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Confusion in Massachusetts over whether overseas military ballots were mailed
In Massachusetts, there appears to be confusion of over whether overseas and military voters should be expecting their ballots in the mail. An article entitled “Secretary of State Galvin, Scott Brown campaign spar over absentee ballot deadline” lays out the issue. The Scott Brown campaign apparently received reports from local officials that ballots had not been mailed out by the due date required by federal law. From the article, the response by the Secretary of State (at least according to this article) was not exactly clear:
Federal law states that absentee ballots must be mailed to citizens at
least 45 days before an election to ensure enough time for them to be
returned and for the votes to be tallied. And while William Galvin,
secretary of the commonwealth assures that they were delivered to the
351 town and city clerks on Saturday to adhere to the deadline, the
Brown campaign is asserting otherwise.…Galvin said. “We’ve worked very hard to make sure every community
received their absentee ballots on time and at this point, we are working
to make sure the various clerks offices are following through. We are
fully committed to making sure everyone gets their ballot no matter who
they will vote for. The objective of this letter seems to be to create
controversy or an issue where there isn’t one.”
From the above statement, it appears Massachusetts is simply satisfied with the fact that they sent the ballots to local election officials; however, the Brown campaign is asking the bigger and legitimate question – whether the ballots were actually mailed out by the due date or even at all. If not, there is a big problem.
MSNBC Discovers Voter Fraud, at last
MSNBC has finally reported on voter fraud, but only after it involves the GOP. It’s funny how some networks and election blogs only cover voter fraud when it involves the GOP, and only then to make a point. This blog will continue to cover voter fraud, no matter the political stripes of the perpetrators.
“Florida counties start checking for illegal voters”
The Florida Division of Elections this week sent the names of 198
registered voters to the supervisors of elections in the counties where
those voters live, after using a federal homeland securityLink.
“A victory for voter integrity” in Texas
The U.S. Supreme Court has denied an emergency request by Project Vote affiliate Voting for America to block several election integrity measures enacted by the Texas legislature in 2011 to prevent voter registration fraud. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said the ruling is “a victory for voter integrity and helps Texas prevent fraud in the voter-registration process.” Abbott’s statement: “The partisan groups that challenged these laws were founded by and affiliated with ACORN – an organization that was notorious for voter-registration fraud. With this ruling, the court rejected these ACORN affiliates’ attempts to circumvent election integrity laws and helped ensure that Texans can have confidence in the integrity of their elections.”
Voter Registration Problem Grows in Florida
AP has more.
More on illegal snowbird voting discovered by True the Vote
Five More Charged with Absentee Ballot Fraud in Arkansas
Following this month’s earlier guilty pleas in federal court to felony election fraud charges by four Arkansas men, including now-former state representative Hudson Hallum, five more have been charged with absentee ballot fraud during the same 2011 elections: “Five Crittenden County residents were charged Tuesday with using absentee ballots to defraud an election official during three special elections in 2011… Those who were charged Tuesday are: Eric Fontain Cox, Amos Sanders, Lisa Burns, Deshay Lorenzo Parker III and Leroy Grant.” Can a few fraudulent ballots change the outcome of an election? Ask Hallum – he won the 2011 Democratic primary runoff election by eight votes.
Absentee Ballot Fraud in Miami
Fox News has the story:
“Absentee ballot voting is by definition open to possible fraud in that the individual who gets the ballot could be subject to either intimidation or manipulation in some fashion,” Pastor said. “This is not very easy to determine.”
J. Christian Adams, a former Department of Justice official, recalled how he litigated a 2005 absentee ballot fraud case in federal court in Mississippi. A judge ruled that Mississippi’s former Noxubee County Democratic Party leader, Ike Brown, in collaboration with the Noxubee Democratic Executive Committee “manipulated the political process in ways specifically intended and designed to impair and impede participation of white voters and to dilute their votes.”
“It’s sophisticated people preying on the unsophisticated,” Adams said of the “boleteros” problem. “It’s persuasive people preying on the indifferent.”
It is humorous that in a story that has absolutely nothing to do with Voter ID, some can’t help themselves and are compelled to trumpet their biases against voter ID, no matter the intervew topic.
Florida Finds and Purges NonCitizen Voters
It took a lot of gnashing of teeth, DOJ resistance, partisan hyperbole but finally Florida has a process that is more accurate in identifying non-citizens. Miami Herald has more. The 73-year-old Caragan, who moved to the United States in 1970 from the Philippines, said that when she was living in Norfolk, Va., more than 35 years ago, she renewed her driver’s license and registered to vote at the same time, without realizing it was illegal.”
“But Anita Caragan of Panama City Beach, a U.S. resident who is not a citizen, told a Herald reporter that she has been voting “for a long, long time.” Records show the no-party-affiliation noncitizen has cast ballots in 10 Florida elections since 2000.
Noncitizen voting is a federal felony enforced by the Department of Justice.