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Voter Fraud: We?ve Got Proof It?s Easy | National Review Online
Liberals who oppose efforts to prevent voter fraud claim that there is no fraud or at least not any that involves voting in person at the polls.
But New York Citys watchdog Department of Investigations has just provided the latest evidence of how easy it is to commit voter fraud that is almost undetectable. DOI undercover agents showed up at 63 polling places last fall and pretended to be voters who should have been turned away by election officials; the agents assumed the names of individuals who had died or moved out of town, or who were sitting in jail. In 61 instances, or 97 percent of the time, the testers were allowed to vote. Those who did vote cast only a write-in vote for a John Test so as to not affect the outcome of any contest. DOI published its findings two weeks ago in a searing 70-page report accusing the citys Board of Elections of incompetence, waste, nepotism, and lax procedures.
The Board of Elections, which has a $750 million annual budget and a work force of 350 people, reacted in classic bureaucratic fashion, which prompted one city paper to deride it as a 21st-century survivor of Boss Tweedstyle politics. The Board approved a resolution referring the DOIs investigators for prosecution. It also asked the states attorney general to determine whether DOI had violated the civil rights of voters who had moved or are felons, and it sent a letter of complaint to Mayor Bill de Blasio. Normally, I wouldnt think de Blasio would give the BOE the time of day, but New Yorks new mayor has long been a close ally of former leaders of ACORN, the now-disgraced community organizing group that saw its employees convicted of voter-registration fraud all over the country during and after the 2008 election.
But New York Citys watchdog Department of Investigations has just provided the latest evidence of how easy it is to commit voter fraud that is almost undetectable. DOI undercover agents showed up at 63 polling places last fall and pretended to be voters who should have been turned away by election officials; the agents assumed the names of individuals who had died or moved out of town, or who were sitting in jail. In 61 instances, or 97 percent of the time, the testers were allowed to vote. Those who did vote cast only a write-in vote for a John Test so as to not affect the outcome of any contest. DOI published its findings two weeks ago in a searing 70-page report accusing the citys Board of Elections of incompetence, waste, nepotism, and lax procedures.
The Board of Elections, which has a $750 million annual budget and a work force of 350 people, reacted in classic bureaucratic fashion, which prompted one city paper to deride it as a 21st-century survivor of Boss Tweedstyle politics. The Board approved a resolution referring the DOIs investigators for prosecution. It also asked the states attorney general to determine whether DOI had violated the civil rights of voters who had moved or are felons, and it sent a letter of complaint to Mayor Bill de Blasio. Normally, I wouldnt think de Blasio would give the BOE the time of day, but New Yorks new mayor has long been a close ally of former leaders of ACORN, the now-disgraced community organizing group that saw its employees convicted of voter-registration fraud all over the country during and after the 2008 election.
