ABERDEEN, MISS. (WCBI) – A judge is ordering a new runoff election for the Ward 1 alderman seat in Aberdeen.
In the sixty-four-page order, Judge Jeff Weill not only calls for a new election but also finds evidence of fraud and criminal activity, in how absentee ballots were handled, how votes were counted, and the actions by some at the polling place.
In his ruling, the judge said that sixty-six of eighty-four absentee ballots cast in the June runoff were not valid and should never have been counted. Nicholas Holliday was declared the winner by a 37 vote margin. Robert Devaull challenged the results in court.
Judge Weill found many irregularities with absentee ballots. He issued a bench warrant for notary Dallas Jones, who notarized absentee ballots. During a hearing, Jones admitted violating notary duties.
According to a summary by left-leaning Politifact:
The election do-over involves the election for alderman in Aberdeen, Miss., population 5,326. A judge found irregularities in the paperwork for 66 of the 84 absentee ballots cast, or 78%. The race had been decided by 37 votes, 177-140.
The judge found “significant evidence of voter fraud” on the part of two people who notarized paperwork for absentee ballot applications. He ordered one of them arrested.
It's worth noting that every character here involved here is a Democrat, as this was a 2020 Democratic Party runoff. That it's just Democrats makes such stories harder to ignore. This isn't President Trump yelling fraud, this is Democrat-on-Democrat malfeasance, with a judge calling the whole show off, ordering a do-over.
Mail-in ballot fraud in fact is very real. Politifact is implicitly dismissing this story as of no importance because it happened in a town of 5,300 in northeastern Mississippi, where, a Google map shows, the nearest big "city" is Tupelo (of Elvis Presley and Bobbie Gentry song fame), and the town sits approximately halfway to Memphis, Jackson, Birmingham, Huntsville, and Montgomery, each around 150 miles away, making it an equi-distant crossroads of sorts.
But just because the town was small doesn't mean such things don't matter. Fraud could only occur in a small town and not a big city? That's nonsense. Big city machines led by Democrats are utterly famous for their corruption.
The Heritage Foundation has a database of all the 239 known cases of elections trashed by mail-in voting fraud since 1997. It's occurred in places like Texas, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Florida, Colorado, Illinois, Missouri, California.... The most recent case documented was in Paterson, New Jersey, again, for a local race. Now there's this.
It's also occurred abroad. Jimmy Carter, who runs the voter integrity oriented Carter Center, has condemned the practice as inimical to free and fair elections as recently as 2005, recognizing just enough cases to make that conclusion. (Jimmy Carter has since done a U-Turn, but it seems that was about 2020 politics).
In Europe, it's a practice banned by most countries, and in places where it's permitted, it requires special requests, as well as sometimes trips to the voting registrar for a voting packet, while all require the showing of national I.D. These aren't junk-mail elections where ballots are mailed out indiscriminately from un-updated and unpurged voter registration lists as is done in California, where many voters ending up with multiple ballots (I know one in Pasadena, Calif., and he showed me the evidence).
Scholar John Lott came out with a major report on how and why the practice is generally banned in Europe based on its threat to free and fair elections.
Separately, the Swedish IDEA institute also came out with a report warning of mail-in voting election problems.
The evidence is massive. Yet everywhere in the press, all you read is that ballot fraud coming from mail-in voting is "very rare."
So much for the media's constant claims that mail-in vote fraud is rare. In Mississippi, a judge found it to be real. According to CBS-affiliated WCBI: ABERDEEN, MISS. (WCBI) – A judge is ordering a new runoff ele...
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Okay, this was a small town in Mississippi and it wasn't in November, it was in June. So ******* what, does anyone want to claim there was never any election fraud in November or in January? I may have been born at night, but it wasn't last night. Was it enough to change the result? No one really knows, but around half of the people surveyed after the election think the outcome wasn't accurate. Meaning maybe Biden should have won but maybe he shouldn't have. Okay, water under the bridge, I don't think we're going to redo the presidential election or the Senate runoff in Ga. But we damn sure ought to be looking hard at what happened and fixing whatever needs to be fixed so future elections are more trustworthy. And if warranted and proven in court then people should go to jail if any laws were broken. If there's no deterrent then nothing will change.
Nobody sId it was completely non-existent. What's been said is it's vanishingly rare and in tiny amounts, which this case points up perfectly.
Next fauxrage please.
The OP is building a straw man. No one said there is no fraud. What matters is if there is statistically significant fraud.
2020 election was the most examined election ever - electoral officials, the DoJ for heaven's sakes...and multiple courts.
No fraud was found that would make any difference in outcome, and there was no (as in zero) evidence of the "wide spread fraud" the Trumpsters are claiming.
At point do you say enough is enough?
A lot of people on the USMB and elsewhere in the news are claiming there was no fraud. And a lot of people are bitching about any attempt to prove statistically significant fraud existed. Nothing to see here, move along.
Most of the court cases were thrown out on technicalities rather than any examination of the allegations. Even now the SCOTUS is hearing a case of election laws being illegally changed in Arizona. And there are other relevant cases that will be addressed in other states. As I said in the OP, was there enough fraud that might've changed the outcome? I don't think we really know the answer to that, hence I don't believe anyone who claims otherwise, i.e., the election wasn't tainted, really knows that.
'there was no (as in zero) evidence of the "wide spread fraud"' Actually there is, many of those court cases never looked at the evidence. Thee aare a number of cases in several states that allege fraud, and I call that wide spread.
Understand me: I ain't saying there was enough election fraud that caused the outcome to change and the wrong person got elected. I AM saying there could be, and almost half of the people surveyed after the election agree with me. Which is why we should be closely looking at what happened; if fraud did occur OR even if it APPEARED to occur, then why? What can be done in the future to ensure neither happens again. Or do we want to go down this road after every election?
I appreciate the thoughtful reply, but don't agree.
We have a long tradition of steps to take in which an election can be challenged or fraud alleged and look into. For how long have candidates agreed to abide by it and by the concept of a peaceful transfer of power? Trump broke that....
What's broken is not our electoral process, its the agreed upon principles underlying it that have been the standard for two centuries now.
Each party is allowed poll watchers to observe the process, in many cases the process itself is videotaped.
A candidate who looses has these legal options available to him.
He can ask for a recount - in fact in some states recounts are automatic when the margin is slimmer than a certain percentage.
He can ask for yet more recounts (though the campaign might then have to pay).
He can challenge it in court.
He can appeal it in court.
Trump had recourse to and availed himself of every one of those options.
And he had more. He had his own DoJ/AG Barr, who tasked the DoJ with investigating every allegation of fraud.
And out of all this - no evidence of any sort of wide spread fraud.
The court cases - they didn't all hinge on just "technicalities". Several times, the judge specifically asked "are you alleging fraud" and the attorney had to back down and say "no" because it's a very serious offense to lie to a judge. A large number (if not all) of so called witness statements were invalided because the witness (in many cases poll watchers for the Trump campaign who didn't bother to attend the orientation meeting) didn't understand what they were seeing. Other statements were found to be outright fabrication or couldn't in any way be verified.
The few cases the Supreme Court is hearing don't even involve fraud - they involve arcane interpretations of state election laws - not fraudulent votes. They also involve a very small number of votes and the votes were genuine and in good faith.
So at what point do you say enough is enough? Now EVERY loser can contest beyond the established norms and declare fraud...and you can't fix it, because there is no fraud, and there is nothing that will satisfy the people who feel that the only way their candidate lost is due to fraud. They will just find one more reason to claim it, one more needed investigation. You would think that Barr investigating it would have been sufficient but when he found nothing...suddenly it wasn't.
Do you see the true scope of the problem? It's not a problem of our elections. It's a problem of our refusal to except the results when we lose...no matter what the facts are.
Edited to add: Did the Supreme Court actually hear ANY of the challenges?
According to this article - it doesn't sound like it, which speaks volumes on the merits.