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More like 3%
Illusion vs. Reality: The Rampant Voter Fraud Myth
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Cut welfare, stick it to those lazy red staters!!!
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Nothing like a discussion where one side brings up facts and the other side simply contradicts. I've entered into the 'argument clinic', time to move on...
Dead people voting - Ballotpedia
It's true that there have been a few cases of apparent voter fraud. However, as my opening article makes clear, the cases have been minimal. The disenfranchisement of voters through voter id laws as well as down and dirty disenfranchisement of voters without even the pretext of a voter id law to back it up, has been shown to be quite real, however, while I also believe my opening post in this thread demonstrates...
In other words, you admit it's not a myth, just embellished. My work here is done.
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Get an ID...it's really simple. End of it.
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May 4, 2012: Voter Fraud in Philadelphia
In the 1960s [in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania], a Democratic ward leader took shoe boxes full of quarters to the polls in poor neighborhoods – "to pay off voters," a veteran election lawyer recalls.
In 1993, a judge overturned a pivotal State Senate race because of hundreds of bogus absentee ballots.
In last year's primary, dozens of polling places mysteriously recorded more votes in some races than the number of voters who'd signed in. (Source)
May 7, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Florida
The NBC2 Investigators have uncovered hundreds of convicted felons registered to vote in Florida.
When you're found guilty of a crime in the state of Florida, you lose your right to vote, but NBC2 Investigator Andy Pierrotti found, drug traffickers, murders and rapists remain on the voter rolls.
Our investigation uncovered 414 inmates who were registered to vote, after matching names of felons in the Department of Corrections with Floridians voter registration records. (Source)
May 9, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Florida, Colorado, and New Mexico
The state's investigation into potential noncitizens registered to vote has nearly doubled. It's an update to an exclusive NBC2 investigation we first broke on Monday, showing state election supervisors were now investigating non-citizens registered, and in some cases, casting ballots in elections.
Originally, 1,251 voters were discovered. The Division of Elections now says it's at 2,671. Miami Dade [Florida] County's Elections Supervisor's office confirms says the state has identified nearly 2,000 potential non-citizens registered in its county alone.
Amid an increasingly partisan dog fight, Florida elections officials say the number of potential non-citizens they’re examining on the state voter rolls is far higher than what was initially reported: 180,000.
By the end of the process, the state could send counties as many as 22,000 names to check, one election source indicated, in a state with more than 12 million total voters. Right now, supervisors have been sent nearly 2,700 names, about 2,000 of which are in Miami-Dade, Florida’s most-populous and most-immigrant heavy county.
Some Democrats accuse the Republican-appointed Secretary of State Ken Detzner of engaging in a type of “voter suppression.”
The effort in Florida was inspired by Colorado’s Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler, who said last year that he initially identified a pool of 16,000 potential non-citizen voters in his state. New Mexico — also run by a Republican Secretary of State — searched and found 104. (Source) and (Source) and (Source)
May 16, 2012: Voter Fraud in Michigan
A state audit showing about 1,500 votes cast by dead people and prisoners during a period of less than three years ignited a debate Tuesday over whether voter fraud is a serious problem in Michigan.
The Secretary of State's Office, which supervises Michigan elections, said every example cited in a new report by Auditor General Thomas McTavish involved clerks accidentally crossing incorrect names off voter lists, and not one example was the result of someone voting using another person's identity.
But dead people and prisoners aren't supposed to be on voter lists, and critics say such sloppiness can undermine the system's integrity. They say further outside investigation might be needed to determine whether fraud was a factor in what McTavish found. (Source)
In the 1960s [in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania], a Democratic ward leader took shoe boxes full of quarters to the polls in poor neighborhoods – "to pay off voters," a veteran election lawyer recalls.
In 1993, a judge overturned a pivotal State Senate race because of hundreds of bogus absentee ballots.
In last year's primary, dozens of polling places mysteriously recorded more votes in some races than the number of voters who'd signed in. (Source)
May 7, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Florida
The NBC2 Investigators have uncovered hundreds of convicted felons registered to vote in Florida.
When you're found guilty of a crime in the state of Florida, you lose your right to vote, but NBC2 Investigator Andy Pierrotti found, drug traffickers, murders and rapists remain on the voter rolls.
Our investigation uncovered 414 inmates who were registered to vote, after matching names of felons in the Department of Corrections with Floridians voter registration records. (Source)
May 9, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Florida, Colorado, and New Mexico
The state's investigation into potential noncitizens registered to vote has nearly doubled. It's an update to an exclusive NBC2 investigation we first broke on Monday, showing state election supervisors were now investigating non-citizens registered, and in some cases, casting ballots in elections.
Originally, 1,251 voters were discovered. The Division of Elections now says it's at 2,671. Miami Dade [Florida] County's Elections Supervisor's office confirms says the state has identified nearly 2,000 potential non-citizens registered in its county alone.
Amid an increasingly partisan dog fight, Florida elections officials say the number of potential non-citizens they’re examining on the state voter rolls is far higher than what was initially reported: 180,000.
By the end of the process, the state could send counties as many as 22,000 names to check, one election source indicated, in a state with more than 12 million total voters. Right now, supervisors have been sent nearly 2,700 names, about 2,000 of which are in Miami-Dade, Florida’s most-populous and most-immigrant heavy county.
Some Democrats accuse the Republican-appointed Secretary of State Ken Detzner of engaging in a type of “voter suppression.”
The effort in Florida was inspired by Colorado’s Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler, who said last year that he initially identified a pool of 16,000 potential non-citizen voters in his state. New Mexico — also run by a Republican Secretary of State — searched and found 104. (Source) and (Source) and (Source)
May 16, 2012: Voter Fraud in Michigan
A state audit showing about 1,500 votes cast by dead people and prisoners during a period of less than three years ignited a debate Tuesday over whether voter fraud is a serious problem in Michigan.
The Secretary of State's Office, which supervises Michigan elections, said every example cited in a new report by Auditor General Thomas McTavish involved clerks accidentally crossing incorrect names off voter lists, and not one example was the result of someone voting using another person's identity.
But dead people and prisoners aren't supposed to be on voter lists, and critics say such sloppiness can undermine the system's integrity. They say further outside investigation might be needed to determine whether fraud was a factor in what McTavish found. (Source)
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I started a new thread because the old one (my introduction thread) was not a place to be talking at length about political matters- that's what the -rest- of this forum is for
What you think they seem to do doesn't really play out in reality. The people most hurt by voter ID laws are elderly conservatives in rural areas. What the DNC is doing to pander to its base with the unending "racism" card is keeping the GOP from slitting its own throat with their most loyal off year election base.
You can look at it any way you want. The main thing is that the new voter ID laws prevent people from voting no matter which party is effected most, and they should be done away with.
It don't prevent people from voting as much as the laws on the books prevent people from getting a beer or smokes.
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If you think voter fraud is a myth you are an idiot, period.
May 17, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Florida
[Florida's local election] supervisors, meeting at their annual summer conference, peppered state election officials with questions about the list of more than 2,600 people who have been identified as being in Florida legally but ineligible to vote. That list was sent to supervisors recently, but state officials have also said there may be as many as 182,000 registered voters who may not be citizens.
The questions about voter eligibility surface as the state continues its months-long efforts to scrub the rolls, including asking supervisors to remove more than 53,000 dead people discovered by comparing voter rolls to federal Social Security files. This was the first time the state checked the files.
Florida law requires voters to be a U.S. citizen residing in the state. Florida also does not allow someone to vote if they are a convicted felon and have not had their civil rights restored.
The state has been responsible for helping screen voters since 2006 when it launched a statewide voter registration database. The state database is supposed to check the names of registered voters against other databases, including ones that contain the names of people who have died and people who have been sent to prison.
Prior to the launch of the database, Florida had come under fire for previous efforts to remove felons from the voting rolls, including a purge that happened right before the 2000 presidential election. (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source)
May 29, 2012: Voter Fraud in Florida
Just last month Florida election officials were denied help by the feds to confirm citizenship status (and voter fraud) for an estimated 180,000 illegal immigrants already registered to vote in Florida. That’s 180,000 votes in just one SWING state in an election that is going to boil down to, as Mrs. Obama said, a “few thousand votes.”
According to state records, Florida election officials have determined that massive voter fraud is taking place and that as many as 180,000 non-residents are registered to vote in the sunshine state, and it only came to the attention of state election officials early last year when the state’s DMV turned over a large data-set containing the population’s residency information. Upon sampling the data and running some preliminary checks, officials narrowed their estimate of illegally registered voters to 180,000.
Florida’s Motor Voter Act of 1993 (which most states have some form of) PROHIBITED even asking immigration status when an individual filled out their voter registration form while FAILING to require proof of citizenship. One Naples voter admitted to NBC-2 Tampa reporter Andy Pierrotti that she was not a U.S. Citizen NOR A LEGAL IMMIGRANT – election records show she voted six times in the past eleven years. (Source) and (Source)
June 5, 2012: Voter Fraud in Wisconsin
A Madison City Clerk has told a Wisconsin radio host that turnout for the area is expected at over 100%, up to 119%.
Heavy turnout in Madison, a liberal stronghold, would likely benefit Democrat Tom Barrett.
Progressives shrug the 119% figure off as evidence that people are registering at the polls to vote. Considering that Wisconsin has oddly relaxed voter ID laws and a judge granted an injunction against measures that would have protected people's votes, is it any surprise? (Source) and (Source) and (Source)
June 5, 2012: Suspected Voter Fraud in New Jersey
New Jersey Democrats Reps. Bill Pascrell and Steve Rothman – facing one another in a primary election after their districts were merged as a result of redistricting – exchanged heated accusations of dirty politics in the hours before voting got underway on Tuesday.
Rothman's team complained about possible irregularities and had a county elections superintendent impound 2,000 absentee ballots they found suspicious. Late Monday night a judge ruled that decision went too far and ordered the ballots be counted.
Pascrell called the effort "the most pathetic thing I've ever seen in politics" when he went to vote Tuesday morning. His campaign manager, Justin Myers, said the effort "rings eerily similar to Republican efforts across the country to impede people's rights to vote."
"To deny people the right to vote, to manufacture a reason why votes are not counted, it's worse than Jim Crow," Pascrell said.
Rothman sought to impound the ballots after 680 postcards mailed to people who registered to vote in Passaic County (were Pascrell was running registration drives) were returned as undeliverable. "People aren't there. This raises serious questions about potential voter fraud by the Pascrell campaign," said Rothman spokesman Paul Swibinski. (Source) and (Source)
May 17, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Florida
[Florida's local election] supervisors, meeting at their annual summer conference, peppered state election officials with questions about the list of more than 2,600 people who have been identified as being in Florida legally but ineligible to vote. That list was sent to supervisors recently, but state officials have also said there may be as many as 182,000 registered voters who may not be citizens.
The questions about voter eligibility surface as the state continues its months-long efforts to scrub the rolls, including asking supervisors to remove more than 53,000 dead people discovered by comparing voter rolls to federal Social Security files. This was the first time the state checked the files.
Florida law requires voters to be a U.S. citizen residing in the state. Florida also does not allow someone to vote if they are a convicted felon and have not had their civil rights restored.
The state has been responsible for helping screen voters since 2006 when it launched a statewide voter registration database. The state database is supposed to check the names of registered voters against other databases, including ones that contain the names of people who have died and people who have been sent to prison.
Prior to the launch of the database, Florida had come under fire for previous efforts to remove felons from the voting rolls, including a purge that happened right before the 2000 presidential election. (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source)
May 29, 2012: Voter Fraud in Florida
Just last month Florida election officials were denied help by the feds to confirm citizenship status (and voter fraud) for an estimated 180,000 illegal immigrants already registered to vote in Florida. That’s 180,000 votes in just one SWING state in an election that is going to boil down to, as Mrs. Obama said, a “few thousand votes.”
According to state records, Florida election officials have determined that massive voter fraud is taking place and that as many as 180,000 non-residents are registered to vote in the sunshine state, and it only came to the attention of state election officials early last year when the state’s DMV turned over a large data-set containing the population’s residency information. Upon sampling the data and running some preliminary checks, officials narrowed their estimate of illegally registered voters to 180,000.
Florida’s Motor Voter Act of 1993 (which most states have some form of) PROHIBITED even asking immigration status when an individual filled out their voter registration form while FAILING to require proof of citizenship. One Naples voter admitted to NBC-2 Tampa reporter Andy Pierrotti that she was not a U.S. Citizen NOR A LEGAL IMMIGRANT – election records show she voted six times in the past eleven years. (Source) and (Source)
June 5, 2012: Voter Fraud in Wisconsin
A Madison City Clerk has told a Wisconsin radio host that turnout for the area is expected at over 100%, up to 119%.
Heavy turnout in Madison, a liberal stronghold, would likely benefit Democrat Tom Barrett.
Progressives shrug the 119% figure off as evidence that people are registering at the polls to vote. Considering that Wisconsin has oddly relaxed voter ID laws and a judge granted an injunction against measures that would have protected people's votes, is it any surprise? (Source) and (Source) and (Source)
June 5, 2012: Suspected Voter Fraud in New Jersey
New Jersey Democrats Reps. Bill Pascrell and Steve Rothman – facing one another in a primary election after their districts were merged as a result of redistricting – exchanged heated accusations of dirty politics in the hours before voting got underway on Tuesday.
Rothman's team complained about possible irregularities and had a county elections superintendent impound 2,000 absentee ballots they found suspicious. Late Monday night a judge ruled that decision went too far and ordered the ballots be counted.
Pascrell called the effort "the most pathetic thing I've ever seen in politics" when he went to vote Tuesday morning. His campaign manager, Justin Myers, said the effort "rings eerily similar to Republican efforts across the country to impede people's rights to vote."
"To deny people the right to vote, to manufacture a reason why votes are not counted, it's worse than Jim Crow," Pascrell said.
Rothman sought to impound the ballots after 680 postcards mailed to people who registered to vote in Passaic County (were Pascrell was running registration drives) were returned as undeliverable. "People aren't there. This raises serious questions about potential voter fraud by the Pascrell campaign," said Rothman spokesman Paul Swibinski. (Source) and (Source)
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Very impressive list, but you didn't bother to follow up with the results of all those hair on fire claims. I went through your post that included Acorn, and found that each and everyone of the articles you cited turned out to be groundless and were thrown out of court. As usual, you think an accusation is as good as a fact. and I suppose it is for RWNJs but in the real world, every false claim reduces your credibility, and you don't have any left to lose.
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Or perhaps 55%?
73.6% of all Statistics are Made Up — Both Sides of the Table
Seriously guys, the moment someone contests an alleged statistic, it's time to bring some evidence to the table backing up your own...
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Which ones? Each and everyone one? Groundless accusations?
18 Former ACORN Workers Have Been Convicted or Admitted Guilt in Election Fraud | Fox News
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I wonder, do the ID laws prevent the poor from buying beer?
Oh, WHAT ABOUT THE POOR!
But no one cares, because in all actuality they want to see fraud happen. If getting an ID was actually so troublesome then where is the outrage for all other items besides voting?
Oh, WHAT ABOUT THE POOR!
But no one cares, because in all actuality they want to see fraud happen. If getting an ID was actually so troublesome then where is the outrage for all other items besides voting?
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You say this and then don't state which example. You are honestly going to sit here and say that ACORN didn't commit voter fraud. That none of those stories resulted in convictions. You are wrong.
Ex-ACORN worker: 'I paid the price' for voter registration fraud - CNN.com
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July 18, 2012: Voting Irregularities in Philadelphia County, 2012 Primary Election
See this detailed 27-page PDF report on voter fraud in Philadelphia, released by Al Schmidt – City Commissioner of Philadelphia. (Source) and (Source)
July 25, 2012: Vote-Buying in Kentucky
Voter fraud has a shocking new meaning in eastern Kentucky. That is where in some cases, major cocaine and marijuana dealers admitted to buying votes to steal elections, and the result is the corruption of American democracy. The government continues to mete out justice in the scandal, as two people convicted in April in a vote-buying case face sentencing this week, and another public official pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy.
"We believe that drug money did buy votes," Kerry B. Harvey, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, said of a separate vote-buying case.
He described a stunning vote-buying scheme that includes "very extensive, organized criminal activity, involving hundreds of thousands of dollars, and in many cases that involves drug money."
In Clay County, according to court testimony, some of the funds to purchase votes came from massive cocaine and marijuana drug trafficking operations.
"They did use drug money to buy votes, and drug dealers felt they would be protected," Harvey said.
Prosecutors say more than $400,000, part of it drug proceeds, was pooled by Democratic and Republican politicians over several elections, and spent to buy the votes of more than 8,000 voters, usually at $50 apiece. One voter was even able to bid up the cost of his vote to $800.
In the Eastern District of Kentucky alone, more than 20 public elected officials and others have either been convicted or plead guilty in various vote-buying cases just in the last two years.
On Tuesday, former Breathitt County School Superintendent Arch Turner pleaded guilty to conspiracy during the 2010 primary election, admitting he handed out money to buy votes. On Thursday, two others will be sentenced after they were convicted of vote-buying-related charges in the same contest. (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source)
July 26, 2012: Voter Fraud and Voter-Registration Fraud in Virginia
A felon living in Louisa County [Virginia] registered to vote illegally and then cast a ballot in the 2008 presidential election after filling out and submitting a voter-registration form she received by mail from the Voter Participation Center, a State Senator who prosecuted the case confirmed Wednesday.
The case is the first known instance of voter fraud that resulted from voter registration mailings by the Voter Participation Center, a nonprofit that has distributed 5 million third-party registration forms across the country and nearly 200,000 in Virginia this year targeting Democrat-leaning voting blocs, such as unmarried women, young people and minorities.
State election officials and local registrars say hundreds, if not thousands, of the forms have been sent to ineligible voters, including dead relatives, children, non-U.S. citizens, already registered voters, and pets. The voting group, which has ties to progressive organizations, fills in the documents with the names and addresses of the people they are trying to reach.
In 2010, then Louisa County Commonwealth's Attorney Thomas A. Garrett Jr. — now a State Senator — prosecuted Bonnie Nicholson, 57, on felony charges of illegally registering to vote and unlawfully casting a ballot in the 2008 general election. (Source)
July 27, 2012: Voter Fraud in Maryland
A Maryland group with loose ties to a tea party organization in Texas says it has found evidence of ballots cast at polling places in the state long after the voters were listed as deceased, but has not decided what to do with the information.
Election Integrity Maryland has turned over information to state and county election board officials on 9,000 people listed on voter rolls in Montgomery and Prince George's counties and Baltimore city who, it says, are deceased or have an improper address.
Asked whether the group has found evidence of voter fraud in the state, Election Integrity Maryland President Cathy Kelleher said it has.“We have evidence of it we've not made public yet because we're quintuple verifying,” she said. “We have evidence of voters voting long after their deaths.” (Source)
August 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Virginia
All is not well in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The state has announced the shocking preliminary results of an extensive police investigation of voter registration "irregularities" – a polite word for the ugly reality of voter fraud.
As the Richmond Times-Dispatch has reported, the investigation has resulted in charges filed against 38 people across the state, with a warrant issued for a 39th person who can't be found. " According to reports, most of those cases have resulted in convictions, while 26 more cases continue to be investigated "nearly 3 years after the Board of Elections forwarded more than 400 voter and election fraud allegations from 62 cities and counties to the Virginia State Police for individual investigation." And Richmond, the city with the highest minority population in the group, had the largest number of election "irregularities" referred for prosecution.
The scam in several jurisdictions involved left-wing voter advocacy groups asking convicted felons to register to vote even though their felon-status prevented them from casting a legal ballot. These liberal groups would convince the felons that they could register to vote and that their voting rights had been or would be restored. "Don't worry," they essentially said, "just register and we'll take care of the legalities." In the end, Virginia officials now believe, the felons cast illegal votes, which effectively diluted and nullified the votes of law-abiding Virginians. (Source)
August 6, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Virginia
Virginia election officials decided Monday to not take action against a D.C. group that sent voter registration cards to dead people, children and pets and prompted calls for an investigation from Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
The Virginia Board of Elections said it was already working with the Voter Participation Center to improve the group's registration practices so ineligible voters would not be targeted in the future.
Romney's campaign recently called for an investigation of the group, which targeted minorities and young voters when it sent out 200,000 registration cards. The campaign said it was satisfied with the board's decision.
"The Voter Participation Center has already admitted its misconduct, and we are glad that the State Board of Elections quickly convened a meeting on the issue," said Romney spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg. "Even in the absence of a formal investigation, we are heartened that the group is being forced to stop mailing misleading, [partially completed] voter registration forms in Virginia."
The Voter Participation Center's effort led to about 15,000 legal registrations, though the group admitted that many ineligible voters also inadvertently received cards. State election officials said they received hundreds of complaints about the group's latest mailing. (Source) and (Source)
August 8, 2012: Voter Fraud in Minnesota
In the '08 campaign, Republican Sen. Norm Coleman was running for re-election against Democrat Al Franken [in Minnesota]. It was impossibly close; on the morning after the election, after 2.9 million people had voted, Coleman led Franken by 725 votes.
Franken and his Democratic allies dispatched an army of lawyers to challenge the results. After the first canvass, Coleman's lead was down to 206 votes. That was followed by months of wrangling and litigation. In the end, Franken was declared the winner by 312 votes. He was sworn into office in July 2009, eight months after the election.
During the controversy a conservative group called Minnesota Majority began to look into claims of voter fraud. Comparing criminal records with voting rolls, the group identified 1,099 felons – all ineligible to vote – who had voted in the Franken-Coleman race.
Minnesota Majority took the information to prosecutors across the state, many of whom showed no interest in pursuing it. But Minnesota law requires authorities to investigate such leads. And so far, Fund and von Spakovsky report, 177 people have been convicted – not just accused, but convicted – of voting fraudulently in the Senate race. Another 66 are awaiting trial. (Source) and (Source) and (Source)
See this detailed 27-page PDF report on voter fraud in Philadelphia, released by Al Schmidt – City Commissioner of Philadelphia. (Source) and (Source)
July 25, 2012: Vote-Buying in Kentucky
Voter fraud has a shocking new meaning in eastern Kentucky. That is where in some cases, major cocaine and marijuana dealers admitted to buying votes to steal elections, and the result is the corruption of American democracy. The government continues to mete out justice in the scandal, as two people convicted in April in a vote-buying case face sentencing this week, and another public official pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy.
"We believe that drug money did buy votes," Kerry B. Harvey, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, said of a separate vote-buying case.
He described a stunning vote-buying scheme that includes "very extensive, organized criminal activity, involving hundreds of thousands of dollars, and in many cases that involves drug money."
In Clay County, according to court testimony, some of the funds to purchase votes came from massive cocaine and marijuana drug trafficking operations.
"They did use drug money to buy votes, and drug dealers felt they would be protected," Harvey said.
Prosecutors say more than $400,000, part of it drug proceeds, was pooled by Democratic and Republican politicians over several elections, and spent to buy the votes of more than 8,000 voters, usually at $50 apiece. One voter was even able to bid up the cost of his vote to $800.
In the Eastern District of Kentucky alone, more than 20 public elected officials and others have either been convicted or plead guilty in various vote-buying cases just in the last two years.
On Tuesday, former Breathitt County School Superintendent Arch Turner pleaded guilty to conspiracy during the 2010 primary election, admitting he handed out money to buy votes. On Thursday, two others will be sentenced after they were convicted of vote-buying-related charges in the same contest. (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source)
July 26, 2012: Voter Fraud and Voter-Registration Fraud in Virginia
A felon living in Louisa County [Virginia] registered to vote illegally and then cast a ballot in the 2008 presidential election after filling out and submitting a voter-registration form she received by mail from the Voter Participation Center, a State Senator who prosecuted the case confirmed Wednesday.
The case is the first known instance of voter fraud that resulted from voter registration mailings by the Voter Participation Center, a nonprofit that has distributed 5 million third-party registration forms across the country and nearly 200,000 in Virginia this year targeting Democrat-leaning voting blocs, such as unmarried women, young people and minorities.
State election officials and local registrars say hundreds, if not thousands, of the forms have been sent to ineligible voters, including dead relatives, children, non-U.S. citizens, already registered voters, and pets. The voting group, which has ties to progressive organizations, fills in the documents with the names and addresses of the people they are trying to reach.
In 2010, then Louisa County Commonwealth's Attorney Thomas A. Garrett Jr. — now a State Senator — prosecuted Bonnie Nicholson, 57, on felony charges of illegally registering to vote and unlawfully casting a ballot in the 2008 general election. (Source)
July 27, 2012: Voter Fraud in Maryland
A Maryland group with loose ties to a tea party organization in Texas says it has found evidence of ballots cast at polling places in the state long after the voters were listed as deceased, but has not decided what to do with the information.
Election Integrity Maryland has turned over information to state and county election board officials on 9,000 people listed on voter rolls in Montgomery and Prince George's counties and Baltimore city who, it says, are deceased or have an improper address.
Asked whether the group has found evidence of voter fraud in the state, Election Integrity Maryland President Cathy Kelleher said it has.“We have evidence of it we've not made public yet because we're quintuple verifying,” she said. “We have evidence of voters voting long after their deaths.” (Source)
August 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Virginia
All is not well in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The state has announced the shocking preliminary results of an extensive police investigation of voter registration "irregularities" – a polite word for the ugly reality of voter fraud.
As the Richmond Times-Dispatch has reported, the investigation has resulted in charges filed against 38 people across the state, with a warrant issued for a 39th person who can't be found. " According to reports, most of those cases have resulted in convictions, while 26 more cases continue to be investigated "nearly 3 years after the Board of Elections forwarded more than 400 voter and election fraud allegations from 62 cities and counties to the Virginia State Police for individual investigation." And Richmond, the city with the highest minority population in the group, had the largest number of election "irregularities" referred for prosecution.
The scam in several jurisdictions involved left-wing voter advocacy groups asking convicted felons to register to vote even though their felon-status prevented them from casting a legal ballot. These liberal groups would convince the felons that they could register to vote and that their voting rights had been or would be restored. "Don't worry," they essentially said, "just register and we'll take care of the legalities." In the end, Virginia officials now believe, the felons cast illegal votes, which effectively diluted and nullified the votes of law-abiding Virginians. (Source)
August 6, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Virginia
Virginia election officials decided Monday to not take action against a D.C. group that sent voter registration cards to dead people, children and pets and prompted calls for an investigation from Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
The Virginia Board of Elections said it was already working with the Voter Participation Center to improve the group's registration practices so ineligible voters would not be targeted in the future.
Romney's campaign recently called for an investigation of the group, which targeted minorities and young voters when it sent out 200,000 registration cards. The campaign said it was satisfied with the board's decision.
"The Voter Participation Center has already admitted its misconduct, and we are glad that the State Board of Elections quickly convened a meeting on the issue," said Romney spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg. "Even in the absence of a formal investigation, we are heartened that the group is being forced to stop mailing misleading, [partially completed] voter registration forms in Virginia."
The Voter Participation Center's effort led to about 15,000 legal registrations, though the group admitted that many ineligible voters also inadvertently received cards. State election officials said they received hundreds of complaints about the group's latest mailing. (Source) and (Source)
August 8, 2012: Voter Fraud in Minnesota
In the '08 campaign, Republican Sen. Norm Coleman was running for re-election against Democrat Al Franken [in Minnesota]. It was impossibly close; on the morning after the election, after 2.9 million people had voted, Coleman led Franken by 725 votes.
Franken and his Democratic allies dispatched an army of lawyers to challenge the results. After the first canvass, Coleman's lead was down to 206 votes. That was followed by months of wrangling and litigation. In the end, Franken was declared the winner by 312 votes. He was sworn into office in July 2009, eight months after the election.
During the controversy a conservative group called Minnesota Majority began to look into claims of voter fraud. Comparing criminal records with voting rolls, the group identified 1,099 felons – all ineligible to vote – who had voted in the Franken-Coleman race.
Minnesota Majority took the information to prosecutors across the state, many of whom showed no interest in pursuing it. But Minnesota law requires authorities to investigate such leads. And so far, Fund and von Spakovsky report, 177 people have been convicted – not just accused, but convicted – of voting fraudulently in the Senate race. Another 66 are awaiting trial. (Source) and (Source) and (Source)
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Sure. Some of the people being paid by Acorn to register voters figured out it was easier to make up names than it was to actually go out and register people so they did that. The judge even said Acorn could be seen as a victim in the case because they were charged for work that was not done. The case against Acorn was thrown out. Either way. Photo ID would not have had an effect on anything. Next?
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No. You said that each and everyone of those stories cited were baseless and did not result in convictions. Which one?
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How utterly disingenuous. Sure. Some people from ACORN were committing voter fraud and were convicted, but they were victims.
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There you have it...
The liberal regressives have no problem with it. They want and fully condone fraud, and the laws stand on their way. What do they do? They do what they always do pulling the "what about the poor" card out of their ass. Which is just ridiculous, given how easy it's to obtain an ID.
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All of these examples--they are a myth.
August 9, 2012: Dead People on the Voter Rolls in Virginia
Around 10,000 deceased people were recently found on Virginia's voter rolls by the State Board of Elections. (Source)
August 11, 2012: Voter Fraud in Iowa
An Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation agent has been assigned to work full-time with Secretary of State Matt Schultz's office to look into allegations of voter fraud, the Republican election chief's top cause, state officials confirmed Friday.
Schultz's office said it will spend up to $280,000 in tax dollars over the next two years for the services of Special Agent Daniel Dawson, who has been reassigned from the major crimes unit to work exclusively on voting and election fraud issues. DCI assistant director Charis Paulson said Dawson is already looking into about 2,000 possible voter fraud violations identified through data matching performed by Schultz's office. (Source)
August 12, 2012: Cases of Election Fraud Since 2000
The nation has 2,068 cases of alleged election fraud since 2000. By category, Unknown had the highest percentage of accused at 31 percent (645 cases), followed by Voters at 31 percent (633 cases). The most prevalent fraud was Absentee Ballot Fraud at 24 percent (491 cases). The status of most cases was Pleaded at 27 percent (558 cases). Responses to requests for public records varied from state to state. Some state and local officials were quick to respond by sending available records; others failed to provide a single document. (Source)
August 20, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in New Hampshire
Back in 2000, as many as 1,700 UNH students illegally registered to vote in Durham, New Hampshire, and very likely voted here illegally as well.
UNH is not the only college, nor is Durham the only college town in New Hampshire. And this is why New Hampshire Democrats have been watering down same day voter registration rules, domicile or proof of residency rules, object to voter ID, and put in place regulations to limit challenging voters. They wanted tens of thousands of same-day-registration voters and all those out-of-state college students who vote Democrat. (Source)
August 30, 2012: Election Fraud Across the United States
A new database from News21 provides an extensive examination of election fraud cases in all 50 states and the District of Columbia since 2000. So far, this research has found 2,068 cases of election fraud. The top-two most common types of accusations are absentee ballot fraud at 23.7 percent and voter registration fraud at 19.3 percent. The remaining 57 percent comprise a variety of types, including non-citizens casting ineligible ballots, making up 2.7 percent of the accusations, and the 10 cases of voter impersonation fraud, comprising 0.5 percent of the accusations, among others. (Source)
August 31, 2012: Voter Rolls with Large Numbers of Ineligible Names
Months after Judicial Watch warned election officials in a key battleground state to remove ineligible voters from its rolls JW has uncovered an alarming case that proves the integrity and legitimacy of the electoral process is not being ensured as required by federal law.
The story, out of Florida, is almost unbelievable but JW has all the documentation to prove it. JW obtained publicly available data that indicates voter rolls around the country—including key swing states—contain the names of individuals who are ineligible to vote. They include Mississippi, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Florida, Alabama, California, and Colorado. JW found that there appear to be more individua
August 9, 2012: Dead People on the Voter Rolls in Virginia
Around 10,000 deceased people were recently found on Virginia's voter rolls by the State Board of Elections. (Source)
August 11, 2012: Voter Fraud in Iowa
An Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation agent has been assigned to work full-time with Secretary of State Matt Schultz's office to look into allegations of voter fraud, the Republican election chief's top cause, state officials confirmed Friday.
Schultz's office said it will spend up to $280,000 in tax dollars over the next two years for the services of Special Agent Daniel Dawson, who has been reassigned from the major crimes unit to work exclusively on voting and election fraud issues. DCI assistant director Charis Paulson said Dawson is already looking into about 2,000 possible voter fraud violations identified through data matching performed by Schultz's office. (Source)
August 12, 2012: Cases of Election Fraud Since 2000
The nation has 2,068 cases of alleged election fraud since 2000. By category, Unknown had the highest percentage of accused at 31 percent (645 cases), followed by Voters at 31 percent (633 cases). The most prevalent fraud was Absentee Ballot Fraud at 24 percent (491 cases). The status of most cases was Pleaded at 27 percent (558 cases). Responses to requests for public records varied from state to state. Some state and local officials were quick to respond by sending available records; others failed to provide a single document. (Source)
August 20, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in New Hampshire
Back in 2000, as many as 1,700 UNH students illegally registered to vote in Durham, New Hampshire, and very likely voted here illegally as well.
UNH is not the only college, nor is Durham the only college town in New Hampshire. And this is why New Hampshire Democrats have been watering down same day voter registration rules, domicile or proof of residency rules, object to voter ID, and put in place regulations to limit challenging voters. They wanted tens of thousands of same-day-registration voters and all those out-of-state college students who vote Democrat. (Source)
August 30, 2012: Election Fraud Across the United States
A new database from News21 provides an extensive examination of election fraud cases in all 50 states and the District of Columbia since 2000. So far, this research has found 2,068 cases of election fraud. The top-two most common types of accusations are absentee ballot fraud at 23.7 percent and voter registration fraud at 19.3 percent. The remaining 57 percent comprise a variety of types, including non-citizens casting ineligible ballots, making up 2.7 percent of the accusations, and the 10 cases of voter impersonation fraud, comprising 0.5 percent of the accusations, among others. (Source)
August 31, 2012: Voter Rolls with Large Numbers of Ineligible Names
Months after Judicial Watch warned election officials in a key battleground state to remove ineligible voters from its rolls JW has uncovered an alarming case that proves the integrity and legitimacy of the electoral process is not being ensured as required by federal law.
The story, out of Florida, is almost unbelievable but JW has all the documentation to prove it. JW obtained publicly available data that indicates voter rolls around the country—including key swing states—contain the names of individuals who are ineligible to vote. They include Mississippi, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Florida, Alabama, California, and Colorado. JW found that there appear to be more individua
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