- Chicago way moves West
- Partisan officials drag their feet on purging dead from rolls
- Provisional balloting answers “right to vote”
- Dead people voting only part of voter fraud – ineligible voting and surreptitious and substitute voting is easy
- Might as well be dead if voting early
This out of CBS Los Angeles two days ago, (excerpts)
CBS2 Investigation Uncovers Votes Being Cast From Grave Year After Year
CBS2 compared millions of voting records from the California Secretary of State’s office with death records from the Social Security Administration and found hundreds of so-called dead voters.
Specifically, 265 in Southern California and a vast majority of them, 215, in Los Angeles County alone.
The numbers come from state records that show votes were cast in that person’s name after they died. In some cases, (investigator) Goldstein discovered that they voted year after year.
Across all counties, Goldstein uncovered 32 dead voters who cast ballots in eight elections apiece, including a woman who died in 1988. Records show she somehow voted in 2014, 26 years after she passed away. (snip)
And then there’s Julita Abutin.
Records show she voted in Norwalk in 2014, 2012, 2010 and 2008 though she died in 2006.
Abutin’s daughter, Marivic, says it’s impossible that her mother voted.
But the Los Angeles County Registrar confirms they have signed vote-by-mail envelopes with her mother’s name for the 2014 and 2012 election, though she died 10 years ago. (snip)
The Los Angeles County Registrar told CBS2: “We remove 1200 to 2000 deceased records from the database per month.”
But the news station checked all of the dead voters from LA County on the Registrar’s website and found 212 of the 215 were still registered and eligible to vote in next month’s presidential primary election.
“It’s very troubling because it basically dilutes the voice of the lawful voter,” said Ellen Swensen with the “True the Vote,” a nationwide voter-rights group.
Some will argue fraud is a small percentage of the vote, but that almost by definition is unverifiable. Having been associated with some researchers, “trust us” the research mechanisms are problematic. The accuracy of cross referencing of names works at least as much to hide the dead vote. We also believe new registrations of non-existent voters, given the laxity in registration procedures, including, incredibly, the move to online voter registration facilitates fraud. The solution is in-person registration with verifiable picture ID, photo voter ID at the polls, and limiting absentee voting and early voting.
Remember the Project Veritas (no connection to us) James O’Keefe expose’ just prior to the last presidential election . . .
NH poll workers shown handing out ballots in dead peoples’ names [VIDEO]
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Video footage provided exclusively to The Daily Caller shows election workers in New Hampshire giving out ballots in the names of dead voters at multiple voting precincts during the state’s primary election on Tuesday.
The bombshell video is the work of conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe and his organization, Project Veritas.
Voters in the Granite State are not required to present identification to vote. O’Keefe’s investigators were able to obtain ballots under the names of dead voters at polling locations Tuesday by simply asking for them, he said.
In an interview with TheDC on Wednesday, O’Keefe said the exposé shows how voter fraud can be easier to perpetrate when identification isn’t required.
“There is fraud going on and our goal is to visualize it for people,” he said.
O’Keefe said he eventually plans to post full, unedited videos of the encounters. “It shows the integrity of the elections process is severely comprised,” the filmmaker said.
He said no laws were broken during the investigation and that his team members never claimed to be the dead people whose ballots they were trying to obtain. Instead, they carefully worded the way they asked for ballots, phrasing it like: “Do you have Earnest Chavanelle?” and “Do you have Paul Soucy?”
The investigation worked this way: O’Keefe and his team obtained names of recently deceased New Hampshirites through published obituaries, and used publicly available voter roll information to find dead people still on the voting rolls.
With that information, O’Keefe’s investigators went to the polls on Tuesday and requested ballots in the names of the deceased.
“Some of them died a few months ago, some of them died a few weeks ago,” he said.
In many cases, ballots were handed over by the poll workers without any skepticism. In only one case did a poll worker realize that the investigator wasn’t the person the ballot was meant for — because the woman giving out the ballots knew the dead person in question. . . .
This writer can attest to receiving in the mail in 2011 (or later) a renewed voter card (paper, no picture) addressed to my mother something like two years after her death in late 2009. Supposedly the purging of Scott County voters has been sped up, but even if it is well under a year, (it isn’t) and somebody watches the obituaries, even today under the Iowa system of no photo voter ID being required to vote, even during a not so busy time at the voting precinct, how would someone requesting a ballot using a deceased’s name (assuming same sex and roughly same age) be caught when that person is on the rolls using the O’Keefe technique? Now consider an absentee ballot request, easily done by surreptitious means — it would be at least as easy to fraudulently vote.
Besides the aged and infirm, infrequent voters and others are just as vulnerable as the dead are (so to speak) to fraudulent surreptitious and “substitute” fraudulent voting by others, whether the voting is at the precinct or by mail.
And think there is no organized effort at voter fraud? Well the onesies and twosies add up to hundreds and thousands, and the Democrat Party, by throwing up all manner of road blocks against insuring the integrity of the vote, against the onesies and twosies, represents an organized effort. But, nevertheless, don’t forget the efforts by ACORN:
Cracking ACORN: Exclusive Townhall Voter Fraud Investigation
We also believe that the emphasis on early voting facilitates fraud, especially by mail, and is objectionable on that ground. But at least as bad is the very concept’s corruption of the franchise to hurry up and vote before you find out more about the candidates. Every objection to voter integrity measures as to imagined voter suppression (rank and file Democrats support photo voter ID ) is answered by easy access to state- issued ID and prudent application of provisional balloting.
More reading: Why Americans Support Voter ID Laws
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