From the office of Delbert Hosemann: All fourteen (14) precincts for the Hattiesburg Mayoral Special Election will have observers from the Secretary of State’s Office, Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann announced today. The Agency has election staff in the Municipal Clerk’s Office between today and Election Day and will be present to observe the vote tabulation at City Hall after the polls close. “The reports from the previous election are troubling, to say the very least,” says Secretary Hosemann. We are going to have an election conducted by the election commissioners, not a circus. While we are not the election police, we will be watching in every precinct. Any voting irregularities observed by our Staff will be immediately forwarded to the Attorney General and the local District Attorney.” “I want to thank Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann for his attention to the issues our community is facing related to the previous mayoral election and the upcoming special election,” says Forrest County District Attorney Patricia Burchell. “The citizens of Hattiesburg deserve a fair and clean election on September 24th. Secretary of State Hosemann’s presence in Hattiesburg and the presence of his designees at our polling places next Tuesday will help assure our community that the special election will be properly conducted.”
Author Archives: J Christian Adams
“Voter ID protects all of us from tainted elections”
Letter to the Editor at GreenvilleOnline.com here.
To date, 46 states have prosecuted cases of voter fraud. Twenty-four
million voter registrations have been found to be invalid and 2.75
million Americans are registered in more than one state.
TrueTheVote,
a voter watchdog organization, found 99 cases of potential felony
cases, and Maryland affiliates of this organization found cases of
people voting after their deaths. Twelve Indiana counties have more
registered voters than residents. The same is true in multiple Ohio
counties.
Federal records show 160 counties in 19 states with over 100 percent voter registration.
Robert Popper Joins Judicial Watch Election Integrity Project
I’ll have much more on this soon, but former Department of Justice Deputy Chief of the Voting Section Robert Popper has left the DOJ and gone straight to the Election Integrity Project at Judicial Watch. Judicial Watch has teamed with True the Vote to bring lawsuits (and interventions) around the nation to defend election integrity. More are certainly forthcoming.
I worked with Bob on a number of cases while at the Voting Section.
Popper joined the Voting Section about 8 years ago. He has a long history in election litigation and will bring a great deal to the effort to defend election integrity around the country.
“Machine” politics in NYC
“The special election for a Bronx Assembly seat — where just 72 votes separate the two top finishers — was mired with fraud that included the winning candidate’s mom working at a poll site where at least one machine wouldn’t even allow people to vote for the challengers, residents said. “Pichardo, the former director of community affairs for state Sen. Gustavo Rivera, admitted Thursday that his mother was a poll worker — a violation of New York State law — but insisted everything was on the up and up.”
“As a result, Hector Ramirez, who lost narrowly to Victor Pichardo in Tuesday’s primary, is urging the governor’s Office and federal authorities to look into why there were no levers next to his name — and several other vanquished candidates — on several other machines at other locations when voters went to the polls…
New York Daily News reports.
“NYT Discovers Voter Fraud”
From Via Meadia: “After years of claiming that it doesn’t exist, the New York Times has found evidence of voter fraud: a political machine organizing unqualified voters to swing an election in Alabama… “The truth that the MSM all too often finds it convenient to forget is that widespread voter fraud has been endemic throughout American history… Yet now, even as many us municipalities are run by corrupt and incompetent one party machines, we are solemnly told that vote fraud has disappeared. Except, of course, when those loathsome white males, the dirty dogs behind everything that is wrong with America, are involved.”
Maryland woman pleads guilty to impersonation voter fraud
Linda Earlette Wells pretended to be her mother, who had died A 70-year-old Montgomery County woman has pleaded guilty to voting fraudulently in the 2012 presidential elections… Wells’ mother, Beatrice Moore Wells, had been registered in Montgomery County before she died in June 2011. According to the statement of facts, Wells, impersonating her mother, called the Montgomery County Board of Elections and said that she wasn’t actually dead and wanted to vote. How was fraudster Wells caught? She confessed: Wells called the Board of Elections and told them she took her mother’s ID to the polls and voted fraudulently. Not that Maryland voters are required to present an ID, photo or otherwise.
“No excuses: What was really behind the Colorado recalls”
All mail voting advocate goes down to defeat: Giron did all she could to tilt the elections process in her favor. During the January to May session she had been preparing a complete re-write of Colorado election law: same-day voter registration, mandatory all mail-in ballots, virtually no residency requirements and no photo voter ID. Abolish the precinct polling place and reduce the role of citizen election judges. After it was apparent that there was a recall effort against her, she struck the provision in the law that said recall elections must be conducted in person, at polling locations. Like every other election, they were to be all mail-in. To understand the significance of this, it should be noted that mail-in ballots are the tool of choice for election fraud, according to author John Fund’s newest book on election integrity, Who’s counting?: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk. Giron’s bill was written behind closed doors. It was introduced at the last opportunity, no debate, no amendments—just like Morse’s gun bills and a host of other legislation this session. What she forgot—or perhaps didn’t know—was that the Colorado Constitution guarantees candidates the right to petition on to the ballot up to fifteen days before an election.”
“The big excuse offered by both Giron and Morse—one wonders whether this, too, is being centrally managed—is that the election process itself was unfair. That pill is ultimately impossible to swallow.
California Dumping at Large Elections to Create Minority Districts
“All a plaintiff has to do, experts say, is demonstrate that racially polarized voting exists — and often that can be done with election results that reveal contrasting outcomes between predominantly minority precincts and white ones. Across California, community college and school districts are making the switch. “We’re seeing easily the biggest shift” since the Progressives ushered in at-large elections nearly a century ago, said Douglas Johnson, president of the research firm National Demographics Corp. and a fellow at the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College.
LA Times
Texas: Extra Effort for Voter ID
DPS open Saturdays.
Colorado officials reviewing voter fraud allegations
No evidence of suppression of voters but allegations of voter fraud?
Christy Le Lait, who ran Morse’s campaign to stay in office, said a stunt illustrating how to abuse that law that was covered widely by the media has cast a pall of doubt over those votes. “What is real, what isn’t, what’s fraud?” Le Lait asked. “I don’t even know how you start to look at that.”
I thought voter fraud was easily detectable and documented.
Link.