IT ISN'T JUST THIS YEAR, EITHER.
IT'S BEEN EVERY SINGLE YEAR AS FAR BACK AS WE'VE HAD MAIL-IN BALLOTS.
CAPONE COULD HAVE ADDED, "JUST VOTE BY MAIL."
The Washington Post wrote, "Here's the problem with mail-in ballots: They might not be counted"
Aug 23, 2020, the POST also wrote,
"The number of mail ballots rejected in 23 states in this year's primaries (500,000) outstrips the nearly 319,000 mail and absentee ballots that were thrown out nationwide in the 2016 general election."
SIMPLY SEARCH FOR "PROBLEMS WITH MAIL-IN BALLOTS. YOU'LL GET A HELLUVA LOT OF HITS.
ILLINOIS
Chicago Board of Elections spokesman Jim Allen late Tuesday said 200,000 early voting ballots had yet to be counted, and a “potential universe” of another 70,000 mail-in ballots could arrive to be counted in the next two weeks.
“We’re going to be counting for another two weeks, easily,” Allen said.
NEW YORK
CALIFORNIA
California rejects 100,000 mail-in ballots because of mistakes.
GEORGIA
Absentee ballots with errors sent to voters in Clarke, Oconee
TEXAS
Texas Official Arrested On Felony Election Fraud Charges, Could Face 99-Year Sentence.
9/24/20
On Wednesday afternoon, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the arrest of four people allegedly connected to a vote harvesting scheme in the state's 2018 Democratic primary election, including a Democratic 'victor' of that primary.
The four individuals—Charlie Burns, Dewayne Ward, Marlena Jackson and Jackson's husband Shannon Brown, a Democrat who was serving as Gregg County's Precinct 4 commissioner—collectively stand accused of 134 different felony charges of election fraud and ballot tampering.
If found guilty, each individual could face from six months in jail to 99 years in prison.
"The accused submitted these ballots without the voters' consent," Paxton said.
Brown 'won' the March 6, 2018 Democratic primary by just five votes. His victory was secured by 787 mail-in ballots cast in his precinct. Over one-third of those ballots were from individuals claiming a disability, The Longview News-Journal reported.
The high number of voters claiming a disability raised suspicions of fraud since only 2.5 percent of mail-in voters in the county's three other precincts claimed a disability on their own mailed ballots. The statewide average for people claiming a disability on mail-in ballots is 9 percent.
OHIO
PENNSYLVANIA
PENNSYLVANIA ELECTION CONTRACTOR DUMPS A FEW MILITARY ABSENTEE BALLOTS THAT WERE CAST FOR TRUMP.
SEPTEMBER 26, 2020
Nine mailed-in military ballots had been “discarded” by the local election office in a county of one of the most important presidential battleground states.
All of them were marked for President Donald Trump, it said. Then came another news release with key details changed—the presidential choice was unknown on two of the ballots because they had been resealed.
DEMOCRATS SEE NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS.
IF TRUMP HAD DONE IT, LIBERAL MEDIA AND LIBERAL HEADS WOULD HAVE EXPLODED AND CALLED IT CHEATING.
Rep. Matt Gaetz said Tuesday night a criminal probe of Michael Bloomberg's efforts to pay Florida felons' fines so they can vote may already be underway.
Mail carrier charged after investigation into W.Va. absentee ballot fraud scheme
May. 21, 2020
The Department of Justice announced a federal charge against 47-year-old Thomas Cooper for allegedly manipulating requests for absentee ballots in West Virginia.
On Wednesday, officials in Pendleton County told WHSV more about what alerted them to the attempted fraud.
Cooper, a mail carrier, has been charged with one count of “Attempt to Defraud the Residents of West Virginia of a Fair Election."
Trays of mail, including absentee ballots, found in ditch in Wisconsin
The Outagamie County Sheriff's Office discovered the trays in a ditch on Tuesday morning, near Appleton International Airport, according to WLUK. The mail was returned to the U.S. Postal Service, and an investigation is underway.
"The United States Postal Inspection Service immediately began investigating, and we reserve further comment on this matter until that is complete," USPS spokesman Bob Sheehan told WLUK.
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, states have expanded eligibility for mail-in balloting. Thousands of ballots went uncounted during Wisconsin's primary because they were discovered on the day after the election.
A federal judge ordered the Postal Service to prioritize election mail on Monday.
"The right to vote is too vital a value in our democracy to be left in a state of suspense in the minds of voters weeks before a presidential election, raising doubts as to whether their votes will ultimately be counted," U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero said.
CHANGING THE RULES TO HELP BIDEN?A federal judge recently ruled that absentee ballots in Wisconsin can be counted up to six days AFTER the Nov. 3 presidential election as long as they are postmarked by Election Day.
In the 2016 general election, Donald Trump 'unexpectedly' won Wisconsin by a narrow margin of 0.77%, with 47.22% of the total votes over the 46.45% of Hillary Clinton.
NEW JERSEY
Judge invalidates Paterson, NJ, city council election after allegations of mail-in voter fraud.
August 20, 2020
The May 12 election for Paterson's Third Ward city council was "rife with mail in vote procedural violations," Judge Ernest Caposela said in his ruling, though he left the decision on whether there was voter fraud to the criminal courts.
The investigation began after the US Postal Inspection Service found hundreds of mail-in ballots in a mailbox in Paterson. Numerous additional ballots were found in another mailbox in nearby Haledon, according to a release from the attorney general. The May 12 elections in New Jersey were conducted by mail-in ballots due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Jackson, 48, is charged with fraud in casting a mail-in vote, unauthorized possession of ballots, tampering with public records and falsifying or tampering with records.
He allegedly violated state election laws as a candidate by approaching one or more Paterson voters in the district where he was running and collecting their official mail-in ballots, according to the release.
President Donald Trump's campaign and Republicans have grasped onto the election problems in Paterson as they argue against a plan from New Jersey's Democratic governor to have universal vote-by-mail. They say the fraud in the city race forebodes fraud in November.
Paterson's mayor heralded the ruling.
9/16/2020
County officials in New Jersey tallied more than 1,600 uncounted ballots from the state’s July primary after finding them in a bin last Thursday. The votes were reportedly placed in a “mislabeled” bin in a “secure area” of the county election office, according to the New Jersey Herald. Sussex County Board of Elections Administrator Marge McCabe maintained that the 1,666 extra votes did not change the outcome of the July 7 primary race. “The Board of Elections is confident that all ballots received have been processed and the security of all the ballots has remained in place,” she said. The Trump campaign has been tussling in court with New Jersey since August.
New Jersey was won by Hillary Clinton on November 8, 2016, with 55.5% of the vote over Donald Trump's 41.35%.
MICHIGAN
MICHIGAN, DOING ITS PART TO HELP JOE WIN?
IN 2016, TRUMP BEAT HILLARY IN MICHIGAN BY 2,279,543 VOTES TO HER 2,268,839.
Barack Obama won Michigan in 2012 by 9.5 percentage points.
18 Sep 2020
A Michigan court decision that will extend the deadline for postmarked mail-in ballots to be received up to 14 days after Election Day will also allow ballots to be submitted by third parties — a practice called “ballot harvesting” — during a specific 4-day period.
As reported earlier Friday, Michigan Court of Claims Judge Cynthia Stephens ruled that mail-in ballots postmarked by November 2 — the day before Election Day — will still be counted in Michigan in the 2020 election.
In addition, Judge Stephens said that strangers can return other people’s ballots — normally a felony — between 5:01 p.m. on Friday, October 30, and 8:00 p.m. on November 3, the moment that polling places are supposed to close on Election Day.
Judge Stephens wrote:
"This court enjoins MCL 168.932(f) in this election from 5:00 p.m. Friday October 30, 2020 until the close of the polls on November 3, 2020, in so far as it limits the class of persons who may render an absent voter assistance. As a result, a voter casting an absent voter ballot in the November 2020 general election may select any individual the voter chooses to render assistance in returning an absent voter ballot..."
“Ballot harvesting” was legalized in California in 2016, and first used in the 2018 midterm elections.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has sought to legalize ballot harvesting nationwide in her coronavirus relief legislation.
MISSISSIPPI
It worked like this. The ballot harvesters snatched mail ballots from the mailboxes of people they knew. They would then knock on their doors, ballots in hand, offering to “help” them vote. The harvesters would then fill in the ballots for their candidates, regardless of what the intended voters had told them.
The court ruling contains tragic testimony from one victim, Susan Wood. When asked why she allowed a harvester to fill out her ballot, Ms. Wood answered that the harvester “knows folks” better than she did — a classic case of trust betrayed.
BACK TO TEXAS
In the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, "politiquerias" roam "colonias", preying on the most vulnerable voters and voting their ballots for them. In Cameron County, Texas, nine politiquerias were charged with voter fraud related to mail ballots. It is most often the poor and the elderly who lose their votes to the ballot harvesters.
Mail-in ballot fraud long has been the most prevalent form of election fraud handled by the attorney general’s office. Records from the agency dating to the 2004 primary election show the agency opened 93 cases of election violations, with almost half involving violations of mail-in ballot procedures.
28 Million Mail-In Ballots Went Missing in the Last Four Elections
April 24, 2020
Between 2012 and 2018, 28.3 million mail-in ballots remain unaccounted for, according to data from the federal Election Assistance Commission.
States and local authorities simply have no idea what happened to these ballots since they were mailed – and the figure of 28 million missing ballots is likely even higher because some areas in the country, notably Chicago, did not respond to the federal agency’s survey questions.
The Public Interest Legal Foundation, which compiled the public data provided from the Election Assistance Commission, says that the sheer volume of them raises serious doubts about election security.
These questions are particularly relevant as the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing states across the country to rapidly expand vote-by-mail operations in an election year.
[MY NOTE: LET'S CALL THAT LAST SENTENCE WHAT IT IS, A DAMNED LIE. NO STATE IS "FORCED" BY COVID TO EXPAND VOTE-BY-MAIL. IF AMERICANS CAN LINE UP AT CHECK-OUTS TO PAY FOR GROCERIES, ALCOHOL. LOTTERY TICKETS, MEDICATIONS AND CAN LINE UP IN VEHICLES TO GET TESTED FOR COVID, THEY CAN LINE UP TO VOTE. PERIOD. THE END.]
“So what do people that really focus on the election process do about that? They go into ballot harvesting. If there's so many ballots out there in the wind unaccounted for by election officials, surely some manpower could be dedicated to go bring them in. And that's another part of the system where you have weaknesses and risk.”
To illustrate the risk, Churchwell notes that in 2016 Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by garnering over 2.8 million more votes than Donald Trump.
There’s little doubt that as the number of mail-in ballots increases, so does fraud.
Concerns about fraud in mail-in ballots were serious enough that a 2008 report produced by the CalTech/MIT Voting Technology Project recommended that states “restrict or abolish on-demand absentee voting in favor of in-person early voting.”
“The convenience that on-demand absentees produces is bought at a significant cost to the real and perceived integrity of the voting process,” the report added. “On the face of it, early voting can provide nearly equal convenience with significantly greater controls against fraud and coercion.”
Despite these concerns, five states – Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Utah, and Hawaii – now do all elections exclusively by mail.
AND ALL BUT UTAH VOTE EXCLUSIVELY ... DEMOCRAT.
ALMOST A MILLION MISSING VOTES IN OREGON
Supporters point to smooth elections in these states as proof that it works. But PILF obtained voter data from Oregon, the first state to adopt voting by mail exclusively, for the 2012 and 2018 elections and checked it against census data.
Losing only one of eight ballots, as opposed to the national average of one in five, may be the result of Oregon having a more accurate listing of voters’ addresses than many other states, but that’s still a very high percentage of missing ballots, and Oregon would not reveal its data for the 2014 and 2016 elections for reasons the state would not disclose.
Regardless, U.S. Census data confirms that 11% of Americans move every year, and voters on the lower end of the economic scale are especially transient.
The inherent problems of mail-in voting are being widely ignored, however.
“I really think the only reason vote-by-mail problems are not getting more attention on a regular basis, is that it's kind of an embarrassing problem and people just aren’t paying attention,” says Churchwell.
MISSING BALLOTS?
DEMOCRAT BALLOT HARVESTERS CAN FIND THOSE...AND THEN SOME!
JUST IMMIGRATE TO AMERICA FROM SYRIA, MARS, THE MOON?
DEMOCRATS WILL VOTE FOR YOU.
DID YOU MURDER YOUR FRIENDS OR FAMILY MEMBERS AND WIND UP IN PRISON?
FELONS HAVE RIGHTS, TOO.
CALL MIKE BLOOMBERG. HE'S BUYING ALL FELONS' VOTES.
DID A LOVED ONE RECENTLY PASS AWAY BEFORE ELECTION DAY?
THE DNP HAS EXPERTS IN CHICAGO WHO CAN MAKE SURE THOSE WHO ARE DECEASED CAN STILL VOTE.
DID YOU RECENTLY MOVE OUT OF STATE BUT WANT TO STILL VOTE "BACK HOME", OR ARE YOU HERE ILLEGALLY AND ARE AFRAID YOU CAN'T VOTE?
CALL NANCY PELOSI NOW!
SHE AND CALIFORNIA OFFICIALS WILL BE PROUD TO REGISTER YOU IN THE GOLDEN STATE.
WHERE THERE'S EVEN A SLIM CHANCE OF A VOTE, THE DNP WILL HELP YOU CAST ONE.
OR TWO.
OR AS MANY AS YOU PLEASE.
EVEN IF YOU HAVE NO WILL/WISH TO VOTE, YOU, TOO CAN HELP ELECT "DEMENTIA JOE" AND HE WILL THANK YOU...PROFUSELY...AND YOUR YOUNG CHILDREN, TOO.
VOTE EARLY, OFTEN AND LATE, AMERICA!
//WW
REMEMBER...THIS ELECTION IS ALSO FOR CONTROL OF CONGRESS.
ReplyDeleteWHICH CHEATERS WILL WIN?
THE ONES WITH THE MOST COUNTED VOTES.
WHO DETERMINES WHICH VOTES GET COUNTED?
NOT OLD DONALD TRUMP, NOT BIDEN....EACH POLLING PLACE, EACH STATE'S ELECTION "OFFICIALS".
AND AFTER THAT?
THE "ELECTORAL COLLEGE"...THE FOUNDERS' JOKE ON A GULLIBLE CITIZENRY.
Types of Voter Fraud.
ReplyDeleteDo an internet search for each of these and see which one is most common.
It is NOT in-person voting.
Fraudulent Use Of Absentee Ballots
Requesting absentee ballots and voting without the knowledge of the actual voter; or obtaining the absentee ballot from a voter and either filling it in directly and forging the voter’s signature or illegally telling the voter who to vote for.
Ineligible Voting
Illegal registration and voting by individuals who are not U.S. citizens, are convicted felons, or are otherwise not eligible to vote.
Impersonation Fraud At The Polls
Voting in the name of other legitimate voters and voters who have died, moved away, or lost their right to vote because they are felons, but remain registered.
Buying Votes
Paying voters to cast either an in-person or absentee ballot for a particular candidate.
Ballot Petition Fraud
Forging the signatures of registered voters on the ballot petitions that must be filed with election officials in some states for a candidate or issue to be listed on the official ballot
Duplicate Voting
Registering in multiple locations and voting in the same election in more than one jurisdiction or state.
False Registrations
Voting under fraudulent voter registrations that either use a phony name and a real or fake address or claim residence in a particular jurisdiction where the registered voter does not actually live and is not entitled to vote.
Altering The Vote Count
Changing the actual vote count either in a precinct or at the central location where votes are counted.
Illegal "Assistance" At The Polls
Forcing or intimidating voters—particularly the elderly, disabled, illiterate, and those for whom English is a second language—to vote for particular candidates while supposedly providing them with “assistance.”
Lawsuit: 1,600 Dead People Registered to Vote in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
ReplyDeleteThe Public Interest Legal Foundation filed suit against Allegheny County, where Pittsburgh is located, for their alleged ineffectiveness in cleaning up their voter rolls. The lawsuit claims there are about 1,583 dead people STILL on the county voter rolls.
Similarly, the lawsuit claims there are close t0 7,500 voter registrations that have been flagged as duplicates but that remain on the voter rolls. In one case, the lawsuit claims, an individual registered to vote up to seven times in one day while out of state.
Other individuals, the lawsuit claims, have registered to vote three to four times. Likewise, the lawsuit alleges that there are 1,523 registered voters who claim to be 100-years-old and over — nearly 50 of which have listed the 1800s as their birth years.
MAIL THOSE BALLOTS IN!
https://foac-pac.org/Pennsylvania:-Lawsuit:-1-6k-Dead-People-Registered-To-Vote-In-Pittsburgh-Pennsylvania/News-Item/10820
A severed fiber optic cable shut down Virginia's online voter registration system Tuesday, Oct. 13 the last day to register before the November general election. The Virginia Department of Elections said in statement on Twitter that a “fiber cut” was affecting connectivity for multiple agencies, including the citizen portal and registrar's offices, and technicians were working to repair the problem. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post via AP, File)
ReplyDeleteSix hours later, the Department of Elections issued a statement saying the portal was back online. But the fallout led to concerns that voters were being disenfranchised at a crucial moment.
Voting advocates said the accident couldn’t have come at a worse time and lambasted state officials for the technological failure. The day of the deadline is when many Virginians decide to register, particularly after being reminded on social media and in the news.
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law filed a lawsuit Tuesday night saying voter registration must be extended for 48 hours and that the state should make “a significant effort” to tell the public about the change. Named as defendants in the lawsuit are the Virginia Department of Elections; the Virginia State Board of Elections; elections board chairman Robert H. Brink and vice chairman John O’Bannon; Christopher Piper, commissioner of the Department of Elections; and Jamilah D. Lecruise, secretary of the board of elections.
“Absent relief, voters who attempted to register to vote through the online portal on October 13, 2020, but were unable through no fault of their own, will be absolutely disenfranchised in the upcoming elections,” the lawsuit said.
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-us-news-ap-top-news-media-social-media-f6525ef6254a940c91b98d2668c43892