Electronic Voting and Other Election Day Issues

People who can't figure out how to mark a paper ballot (or use a punch card ballot) really shouldn't be voting.  How hard could it be?  Even if English isn't your native language, it shouldn't be a great challenge to recognize your favorite candidate's name (or the party name) on a ballot.

As we've seen in places like Louisiana and Chicago and Florida, when there's a close contest and the Democrat is losing, it is likely someone will "find" a bunch of "lost" ballots in a warehouse somewhere that are just what the losing candidate needs to pull into the lead.  If you think such shenanigans are a problem now, just wait until the ballots don't even exist, and all it takes is the manipulation of a few bytes in a computer to change the outcome of an election.  Who will be able to say with any certainty that a fair election took place?  Unfortunately, when that day comes, I predict that it will result in widespread voter apathy rather than a revolt.  And if there is a massive public outcry, it could be that the "solution" will be a National ID Card.
...or a barcode on your forehead.
 Please note that some of the material on this page relates to voting problems in general, not just to electronic voting, but these are problems which will not be solved (as some claim) by switching over to electronic ballots.

Rebecca Mercuri wrote her PhD thesis on the subject of electronic voting, and it is well worth reading."  She says,
"I am adamantly opposed to the use of fully electronic or Internet-based systems for use in anonymous balloting and vote tabulation applications.  The reasons for my opposition are manyfold, and are expressed in my writings as well as those of other well-respected computer security experts.  At the present time, it is my strong recommendation that all election officials REFRAIN from procuring ANY system that does not provide an indisputable paper ballot."
Regarding Rebecca Mercuri's web site, the experts at Counterpane say, "This is the Web site on electronic voting."

Subsections on this page:

Voter fraud
Ineligible voters
Ohio
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
What's up in Boulder, Colorado?

Subsections on nearby pages:

Voter ID Laws
ACORN
Coleman vs Franken
Mysteriously Appearing / Disappearing Ballots
Not everyone should vote
Tampering with the Electoral College
Bad ideas
Miscellaneous issues


Voting fraud

NBC2 Investigates: Voter fraud.  Two elections supervisors are taking action after an NBC2 investigation uncovers flawed record keeping and human error allowing people who are not citizens of the United States to vote.  No one knows how widespread this problem is, because county election supervisors have no way to track non-citizens who live here.  So NBC2 did something election officials never thought to do, and found them on our own.

White House/DOJ Working with ACORN, Massive Voter Registration Fraud.  In January, Judicial Watch obtained additional documents about meetings held between Estelle Rogers, Director of Advocacy for the ACORN organization Project Vote, and officials from the Obama White House and the DOJ.  Judicial Watch is investigating the extent to which Project Vote, which once employed Barack Obama, has been working with the Obama administration to use voter registration laws to register greater numbers of low-income voters, widely considered to be an important voting demographic for the Obama presidential campaign.

Voter fraud concerns to prompt checklist guidlines.  State officials plan to issue instructions soon to local election workers on how to better maintain voter checklists after a controversial watchdog group tried to obtain ballots by using the names of dead voters at polling stations in four communities on primary day.

South Carolina AG: 900 Dead People Voted in Recent Elections.  South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson (R-SC) told Neil Cavuto today [1/21/2012] that the state has hundreds of people voting for dead people.

Stop the dead from voting.  The revelation of a SLED [South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division] investigation into hundreds of reported cases where votes were cast by individuals after the date of their deaths raised serious questions of possible voter fraud.  37,295 people listed by the Election Commission as needing photo IDs are deceased.  Of those, 957 were found to have voted AFTER the recorded date of their deaths, according to the SC DMV.

Voter fraud 'a normal political tactic' in upstate NY city.  Michael LoPorto arrived at the Rensselaer County Courthouse in Troy, N.Y. on Tuesday [1/17/2012] for his trial, which accuses him of being part of a "massive" voter fraud scheme.  The former Democratic city councilman and popular local restaurant owner appeared jaunty and relaxed as he answered a series of questions from Fox News — despite facing felony allegations that could send him to prison for seven years.

Dead People and Other Voters.  Years ago the Democrats learned that the surest way to win a tight election was to have just the right number of dead people ready to vote.  It worked in Texas in 1948 and Illinois in 1960 and may have worked in South Carolina in 2010 if Attorney General Eric Holder hadn't left well enough alone. ... Holder may soon regret his action which, like nearly everything else done by the Obama Administration these days, is intended to help get Mr. Obama reelected.

Indiana GOP get schooled on election fraud.  After allegations of election fraud during the last presidential election surfaced in Indiana, dozens of Republican county and state officials in Indiana are taking lessons on how to prevent mischief in the presidential nominating petition process.  A seminar in LaPorte, Ind., for Republicans was called after the revelations of what is alleged to have happened in the Hoosier state four years ago, when signatures and names were allegedly falsified on documents that got then-Democratic candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the ballot.

DMV: 900 Dead People May Have Voted.  The director of South Carolina's Department of Motor Vehicles has told the State Law Enforcement Division that more than 900 people who were recorded as having voted were actually dead.

Elections leader wants probe of more than 900 dead voters.  State officials are calling for an investigation after records determined that more than 900 people listed as deceased also have recently voted, calling into question the integrity of the state's election system as South Carolina's first-in-the-South GOP presidential primary just 10 days away.

AG probes voter fraud in NH after activists get ballots as dead people because they weren't ID'ed.  The New Hampshire Attorney General has launched a comprehensive review of state voting procedures, after people obtained ballots of dead voters during the presidential primary on Tuesday.  No fraudulent votes were actually cast.  But in nine instances, clerks readily handed over ballots after a would-be voter implied he was the city resident, recently deceased, still listed on the voter checklist, according to a video posted on the Internet.  After receiving the ballot, the person departed without voting.

Journalism ethics:  James O'Keefe went to New Hampshire and used a dead man's name to receive a ballot (he never voted).  He did this 9 times and made a video of this to expose problems in New Hampshire's election procedures.  Given the rife voter fraud in liberal hellholes such as Massachusetts, Chicago and West Virginia South of 60 — and the argument by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder that require photo ID to vote is "racist" — James O'Keefe's test of the system made an interesting report.

Voter Fraud for the Complete Idiot.  [Scroll down]  One way in which voter fraud (illegal voting) is made possible is by the registration of people who aren't eligible to vote.  Such registrations are due to fraud (or to error) committed by registrants and even by registrars.  But the most important factor contributing to corrupted voter registries is the voter registration system itself.  Voter registration in America is backward and not worthy of a great nation.  And despite the fact that registration involves very little information, registrars do not verify the most important requirement for voting in America — citizenship.

DMV reports flawed SC voter ID list.  South Carolina election officials are using flawed data that include dead people as they deal with implementing a new state law requiring that people have photo identification when they cast ballots in person, according to an analysis by the Department of Motor Vehicles.  The South Carolina State Election Commission and the DMV had matched data on licenses, ID cards and voter records as part of the new law, now under review by the U.S. Justice Department.

Yes, Virginia, There Really Is Voter Fraud.  Eric Shawn at FOX News reports that two Troy city officials, the city clerk and a councilman, along with two Democratic political operatives, have pled guilty to forging absentee-ballot signatures and casting fraudulent ballots in the 2009 Working Families Party primary.  The WFP is the political party associated with ACORN.  One of the citizens whose votes were stolen was stunned at what happened.  She said that she was "sure this goes on a lot in politics, but it's very rare that they do get caught."

Officials Plead Guilty in New York Voter Fraud Case.  A total of four Democratic officials and political operatives have now pleaded guilty to voter fraud-related felony charges in an alleged scheme to steal a New York election.  The latest guilty pleas expose the ease with which political insiders can apparently manipulate the electoral system and throw an election their way, by the forging of signatures of unsuspecting voters that are then cast as real votes.

Indiana Lawmaker: Holder Absent on Primary Petition Fraud Case.  Republican Rep. Todd Rokita, who served eight years — from 2002 to 2010 — as Indiana's secretary of state, told Fox News that he has not received a response from Holder on either charges of election fraud in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary in his state or other issues of election integrity.

Voter fraud is real.  The state chairman of Indiana's Democratic Party resigned Monday [12/12/2011] as a probe of election fraud in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary widened.  State law requires a presidential candidate to gather 500 valid signatures in each county to qualify for the ballot.  Barack Obama may not have met it.  Investigators think 150 of the 534 signatures the Obama campaign turned in for St. Joseph County may have been forged.  Yet Democrats say that measures to guard against vote fraud are racist Republican plots to disenfranchise minority voters.

Voter ID Is Not Jim Crow.  In a speech at the LBJ Library at the University of Texas-Austin, Attorney General Eric Holder attacked efforts by state legislators to ensure the integrity of the ballot box.  In a setting obviously designed to evoke Lyndon Johnson's historic signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, Holder railed against voter-ID laws and other election-reform measures.  While minimizing the danger of fraud, Holder seemed oblivious to the irony of doing so at the LBJ Library:  It was, after all, the infamous Ballot Box 13 and the stolen 1948 election that launched LBJ's political career.

Signatures of Hitler, Mickey Mouse acceptable on Scott Walker recall petitions.  Adolf Hitler and Mickey Mouse signatures will be counted in the effort to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, so long as they are properly dated and bear a Wisconsin address.  The Government Accountability Board reviewing the petitions unanimously approved a plan that would allow questionable names to be counted if they are signed within the circulation dates and have a proper address, WISN Milwaukee's Channel 12 is reporting.  According to the ABC affiliate, the suspicious names will be noted as such, but will not be eliminated without a challenge.

Mickey Mouse, Adolf Hitler Allowed On Wis. Recall Petitions.  The signatures of Mickey Mouse and Adolf Hitler will be counted on recall petitions targeting Gov. Scott Walker as long as they are properly dated and include a Wisconsin address, the board charged with reviewing the petitions was told Tuesday [12/13/2011].

Obama Administration Coordinating With Left-Wing Groups on Voter Fraud?  Democrats want felons to vote, because an overwhelming majority of them will vote Democratic.  They want illegal aliens to vote for the same reason.  And they want loyal Democrats to vote more than once where they are able to do so.  Where there is no voter security, these abuses will increase.  So, either through legal rulings or through intimidation, the Democrats want to disable the states from protecting the integrity of the ballot box.  It appears that Obama's politicized Department of Justice will be in the forefront of this effort.

Don't Dial ACLU-Heavy DOJ for Voter Fraud Protection.  If you thought the U.S. Justice Department under Attorney General Eric Holder was already shockingly biased toward far-left causes, get ready for a more permanent problem.  As Hans A. von Spakovsky has outlined in the first of five articles for Pajamas Media about DOJ's Civil Rights Division, Holder has hired 16 civil service employees — not political appointees — in the Voting Rights Section.  This means they will be part of the permanent bureaucracy.  It's part of an overall trend of loading the Civil Rights Division with card-carrying leftists despite Holder's promise to hire qualified people regardless of ideology.

President Obama's Justice Department Opposed Enforcement of Anti-Vote Fraud Laws.  President Obama's Justice Department is doing its part to maximize the Democratic turnout in the 2012 elections by filing "motor voter" suits across the country that claim state officials are not circulating voter registration forms in social service agencies.  The lawsuit filed against Louisiana this past summer is closely timed with a separate suit advanced by ACORN's Project Vote affiliate and the NAACP.

Absentee Ballot Fraud Could Derail Obama In 2012.  Rampant absentee ballot fraud is destroying democracy in Miami and across the United States.  County Commissioner Rebeca Sosa has proposed that anyone caught messing with absentee ballots will go to jail for 60 days and pay a $1,000 fine.  Ten of her colleagues agree on the plan, which will be voted on this month.  Sosa is also urging the state legislature to charge anyone who collects absentee ballots with a felony.  Why do we need such a plan?  The Miami-Dade ethics commission just concluded that three North Miami Beach residents' votes were stolen via the absentee ballot process.  But more and more, absentee ballot brokers are the key to every election.

12 charged with voter fraud in Georgia election.  Law enforcement officials have charged 12 people with using absentee ballots to skew an election in Georgia.  "As a result of their grand jury findings, 12 individuals were indicted in that particular matter and we will be trying that case in a court of judicial law instead of a court of public opinion," District Attorney Joe Mulholland told the local TV station, WALB.

Lena Taylor denies fraud allegation.  A conservative group is accusing state Sen. Lena C. Taylor of being "an accessory" to possible voter fraud after some 20 individuals, including a felon on work-release, voted in the April election listing as their residence a Milwaukee group home operated by Taylor's mother on property owned by the senator.  But the Milwaukee Democrat dismissed the allegations, saying her mother, Lena J. Taylor, was simply providing homeless and other individuals with a place to stay and then encouraging them to vote.

Democrat says Democratic Party bosses use voter fraud.  Top Democrats are aggressively pushing the claim that Republicans' worries about voter fraud are an insincere excuse to suppress voting by African-Americans and Hispanics.  But former Democratic Rep. Artur Davis told The Daily Caller that anti-fraud measures are needed to protect African-Americans from corrupt political bosses — many of them African-Americans themselves — who run Democratic Party machines in the South.

Collins, on 'Fox News,' ties fraud to Poloncarz.  The alleged tampering centers around at least 10 ballots that were mailed to absentee voters in Lackawanna who complained that the ballots already had been marked for Collins on either the Republican or Independence line.  The investigation is focused on a Democratic clerk at the Erie County Board of Elections, but county sheriff's investigators have emphasized that they do not suspect the tampering was linked in any way to the campaigns of either Collins or Poloncarz.

Voter Fraud Allegations Hit San Francisco Mayor's Race.  Shocking voter fraud allegations are rocking the mayor's race in San Francisco.  District Attorney George Gascon has launched an investigation and demands are growing for federal authorities to move in.  One campaign official fears the election could be stolen if nothing is done.  Supporters of incumbent Mayor Ed Lee, who is running for a full four-year term next month, are accused of illegally handling vote-by-mail ballots.

This just in:  Obama stole the 2008 election.
 Fake signatures may mean Obama didn't actually qualify in Indiana.  Minus suspected fakes, then Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama likely fell short of the number of signatures needed to appear on the 2008 Indiana primary ballot, and it's possible his opponent, Hillary Clinton, did as well, according to information obtained by The Tribune as part of an investigation into suspected ballot petition fraud.

Clinton, Obama Indiana primary petitions tainted by forged signatures.  Several pages from petitions used to qualify Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for the state's Democratic primary contain names and signatures that appear to have been copied by hand from a petition for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jim Schellinger.  The petitions were filed with the Indiana Election Division after the St. Joseph County Voter Registration Office verified individuals' information on the documents.  St. Joseph County Prosecutor Michael Dvorak's name appears twice on the Clinton petitions.

Huge Fraud in Obama's 2008 Indiana Nomination Petition?  According to the [South Bend Tribune]'s investigation, the evidence suggests that at least 19 pages of Obama's petitions were copied by two individuals.

Obama's Team Rejected Nomination Petition Signatures Because They Were in Print?  I had heard the stories of Obama winning his first primary by getting all of his opponents disqualified.  But I hadn't heard that the criteria for disqualifying his opponents was such a technicality.  Signatures were rejected because the names were printed?  People's signatures were actually thrown out because they weren't in cursive?  (This presumes that the board didn't have some other, oddly unstated reason to think that the printed names were fraudulent.)

Dead Voters in NY-9? Turner Obtains Order Sealing Paper Ballots.  Claiming a handful of deceased voters have been mailed absentee ballots for today's special election, an attorney for Republican congressional candidate Bob Turner told ABC News that he has obtained a court order to seal all paper ballots in New York's 9th Congressional District, pending judicial review.  "We found five dead people, confirmed, who were mailed absentee ballots," said Turner's attorney, Grant Lally.  "Some of these people have been dead for years."

Voting Early and Often in NC.  We keep hearing from the usual suspects on the Left that voter fraud is virtually non-existent, a figment of the collective imagination of eeevil racist voter-suppressing Republicans.  And then more evidence of voter fraud keeps surfacing.  In Wake County, North Carolina, Shelia Ramona Hodges, Kierra Fontae Leach, Brandon Earl McLean, and Lela Devonetta Murray have been charged with voting twice, a felony.

Voter fraud claims ruffle feathers in New Mexico.  Dianna Duran, New Mexico's secretary of State who took office in January, sounded a tad pugnacious in March when she reported that 117 foreign nationals with phony Social Security numbers had registered to vote and 37 had cast ballots in elections.

Wisconsin and the Voter Fraud Agenda.  In 2004, John Kerry won Wisconsin over George W. Bush by 11,380 votes out of 2.5 million cast.  After allegations of fraud surfaced, the Milwaukee police department's Special Investigative Unit conducted a probe.  Its February 2008 report found that from 4,600 to 5,300 more votes were counted in Milwaukee than the number of voters recorded as having cast ballots.  Absentee ballots were cast by people living elsewhere; ineligible felons not only voted but worked at the polls; transient college students cast improper votes; and homeless voters possibly voted more than once.  Much of the problem resulted from Wisconsin's same-day voter law, which allows anyone to show up at the polls, register and then cast a ballot.  ID requirements are minimal.  The report found that in 2004 a total of 1,305 "same day" voters were invalid.

It Strikes Me As Odd.  Why has massive voting fraud become so widespread and ubiquitous?  And why is it treated as if it were a force of nature — not laudable to be sure, but inevitable and unavoidable, sort of like a natural right of the minorities?  That's why the Democrats in Congress and their allies in the media react so violently to any attempt to infuse a measure of sanity into the voting process; that's why they proclaim the demand that prospective voters present an ID to be an unspeakable racist crime, an intolerable imposition.  To ask that people should actually go to the trouble of showing their driver's license (everybody drives, even the poorest of the poor, don't they?) or get an ID offered them free of charge by the government is portrayed as an inhuman atrocity, a flagrant violation of the people's sacred right to cheat.

Wisconsin's Election Snafu Is a National Wake-Up Call.  It's been over a decade since the Bush-Gore recount in Florida was supposed to spur a wholesale modernization of our election systems.  But a stunning mistake made by a Wisconsin county clerk in a nationally watched state Supreme Court race reminded us of how far we have to go. ... The Brookings Institution reports that in a 2004 poll of 37 nations, Americans were more likely than citizens of any country save Russia to say that their elections are "very dishonest."

One Woman, One Vote.  Voter integrity has always been an issue in America. If you've seen the movie Gangs of New York, set in the 1860s in New York City, there are scenes of the Irishmen voting, then having their hair cut to alter their appearance so that they can be sent back to vote again.  In recent times, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) has been charged with voter fraud.  In 2008, the bipartisan Elections Board of Lake County, Indiana, actually stopped processing a stack of about 5,000 applications delivered by ACORN just before the October 6 registration deadline after the first 2,100 turned out to be phony.

DA still probing voter fraud.  The Bucks County [PA] District Attorney's Office is still investigating allegations of voter fraud related to the application for absentee ballots in last fall's election.  A new election season heats up in Bucks County this month, but a loose end from the last one — a voter fraud investigation centering on 1,600 absentee ballot applications — still has not been tied up.

Family of Minnesota Man With Mental Disabilities Says He Is a Victim of Voter Fraud.  Minnesota resident Jim Stene voted last November — and thought he was casting his ballot for President Gerald Ford.  "He was exploited, plain and simple.  He was exploited," his father, Alan Stene, charges.  "This is a moral and ethical issue."

Safeguards must be installed to prevent voter fraud.  [Scroll down]  Regardless of assurances, I do not find a high degree of confidence in purely electronic voting machines.  Certainly, I am not confident that these machines can be rendered secure from undetectable tampering.  In my electoral district, these machines were adopted following the confusion of the presidential election recount in Florida in 2000.  But before the advent of these machines, we used paper ballots on which the voter used a pencil to complete an arrow next the candidate's name.  This ballot was scanned optically, but the paper ballot was retained as a backup.  This is a method that is unlikely to create confusion in the mind of the voter, yet is highly reliable.

Voter Fraud Indictments.  Two Democratic politicians in an upstate New York city have been charged in a "massive" voter fraud case first reported a year ago on Fox News.  A 59-page, 116-count indictment charges Troy Democratic City Councilman Michael LoPorto and Edward McDonough, Democratic Commissioner of the Rensselaer County Board of Elections, with forgery and criminal possession of a forged instrument.  The two men arrive in court in handcuffs on Friday [1/28/2011] and pleaded not guilty.

Democrats Charged in 'Massive' Voter Fraud Case.  Two Democratic politicians in an upstate New York city have been charged in a "massive" voter fraud case first reported a year ago on Fox News.  A 59-page, 116-count indictment charges Troy Democratic City Councilman Michael LoPorto and Edward McDonough, Democratic Commissioner of the Rensselaer County Board of Elections, with forgery and criminal possession of a forged instrument.  The two men arrive in court in handcuffs on Friday [1/28/2011] and pleaded not guilty.

Accusations of voter fraud for former Mountain Gate official.  The former manager of the Mountain Gate Community Services District faces six felony charges of voter fraud, three perjury charges and two counts of fraudulent voter registration.

ACORN leader avoids prison for voter fraud conspiracy.  A Las Vegas judge has spared senior ACORN executive Amy Adele Busefink jail time for her role in a notorious voter fraud conspiracy.  Judge Donald Mosley sentenced Busefink to two years imprisonment but suspended the jail time provided that she abides by the terms of her probation.  She was also fined a total of $4,000 and ordered to perform 100 hours of community service.  Prosecutors had argued for a fine of just $1,000.  Voter fraud, sometimes called electoral fraud, is a blanket term encompassing a host of election-related improprieties.

Widening the Margin of Voter Fraud.  For some time, the right has come to understand the direct relationship between massive fraudulent voter enrollment by activist groups and the propensity for voter fraud in absentee ballots.  What is truly breathtaking is the shift in strategy for how operatives of the left actively engage in these tactics.  We still see and will likely continue to be exposed to the stereotypical case of the mysterious "disappearing/reappearing voting machines" or the throngs of dead that vote Democratic.  However, these criminal activities are usually carried out by groups, campaigns, or organizations.  We are just now beginning to witness the fruits of the institutionalization of fraud among individuals.

Vote Fraud as a Democrat Strategy.  The Democratic Party's message to politically involved citizens is unmistakably dire.  For those who attempt to expose voter fraud, expect to be harassed and even sued. ... Voter fraud has become a pivotal strategy for the progressives.  This is why they are coordinating such vicious attacks against honest citizens working to combat electoral corruption.  Only with chicanery can collectivists successfully implement their social justice agenda rejected by most Americans.

Grand jurors hear from witnesses in ballot scandal.  A Rensselaer County grand jury asked how absentee ballots were handled last year as it probed an alleged voting fraud scandal, a witness said Tuesday [12/7/2010] after she emerged from testifying.

Voting Twice?  Ballot Questions in Congressional Race.  The closest Congressional race in the nation could be decided by people who don't really live in the district, and a Fox News investigation has uncovered evidence of voter registration illegalities, including one voter who apparently voted twice.

18 Former ACORN Workers Have Been Convicted or Admitted Guilt in Election Fraud.  The scandal-plagued ACORN may no longer exist, but its tarnished legacy lives on in court, as the activist group and its former employees face criminal punishment.  So far this year, at least 18 former workers have admitted guilt or been convicted on varying charges of election fraud.  The punishment has ranged from probation to several months of prison time.

Massive Voting Fraud Reported in Massachusetts.  The ballot box is one of American democracy's secular sacred spaces, where the fact that you voted may be public, but whom you voted for is your own private business.  Unless, that is, you happen to be in one of the low-income communities targeted for "help" from the community organizers of Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts, where individuals may just need a little extra guidance to ensure they vote the correct way.

Dems pull another dirty election fraud scheme out of the hamper.  Just when you think the Dems have thought of it all, another corrupt attempt at scamming the election process enters their heads.  This time it involved PA US House #8, Bucks County, just north of Philadelphia.  The race between Dem incumbent Patrick Murphy and his GOP contender Mike Fitzpatrick.  When the Dems were fearing a loss of this seat they cooked up an elaborate scheme in an attempt to grab more Dem votes, their prey this time:  absentee voters.  The scheme entailed a letter from the fictitious "Pennsylvania Voter Assistance Office" they conjured up, warning people "your vote may be in jeopardy if you don't return the enclosed application by Oct. 20."  Only one little problem.  The enclosed return envelope was directed to a Dem P.O. Box in Bristol, PA, not the county Board of Elections office.

Who Is Trying to Contact Absentee Voters in NY-25?  I just received this from the campaign of Ann Marie Buerkle, Republican candidate in New York's 25th Congressional District, one of the House races not yet settled.  This seems... ominous.

Missouri GOP congressional candidate alleges foul play at the polls.  Republican congressional candidate Ed Martin, who ran in Missouri's 3rd District against incumbent Democrat Russ Carnahan, is calling for an investigation into possible voter fraud in St. Louis during Tuesday's midterm election.  Martin is alleging that, because of a seven-hour failure of the voter verification system that checks whether people who show up at the polls are in fact eligible to vote, there is a possibility that ineligible voters were able to cast ballots in favor of his opponent.

E-mail shows illegal activity in Reid's campaign.  Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., may have beaten back challenger Sharron Angle and retained his post as the majority leader, but his campaign and one of his biggest supporters may have violated federal law to do so.

Vote Fraud Threatens Election Outcome.  While Republicans and the Tea Party movement are poised to win a sweeping victory on November 2, a large and growing cloud hangs over the entire election process.  While it has always been with us to some extent, new technologies, new forms of voting and a Justice Department that plays favorites with Americans' voting rights now threaten our electoral system and our expectations of free and fair elections.

Poll Watching Battle in Harris County.  The governor's race gets a lot of attention in Harris County, but the real battle is shaping up to be poll watching.  The Harris County Attorney's Office predicts Harris County will have the biggest group of poll watchers this country has ever seen.

Union Accused of Voter Fraud Involving Mentally Handicapped.  Authorities in Crow Wing County are investigating possible voter fraud involving people with mental disabilities.  An affidavit, filed Monday [11/1/2010] by Brainerd resident Montgomery Jensen, claims a large group of mentally handicapped people were told whom to vote for by mental health staff members and that staff filled out the ballots themselves without the disabled voters close by.

Stopping Voter Fraud.  Some citizens' groups, like Election Integrity Watch in Minneapolis, plan to deploy their own poll watchers.  "Our mission is to ensure fair and honest elections," said Jeff Davis, a founder of Election Integrity Watch and President of the conservative advocacy group, Minnesota Majority. ... Just last week authorities in Minnesota charged 47 people with voter fraud from the 2008 election, and Davis believes the actual number is higher this year.

Santa Clara County employees scrubbing mail ballots with rubber erasers.  Ballot counting in Santa Clara County has been in turmoil since last week, when the optical scanners reading hundreds of thousands of vote-by-mail ballots began spitting them out.  The problem?  Printing smudges that no one noticed before ballots went to voters.  So with today's election looming, county workers, buttressed by volunteers and extra-help staff, have been racking up overtime since Wednesday [10/27/2010], poring through every ballot and attacking smear marks with rubber erasers.

Vote Fraud Essential to Democrats.  Rush Limbaugh points out that even a small influx of cash into your state Secretary of State race can make a huge difference.

Beware of epidemic voter fraud.  Double-check that your ballot reads correctly before leaving the polling booth. ... Nevada and North Carolina are among states where early voters reported trying to cast ballots for Republicans only to see their votes registered for Democrats instead.  Counties in Texas and Arizona caught and blocked thousands of improper attempts to register "voters" who weren't eligible, if they even existed.  Multiple states have counties with more people on voter rolls than adult citizens who live there.  Absentee-ballot snafus are widespread.  At least 5,800 dead people were registered to vote in Ohio as of late August; 16 or more recorded votes there in 2006 despite being deceased.

Illinois Hardball Politics: "Democrats Are Prepared to Steal This Election".  [Scroll down]  "Your readers need to understand that this amounts to $1 million of walking around money for Alexi Giannoulias," one insider warned.  "This is money that very well could be used to literally buy the election at the street level."  My source said he's been reliably informed by his Democratic counterparts that the White House weeks ago decreed that holding the Illinois Senate seat was a top priority, approving a no-holds-barred approach to boosting Giannoulias.  "They essentially said, 'do whatever it takes,' and Illinois Democrats know what that means," he explained.  "They are prepared to steal this election, which should come as no surprise.  Just ask Norm Coleman."

Did someone mention Norm Coleman?

It Takes One To Know One.  I'll never forget how Al Gore's Democrats tried to steal the 2000 presidential election and then spent the next eight years complaining about Republicans stealing their "democracy."  Liberals:  Projection is your name.  We've watched their behavior since, from the Democrats' suppression of military voters to Al Franken's larcenous Senate victory to the flagrant voter intimidation of the New Black Panther Party members in Philadelphia to untold stories of voter fraud already emerging in these congressional elections.  We just saw a Delaware TV station "forgetting" to broadcast Christine O'Donnell's 30-minute campaign ad.  Sadly, Democrats are often what they accuse their "enemies" of being.  They typically engage in that behavior which they decry and exempt themselves from standards they proclaim.

Sides rally during absentee ballot hearing.  One side wants all votes counted, while the other says it's the rule of law that should count.  Democrats and Republicans rallied outside the Bucks County Courthouse Friday [10/29/2010] as a Board of Elections hearing debated what should be done with more than 900 rejected absentee ballot applications and the potential of even more challenges of actual ballots.

Citizens Attacked by Soros-Funded Political Machine.  Catherine Engelbrecht and King Street Patriots, a group of citizen-volunteers, are working to ensure our elections are free and fair, from registration to the casting of votes.  These good citizens discovered violations like multiple voter registrations for one person and registering noncitizens to vote, and they are now being attacked by the Texas Democratic Party as well as two George Soros-funded groups.  We're fighting back!

Poll Watcher Witnesses Misconduct in Houston.  We are hearing stories about voter fraud and leftist shenanigans from all over.  For instance, watch this video of a poll watcher's story about what she has seen during early voting in Houston, Texas.  This is eyewitness testimony to voter fraud in the form of a poll worker casting votes on behalf of voters...

On the Road With the King Street Patriots of Houston, Texas.  The left is in high dudgeon here in the 18th Congressional District in Houston, Texas.  Democrat Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, a long-time left-winger, has held this seat since 1995 and she isn't going to go away quietly.  She is quite upset at the gall of a new conservative group that launched a poll watching effort in her district.

Texas Patriots Facing The Left's Smear Machine.  True The Vote made news early this month when initiative Chief Catherine Engelbrecht discovered that a former Service Employee International Union (SEIU) member had turned in over 23 thousand fraudulent voter registration cards.  Englebrecht and the King Streeters then decided that they would initiate a grassroots poll-watching effort to make sure that the election was fair and that all laws and regulations were properly observed. ... Engelbrecht and the King Streeters fanned out across Harris County to observe — and report if necessary — any improprieties they encountered at voting places, many in minority communities.  The reaction was quick and virulently negative.

The Democrats' Final Recourse:  Massive Vote Fraud.  Boulder City, NV resident Joyce Ferrara says that when she and several others went to vote for Sharon Angle, they found that Senator Harry Reid's name was already checked off.  In Dallas County, TX's congressional district 30, Democrat Eddie Bernice Johnson's name was the only one on the ballot in a few locations (no, she isn't running unopposed).  And some states have been late in mailing out military absentee ballots, whose recipients, interestingly, are known for their Republican leanings.  These happenings are generally referred to as "mistakes" and "glitches," but if that's all they are, then we're witnessing a truly historic anomaly.  Because either the mainstream media is now suppressing stories of mistakes and glitches benefiting Republicans, or the laws of probability have suddenly been rescinded and tossed coins are coming up donkey tails every time.

The Left's Voter Fraud Whitewash.  Denial isn't just a river in Egypt.  It's the Democrats' coping mechanism for midterm election voter fraud.  Faced with multiple reports of early voting irregularities and election shenanigans across the country, left-wing groups are playing dumb, deaf and blind.  Voter fraud?  What voter fraud?  More cunningly, these organizations are seeking to marginalize complaints about election integrity by casting citizen watchdog efforts as racist "scare tactics."

O'Keefe video appears to show New Jersey union official describing voter fraud.  A new video by conservative activist James O'Keefe appears to show a New Jersey union official describing voter fraud during a Jersey City mayor's race several years ago.  O'Keefe would not tell The Daily Caller how he obtained what appears to be audio of Wayne Dibofsky, the associate director of the New Jersey Education Association, admitting that voter fraud took place inside the union's Jersey City office in 1997.

Voter Fraud anyone?  I never "early-vote" because voting on Nov. 2 is like Christmas to me.  It's symbolic, I like the day, I get all jazzed to go do it and I wear my "I voted" sticker on my forehead for the whole day.  I've always been suspicious of early voting.  Why give the crooks two whole weeks to pull off their ballot stuffing?  One day is time enough!  Make them scramble, I say.  But this year I noticed an early voting sign at the village and I decided I had the time and, being a busy mom, who knows what my Nov. 2 will look like this year.  So I tried to vote.  This was the beginning of a crazy chain of events that are still unfolding.

Absentee voter fraud investigation opened.  An investigation has been opened into possible absentee voter fraud regarding suspicious applications received by the Houston County Circuit Clerk's Office.  At a press conference Wednesday [10/20/2010], Houston County Circuit Clerk Carla Woodall, who is acting as the absentee ballot manager, said she recently found absentee voter applications that were troubling because the voters had voted absentee several times and handwriting on the applications matched handwriting on other applications.  Woodall sent 89 absentee voting applicants letters asking them to submit additional proof of eligibility to vote absentee.

In Alaska, The Dead Can Rise.  With two weeks to go in the election, Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski's once-mocked write-in bid to retain her seat is no longer a laughing matter.  Three straight polls have put her just two points or less behind Joe Miller, who bested her for the GOP nomination.  Murkowski may yet become the first person to get into the Senate via write-in ballots since South Carolina Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond managed it in 1954.

The Democrats Will Steal the Election if We Let Them.  The longstanding Democrat tactic of stealing elections threatens a reappearance on November 2.  It would be foolish to pretend otherwise and rely on the voters' voice to be heard merely because the public has turned on the Democrats. ... It will serve us well to take a close look at the Democrat record in this matter, consider what they may be up to regarding this election, and, the most serious question of all, ask why the GOP lets them get away with it.  Democrats and election-stealing by any means necessary go back a long way.

Fighting Voter Fraud.  Finding faulty voter lists and other examples of voter fraud may become a major future battle to be fought by other grassroots activists in the years ahead.  This problem has worsened as billions of stimulus dollars flow toward labor unions and community organizing groups committed to registering voters — particularly in poor and minority-dominated areas.

Democrat Dirty Tricks:  A Primer on Stealing Elections.  [Scroll down]  The role of Secretaries of State should not be ignored, either.  These are the officials charged with ensuring the integrity of the voting process.  Yet many of them have been elected through the efforts of the Democracy Alliance, a group of super-wealthy liberals (led by George Soros), Democratic operatives, and union leaders.  This group's agenda is to ensure that politicians they choose to support are elected to these crucial posts.  These are officers who are responsible for voting rolls being purged of ineligible voters.  Minnesota's Secretary of State was helped by this group, and it appears that Democratic Senator Al Franken may very well been elected in a narrow win over Republican Norm Coleman with the help of votes that should never have been counted.

Sneak Preview:  The Hijacking of the 2010 Election.  Through a combination of massive, Somali-driven voter fraud, stunning Election Board incompetence, and the willful blindness of the Kansas City Star, machine Democrat J.J. Rizzo managed to beat conservative Democrat Will Royster by one vote in a Missouri State House primary on August 3. ... Royster, a retired Navy fighter pilot and all-around good citizen, asks a fundamental question:  "If we won't let Somalis hijack our ships, why do we let them hijack our elections?"  As many as a hundred Somalis voted, nearly all of them illegally, likely all of them for Royster's opponent, in a House district in which only 1,300 people showed up to vote.

Florida Case Puts Focus on Issue of Absentee Ballot Fraud.  When police raided Daytona Beach City Commissioner Derrick Henry's office this week and seized his computer, they say they discovered evidence of what election experts say has become a rampant, largely ignored and troubling issue in Florida — the widespread abuse of absentee ballots.  Police say Henry's computer was used to obtain dozens of absentee ballots prior to the city's Aug. 24 elections, in which he was re-elected.

City official convicted of voter fraud.  A Bolivar city councilwoman has been convicted of three felony counts of procuring an illegal vote and faces a possible sentence of one to two years on each count.  Brenda Woods was found guilty of the charges Friday [10/1/2010] after a two-day jury trial, according to a news release Monday from District Attorney General Mike Dunavant.

Citizens' Group Helps Uncover Alleged Rampant Voter Fraud in Houston.  When Catherine Engelbrecht and her friends sat down and started talking politics several years ago, they soon agreed that talking wasn't enough.  They wanted to do more.  So when the 2008 election came around, "about 50" of her friends volunteered to work at Houston's polling places.  "What we saw shocked us," she said.  "There was no one checking IDs, judges would vote for people that asked for help.  It was fraud, and we watched like deer in the headlights."

Local Tea Party group may have uncovered massive vote fraud in Texas.  True the Vote appears to have made some pretty significant discoveries, including one blockbuster revelation possibly connecting the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) to vote fraud in Houston.

Tea Party Vs. SEIU.  [Catherine Engelbrecht] and her associates collected publicly available polling data to prove that the fraudulent voting they saw was real, rampant and organized. ... One woman was found to have registered six times in one day.  There were 1,597 registrations that named the same person with a variety of signatures.  One person turned in more registrations in one day than was physically possible.  "Vacant lots had several voters registered on them.  An eight-bed halfway house had more than 40 voters registered at its address," according to Engelbrecht.  "We then decided to look at who was registering the voters."  It turned out most of the fraudulent registrations were done by a group called Houston Votes, headed by Sean Castle, who also works for the Service Employees International Union.

Obama activist is connected to vote fraud in Houston uncovered by local Tea Party group.  The [Washington] Examiner first reported on this weeks ago, and that was followed by this Fox News report, but a local Tea Party group appears to have uncovered some serious allegations of vote fraud by a group run by an SEIU official.  Blogger Patterico takes a closer look at the story and finds that the group is also connected to controversial activist with Obama's Organizing for America campaign group.

Obama Activist Tied in With Organization Accused of Voter Fraud.  You may have read that there is strong evidence of voter fraud in Houston.  Here's what you may not have heard:  the organization accused of shady behavior is linked to a former head of an Obama campaign office.  She is a fan of Che Guevara.  She is also the person who invited to a town hall meeting a woman who then posed as a doctor at that meeting during the health care debate.

Update:
 Election Fraud Uncovered by Patriotic Citizens ... Who Promptly Get Sued.  Election watchers True the Vote have found disturbing amounts of fraud in Harris County, Texas.  Rather than support their important work, the Texas Democratic Party (among others) is suing them.

Combating Voter Fraud.  The Democrat party is in public opinion freefall as a result of the disastrous policies of the Obama administration aided and abetted by a Democrat controlled congress.  Barring an "October surprise" it is likely that most mid term elections will be won by the Republican candidate.  That is, however, only if Democrat voter fraud can be kept to a minimum.

Working 'Sham'-ilies.  A former employee of the Working Families Party says he was so disturbed by the labor-backed group's practices that he walked out after only one week on the job.  In an exclusive interview, Brooklyn resident Patrick Crooks said he was encouraged by higher-ups to falsify names and addresses on sign-up sheets supporting the left-wing party's push to repeal a state law that took rent regulation out of the city's hands and gave it to the state.

Felons indicted for illegal voting.  Tennessee is cracking down on those who vote illegally, and eight persons were recently indicted for doing just that, District Attorney General Phil Bivens said.  The names of those indicted will not be released until the people have been apprehended and appear in Dyer County Circuit Court.

Fighting Election Fraud.  This article raises the question:  "What can the concerned voter/citizen do to protect the integrity of our elections?"  Ten women in Wisconsin began working on that question right after the 2008 presidential election.  We studied the laws, we "watched," and we gave public comment on proposed legislative and administrative changes to Wisconsin election laws.  Our overall goal became to promote photo voter ID legislation and support legislators who would enact such a law in Wisconsin.  As we "watched" and participated, we learned quite a bit about our elections process and its problems.

New Documentary Alleges That Obama Stole The Primary Election From Hillary.  Amidst recent charges that the New Black Panther Party intimidated voters outside a Philadelphia polling place in 2008, a new documentary called We Will Not Be Silenced charges that this was not an isolated incident.  The film's director Gigi Gaston appeared on Fox and Friends this weekend and was introduced by host Alyson Camerota who claimed that "the 2008 primary race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton was rife with stories of voter intimidation and voting violations."

The film's promotional web site:
 We Will Not Be Silenced.  This documentary is about the disenfranchising of American citizens by the Democratic Party and the Obama Campaign.  We the People have made this film.  Democrats have sent in their stories from all parts of America.  We want to be heard and let the country know how our party has sanctioned the actions of what we feel are Obama Campaign "Chicago Machine" dirty politics.  We believe this infamous campaign of "change" from Chicago encouraged and created an army to steal caucus packets, falsify documents, change results, allow unregistered people to vote, scare and intimidate Hillary supporters, stalk them, threaten them, lock them out of their polling places, silence their voices and stop their right to vote, which is, of course, all documented in "We Will Not Be Silenced."

Democrat Voter Fraud is Far More Widespread Than You Think.  [Scroll down]  As explained on the We Will Not Be Silenced website, "'Change' from Chicago encouraged and created an army to steal caucus packets, falsify documents, change results, allow unregistered people to vote, scare and intimidate Hillary supporters, stalk them, threaten them, lock them out of their polling places, silence their voices and stop their right to vote." ... [P]eople around the country are finally waking up to the fact that Democrat voter fraud is a far, far bigger problem than anyone had ever realized.

Serious Questions Raised About Obama Tactics in 2008 Election.  Recently AIM interviewed Gigi Gaston, director of the documentary film, "We Will Not Be Silenced."  The film documents voter intimidation and corruption by forces working for then-candidate Barack Obama at Democratic precinct caucuses and state conventions during the 2008 Presidential primary.  The filmmaker is surprising in that she is a lifelong Democrat, whose grandfather was the mayor of Boston and later the governor of Massachusetts, and she is a Hollywood screenwriter.

Documentary to Reveal the Extent of 2008 Voter Fraud.  The New Black Panther case — think that was an isolated incident?  It certainly wasn't.  That type of lawless behavior got started in the primaries.  I listened to first-hand accounts of Obama's supporters threatening Clinton's.  I heard accounts of Obama supporters stopping fellow Democrats from voting Hillary by any means possible — intimidation, locking doors to prevent entry, sending elderly voters to the wrong address, putting false start times on buildings, fabricating counts, using false information on caucus sign-in sheets, even stealing and altering caucus results.  I recorded eyewitness accounts of people being bussed in from out of state to caucus in Indiana.  And in Kansas.  And Iowa.  I heard of addresses and names being copied out of the phone book to nudge the results towards Obama.

Did someone mention the Black Panthers scandal?

Former ACORN Employees Tell FBI Of Deliberate Election Fraud.  New documents have been obtained and released by Judicial Watch, a watchdog organization that keeps an eye on government corruption, that shines more light on the dismembered ACORN organization.  The documents show of election fraud as an employee told the FBI that ACORN was "working for the Democratic Party."

Did someone mention ACORN?

SLED investigates voter fraud in Dillon County.  Chief Deputy Larry Abraham with the Dillon County Sheriff's Department says SLED is investigating allegations of voter fraud in the Dillon County Democratic primary in June.  A 29-year-old Dillon woman, who asked that she not be identified, told us and police a man gave her $20 and a brand new dress in exchange for her vote by absentee ballot.

Democrats and Vote Fraud:  On the Road to Rigged Elections.  Lest we forget, Democrats were not given a mandate in 2008 to nationalize General Motors, the insurance industry, and health care.  Most Americans want government to be less expensive, less intrusive, and more accountable.  Yet despite the looming prospect of electoral dismemberment in November, the Democrats continue pushing a radical agenda:  piling up debt and creating new entitlements, with crushing tax increases inevitably to follow.  Why the evident lack of concern?  Perhaps they intend to cheat.

Help Stop Vote Fraud in Your Hometown.  Vote fraud attacks the heart of our political system and threatens our rights as citizens.  When True the Vote began monitoring elections last fall in Houston, we were shocked at the fraud we discovered.  Precinct judges often failed to check voters IDs, and some even filled out ballots to "help" people vote.  These violations are just the tip of a very large and ugly iceberg.  And if widespread fraud is happening here, it's probably happening in your home town, too.

Frances Fox Piven Joins Board of Project Vote.  While ACORN has earned much of the scorn of the press and public in recent months, its voter registration arm, Project Vote, is actually the entity that has been conducting the questionable voter registration drives.  Project Vote has been accused of voter registrations fraud in more than a dozen states.  Its parent group ACORN, along with a staff member, are scheduled to be tried for fraud in Nevada in a matter of days.  Recently, ACORN was nailed under the RICO Act in Ohio and ordered to never come back to the state.

She Wouldn't Harm a Fly.  Frances Fox Piven is a sociology professor who for four decades has advocated violent social upheaval as a means of effecting the radical change she believes in.

Wisconsin and the Voter Fraud Agenda.  An attempt to hijack the state's election laws and open the door for voter fraud failed at the last minute this week in Wisconsin's legislature.  But threats to ballot integrity continue in other states, and Congress may rush to pass ill-conceived legislation this year that would only sow confusion and increase the potential for chaos on a national level.  Wisconsin's story shows how high the stakes are.  Late in March, a 72-page bill was suddenly introduced and rushed forward with only abbreviated hearings.  The bill would have given "nationally recognized" community organizing groups access to the state driver's license database to encourage voter turnout.

Invasion of the Election Snatchers.  Even in an economic recession, Americans in urban areas continue to buy second homes in rural parts of the country, frequently helping to revitalize depressed areas.  Inevitably, though, political operatives have also been seizing on weekend residents as a way to change the political complexion of rural communities.

Cloward-Piven Government.  [Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven] implemented the strategy by creating a succession of radical organizations, most notable among them the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), with the help of veteran organizer Wade Rathke.  Their crowning achievement was the "Motor Voter" act, signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1993 with Cloward and Piven standing behind him.  As we now know, ACORN was one of the chief drivers of high-risk mortgage lending that eventually led to the financial crisis.  But the Motor Voter law was another component of the strategy.  It created vast vulnerabilities in our electoral system, which ACORN then exploited.

Woman indicted on voter-fraud charges.  A 24-year-old Columbus woman was indicted today [11/19/2009] for allegedly falsifying applications for absentee ballots for the casino issue that passed Nov. 3.  Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien announced that a grand jury indicted Deshara M. McKinney, 24, on two counts of voter fraud for securing false signatures.

Video:  A man who is proud to have voted for Obama — several times!

Voter fraud probe nets a fifth suspect.  An investigation into the stuffing of ballot boxes in Essex County continues to widen, with a fifth person indicted yesterday for election fraud.  The criminal probe by the state Division of Criminal Justice and the Essex County prosecutor has been focusing not only on campaign workers, but on county workers as well as it examines dozens of absentee ballots cast in the 2007 election of state Sen. Teresa Ruiz (D-Essex).

Voter Fraud:  Extensive voter fraud has persisted to this day.  Former Justice Department official Hans von Spakovsky discusses in a recent Heritage Foundatioin report a shocking 1982 election for Governor in Illinois in which 10% of the votes cast in Chicago, 100,000 overall, were found to be fraudulent by a federal grand jury investigation that produced 63 criminal convictions for vote fraud.

Man admits voting for Obama in late wife's name.  A Wisconsin man has acknowledged that he illegally cast an absentee ballot for Barack Obama in his wife's name to fulfill her dying wish.  Stephen Wroblewski of Milwaukee said Wednesday he plans to plead guilty to voter fraud to end the embarrassing episode.

ACORN Throws Out Republican Voter Registrations.  ACORN wants people to register to vote — as long as they're Democrats.  Republican registrations go into the trash.  Here is a first-hand account of how it happens.

The Nine Voting Lives of ACORN's Darnell Nash.  The activist group ACORN, which has long worked with criminals as it preys on the weak and the troubled, is on the verge of yet another public relations catastrophe.  That's because a cross-dressing Ohio male escort whom ACORN registered multiple times to vote was convicted of full-fledged vote fraud in addition to the lesser crime of voter registration fraud.  A spokesman for Cleveland prosecutor Bill Mason confirmed yesterday [10/7/2009] that a local investigation of ACORN remains wide open.

When Will a National Voter Fraud Investigation of ACORN Begin?  Whatever happened with the investigation into ACORN and the 2008 election?  The organization did register a mere 1,315,037 voters by October for the 2008 presidential election.  And, we must not forget about the Minnesota fiasco in which Minnesotans ended up with Senator Al Franken even though Norm Coleman led by 725 votes — the morning after the election!

In 5-Year Effort, Scant Evidence of Voter Fraud.  Although Republican activists have repeatedly said fraud is so widespread that it has corrupted the political process and, possibly, cost the party election victories, about 120 people have been charged and 86 convicted as of last year.  Most of those charged have been Democrats, voting records show.

The Stunning Reality of Voter Fraud:  The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel initiated an investigation of the 2004 presidential election in Wisconsin, which had one of the closest results, with Kerry winning the state by only 11,000 votes.  The newspaper investigation resulted in a probe by U.S. Attorney Steve Biskupic and Milwaukee County District Attorney E. Michael McCann that found clear evidence of fraud in the election, including more than 200 felons who voted illegally and another 100-plus people who voted under bad addresses or false names or who voted twice.

Push to register felons to vote could aid Obama.  Undaunted by the heat, James Bailey spent his late-summer afternoons walking Virginia's bleakest neighborhoods on the hunt for ex-cons — each a potential voter who might cast the decisive ballot in this hotly contested state.  Finding them isn't the hard part.  It's getting them to admit that a past mistake has kept them from the ballot box.

The franchise for felons.  Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor wants to give jailbirds the right to vote.  It's her opinion that the federal Voting Rights Act can be used to force states to allow voting by currently imprisoned felons.  Ms. Sotomayor's dissenting opinion in a 2006 felon-voting case should make senators extremely wary of confirming her for the high court.

24,000 Felons Getting Ballots, Despite Eligibility Questions.  The [Washington] Secretary of State's Office fired up a new multimillion-dollar computer in 2006.  Its job was to catch, and then cancel, illegal voters.  Well, not all illegal voters.  KIRO-TV recently ran its own data to double check the state's work.  Investigative Reporter Chris Halsne found out the system was set up to ignore the existence of approximately 24,000 convicted felons.

Voter fraud charges deserve investigation.  They very well may be innocent coincidences, but voter confidence in the integrity of elections is too important to allow the Palm Beach County Republican Party's allegations of double-voting go without a thorough investigation.  Local party leaders say they found 60 instances in which people with the exact same name and birth date voted both in Palm Beach County and in New York in the November elections.

Charges filed after voter fraud probe.  Some 16 months after Bexar County District Attorney Susan Reed boldly declared that she wouldn't tolerate undocumented people "illegally voting in my county," a lengthy voter fraud investigation has concluded with the filing of low-level charges.  The charges filed in late July against just two people, both U.S. citizens, were for perjury, a misdemeanor.

Man convicted of double voting.  Sure, Michael Zore told police, he'd voted twice in last November's election, using the city hall polling stations of two different Milwaukee County suburbs in the space of six hours.  The evidence against him included him signing up to vote using a false address in West Allis, after he'd already voted in Wauwatosa.  But Zore, 44, told a jury Wednesday there was a good reason he shouldn't be convicted of felony counts of double voting and giving a poll worker false information:  He forgot.

Democrat Vote Buying filmed by TV Camera Crew.  The progressive citizens of Wisconsin have reason to worry that Chicago-style vote-buying is creeping north from Illinois.  The NBC affiliate in Milwaukee has just filmed Democratic campaign workers handing out small amounts of money and free food to residents at a home for the mentally ill in Kenosha after which the patients were shepherded into a separate room and given absentee ballots.  One of the Democratic Party workers fled when she saw the NBC camera.

US Sues Missouri Over Voters in 2004 Election.  The U.S. Justice Department has sued Missouri, a swing state won easily by President George W. Bush, for voting violations in the 2004 election, including registering more people to vote in some counties than their entire voting-age population.

Voter Turnout or Voter Fraud?  A coalition of liberal groups is attacking any election officials who try to investigate fraud in voter registration drives.  Led by Jesse Jackson, People for the American Way, the NAACP and other groups, the coalition claims that attempts to prevent fraudulent voter registration should be considered "voter intimidation" and "suppression."

Officials Investigate Three Alabama Counties in Voter Fraud Accusations.  Federal and state authorities are looking into accusations of voting fraud in three largely black counties of Alabama, including Perry and Lowndes Counties, which played a historic role in the struggle for black voting rights in the 1960s.  In May, a local citizens group gathered affidavits detailing several cases in which at least one Democratic county official paid citizens for their votes, or encouraged them to vote multiple times.

Obama juices the streets.  It's called "street money" and it is a practice that most big city Democratic machines use to scare up votes on election day.  The actual mechanics vary from city to city but it usually involves hundreds of people getting thousands of dollars in walking around money that they can use at their discretion to get people to the polls.  The prospects for fraud are great, of course.

Widow Fears Voter Fraud.  Voter fraud is a serious concern on the mind of one Jacksonville woman after she said she received a voter registration form in the mail addressed to her late husband.  Della Laliberte, a widow who lives on the Northside, said her husband Horace died 47 years ago.  However, recently she said he was mailed a letter containing special instructions to register to vote in the upcoming presidential election.

Six Alabama counties have more registered voters than adults of voting age.  Greene County, for example, had 7,540 people on its voter rolls at the end of September, but the Census Bureau estimates its adult population at 6,834.  Secretary of State Beth Chapman says her staff is reviewing the numbers because bloated voter rolls can provide an opportunity for election fraud.

Making a Dent in Liberal Disinformation:  Voter Disenfranchisement.  Democrats have never been known to cast fraudulent ballots, eh, Mayor Daley?  We won't go into the NAACP allegedly paying Chad Staton in crack cocaine to register such stalwart Dems as Dick Tracy, Mary Poppins, and Janet Jackson in Ohio.  Or the 8,000 fraudulent Democratic voter registrations discovered in Lansing, Michigan.  That's "Get out the Vote."

Washington County DA looking into suspicious absentee ballots.  Washington County [Alabama] officials said Wednesday [7/19/2006] that they are unsure about their next step in dealing with 57 absentee ballots sent to a McIntosh woman's home and restaurant before Tuesday's runoff election.

Two indicted in P.G. vote fraud case.  Two key players in alleged voter fraud in the Penns Grove Democrat Primary Election have been indicted by a Salem County Grand Jury, according to court officials.  Anavia Green, 54, of Madole Place in Penns Grove, was indicted on Dec. 20 on a charge of forgery, according to Salem County Criminal Case Management.  Green was a ballot messenger in the primary election.

Stealing Elections:  How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy.  The Florida Fiasco of 2000, with hanging chads, butterfly ballots and Supreme Court intervention, forced Americans to confront an ugly reality.  The U.S. has the sloppiest election systems of any industrialized nation, so sloppy that at least eight of the 19 hijackers who attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were actually able to register to vote in either Virginia or Florida while they made their deadly preparations for 9/11.

One-third of Zimbabwe registered voters are dead.  Nearly one-third of Zimbabwe's registered voters are dead, and others appear to be babies or up to 120 years old, researchers said Friday [1/21/2011], calling for the list to be overhauled so that the upcoming election cannot be rigged.

Did someone mention Zimbabwe?

Researchers Hack Voting Machine for $26.  Campaigning for the 2012 presidential race has already begun, but what the candidates don't know is that come election day, hackers could be the ones whose votes have the biggest impact.  Researchers from the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois have developed a hack that, for about $26 and an 8th-grade science education, can remotely manipulate the electronic voting machines used by millions of voters all across the U.S.

"It is enough that the people know there was an election.
The people who cast the votes decide nothing.
The people who count the votes decide everything."

— Joseph Stalin    


The Ohio Subsection

After reading about voting irregularities in the news for the last few year, I've noticed that one state seems to be mentioned more than any other.

Ohio high court tosses 1,000 ballots in tight race.  The Ohio Supreme Court on Friday threw out about 1,000 provisional ballots that had been improperly filled out by voters in a tight congressional race.  In a 4-2 decision, the court struck down Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner's directive that said the votes should be counted. ... Justices said Brunner improperly instructed county elections officials to apply conflicting standards to election law by ruling that the votes should be counted, even though the envelopes failed to comply with legal guidelines set out before Nov. 4.

Hijinks Mar Ohio Vote.  "Ecuador has more voting integrity than we have here in East Cleveland today."  That is the considered opinion of a Republican attorney who is helping to monitor elections in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.  He requested anonymity to avoid drawing attention to his employer.  I have known him for years as an honest and very serious patriot and consider his comments reliable.  He rang me to discuss the shenanigans that he and other Republican poll watchers have witnessed today in greater Cleveland.

Homeless 'Driven' to Vote for Obama.  Volunteers supporting Barack Obama picked up hundreds of people at homeless shelters, soup kitchens and drug-rehab centers and drove them to a polling place yesterday [10/6/2008] on the last day that Ohioans could register and vote on the same day, almost no questions asked.  The huge effort by a pro-Obama group, Vote Today Ohio, takes advantage of a quirk in the state's elections laws that allows people to register and cast ballots at the same time without having to prove residency.

Voter-fraud Chaos.  Developments in several states create the possibility that the 2008 vote could result in "Election Month," rather than Election Day.  Court rulings on various absentee-voting procedures — along with early voting and other new forms of balloting — open the door to widespread abuses that could undermine the election.  The possibility of voter fraud or voting irregularities on a massive scale could provide a multistate repeat of Florida 2000.  A perfect example is Ohio.

Campaign Dynamics, Fraud Potential Impacted by Early Voting.  Three years ago, Ohio changed its law to allow absentee voting to begin 35 days before Election Day, which is Sept. 30 this year.  But residents of the state are allowed to register to vote as late as Oct. 6, creating a one-week overlap in which they can register and vote on the same day.  That overlap has come under fire by the Ohio Republican Party and some Ohio voters, who point out that state law requires voters to have been registered for 30 days before they can cast an absentee ballot.  This, they say, creates an unfair situation because it is difficult to immediately verify a voter's identity.

Ohio is a Hotbed of Vote Fraud in 2008.  The Cleveland Plain Dealer is touting triumphantly that Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner is predicting an 80% voter turnout in the 2008 election.  This would be an amazing statistic if true. ... There is no doubt that Cuyahoga County is "leading" in this year's vote situation.  But, unfortunately, that "leading" seems to be in fraud, not legal, proper votes.

Judge rules Ohio homeless voters may list park benches as addresses.  A federal judge in Ohio has ruled that counties must allow homeless voters to list park benches and other locations that aren't buildings as their addresses.  U.S. District Judge Edmund Sargus also ruled that provisional ballots can't be invalidated because of poll worker errors.

Bam Staffers Pull Their Bogus Ohio Ballots.  Thirteen campaign workers for Barack Obama yesterday [10/24/2008] yanked their voter registrations and ballots in Ohio after being warned by a prosecutor that temporary residents can't vote in the battleground state.  A dozen staffers — including Obama Ohio spokeswoman Olivia Alair and James Cadogan, who recently joined Team Obama — signed a form letter asking the Franklin County elections board to pull their names from the rolls.

Hall adviser fired, linked to Ohio voting fraud probe.  Congressman John Hall (D-Dover Plains) fired one of his long-time campaign advisers Tuesday, after learning that she's embroiled in voter fraud investigations in Ohio.  Amy Little, 49, has been a registered Democrat in New York since 1991, and Ulster County election officials said she voted in the party primary here in February.  But in October, Little registered to vote in Ohio.

Ohio official mulls new voting machine rule.  Ohio's elections chief is reconsidering a plan to prohibit poll workers from taking voting machines home for safekeeping in the days before the November presidential election.  Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner announced plans in February to scrap the practice known as "sleepovers" because of security concerns but is now facing opposition from county elections officials who say the custom makes it easier to transport machines polling sites.

Update:
 Ohio says no to voting machine 'sleepovers'.  Poll workers will not be allowed to take voting machines home for safekeeping in the days before the November presidential election because the practice known as "sleepovers" is an unacceptable security risk, the state elections chief said Tuesday [8/19/2008].  Taking machines home makes it nearly impossible to keep track of what happens to a machine or memory card once it goes into the custody of a poll worker, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner said.

Ohio Voting Machines Contained Programming Error That Dropped Votes.  Premier (formerly Diebold) has admitted to a software flaw in its GEMS system used in 34 states that can cause votes to be dropped while being transferred from memory cards to a central tallying point.  This flaw has existed for at least 10 years….

100+ Diebold voting machines available now on EBay.  You really can get anything on EBay, even electronic voting machines proved to be easy to corrupt for purposes of voting fraud.  Brad Friedman of the Brad Blog first noticed that "more than 10" AccuVote-TS voting machines, built by Diebold, were being sold on the online auction site for the buy-it-now price of $1,200 (plus $50 shipping and handling).

Diebold e-voting hack allows remote tampering.  The attack on the Diebold AccuVote TS electronic voting machine, which is now marketed by Election Systems & Software, relies on a small circuit board that an attacker inserts between the components connecting the touch screen of the device to its microprocessor.  The $10.50 card then controls the information flowing into the machine's internal processor, allowing attackers to change votes with almost no visible sign of what's taking place.

Glitches galore as US votes.  Programming errors and inexperience with electronic voting machines frustrated poll workers in hundreds of precincts during Tuesday's US elections, delaying voters in Indiana and Ohio and forcing some in Florida to cast paper ballots instead.  In Cleveland, voters rolled their eyes as election workers fumbled with new touchscreen machines that they couldn't get to start properly.  "We got five machines — one of them's got to work," said Willette Scullank, a trouble-shooter from the Cuyahoga County elections board.

Brunner declares Ohio's voting systems vulnerable.  All of the voting systems used in Ohio have "critical security failures" that make them vulnerable to tampering and should be replaced with paper ballots counted at a central location, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner concluded after a top-to-bottom review of the systems.

Ohio voting law may be a boon for Obama supporters.  Never mind the last days of the presidential campaign.  The busiest days for Barack Obama's campaign in this perennial swing state are likely to be a month before Election Day.  Ohio has created a window in the election calendar that would allow residents instant gratification — register one minute, vote the next.

Critics see voting loopholes in new rules.  With Ohio expected once more to play a deciding role in the presidential race, the battle over state voting rules that plagued the 2004 election has begun again in earnest.  Republicans are raising concerns about Ohioans registering to vote and immediately casting absentee ballots during a five-day window after absentee voting starts Sept. 30 and before the deadline for registration Oct. 6.

Supreme Court rejects Ohio GOP bid.  The Supreme Court sided Friday [10/17/2008] with Ohio's top elections official in a dispute with the state Republican Party over voter registrations.  The justices overruled a federal appeals court that had ordered Ohio's top elections official to do more to help counties verify voter eligibility.

No Righting Voting Wrongs in Ohio.  Topping the list of most important legal cases this election year may be one in which the Supreme Court did not rule on the merits, and about which the U.S. Department of Justice turned a blind eye to justice.  Rampant voter fraud may well result.  The nation's highest court ruled Friday [10/17/2008] that, for now, a federal district court cannot force Ohio's Secretary of State to enforce federal elections laws that she is flagrantly ignoring.

Lawyers demand vote fraud probe.  The lawyers pointed to Ohio and Wisconsin, where the Justice Department has decided against requiring state officials to confirm voters' identities by releasing their names to local election authorities as "difficult to fathom."  At issue in both states are thousands of voters whose names did not match listed Social Security and driver's license numbers in other government databases, or otherwise did not pass identity verification standards.  "This appears to be a dereliction of the department's obligations to enforce federal law," the attorneys wrote.

Ohio Secretary of State Linked to ACORN, Project Vote.  The national development director for Project Vote, an affiliated organization of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, has been linked to embattled Ohio Secretary of State, Democrat Jennifer Brunner.  Karyn Gillette of Project Vote was a campaign consultant for the Brunner campaign, according to information found in a post made by Rick Brunner on April 11, 2006 on the secretary of state's own blog.

Liberals: The Enemy Within.  Feeling as I do about Barack Obama, it's only natural that I would look for people to blame for putting him in the Oval Office.  I mean, aside from the 63 million oafs who actually voted for the guy.  The first villains who come to mind are members of the media who are still, in the words of Bernard Goldberg, slobbering over him.  But I have come up with another group of troublemakers.  They're the folks who came up with the cockamamie primary system.

Cleveland election workers sentenced for rigging 2004 presidential recount.  Two election workers in the state's most populous county were sentenced Tuesday [3/13/2007] to 18 months in prison for rigging the 2004 presidential election recount so they could avoid a more thorough review of the votes.  Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Peter Corrigan allowed the women to remain free on bond pending appeal.

Editor's note:
 Please note that Cuyahoga County is heavily Democratic, if that wasn't already obvious.


Ineligible voters

Democrats Embrace Voter Fraud.  Already, Team Obama is putting voter fraud policies in effect to tilt the election.  Eric Holder's stance on the right of individual states within the U.S. to require voter identification is the most obvious example.  Several court cases have already upheld the states' right to require voter identification.  Furthermore, many studies have shown that requiring voter identification prevents voter fraud and is no more illegal than requiring identification to obtain Medicare or Medicaid or social security payments. ... More recently, Team, Obama is speeding up the immigration process and rushing illegal aliens to citizenship, often ahead of those who have waited, patiently and legally, for years.

Non-citizen Voting in Connecticut.  The Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, John DeStefano, a Democrat, wants to let non-citizens vote in city elections.  One might ask the good mayor if he also thinks it OK for non-citizens to run for city offices, too — like for mayor.  According to a news story in New Haven Register, Pat O'Neill, spokesman for the state GOP House Republicans, asked when told of DeStefano's proposal:  "When are they going to extend voting rights to the dead?"  One inconvenient little snag for Mr. DeStefano's expansion of the franchise is the Constitution of the State of Connecticut, which stipulates in Article 6, Section 1 that voters must be U.S. citizens.

Rep. Gutierrez says Immigrant Voters put Obama in Office.  Gutierrez confirms what many in the U.S. already believe:  Illegal aliens are voting in U.S. elections — to the benefit of the Democrat Party — and each time an illegal alien votes, it cancels out a vote cast by a U.S. citizen.

Perdue vetoed voter ID to get all votes she can.  In states where Democrats reign, there are no efforts to pass or enforce voter-identification legislation.  For example, in too many states when registering to vote, applicants merely have to check off the box that says "U.S. Citizen."  No identification required or follow up conducted to confirm U.S. citizenship — just a simple check in the appropriate box.  The same applies to the question regarding conviction for a felony.

Corrupt Elections are Undermining Governance.  One of the most surreal experiences of our lives was watching an unelected bureaucrat pick and choose what ballots she wanted to count in the closely contested election featuring pseudo-Republican Lisa Murkowski and Tea Party Favorite Republican Joe Miller in Alaska.  Having spent decades watching ballots be counted in hundreds of elections, and never once have we seen a situation with such outrageous manipulation of the vote.  But I guess we weren't in Colorado.  Hot off the presses is a report that documents 5,000 non-citizens voting in that states highly contested elections.

GOP says 5,000 non-citizens voting in Colorado a 'wake-up call' for states.  Republicans on the House Administration Committee want to shore up voter registration rules in the wake of a Colorado study that found as many as 5,000 non-citizens in the state took part in last year's election.  Rep. Gregg Harper (R-Miss.), the panel's chairman, called the study "a disturbing wake-up call" that should cause every state to review its safeguards to prevent illegal voting.  "We simply cannot have an electoral system that allows thousands of non-citizens to violate the law and vote in our elections.  We must do more to protect the integrity of our electoral processes," Harper added.

Non-U.S. citizens may have voted in N.C. elections.  A review by the State Board of Elections has determined that 637 resident aliens may be registered to vote in North Carolina.  The issue was discovered when the board cross checked the names of 6.1 million registered voters against the driver's license database from the N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles.

Illegal Alien Voters Ignored by Justice Department.  It's apparent that President Obama considers Americans, who want to enforce illegal immigration laws in America, to be the enemy.  Even more revealing is the fact that with so much riding on the elections next week, Obama decided to take the time to speak to people who shouldn't be voting — legal and illegal immigrants.  But the dirty little secret is there exists an enormous amount of proof that illegal aliens are being registered to vote and they're being registered as Democrats.  And our political leaders know it.

War On Citizenship.  A U.S. Court of Appeals has invalidated an Arizona law requiring proof of citizenship to vote in state and federal elections.  Not only our borders but our voting booths are wide open.

Progressive Determination to Undermine American Elections.  The progressive assault on America continues, and their favorite whipping boy remains Arizona.  A three-judge panel from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned that state's requirement that people show proof of citizenship to register to vote, calling it "inconsistent" with the National Voter Registration Act.  In other words, a United States court considers that proving one is an American citizen in order to vote in an American election an "undue burden."  How in the world did we come to this?

Voter Fraud in America.  A federal appeals court in Arizona rejected a state law requiring voters to demonstrate citizenship at the polls.  The return address on 250 absentee-ballot applications in Bridgeport, Connecticut is 1238 North Avenue, which just happens to be a vacant lot.  Daytona Beach City Commissioner Derrick Henry and Genesis Robinson, his campaign manager, face voter-fraud charges for allegedly completing 92 absentee-ballot applications with the names of Floridians who never requested them or who had moved away.  There's little doubt that we'll see more and more of this sort of activity as we move toward Election Day.

VOTE — No Citizenship Required.  In 2004, Arizona voters passed Proposition 200, the Arizona Voter Identification Laws.  What we attempted to accomplish was to help insure that only legal citizens of the U.S. would be voting in our elections.  The law required anyone who registered to vote to provide a valid Arizona driver's license, or an Identification Card, or other form of record with a digitized signature on file with AZ Motor Vehicle Department (MVD).  It also required that a voter provide ID at the polling place in order to verify that they are who they claim to be.

Can Arizona Save America?  Arizona is a fascinating state because of the extreme reactions its controversial legislation seems to elicit from the country.  It's definitely the Wild West when it comes to legislation, with the recently passed immigration law known as SB1070.  Then there is Arizona's Proposition 200 from 2004 that required proof of citizenship in order to register to vote.  It was approved by Arizona voters but was recently struck down by the 9th Circuit Court, dealing a blow to the very integrity of our elections.

Voter Fraud:  Illegal alien voters ignored by Obama Justice Department.  It's apparent that President Obama considers Americans, who want to enforce illegal immigration laws in America, to be the enemy.  Even more revealing is the fact that with so much riding on the elections next week, Obama decided to take the time to speak to people who shouldn't be voting — legal and illegal immigrants.  But the dirty little secret is there exists an enormous amount of proof that illegal aliens are being registered to vote and they're being registered as Democrats.  And our political leaders know it.

Court throws out Arizona rule requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote.  A federal appeals court on Tuesday [10/26/2010] threw out a state mandate for people to provide proof of citizenship before being allowed to register to vote.  In a divided decision, the majority of the three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals concluded the requirement, approved by Arizona voters in 2004, runs afoul of the federal National Voter Registration Act.

Court overturns Arizona's proof of citizenship requirement for voter registration.  The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned Arizona's requirement that people show proof of citizenship to register to vote.  The split decision by a three-judge panel determined that the requirement to show proof of citizenship — passed by voters in 2004 — is not consistent with the National Voter Registration Act.

Ruling Strikes Down Part of Arizona Voter ID Law.  A federal appeals court has struck down a key part of Arizona's law requiring voters to prove they are citizens before registering to vote or casting ballots.

Supreme Court Deals Blow to Massachusetts Inmates Seeking Right to Vote.  Should felons have the right to vote?  The U.S. Supreme Court today [10/18/2010] declined to take up this weighty topic, rejecting an appeal from Massachusetts inmates who seek the right to vote.

DoJ Slumbers As Dead Voters Head to the Polls.  What is the quietest spot in Washington, D.C.?  The Rose Garden?  The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier?  Actually, it's the Justice Department's Voting Section.  Justice's unit that allegedly fights disenfranchisement lately has been caught dozing while at least nine states too slowly deliver absentee ballots to overseas GIs.  Too many military votes thus may go uncounted in November.  In yet another outrage, the Voting Section is static while the rolls of at least 16 states evidently list ineligible voters, including non-residents, disqualified felons, and — yes — dead people.

Small Sample of Philly Voter Rolls Reveals Hundreds of Ineligible Names.  Every two years, states are required to provide data to the Election Assistance Commission regarding their compliance with Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act (the section of that statute which ensures voter lists are up-to-date and free of ineligible voters).  In 2005, their data collection for Pennsylvania revealed that 102.5% of the citizen voting age population was registered to vote on Election Day 2004.  One might reasonably wonder how it was possible that more people were registered to vote than existed.

Demand Valid Voter Rolls Before November.  If Americans don't want dead and ineligible felons participating in elections, they will have to clean up the mess themselves, as Attorney General Eric Holder won't do his job by enforcing the integrity protections in the "Motor Voter" law passed in 1993.  Motor Voter struck an important balance — it sought to increase voter registration, as well as ensure voter integrity.  Welfare offices and motor vehicle offices became voter registration centers.  But the law also required states to conduct list maintenance to ensure ineligible names don't pollute the voting rolls.  Dead people, ineligible felons, and people who moved away must be removed from the rolls by state election officials.

Dead in Ohio, but still voting.  The liberal obsession with using election law to promote racial grievance-mongering rather than to protect against voter fraud continues apace.  The worst case in point this week is the effort of Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a highly partisan Democrat who's forcing Cuyahoga County to waste half a million dollars on unnecessary bilingual ballots while she fails to remove 5,800 dead people from the Buckeye State's voter rolls.

Woman, 81, jailed in vote-fraud case.  Bexar County deputies Monday night [10/4/2010] arrested a woman accused of using her long-dead sister's identity to vote twice in the 2008 general election.  Mary Ann Comparin, 81, was released from Bexar County Jail on Tuesday after posting $10,000 bail, officials said. She faces one count of illegal voting.

Lawlessness at the DOJ.  The "Motor Voter" law was passed in 1993 to promote greater voter registration in the United States.  It did this — most Americans now know from visits to the DMV — by requiring states to offer voter registration materials whenever someone had contact with a variety of state offices.  These included welfare offices, social service agencies, and motor vehicle departments.  A lesser-known provision also obliged the states to ensure that no ineligible voters were on the rolls — including dead people, felons, and people who had moved.  Our current Department of Justice is anxious to encourage the obligations to get everyone registered, but explicitly unwilling to enforce federal law requiring states to remove the dead or ineligible from the rolls.

Justices Want More on Massachusetts Felon Vote Case.  For the past decade inmates in Massachusetts prisons have fought a state law keeping them from voting, Monday [5/3/2010] the Supreme Court announced it wants to know the views of the Obama Administration before deciding whether to hear arguments in their case.

The Editor says...
 The opinions of politicians should not be a consideration.  That's why Supreme Court Justices are appointed for life.

Obama's Greatest Crime:  Obama and the leftwing of the Democratic Party intend to turn ten to eleven million illegal immigrants into voters as expeditiously as possible, giving them a permanent national electoral majority based upon a beholden Lumpenproletariat.  If they succeed, our country will face mob rule.  No individual who broke the law to enter this country should ever be allowed to decide who becomes our president, governor, senator — or town council member.  If there is one message patriotic Americans must act upon during the remainder of Obama's reign, it's this:  No voting rights for illegals.

Massachusetts has estimated 116K dead voters on its rolls.  A new study of the nation's voter registration records finds 3.3 million dead voters are still on the rolls — including an estimated 116,483 in Massachusetts — while another 12.9 million who are ineligible also remain.  The study was done by Aristotle International Inc., a Washington, D.C. technology company that specializes in election-related programming and database services for public officials and agencies.

How To Vote From Six Feet Under.  States such as California, Texas and Florida intentionally count ballots sent in by voters who then died before Election Day, while states such as Colorado, Washington and South Dakota have no reliable method for discarding the votes of the deceased.  In the old days, voting by the dead was reserved for big-city political machines looking to stuff the ballot box illegally.

The Editor says...
 People who are within 30 days of a natural death generally don't concern themselves with politics.  I suspect the root of this problem is the act of harvesting votes at hospices and nursing homes, getting otherwise confused and disinterested citizens to go through the motions of voting, even if they don't really want to.  On the other hand, there's no way the state would be able to certify that all voters are still living at the moment to polls close.  Like so many other aspects of our society, the feasibility of our system depends on people doing the right thing, and many among us do not.

More than 3 Million Registered Voters are Dead.  Regardless of how lively an election season might be, a new study shows that more 3.3 million voters on current registration rolls across the country are dead.  Another 12.9 million remain on voter registration lists in an area where they no longer live.

Dead Mayors Win.  In Pennsylvania, the dead don't vote, they win elected office.  At least that's what happened in Tarentum and Freeport, both cities in Allegheny County, when the two candidates for mayor — both of whom died in September — ran unopposed.

Dead man wins Tracy City mayoral race.  Carl Robin Geary Sr. died of a heart attack on March 10 but that didn't stop voters from electing him mayor of Tracy City.

'They Tried to Steal an Election,' N.Y. Voter Fraud Case Heats Up.  Thirty-eight forged or fraudulent ballots have been thrown out, according to records at the Rensselaer County Board of Elections in Troy, N.Y. Enough votes, an election official admits, to likely have tipped the November election to the Democrats.

No-confidence vote on voter rolls.  Detroit election officials confirmed Monday [4/6/2009] what an analysis of census and population records shows:  The city has more registered voters than it has residents over the voting age of 18.  But Detroit is doing nothing wrong.  The problem?  The 1993 National Voter Registration Act, which took effect in 1995, requires local officials to wait two federal election cycles before purging their voter rolls.  That means that all cities carry ineligible voters each year.

The End of Fair Elections?  It may come as a surprise to some; we may have witnessed the last free and fair election in this country.  How long ago that election was does not matter now; there will not be another one.  Remember when "B1 Bob" Dornan lost his House seat to a woman named Sanchez?  The election was stolen by Hermandad Nacional Mexicana[,] a group that made a concerted effort to register illegal aliens.  Since then, the art of rigging the vote has been refined and perfected by the likes of ACORN and other community activist organizations.  The modus operandi is clear.  First, there must be a team of lawyers to challenge any efforts to determine voter eligibility.  What we end up with here in California is "motor voter" registration.

Florida voting rolls contain dead people, duplicates, ineligible felons.  Mattie Lee Blitch has been dead 23 years but she's still registered to vote in Palm Beach County.  Recent college graduate Brett Ackerman is registered three times in two counties.  And convicted felon Joseph Muro just signed up to vote — from a state mental institution for the criminally insane.

Dead People Voting Throughout Florida.  Thousands of dead Floridians are registered to vote and some in Central Florida had ballots cast in their names long after their deaths.  "That is scary," said Jim Branch.  Branch's mother Marjorie died in 2004 but someone voted for her in 2006.  Branch had tried to get his mother removed from the voter rolls.

[KPRC-TV] Local 2 Investigates Dead Voters.  More than 1.9 million people are registered to vote in Harris County alone.  But how many of the people listed on the voter roll are actually eligible to cast a ballot?  Investigative reporter Amy Davis shows you how hundreds of voters could sway this year's election — voters who are not even alive. … Texas Watchdog found 4,462 registered voters who appear to be deceased.

Judge Won't Stop Georgia Voter Citizenship Checks.  A federal judge has denied a request by voting groups to block Georgia's attempts to verify new voter applicants' identities and citizenship.  The groups argue in a lawsuit the action is a "systematic purging" of rolls before the election and say the checks must first be approved by the Department of Justice.  U.S. District Judge Jack Camp denied the request Thursday [10/16/2008], saying it could lead to "significant voter confusion."  The plaintiffs' case is still scheduled to be heard by a three-judge panel in U.S. District court next week.

Princess the dead goldfish won't vote in Illinois.  The only "agent of change" Princess ever supported was the person who refreshed the water in her fishbowl.  Now election officials in Chicago's northern suburbs want to investigate out how the dead goldfish received voter registration material.  Paperwork sent to a "Princess Nudelman" likely came from the "Womens Voices, Women Vote" project, said Lake County Clerk Willard Helander, a Republican, who said she has spotted problems with nearly 1,000 voter registrations this year.

How to steal an election:  A recent story that didn't get nearly the attention it deserved was the New York Daily News report that 46,000 registered New York City voters are also registered to vote in Florida.  Nearly 1,700 of them have had absentee ballots mailed to their home in the other state, and as many as 1,000 have voted twice in the same election.  Can 1,000 fraudulent votes change an election?  Well, George W. Bush won Florida in 2000 by just 537 votes.

Election protests have already started.  In Denver, an estimated 165,000 new voter sign-ups brought warnings of potential vote fraud.  State officials have sent several hundred registrations to the attorney general for review, and the Denver district attorney is investigating 200 more.  Both parties have enlisted hundreds of lawyers for Election Day challenges and for post-election fights over disputed ballots.  Rep. Pat Tiberi, an Ohio Republican, noted that four counties in his state have voter registration numbers that exceed the number of voting-age residents in the counties in the last Census.

500 new voters might not exist.  Workers paid by a liberal group to register voters in Franklin County have turned in more than 500 forms with nonexistent addresses and potentially fake signatures, elections officials said yesterday [8/10/2006].  Board of Elections Director Matthew Damschroder said he has forwarded the cards to county authorities for possible criminal charges.

Voter Registration Probe Unearths Potential Fraud in Wisconsin.  Susan Tully, the Midwest field director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, says she became concerned about possible voter fraud in the Badger State when an admitted illegal alien suddenly was named a deputy registrar of voters in Racine, Wisconsin. ... "At no time was she asked to show identification; at no time was she asked for her Social Security number; and at no time was she asked if she was a citizen of the United States," she says.  "I have a real fear, based on my knowledge now, that this election will be decided by foreign nationals and illegal aliens."

Bollixing up the Ballot:  Once the Democrat pulled ahead, Washingtonians were told it was time to move on.  "The election is over," Gregoire announced in December.  "I hope we can move forward, unite our state and address the problems our state is facing."  One problem the state faced, and presumably will face again, is voter fraud.  Even in dismissing Rossi's lawsuit, the judge admitted there were at least 1,678 illegal ballots cast — more than enough to flip the outcome in either direction.

The illegal alien swing vote:  Why is it that we can't protect our elections from people who have no right to vote, no right to be here, and no right to undermine our safety or sovereignty?

Should Felons Vote?  Forty-eight states currently restrict the right of felons to vote.  Most states forbid current inmates to vote, others extend such bans to parolees, and still others disenfranchise felons for life.  A movement to overturn these restrictions gained swift momentum during the 2004 presidential campaign, and pending legal and legislative measures promise to keep the issue in the headlines in the months to come.

The felon vote:  In the wake of their election defeat, Democrats have promised to mend their ways by emphasizing moral values.  So, in their first major legislative initiative of the year, what are the party's two top senators offering?  A bill to guarantee that millions of convicted murderers, rapists and armed robbers can vote.

Measure would restore vote to all felons.  Democratic lawmakers, who have long pushed to restore voting rights to Maryland felons, say racial politics and election-year considerations make this the year they open the polls to every ex-convict.  "This law seriously disenfranchises a large number of African-Americans," said Delegate Salima Siler Marriott, a black Baltimore Democrat ... whose bill would give all felons the vote immediately upon release from prison.

[Why wait til then?  If this passes, the next step will be to allow prisoners to vote while they're still in prison.  This kind of incrementalism only goes one direction.]

Felon plan seen as political.  Gov. Tom Vilsack insists politics played no part in his plan to restore voting rights to all Iowa felons, a move nonetheless loaded with political ramifications.  By automatically restoring the vote to people who have served their time in prison and on parole or probation, Vilsack could subtly shift the political balance in a narrowly divided battleground state in favor of Democrats, the governor's party.

[Ask yourself this question:  Why do people assume that felons would vote for Democrats?]

55,000 dead or duplicate voters deleted from state database.  The Secretary of State's Office has deleted about 55,000 registrations from Washington's voter rolls after finding duplicate records and dead voters with the aid of a new statewide database.  The database, put in place earlier this year, allowed the state to find 19,579 dead people still on the rolls and 35,445 duplicate voter records. … So far the state has found about 900 names of people who could be in prison but still are on voter-registration rolls.

Felons call voting ban unfair to minorities.  A lawsuit pending [in Seattle] and similar cases across the country have asked the courts to overturn state laws that keep felons from the ballot box, claiming the laws discriminate against minorities who make up a disproportionate number of the nation's prisoners.

Purging illegal aliens from voter rolls isn't easy.  President Clinton signed the motor-voter legislation into law, hailing it for increasing voter participation by simplifying registration.  But many states do not verify citizenship when residents apply for licenses, which allows noncitizens to get on voting rolls.


The Voting Rights Act of 1965

The Voting Rights Act And Its Wrongs.  Congress amended the Voting Rights Act in 1982 to require the creation of majority-black and majority-Hispanic districts in some circumstances.  This change was healthy to a point.  But it was carried to extremes.  The Civil Rights Division and its allies, including minority politicians, interpreted the 1982 amendments as requiring states and localities to discard traditional districting principles such as compactness and contiguity and draw as many safe, majority-black and majority-Hispanic districts as possible, no matter how bizarre their shape.

How the Voting Rights Act promotes racial polarization:  With Congress poised to extend, for another quarter-century, certain "temporary" provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, it's worth pondering some of the political mischief taking place these days in the name of "voting rights."

Incumbent Rights Act:  Why Congress loves racial gerrymanders.  You can be fairly certain that the coming debate over updating the Voting Rights Act will sidestep what's really at stake, which isn't the right to vote but rather the power of politicians to pick their voters through gerrymandering. … In Georgia v. Ashcroft, the High Court said, "the Voting Rights Act, as properly interpreted, should encourage the transition to a society where race no longer matters."  The reauthorization would do the opposite.

Sacred cow:  A devil's brew of cynicism on one side and demagoguery on the other seemed to guarantee renewal of the "temporary" features of the Voting Rights Act first passed in 1965. … This clearly outdated law — whose passage would reinforce false claims of continuing white racism by the usual suspects — was headed for easy passage until someone noticed the bit about multilingual ballots.  Under Section 203, ballots and election materials in districts with large immigrant populations must be provided in the immigrants' native tongue.  This, in a nation that (at least nominally) requires mastery of English for naturalization.

VRA, All of It, Forever?  The Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965 and included a number of "emergency" provisions that were set to expire as early as 1970 but were extended and amended in 1970, 1975 and 1982.  They [have recently been] extended for a fourth time, two years before they are due to expire -- and for another 25 years.  This bipartisan rush illustrates the descent of the residue of the civil-rights movement into the barren politics of gesture and nostalgia.  The eager participation of Republicans demonstrates cravenness and two kinds of opportunism, one deservedly futile, the other disgracefully successful.

Big Voting Rights Drama in Small Town.  The Voting Rights Act was designed to deal with years of voter intimidation and disenfranchisement, and it has proved a very successful tool in the civil rights arsenal.  Certainly the conduct it was designed to remedy has long ceased and the preclearance provisions of the Act place an intolerable administrative and budgetary constraint on those covered by the law.  Nevertheless, it remains such a sacred cow that in 2008 the Senate extended the Act's life by another 25 years by a 98-0 vote.


What's up in Boulder, Colorado?

What is Boulder County trying to hide?  There must be something terribly wrong with their new election system, and Boulder County election officials are doing everything in their power to keep it hidden from the public.  The Boulder County Republican Party was kicked out of Thursday's official test [8/5/2004] of the new election system.  Election officials insisted that the legally appointed Republican Party representative change his test decks, presumably so that the system can pass the tests.  The Republican representative refused, and the clerk told him to leave.

Kolwicz evicted for submitting real tests.  Al Kolwicz, official representative to Boulder County's test of its new vote counting system, was asked by County Clerk, Linda Salas, to leave the test.  When asked what happened, Kolwicz said, "we submitted sample ballots to test the security and accuracy of the county's new vote counting system."  The sample ballots included tests such as - (1) what happens if a voter circles the box rather than filling in the entire box with a black pen, and (2) what happens if a voter marks over the ballot serial number in hopes that this will make the ballot secret.  (Boulder County's new ballots are not secret.)

Free Al Kolwicz!  Last we looked, being fastidious wasn't a crime.  But the Boulder County Clerk and Recorder's Office evidently didn't get that memo.  Last Thursday [8/5/2004], officials ordered Al Kolwicz, a Republican representative to the elections canvass board, off the premises, and reported him to police for allegedly "interfering" with an election.

Note:  A test of voting machines is not an election.

Elections must be verifiable.  So, are you ready to hand off the security of your precious vote to a bunch of software programmers who work for huge corporations?  You, the average voter, could soon find that you have no way to verify that the votes you cast on fancy-schmancy "touch-screen" voting terminals are what you intended.  Sound alarmist?  It's happening across the United States under provisions of the Help America Vote Act, passed by Congress in response to the 2000 Florida election debacle.  HAVA, as currently written, is no solution.

Safeguarding the Vote:  Last November, I voted.  At least I think I did.  When I got to my polling place, instead of the familiar ballot where I drew a fat, black line to connect two parts of an arrow, I was handed what looked like a blank credit card.  I plugged that into one of the spiffy new touch-screen voting machines and started touching the screen.  When I was done, the machine showed me a summary of the votes I'd cast.  I returned the magnetic card, and that was it.  It was a bit spooky.  No ballot, nothing tangible, just a momentary display on a screen.

"The counting system is NOT VERIFIABLE.  There is no ballot by ballot way to compare the original ballot to the votes that the computer (as amended by the officials) interpreted from that ballot.  We cannot know what the computer decided.  It is like using a giant calculator with no 'paper tape' to enter hundreds of thousands of numbers, and then pressing TOTAL, and believing the TOTAL without checking it.  Who would possibly trust the result?"
— Al Kolwicz
Web site:  Citizens for Verifiable Voting.


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