look, the bottom line is, as you said in the intro, this is a solution looking for a problem. there is no problem. in pennsylvania, our home state, michael, when the attorney general was asked in court to produce evidence of voter fraud by fraudulent voting, someone voting in someone s name, they admitted to the court in a consent decree that they could not find one example. one example to present to the court. let me prove what you re saying with data from north carolina. republicans in north carolina and many other states are determined to find a solution to a problem that doesn t appear to exist. consider this. in 2012, 6.9 million ballots were cast in the north carolina in the general and two primary elections. the state board of elections said that only 121 alleged cases of voter fraud were referred to prosecutors, which means that of the nearly 7 million votes cast, alleged voter fraud accounted for just .00174% of the ballots.
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founders of the atlanta tea party movement. i have been looking forward to this. when christine o donnell won that nominatio in delaware. karl rove and many others said, this is going to cost the republicans the majority. you came on here and said don t count her out so quickly. that s what you said about the primary and she won it by 6 points and she ll win this election. the truth is she never gained traction. she was viewed as too extreme and not qualified. now people view her loss as a repudiation of the tea party movement. to them you say what? thanks for having me back on. we fully supported christiney donnell and we don t regret that at all. we would rather have someone voting as a democrat than someone in republican in name only voting for the democrat. if nothing else, she shook up the gop, the republican party in
that, and lost the election. it wasn t because of the rum, was it? food and beer? today, it is illegal to give out anything, including food, in exchanges for voting and, in fact the arlington young democrats just admitted and apologized for giving out free beer to people who could show they just voted. wasn t harry reid doing free food and everything just last week, i think? in south dakota they used to have raffle tickets for television. you cannot give anything of value in exchange for someone voting. okay, then we had abraham lincoln and what is the scandal with him? well, he would do things like, muster out of the military for just before election, the republican soldiers. the democratic soldiers didn t get their leave and the republicans would get to vote and the democrats would be in camp and couldn t vote. and we have reconstruction, the end of slavery. that man, rutherford b. hayes, not he but his party, the