I'm sure you remember the buzz word for the 2000 – and subsequently, the 2004 election – was "disenfranchisement." This is the term the Democrats used so much during their Campaign of Crying when it was clear that Al Gore lost the election.

The Left made claims that black voters in Florida were thwarted in their attempts to vote, and since blacks typically vote Democrat, this constituted illegitimate election results. However, out of all the state of Florida, one black surfaced to announce she was turned away from voting, and it was because she either didn't have proper identification or she wasn't registered to vote. My memory fails me at this point.

Dictionary.com defines "disenfranchisement" as "The act of withdrawing certification or terminating a franchise." To make things a little clearer, the website also defines "franchise" as "A privilege or right officially granted a person or a group by a government, especially...the constitutional or statutory right to vote." Okay, things a little clearer now?

Taking this definition in mind, along with the claims of the 2000 whiners, the two don't jive. In other words, the definition states that some person or some entity has to deprive someone of their vote by removing his or her voting registration. That does not support the Democrats' claims. No one, nor Republican official, revoked voter registration. Nor did they deprive anyone of their vote by force.

Okay, now what does the cartoon above have to do with all of that? There have been numerous occasions where a county will have more votes cast than the number of registered voters. How can that be you say? One has to look no further than the former mayor of Chicago Richard J. Daley, father of current mayor of the same city, Richard Daley, Jr.

When the elder Daley was mayor in 1960, he helped "steal" the presidential election for JFK. There were 68 million votes cast in the 1960 election and the margin of victory was 113,000 or .2%! Yes, that's two-tenths of one percent.

According to Adversity.net, a subsequent voter fraud investigation in Illinois and Texas doscovered that in Fannin County, Texas, where there were only 4,895 registered voters, 6,138 votes were cast. Of those extra votes, 75% were for Kennedy.In Angelina County, Texas, where only 86 people voted, the final tally was 147 for Kennedy and 24 for Nixon.

In Illinois, such a massive amount of voter fraud was witnessed by news reporters that the Chicago Tribune stated – as quoted by the Washington Post – "the election of November 8 was characterized by such gross and palpable fraud as to justify the conclusion that [Nixon] was deprived of victory."

Also, a reporter from the New York Herald Tribune, Earl Mazo, investigated charges of voter fraud in the election. In one Chicago precinct, he discovered a cemetery where the names on the grave markers were registered voters that cast ballots in that election. He also found the same address that was listed for 56 Kennedy voters. It tunred out to be an empty, demolished house.

So the next time you hear someone make claims of "disenfranchised" voters, you will have a little bit of history with which to turn the tables.