Voter Fraud in Orange County, California - Gabriela Applegate (if she even exists) has never lived at 4002 W. Flight Avenue, Santa Ana, CA.
Voter Fraud in Orange County, California - Gabriela Applegate (if she
even exists) has never lived at 4002 W. Flight Avenue, Santa Ana, CA.
Citing high number of rural black voters, Maine GOP chair suspects "improprieties" at the polls
By Lucy Madison
CBS News
November 15, 2012
Maine Republican Party chairman Charlie Webster is doubling down on his
suggestion that there were "improprieties" at the Maine polls last
week, insisting he received complaints from candidates in small towns
across the state that "new people came to vote" and "I believe that
that's questionable."
Webster has been the source of some controversy after suggesting in an
interview with WCSH-TV this week that "In some parts of rural Maine,
there were dozens, dozens of black people who came in and voted on
Election Day."
"Everybody has a right to vote, but nobody in [these] towns knows
anyone who's black," Webster told WCSH-TV's Don Carrigan. "How did that
happen? I don't know. We're going to find out."
Reached on his cell phone by CBSNews.com, Webster refused to provide
details regarding the specific towns in question, the number of "new"
voters to whom he was referring, or the percentage of those people who
were African-American. Megan Sanborn, a spokesperson for Secretary of
State Charlie Summers, told CBSNews.com the office had not received any
complaints or accusations of voter fraud from the past election, and
that there had been no noticeable uptick in African-American turnout in
the state.
"At this point this has become much more drama than I want to deal
with," said Webster. "I didn't realize that [Maine] had changed so much
that we have to be so politically correct, and I apologize if someone
was offended."
Webster defended his initial statement, however, arguing that he meant
to say people in small towns generally know their neighbors, and that
in the particular complaints he received, some of the allegedly
unfamiliar voters were African-American.
"This was something that people called me about as chairman saying,
'Gee, why do we have so many people show up that no one knows?'"
Webster said. "My feeling is that there are people who vote in more
than one place and they're not residents of the communities that live
here... There's a lot of us who believe that there's voter
improprieties in Maine."
"I think if I hadn't in error made comments suggesting it was black
people or Hispanic people or Mexican people or Chinese people -- in
this case it was African-American people -- it wouldn't be that big a
deal," he added.
Webster said he doesn't understand "how anybody could misinterpret" his
comments as racially charged or discriminatory, and that a handful of
members of the media are "making this more than it is."
"It's not the black thing. It's not about being black. It's about the
fact that when you live in a small town most people know you. I live in
a town of six or seven thousand people. There are some black people. I
would know most of these people," he said. For example, he said, he
knows a Chinese man who lives up the street from him. "If there were a
number of Chinese people who came in, I'd say, 'wow.'" Asked if that is
because he only knows one Chinese person in town, he said yes.
"People who, for example, are black would stand out in a small town in
Maine. They wouldn't be discriminated against; there would be nothing
wrong with that, but you know your neighbors in rural Maine," he said.
Because no evidence has been provided to support Webster's claims,
Sanborn says the Secretary of State's office will not proceed with an
investigation.
"Our office can't do anything off of hearsay and Secretary Summers
feels that every Maine person has the right to vote," said Sanborn, who
added that Summers had been "a little shocked" by Webster's comments.
"He is proud that Maine has one of the highest voter turnout rates in
the nation."
Webster, however, plans to conduct something of an investigation
himself. He says that after ending his tenure as Maine GOP chair on
December 1, he'll use his own money to send out postcards in the towns
where he suspects fraud to see how many are returned to sender.
"If I mail 500 postcards to a small town and 50 come back, you'll
wonder why people don't get the mail where they said they lived," he
said. "If every one is delivered then it won't matter, will it?"
The Left’s National Vote Fraud Strategy Exposed
TUESDAY, 08 MAY 2012 00:00
JAMES SIMPSON
This report reveals the Left’s vote fraud strategy for the 2012
elections. Like a KGB operation, it is thorough, multi-faceted and
redundant. It has overt and covert, illegal and legal elements, the
latter of which are designed, at least in part, to facilitate illegal
activities later. It is a deliberate, premeditated, comprehensive plan
to win the 2012 presidential election at all costs, and is in keeping
with the organizational methods, associations and ethics of the
Community-Organizer-in-Chief, Barack Obama.
The Left seeks fundamental structural change to our entire form of
government. In keeping with their amoral, means-justifies-ends
philosophy, they will register any voters, dead or alive, legal or
illegal, who will then vote as many times as possible, in order to
establish a “permanent progressive majority.” As two New York Democrats
recently caught in a vote fraud scandal told police, “voter fraud is an
accepted way of winning elections…”
Low income individuals are the perfect dupes for this strategy. An
expanding welfare state makes them increasingly dependent on government
benefits, a development that guarantees their vote for liberal-left
candidates. At the same time, people with marginal attachment to
society may be less inclined to report illegal activity at the polls—or
actually participate. The “victim” narrative promoted in popular
culture and press may even encourage such behavior. Meanwhile, a
growing tax burden and public debt suck private enterprise dry—pushing
ever more people onto the dole.
Politicians of both parties are not above engaging in vote fraud. But
this kind of corruption is relegated to individual campaigns or areas
where corrupt political establishments have been able to develop
unchallenged. It is not a systematic component of overall national
strategy, as it is with the Left.
This strategy has been under development for decades. They have
constructed an entire industry devoted to this task and pursue a
multifaceted strategy to accomplish it:
1. Swamp election officials with overwhelming numbers of registrations
at the last possible minute, a huge proportion of which are
deliberately fraudulent, in order to create systematic chaos. This
accomplishes numerous goals:
Makes verification of
registrations difficult, given the small size and limited budgets of
state and local election offices.
Provides multiple opportunities for vote fraud.
Throws the entire voting
process into question, providing pretext for lawsuits where concessions
may be obtained from election officials.
When election officials challenge
registrations, they are accused of “voter suppression.” This in turn
serves complementary goals:
Charge of “voter
suppression” reinforces the Left’s narrative about America as an
oppressive, “racist” country.
Publicity and lawsuits
intimidate election officials, who settle on terms favorable to the
Left.
2. Activists sue state authorities for “voter suppression,” creating
further chaos and pressuring them to become de facto taxpayer-funded
voter registration operations;
3. Eric Holder’s Justice Department tacitly supports voter intimidation
tactics, sues states and backs private lawsuits, and resists reform as
“voter suppression.”
4. Leftist echo chamber discredits allegations of vote fraud, supports
“suppression” theme, and promotes advantageous legislation.
The ultimate goal is a systematized, taxpayer-funded voting machinery
that will guarantee maximum participation from the Left’s voting
demographic while undermining the ability to manage elections and
prevent fraud.
The ACORN Swamping Method
Key to understanding the Left’s vote-fraud strategy is the community
organizing group ACORN. ACORN has become synonymous with corruption,
complicity in the subprime mortgage crisis and especially vote fraud.
ACORN and its voter registration arm, Project Vote, hire marginal and
unskilled workers at very low rates and use incentive bonuses or quotas
to encourage them to collect as many voter registrations as possible.
The resulting flood of registrations are fraught with duplicates,
errors and omissions, and a large number are overtly fraudulent,
including names like “Donald Duck,” “Mickey Mouse,” “Tony Romo” of the
Dallas Cowboys, etc.[2] According to Matthew Vadum, the senior editor
at Capital Research Center, a total of 400,000 bogus ACORN
registrations were thrown out in 2008 alone.
ACORN was supposedly disbanded in 2010 but resurrected itself under a
slew of new names. Former ACORN President Bertha Lewis bragged that
they created “…18 bulletproof community-organizing Frankensteins…” Most
of these groups occupy former ACORN offices, many with the same staff.
ACORN is directly connected to Obama and the Democratic Party. Counsel
to The Advance Group, a strategic planning company, is Michael Gaspard,
Patrick Gaspard’s brother. Patrick is currently the DNC’s executive
director and President Obama’s former political director. He has worked
for ACORN, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the
Working Families Party, a descendant of the ACORN-founded New Party
which Barack Obama joined in 1996. Obama has bragged of “fighting
alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career.”
ACORN’s former deputy regional director, Amy Busefink was convicted in
2010 of vote fraud stemming from a 2008 Nevada case. Judicial Watch
found that, “while under criminal indictment in Nevada… [Busefink]
managed an online program for Project Vote’s 2010 Colorado campaign,
the ultimate goal of which is to allow people without a driver’s
license or state identification to register to vote online.” Busefink
is now national field director for Project Vote.
Barack Obama established his organizing bona fides with Project Vote in 1992, when he registered 150,000 Illinois voters.
Project Vote was created and run for years by Zach Polett, who bragged
that he trained Barack Obama in 1992 and said of Obama, “ACORN produces
leaders.” Polett is listed in Manta.com as president of Voting for
America, one of Project Vote’s former names, although his name is not
on Project Vote’s website. Calls to that listing roll into a voice mail
identifying the organizations as “CSI.” Polett’s extension is #3. CSI
is the acronym for Citizens Services Inc., another supposedly defunct
ACORN group that was used to hide over $800,000 paid by candidate Obama
to ACORN in 2008.
This kind of duplicitous activity reflects a deliberate methodology. ACORN is a criminal organization.
The Cloward Piven Strategy
ACORN is the face of vote fraud, but its intellectual foundation is the
Cloward Piven Strategy. Sociology professors Richard Cloward (Columbia
University) and Frances Fox Piven (CUNY) were founding members of
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Cloward died in 2001 but Piven
lives on.
In 1966 Cloward and Piven penned an article for The Nation magazine
titled “The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty.” They
posited that if the poor were organized into street armies to demand
all welfare benefits available to them, they could overwhelm and crash
the system.
It became known as the “Cloward-Piven Strategy,” and is credited with
expanding welfare rolls 151 percent between 1965 and 1974 and bringing
New York City to the brink of bankruptcy in 1975.
The Issue is Never the Issue
The Left’s solution to everything is socialism, although they are
usually careful not to name it, instead identifying issues that
seemingly only their policies can redress. But “the issue is never the
issue. The issue is always the revolution” as David Horowitz has
explained. The “issues” are mere distractions.
Cloward and Piven initially claimed to be agitating for a “guaranteed
national income.” Such a policy is plainly unsustainable; however, it
would institutionalize their strategy, creating an enormous, permanent
drag on the whole economy precipitating an even larger crash later on.
Cloward and Piven’s true goal was to find any instrument to
institutionalize their orchestrated anarchy, and poor people were the
tool.
Wade Rathke, a veteran of those early efforts, was mentored by Cloward
and Piven. Rathke and other radicals created a new organization, ACORN,
and sought ways to further extend the Strategy.
With passage of the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act, ACORN and other
activist groups got in the housing business. They began pushing banks
to offer high-risk mortgage loans to low/no income borrowers. The
Clinton administration aggressively ramped up the effort. To encourage
lenders and investors, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac underwrote the risk.
Since its passage, CRA lending has exceeded $6 trillion. The mortgage
crisis was Cloward-Piven onsteroids.
Meanwhile, Cloward and Piven had not been idle. In 1982 they created
the Human Service Employees Registration and Voter Education Fund
(Human SERVE) to build political momentum for a law that would turn
state motor vehicle and welfare agencies into low-income voter
registration offices.
Motor Voter Signing Ceremony - Cloward in light grey suit, Piven in green. Source: the White House
Throughout the 1980s, Human SERVE field-tested legal and political
strategies to promote this plan. The fruits of its labor were finally
realized with “Motor Voter,” the National Voter Registration Act of
1993 (NVRA), signed into law with Cloward and Piven standing directly
behind President Clinton.
The NVRA requires motor vehicle, military recruiting, public assistance
and other state and local offices to offer voter-registration services.
The NVRA has become a beacon for vote fraud. Its minimal verification
requirements opened the door to ACORN-style massive voter registration
fraud, and in the confusion provide blanket opportunities for vote
fraud.
Voter ID laws have become critically important. According to a Pew
report, approximately 24 million or 12.5 percent of voter registrations
nationally are either invalid or inaccurate, including about 1.8
million deceased individuals, and 2.75 million with multiple-state
registrations.
And while the NRVA has provisions for purging the rolls in Section 8,
they require a complex, process spanning multiple election cycles. In
some cases, the NRVA replaced better mechanisms already in use. Many
states have simply not followed these procedures with any regularity.
The Left ignores all this, focusing on enforcing NRVA’s Section 7.
Section 7 Lawsuits
While capitalizing on the vote fraud swamping strategy enabled by the
NVRA, ACORN, Project Vote and others sue states that don’t aggressively
execute the voter registration activities required by Section 7 of the
law. The narrative is always “voter suppression,” and settlements have
forced state agencies to become de facto low income voter registration
drives.
Not only must states develop, maintain and execute plans for assuring
comprehensive registration, they are forced to report regularly to
ACORN lawyers. A 2009 settlement between ACORN and Missouri’s
Department of Social Services is illustrative. DSS must:
Create an NVRA State Coordinator position
Designate an NVRA Site Coordinator for Family Support Division offices
Keep detailed records of client visits and registration activities
Immediately send a letter
offering registration to any individual who “may not have been given
the opportunity to register…”
Report detailed compliance data to plaintiff lawyers every month.
State coordinator’s performance measured by NVRA compliance
ACORN will receive $450,000 in settlement.
In these settlements, ACORN effectively assumes an executive role over
state agencies. Notably, there is no corollary requirement to ascertain
the legality of registrations or to clean up the rolls.
Project Vote has taken recent actions against Louisiana, Ohio, Indiana,
Georgia, and New Mexico. They just announced their intention to sue
Pennsylvania.
Project Vote formed agreements with Colorado in 2008 and 2010.
According to Judicial Watch, after Project Vote’s involvement “the
percentage of invalid voter registration forms from Colorado public
assistance agencies was four times the national average.”
Though largely unnoticed until now, this litigation tactic has been
used since the 1980s, when Human SERVE’s legal allies sued state
authorities for settlements creating localized versions of Motor Voter.
While capitalizing on the vote swamping strategy enabled by Motor
Voter, ACORN and Project Vote picked up the torch for SERVE, which
closed its doors in 2000. Frances Fox Piven serves today on Project
Vote’s Board of Directors. Significantly, President Obama has named the
voter registration initiative of his reelection effort “Project Vote.”
Piven also has many other connections to Obama. She was a
founding member of Progressives for Obama. Her Democratic Socialists of
America bragged that it was responsible for the success of Obama’s
“ground game” in 2008. Piven was one of 130 founding members of the
radical left Campaign for America’s Future. Many CAF members also sit
on the board of the Apollo Alliance, the executor of Obama’s “Green”
jobs initiative.
DOJ and ACORN Team Up for 2012
Judicial Watch obtained several documents showing coordination between
DOJ, Project Vote and the White House.[i] In one email, Project Vote
demanded action on NVRA cases. Less than a month later, DOJ sued Rhode
Island for NVRA noncompliance. Similarly, DOJ’s Louisiana NVRA suit
followed Project Vote’s by a few months. Project Vote is promoting
prospective employees for DOJ’s Voting Rights section.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The VRA outlawed poll taxes and literacy tests for voting. Section 5
requires certain states and other political subdivisions to obtain
“preclearance,” or permission, from either DOJ or the U.S. District
Court in Washington, DC, on any change affecting voting.
Currently, preclearance states covered in whole or in part include:
Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana,
Michigan, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, South
Carolina, South Dakota, Texas and Virginia. Set in 1982 to expire in
2007, Congress extended the VRA for another 25 years in 2006.
The VRA has come into sharp focus this year as the Holder
administration has used VRA preclearance requirements to stall or
prevent voter ID laws from being enacted. Non-preclearance states have
faced stiff court challenges from other leftist groups.
Alabama – Alabama’s new photo ID law has a 2014 effective date. Alabama has not yet applied for pre-clearance.
Arizona – 9th Circuit upheld ID requirement of new law; struck requirement that voter provecitizenship.
Mississippi – A Voter ID amendment was approved by voters with a 62
percent margin in 2011. A bill to implement the amendment passed April
10, 2012. Requires preclearance. No word yet from Justice.
South Carolina – DOJ denied pre-clearance for new ID law in December 2011. State filed for reconsideration.
Texas – DOJ denied pre-clearance for new ID law. Texas filed suit with
three-judge panel seeking pre-clearance; DOJ asked court to postpone
trial.
Wisconsin – State judge ruled Wisconsin’s voter ID law unconstitutional (read the opinion). State will appeal.
The Wisconsin case is an example of independent groups working to
sabotage reform efforts. In a suit brought by the League of Women
Voters, the NAACP and others, the judge found ID laws “unconstitutional
to the extent they serve as a condition for voting at the polls.” This
was a bizarre ruling. Wisconsin’s Constitution clearly allows
mechanisms to establish voter eligibility.
Despite the Left’s best efforts, voter ID laws have been proposed this year in 32 states.
A Personal Testimony
J. Christian Adams is a former DOJ election lawyer who worked on the
Philadelphia Black Panther voter intimidation case. He resigned in
protest of Eric Holder’s race-based application of the law. According
to Adams’ new book, Injustice, Eric Holder became directly involved in
the Black Panther case. Mr. Adams agreed to be interviewed for this
report.
DOJ is engaged in a massive
campaign to force states to… become aggressive voter registration
offices…
DOJ announced they would not enforce Section 8 because it won’t increase turnout.
States are infested with dead voters on the rolls.
Investigations into eight states with widespread voter roll problems… were spiked
Because of Motor Voter, voter rolls in many states seeing influx of illegal aliens.
Data show that illegal aliens are participating in American elections.
DOJ is using [VRA] Sec. 5 to stop voter integrity initiatives.
Every one of Holder’s 113 new attorney hires is a far-left radical.
Famed civil rights attorney Bartle Bull was a poll watcher at that
Philadelphia location when the Black Panthers appeared. He testified in
the case, calling it “the most blatant form of voter intimidation” he
had ever seen.
ACORN’s swamping method is now being replicated all over the country,
especially in swing states or those with critical elections like
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s recall vote. Even local communities
are affected. For example, the Wake County (Raleigh/Durham) registrar
described a swamping effort conducted by North Carolina’s Public
Interest Research Group (PIRG).
While these organizations are nominally independent, closer inspection
often reveals interlocking directorates and/or shared staff. Many are
supported directly or indirectly by George Soros foundations. The chart
below, compiled by North Carolina Civitas Institute, includes many
organizations that worked with ACORN there.
A Textbook Case: Houston Votes
In July 2010, a newly-formed voter registration group named Houston
Votes (HV) announced it intended to register 100,000 Houston, Texas
area voters in a few months. Catherine Engelbrecht, Leader of True the
Vote (TTV) and King Street Patriots (KSP), was skeptical. Her group
checked about 1,000 HV registrations. The number of erroneous
registrations submitted by HV and Democracia—a group targeting
unregistered Hispanics—was, she said, “off the charts.”
They brought their results to Harris County Registrar, Leo Vasquez, who
reviewed HV registrations. He found that of 25,640 submitted, only
7,193 were “apparently new voters.” On August 24, Vasquez held an
unprecedented press conference, announcing:
Evidence shows that the Houston Votes and Texans Together organization
is conspiring in a pattern of falsification of government documents,
suborning of perjury and a deliberate effort to over-burden our
processing system with thousands of duplicate and incomplete voter
registration applications.
He raised concerns that HV was, like ACORN, paying employees based on
the number of applications they turned in, and cited specific examples
of problematic registrations:
3,531 No match for SSN or driver’s license number
1,597 Multiple apps for the same person
1,014 Pre-existing voters
1,030 Incomplete apps
25 Non-citizens
325 Minors
129 Ineligible felons
1,133 No ID
1,323 Filed past deadline
Three days later, a massive warehouse fire destroyed Harris County’s
10,000 voting machines. The fire’s timing bred suspicions, fed almost
exclusively by the Left, which sought through innuendo to implicate
KSP. A Huffington Post headline two days later was typical: “Possible
Arson and the Right’s Texas Voter Suppression Effort.” This theme was
repeated ad nauseam in the liberal media echo chamber. The Houston Fire
Department later cited “an unspecified electrical short” as the cause,
an explanation that satisfied no one.
HV held a press conference the day of the fire, calling Vasquez’s
allegations “reckless and false” and “an apparently coordinated,
partisan effort to suppress voter registration and to intimidate
citizens into not voting…” They demanded the Justice Department
investigate.
HV dismissed mistakes with the familiar ACORN refrain, blaming a few
low-level employees who were fired when errors were discovered.
However, Vasquez specifically cited 180 erroneous registrations turned
in by Directors Sean Caddle and Neil Hudelson—more errors than usually
submitted in total by traditional voter registration drives.
HV boasted their group was “non-partisan” but an attentive blogger
quickly proved otherwise. One of the people training volunteers for
Houston Votes was Maria Isabel, an Obama operative made famous by the
photo of her office sporting a poster of Che Guevara.
BarackObama.com advertised HV’s “volunteer” deputy training.
Participating groups included, Atascocita Texas for Obama, Houston For
Obama, Houston Obama Leadership Team, Houston Women For Obama, and
other similar groups.
HV Directors Hudelson and Caddle were quickly discovered to be
long-time Democratic activists. At last notice they had returned to
Caddle’s home state of New Jersey, working for Democratic Jersey City
Council-at-Large candidate Sue Mack. She lost.
A little more digging revealed Houston Votes to be part of America
Votes, a Soros-funded organization tied to ACORN, SEIU, and a universe
of other leftwing groups.
America Votes specifically targeted Texas in its 2010 Redistricting
Control Project. With 38 electoral votes, Texas is only exceeded by
California’s 55. Latinos are the fastest growing ethnic group in Texas,
not coincidentally home to the second largest illegal immigrant
population in the U.S.
One quarter of Texans reside in the Houston metropolitan region and
there are 25 state house seats in Harris County. Prior to the 2010
elections, Republicans held a slim majority of three seats in the Texas
House. Winning in Houston had the potential to flip the House, giving
Democrats control over redistricting. They wanted to “turn Texas blue.”
The Advisory Board of HV’s parent organization, Texans Together
Education Fund, included a number of prominent left-wing Democrats. One
was Grande Dame of Texas politics, Sissy Farenthold, who worked with
the radical left Institute for Policy Studies in the 1980s. Another was
Democrat Kristi Thibaut, a state legislator trying to hold her District
133 seat. She had worked for ACORN and was under investigation by the
Texas Ethics Commission. Yet another was Sue Schechter, running for
Harris County Clerk. Not only was HV extremely partisan, but plainly
the Texas arm of Soros’s project.
America Votes failed in 2010. Republican control of the Texas state
house increased by 44 seats in a nationwide sweep that brought
Republican control to statehouses not seen since 1928. America Votes is
targeting Florida, Michigan, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania and
Wisconsin in 2012.
But the Left still wasn’t finished in Texas. The Texas Democratic Party
sued the Harris County Registrar’s office, the Registrar and other
employees.
Harris County had settled another suit with the Democrats in 2008
stemming from 67,554 rejected applications, mostly submitted by ACORN.
Democrats had charged “voter suppression” then too, over registrations
rejected for incomplete or inaccurate information—the kind ACORN excels
at.
Because Texas is a preclearance state, redistricting maps must be
approved. This year’s maps were challenged in court by Latino groups.
This delayed the primary, neutralizing any impact Texas may have had on
the Republican presidential primary process.
Voter Intimidation
KSP organized approximately 1,000 poll watchers for the 2010 elections.
This outraged the Left, unused to having its inner city monopoly
threatened. Texans Together Education Fund sued the King Street
Patriots, True the Vote, Catherine Engelbrecht and her husband. On the
first day of early voting, the Texas Democrat Party also filed a suit,
a move characterized by KSP’s legal team as a naked effort to
intimidate KSP-trained poll watchers.
Throughout the 2010 electoral cycle, the Left hurled accusations of
“voter suppression” and “voter intimidation” at Catherine Engelbrecht,
TTV, KSP and the volunteer poll watchers they trained. This narrative
was promoted uncritically by the local press. Blogger Ann “Babe”
Huggett, writing for EmergingCorruption.com, reported:
ABC Channel 13 quoted Democrats suing KSP that
KSP leaders could see jail time for voter intimidation. ABC’s own
video, however, shows otherwise.
Channel 26 reporter Isiah Carey asked
repeatedly if the King Street Patriots hadn’t created a hostile
environment. KSP offered witness testimony that it was “the other side”
doing the intimidating.
New Black Panther leader,
Quanell X, threatened that his men would “protect” people from the
TTV-trained poll watchers.
Emails from communist Van
Jones’ Color of Change circulated through liberal circles, charging
poll-watcher voter intimidation.
Local radio station Magic 102.1 FM
repeated bogus charges about assaults on black voters… including
spitting and physical assault… on black grandmothers.
But it was actually poll judges, poll workers and Quanell X’s Houston
Black Panther group, who did much of the intimidating. Assistant County
Attorney Douglas Ray disclosed after an investigation that Harris
County poll workers and election judges had committed the violations
blamed on KSP. He was silent on the Panthers.
Poll Watchers submitted 763 incident reports, detailing over 3,000
violations, to Harris County. These included intimidation, harassment
and illegal voter assistance conducted by poll judges and workers. To
date there has been no response from the County. Three poll watchers
were willing to be identified by name and spoke to reporters at a KSP
press conference. KSP invited the Justice Department to witness what
was happening. Justice never responded.
Independent of KSP, poll judge Carmen Cuneo gave compelling video
testimony about how the chief judge had her removed and threatened with
arrest after she confronted Quanell X about his group’s activities at
the poll.
True the Vote and the Wisconsin Recall
Union groups used the swarming method earlier this year in a recall
petition of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. They reportedly submitted
one million petitions, needing only 540,208. The Democrat-controlled
Government Accountability Board (GAB), responsible for verifying
petitions, flatly refused to do so.
In an astonishing, heroic effort, True the Vote joined an effort called
Verify the Recall and developed a method to verify recall petitions
online. They built a nationwide network of 14,000 volunteers almost
overnight, who checked 92 percent of the petitions in 22 days. The
findings were stunning:
819,233 records (not 1 million)
534,685 verified legitimate (65 percent)
In addition to numerous bogus “Donald Duck” petitions, signers included:
29 Wisconsin judges—one who later issued a restraining order against Walker’s Voter ID law.
A deputy DA, 19 attorneys and dozens of other DA
employees. Some had been working on a heavily criticized “secret” John
Doe investigation of Governor Walker at the time.
25 Gannett News journalists
Several members of WTMJ-4 news staff
School board members
Four University of Wisconsin regents and the university’s chief spokesman.
A Democratic activist
charged with seven felony ID theft counts and two of felony vote fraud.
He signed up family members and neighbors, including a deceased man,
without their knowledge or consent.
The GAB refused to consider VTR’s work and certified 900,000 petitions,
but it was clear that Walker opponents had committed extensive vote
fraud. The fraud would have gone undetected if not for the work of TTV.”
Leftwing “Reform” Efforts
Universal Voter Registration (UVR)
Cloward and Piven saw the NVRA as an intermediate goal. They made that
clear in their book. The flurry of lawsuits and systemic fraud
generated by the NVRA all build momentum to find a permanent solution.
And the Left had the answer before they started:
Universal Voter Registration.
UVR calls for automatically registering voters listed on various state
and federal databases. Leftist groups argue it will solve all voter
registration problems, but the left created most of them. UVR would
create more:
1. UVR undermines the Constitution.
2. UVR facilitates illegal alien voting
3. Homeowners with more than one property create duplicates.
4. The many state & federal lists will create duplicates
5. Because so many lists exist with little or no cross-checking these duplicates are likely to go uncorrected.
UVR would institutionalize the crisis strategy, and provide countless opportunities for vote fraud.
National Popular Vote
The National Popular Vote bill seeks to effectively abolish the
Electoral College by enacting state laws that give all electors from
those states that have passed the bill to the winner of the national
popular vote. Direct elections would become universal when enough state
legislatures have passed legislation to make up a majority of the
electoral vote (270 of 538). Eight states and the District of Columbus,
totaling 132 electoral votes, have passed NPV laws. The Electoral
College was created to ensure that less populous states would not be
overlooked in presidential elections. If successful, this effort will
make vast swaths of our nation completely irrelevant to presidential
candidates, as they would then focus all their efforts on large
population centers.
Felon Voting
Project Vote disingenuously argues that rights should be restored to
former felons. Almost every state has provisions to restore voting
rights to former felons. ProCon.org claims about 5.2 million felons are
“disenfranchised.” But only current prisoners have no recourse—about
1.4 million. They exaggerate the problem for unclear reasons. The “wise
Latina,” Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, favors felon voting.
Same Day Voting
Same-day voter registration in Ohio led to ACORN’s permanent expulsion
from that state. Then-Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, an alumna of
George Soros’s Secretary of State Project (see below), announced a
“Golden Week” for same day registration and voting. ACORN submitted
thousands of bogus registrations, including the notorious case where
one man was paid to register 73 times.
Former Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold proposed a nationwide same-day
voting law in 2009, but his state’s experience with it has been
disastrous. An investigation into the 2004 elections by the Milwaukee
Police concluded the only way to prevent widespread fraud is to
discontinue same-day voting. A 2011 study found errors in one-third of
same-day voter registrations in Milwaukee County.
Nine states currently have same day voting laws.
Secretary of State Project
The Soros funded Secretary of State Project seeks to elect leftist
Democrats to that critical post. SoS Project-backed Minnesota Secretary
of State Mark Ritchie demonstrated the value of this program when
comedian Al Franken eked out a victory in his 2008 U.S. Senate race
amidst numerous, well-documented allegations of vote fraud.
The SoS Project did poorly in 2010, however. Ritchie was one of only
two SoS-backed candidates to survive the Republican tidal wave.
The project’s website, secstateproject.org, is no longer operational. There is a Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/secstateproject. It does not appear to get much
traffic. This may reflect a temporary lull in activity, or Soros and
his minions have moved to more promising initiatives.
What Is To Be Done?
The 2012 election may be the most important election in American
history. American citizens acting in the best interest of our country
must be the bulwark against fraud. There are many things people can do,
suitable to their time and resource constraints. Here is a list of
options:
Volunteer with True the Vote (www.truethevote.org) and join your
state’s affiliate. True the Vote is conducting training all over the
country. Find your state affiliate.
Bookmark Protect Your Vote! (www.protectyourvote.us). This website
provides state-by-state information about voting laws, vote fraud risk,
and updated information about voter ID efforts.
Judicial Watch has done more than any other organization to expose the
activities of this corrupt administration and Justice Department under
Eric Holder. Sign up for email alerts atwww.judicialwatch.org.
Read, print and distribute the Patriot’s Handbook. This free resource
contains a wealth of information on how people can participate at any
level.
The National Voter Registration Act was crafted specifically to bring
calculated chaos to our elections, open the door to vote fraud and
force states to become de facto voter registration drives heavily
favorable to one political party. Similarly, Attorney General Eric
Holder and his allies have abused the Voting Rights Act, turning
preclearance into a political weapon to sabotage voter integrity
efforts. The results are a voting system vulnerable to systemic fraud.
Our most fundamental right as Americans, to determine the size, scope
and indeed the very nature of our nation, is being threatened. This
must not stand.
James Simpson
James
Simpson is a former Office of Management and Budget (White House budget
office) economist and budget analyst. He is currently a businessman and
freelance writer. Best known for his exposé on the Cloward Piven
Strategy of manufactured crisis, his writings have been published in
American Thinker, The New Media Journal, Washington Times, FrontPage
Magazine, Whistleblower, DefenseWatch, Soldier of Fortune and others.
His blog is Truth and Consequences.