For those of you who have already forgotten last year’s drama, the Richland County (S.C.) Election Commission – working in concert with numerous elected officials of both parties – perpetrated a $1.2 billion heist on its people.
The most corrupt thing we’ve ever covered (which is saying something in a state as scandal-scarred as South Carolina), the “Richland County Robbery” has yet to be exposed by the local mainstream media – or investigated by state or federal authorities.
They got away with it, in other words … and they may be on the verge of getting away with more.
At the heart of the “robbery” were illegal voting machine shortages in county precincts which voted against tax hikes in the past – shortages which resulted in wait times of up to seven hours and the widespread disenfranchisement of thousands of voters.
We’re not pulling that out of our asses either … all of this has been meticulously documented.
Now sources tell FITS there are “major problems” with the county’s voting machine distribution for this week’s elections – which include Columbia, S.C. mayor Steve Benjamin’s all-but-assured reelection and a $59 million tax hike for the county’s public library system.
Some of these problems were uncovered by S.C. Rep. Nathan Ballentine, who was on the legislative panel which facilitated the robbery two years ago.
Eager to be on the “side of right” this go-round, Ballentine is grilling election officials over what he describes as “numerous errors” in polling locations.
“Based on the last election, y’all need to be sure ‘oversights’ are corrected,” Ballentine wrote in an email to county voter registration director Howard Jackson.
Ballentine later sent an email to each member of the Richland County, S.C. legislative delegation informing them of what he uncovered.
“My confidence level is low now after seeing a report about the upcoming election,” Ballentine wrote. “Since we were told the last election fiasco happened because of an ‘oversight’ or someone reading/interpreting a report wrong…..I feel this erroneous report attached needs to be corrected – immediately.”
Yeah … good luck with all that.
This latest tax hike will pass, people. It will pass because elections in Richland County have become the equivalent of elections in a friggin’ Sub-Saharan “people’s republic.” And no one in the press – this website excluded – is willing to expose the big lie for what it is.
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Nathan: Just remember, “Death to those that oppose the Pharaoh.”
Better watch your back, you probably just made the black ops list. Just sayin’.
Ballentine wrote and send emails
Damn, had a suspicion that there were a lot of things up the Gypsy Governor’s Ass but never thought of a laptop being up there
Fucking Cockroach
You got the wrong hole, it’s up her cooch.
Tuesday should be lots of fun – we’ll be $59,000,0000 further in debt and have our own “president for life”(or indictment).
On the up side, we’ll likely get a new
bufoonhighly qualified police chief out of the deal. Maybe we can get rid of the “Mod Squad” or “Hit Squad” or whatever they call themselvesYet another reason to choose to reside in Lexco…
If approved, the property-tax increase would cost the
owner of a $100,000 home an extra $12 to $14 a year for 20 years
http://www.thestate.com/2013/11/02/3072531/why-now-why-not-opposing-viewpoints.html
I think it is only fair that you point out the actual cost of a tax increase to the individual. Using the numbers above, someone living in a $100k house only has to pay a bit more than a dollar per month. $14/yr. equates to less than $300 over the course of the 20 years if the property value remains flat (albeit property values will change over time).
That being said, the proposal doesn’t significantly improve the library system for the public at large. A lot of it is unnecessary expansions or renovations that has little overall use. Government must justify tax increases with a suitable amount results for the money, which it clearly has not done in this case.
While I believe Benjamin is assured a victory, I don’t think this tax will pass. I guess we’ll know late Tuesday.
I agree entirely. The expansions to the branches and main library will just allow more homeless to take sponge baths in the bathrooms. I have no problem with a small increase in taxes for a worthwhile cause (gas taxes for road infrastructure), but blatant money grabs like this and the bullshit road tax that was passed last year in Richland County make me happy I moved back to the Upstate.
The machines will be located where Benji tells them to put them.
Woah…this website makes me feel like I have entered some kind of weird time portal. Also, is “cockroach” some kind of racial slur that ya’ll made up or what? Because, wow.
So, I went and did a quick Google search on “cockroach” and “racial slur,” and the first result was an Aryan Nation website. I do not know if that is what you guys are going for, but that is the company you find yourselves in when you use that kind of terminology. At the banner on the top of the site was the word “Heil!” **Shudder***