From Nevada News and Views – as regards the e-mails at Harrah’s coordinating efforts to get out the vote for Reid:
If a corporation or union spends money to support the election of a candidate in response to a request by that federal candidate (that is, if they make a coordinated expenditure), as clearly occurred in this case, then they are making an illegal contribution to the candidate.
This was not a situation where a corporation was simply encouraging its employees to go to the polls and vote for their candidate of choice — Harrah’s was telling its employees how important it was to elect Reid, setting up a whole system to coerce its employees to vote, even making records of who had not voted.
Both Harrah’s and the unions spend money, in terms of supervisor and employee resources on company time, and the cost of shuttles, etc., not merely in a nonpartisan way to get out the vote, but to facilitate votes for Reid…
As the linked article notes, this sort of action may violate that section of US law which prohibits coercing people to vote. With unemployment in Las Vegas at 15%, the union employees of Harrah’s – faced with intense pressure from corporation and union to vote Reid – might have felt their jobs depended upon a Reid vote. We can rely upon it that Holder’s Justice Department will not investigate this; we can also rely upon it that Nevada’s Attorney General (the merest tool of the Reid machine) also won’t do anything about it. So, what can we do?
We can hold hearings in the House – not just about Reid’s campaign, but about all incidents of voting irregularity. It is time – and past time – we exposed the voter fraud which is endemic to the Democrat party. We must call the witnesses and put them under oath – in this case, calling Harrah’s employees under grants of immunity to ask them if they felt coerced to vote Reid; were they worried about their jobs if they refused to vote, or voted Angle; did they in any way, shape or form give Harrah’s-paid time to the Reid campaign? These and other questions need answers.
This is an important question to answer (another question I’m looking for answers on is why 15% fewer Nevadans voted in our State-wide Surpeme Court elections than voted in our State-wide Senatorial contest…all the same ballot, so why did 109,000 Nevadans skip the Supreme Court vote? Why was it that the two Reid contests – Harry’s son Rory ran for governor – so greatly outpaced all the other State-wide contests in number of votes recorded? I’m currently waiting on a response from the Secretary of State’s office). More important than just Reid is the legitimacy of our democratic form of governance. If the American people ever lose faith in voting, then our freedoms are done for. People must be absolutely convinced that when they vote, the vote is counted and isn’t going to be canceled by fraud.
Getting to the bottom of this issue is a patriotic duty, and it must be done.
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