Added section 10 to "homework" section that includes links to FL Dept of Revenue guides that most taxpayers never see. Added section 11 for email from Lake County Republican Party to Tax Authorities recommending NO increase in millage rates. This Thursday, Sept. 6, 6-8pm, FiscalRangers.com, a blog on local Lake County Florida Government Fiscal issues, will host a FREE property taxpayer public meeting at the Tavares Civic Center, 100 E. Caroline St., Tavares, FL to explain how and why your property taxes or rates are going up, and tips if you want to appeal your property valuations, lost exemptions, etc. You should have recently received your TRIM notice showing new valuations, changes in exemptions, proposed changes in millage rates, etc. Have you heard that many local Lake County tax "authorities" like cities, Lake County and various special districts are RAISING the millage rate used to calculate your property taxes? Even though your property tax valuation may be dropping, those authorities want to tax you as much or more as last year, so they are increasing your property tax... Read more →

Learn about Florida Judicial Activism, and how to DUMP Three Liberal FL Justices

This is all about the vote to say NO on the Florida Nov. 6 ballot about FIRING and NOT retaining the three ultra-liberal Florida judges R. Fred Lewis, Barbara Pariente and Peggy Quince. Just vote NO by their name which means to NOT retain them. Save their names. The overall movement here is to remove liberal judges who think they know better than the voter what the law should be. Voters, via elected officials, create laws, and judges should not be re-writing the laws due to their political leanings. Read more →

Florida Voter Fraud Update: New List of ACORN Spinoffs Published

Tavares, FL - July 24, 2012 The Washington Examiner published a long list of "community" organizations that are spinoffs from ACORN, the group that was shut down and cutoff from Federal Funding after it was disclosed they manipulated both registration and voter results in various elections, especially to benefit Obama's election in 2008. I have written about ACORN spinoffs before, based upon a report from Judicial Watch, but this list is longer. Florida Political Press actually wrote this article and they highlight several groups that are active in Florida: http://www.floridapoliticalpress.com/2012/08/23/acorn-still-active-under-new-names-including-organize-now/ The question is, whether our local Elections Superintendents & the Press in Florida will make sure to screen any registration or voter activities initiated by these groups KNOWN to be ACORN spinoffs which was involved in cooking the elections books? Vance Jochim Lake County Fiscal Rangers Chief Fiscal Watchdog Volunteers Searching for Ways to Improve Local Government Fiscal Management, Efficiency & Effectiveness PO Box 1042 Tavares, FL 32778 Mobile: 352-638-3578 [email protected] www.FiscalRangers.com TWITTER: @FiscalRangers "FiscalRangers" page on Facebook YouTube: NEW 6/2012 - Videos of local political candidate forums and other meetings, like North Lake County Hospital District & Lake County Legislators' Delegation annual forums - visit the youtube channel "FiscalRangersFlorida"... Read more →

Lake County FL Election Primarys Concluded Today and here are Results

Tavares, FL - August 14, 2012 Here are the final results for the primaries for Lake County, FL local elections: Upset was Carey Baker over Ed Havill for Property Appraiser. Margie Eaton, Republican, won with 52% and will face Democrat Emogene Stegall in runnoffs. Jim Miller will go against Rosanne Brandeburg in runoffs on Nov. 6. Thuy Lowe will go against Debbie Stivender in runoffs. Sheriff Borders won handily. Matthias won. http://elections.lakecountyfl.gov/pdf/081412_ElectionSummary.pdf Read more →

Results from Yesterday's South Lake County (FL) Candidate "Hob Nob"

Clermont, FL - Wed., Aug. 8, 2012 Update: August 9, 2012 - Debbie Stivender, who was mentioned below, sent a response - see end of document. vj Yesterday evening was the South Lake County Hob Nob where local elected candidates setup tables and brochures and talked to interested voters. The voters each had a ticket to trade for an election ballot which they then filled out in a straw poll. This Hob Nob was arranged by the South Lake Chamber of Commerce, led by Ray San Fratello, who sent us these official results from 331 voters. Before you read the results, here are some caveats you need to know, which indicate you can't take the results as a TRUE vote, but only a popularity vote based upon who got the most friends to go to the event and vote for them: - Each candidate received six tickets to give to supporters. However, we know one candidate not only had those six tickets, but had three supporters contact the chamber and get 10 more tickets each for supporters, thus they had 36 tickets to give to supporters. - Long time incumbents know each other and make side agreements to have their... Read more →

Florida Voter Fraud & Manipulation of Absentee Ballots by paid Hispanic "Ballot Collectors"

Democrats kee p saying there are no records of voter fraud, but here is an article reported in the Kansas City Watchdog, of all places, on absentee ballot fraud in the Miami area. http://watchdog.org/46532/fl-witnesses-come-forward-in-potential-absentee-voter-fraud-scandal/ Voter Fraud - the gift just keeps giving us headaches because Elections Supervisors don't detect and track down these practices. vj Read more →

Is Lake County School Board Candidate Plagiarizing Campaign Platform Ideas?

Tavares, FL - July 29, 2012 A candidate for Lake County School Board, Cheryl Thomas, appears to be using much of the same campaign platform wording as another former School Board candidate in Virgina, and gave it to the Orlando Sentinel for publishing. Should a School Board candidate be apparently plagiarizing another website and providing that as original campaign platform content to the Orlando Sentinel? Shouldn't we expect the candidate to be able to write their own original campaign platform information, and would we want someone on the School Board defining policy who plagiarizes ideas? Is that fair in politics, but not school test taking, and what do you think? Cheryl L. Thomas is running for Lake County FL School Board District 4 against incumbent Debbie Stivender and opponent Thuy Lowe. The position is non-partisan, but she is a Democrat opposing the other two who are Republicans. We sent her an email and left a phone message using the contact information on the Supt. of Elections website, but they were not returned by our deadline. Thomas has a website here: http://www.thomas4lakecountyschools.org/ She also was recently interviewed by the Lake Sentinel staff of the Orlando Sentinel. Under the heading "Platform" she... Read more →

Lake County Republicans Publish List of Endorsed, Recommended or Certified local Republican Candidates

Tavares, FL - June 29, 2012 by Vance Jochim - FiscalRangers.com The Lake County Republican Party met last Wednesday and voted on whether to "certify", "recommend" or "endorse" key local Republicans for various elected offices in Lake County. The category definitions are below. To get a category recommendation, the candidate had to get 2/3 of the REC precinct members present. Some candidates barely got 2/3 of the votes , others got quite a few votes, and some only got about 30% support. About 72 REC voting members were there, but not all voted in each motion. The results of the event are in a press release at the bottom of this document. The upset was Margie Eaton receiving the sole "Endorsement" approval of the group for Elections Supervisor. Eaton has been campaigning for almost a year, visiting political groups and has done the most research on her targeted position. Incumbent Property Appraiser Ed Havill did not get 2/3 approval for the Republican categories. He had dropped out of the Republican party during the Charlie Crist / Jim Greer fiasco, said disparaging things, and then re-registered as a Republican, but did not get approval. I was surprised at how strongly some... Read more →

Are ACORN Spinoffs Operating in Lake County or are HUD Grants Being Used to Fund Bogus "Community" Groups & Perpetrate Voter Fraud?

Tavares, FL - June 4, 2012 by Vance Jochim I recently came across some information about Federal HUD grants and how they can be used by bogus community groups to do things like illegally register voters like ACORN did, or skim money. Additionally, I found that although ACORN was closed and defunded by the Federal Government, they actually had a planned method to just create new names, use the same people, and continue with their questionable financial and voting "consultations" like before. As I discuss below, there actually is an ACORN replacement firm in Orlando called "Organize Now". So, I sent the following email to Lake County Commmissioner Leslie Campione and several staff, which is followed by her response. One reason I sent it is that Lake County administers and distributes funds for some Federal grants, which could include housing, financial counseling and voter registration programs. According to her response, Campione has been watching, and actually prevented one questionable firm from getting grant funds distributed by Lake County. Everyone needs to watch for ACORN spinoff activities, which is a reason for many of the new voting regulations like Voter ID in Florida and many other states. I expect all sorts... Read more →

Ronald Reagan Famous Speeches - Some Lessons Learned

Tavares, FL - May 12, 2012 by Vance Jochim In 1981, Ronald Reagan took office for eight years as US President, and Netflix has a DVD "President Ronald Reagan: The Great Speeches" which I just watched. - He took over from Jimmy Carter when interest rates had gone up to 21% due to Carter's liberal spending programs (Gee, sounds like Owebama, doesn't it). We still had the huge welfare program that continued to pay funds to low income, non-working citizens for LIFE. - At the time, we still had a "cold war" with the Communists in Russia, and there was a wall between East & West Berlin. Carter had launched a botched rescue of people in Cuba which failed. - In an early April 18 speech, Reagan says "Our Government is too big, & spends too much". - One 1982 speech talks how Reagan's administration has transferred liberal social programs down to State governments and how interest rates have dropped to 15%, and inflation has dropped from 12.4% to 8.9%. - Reagan discusses the harmful ideas of communists, class war and Stalin's schemes to implement Soviet doctrine and "totalitarian power". - Reagan talks to a national organization of "Evangelicals" and... Read more →

Petition Card Counts & Status for Candidates for Lake County, FL Offices

2012 Local Lake County, FL Election Candidates and Petition Card Counts as of Friday, May 4 As of Friday, May 4, 2012 by Vance Jochim [email protected] Most candidates for elected office in Lake County have turned in the required number of election petition cards exept Jim Miller and Paul Richardson, who are very nearly there. Additionally, four candidates are not turning in the required 1951 cards, and apparently plan to pay required fees in June. This report doesn't cover Judges or State elected positions like a State Rep. That information would be on the State Elections website, while Lake County specific candidates are listed on the local Lake County Elections Superintendent website (see link below). Candidates running for major elected positions in Lake County are required to turn in 1951 validated petition cards signed by registered voters, or pay a fee ranging from about $1500 to $8000. We visited the Lake County, FL Elections Dept. today, May 4th, to examine the progress of announced candidates in collecting petition cards. You can find the official, updated list of candidates at the link below. The Excel version has more data, but neither list provides petition card status like we furnish below. http://elections.lakecountyfl.gov/candidate_information/index.asp... Read more →