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    Liberal Star Tribune Discovers Vote Fraud in Democrat vs Democrat Primary -



    Voter fraud is so rare “you’re more likely to get hit by lightning than find a case of prosecutorial voter fraud,” according to Judith Browne-Dianis, co-director of the liberal Advancement Project.

    Apparently lightning has struck very hard in a local primary election according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune whose only real reference to voter fraud in the past two years was to reprint a St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial mocking the possibility of its existence as "GOP voter suppression efforts." What has made the Star Tribune suddenly discover the (GASP!) existence of voter fraud is that it was allegedly perpetrated by one Democrat candidate against another Democrat in a primary. Here is the Star Tribune finally acknowledging the existence of this "rare" crime but only because it involves Democrat vs Democrat:
    The Hennepin County attorney’s office is investigating whether a private mailbox center in Minneapolis’ Cedar-Riverside neighborhood has been improperly used as an address for more than 140 voters.
    State records show that 419 Cedar Avenue S. has been used by some of the voters as far back as 2008.
    No one lives at the address, which is a Somali-dominated commercial building housing several small businesses and a popular mail center. Several dozen apartments upstairs use a different building number. Records also show that more than 90 of the registrants at that address have voted in previous elections, although it’s unclear how many voted while registered at 419 Cedar.
    The investigation reignites a long-running debate about voter fraud in Minnesota and is the latest flash point in the highly competitive race between Capitol stalwart Rep. Phyllis Kahn and Mohamud Noor, who would become the first Somali-American elected to the Legislature if elected. Kahn was denied the DFL endorsement in April due in part to Noor’s ability to turn out Somali supporters. An August primary will decide the fate of the race.
    After discovering the number of registrants at 419 Cedar, Brian Rice, an attorney for Kahn’s campaign, filed a petition asking the county to investigate.
    “Every person needs to know they can only vote where they live,” Rice said in an e-mail. “Any person registered at 419 Cedar cannot be allowed to vote from that address.”
    So does that mean that Democrat Kahn would support the efforts of organizations such as of True The Vote? Of course not. However, suddenly she is in favor of voter integrity when it comes to her own primary race against a fellow Democrat suspected of perpetrating voter fraud. A bit of karmatic kickback is involved here since Democrats in Minnesota have been loudly opposed to stronger voter ID requirements:
    Conservatives for years have argued that the state’s system was vulnerable to fraud and pushed for greater voter security. Democrats, in their attempts to broaden access, insisted that fraud was minimal and that Republicans wanted to depress turnout.
    “There is a side of me that is kind of chuckling,” Sen. Scott Newman, R-Hutchinson, said Monday. Newman sponsored the failed constitutional amendment that would have required voters to present photo ID at the polls. “This particular story lends credence to what some of us have tried to accomplish.”
    Newman said voters in 2012 rejected the idea that a voter ID requirement should be enshrined in the constitution but, “the issue of voter fraud has never gone away.”
    http://newsbusters.org/blogs/pj-glad...mocrat-primary

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    Charges Against Connecticut Democrat Could Severely Damage the Left’s Argument That Voter Fraud Doesn’t Exist

    Police arrested Connecticut state Rep. Christina “Tita” Ayala (D-Bridgeport) Friday on 19 voting fraud charges. The Chief State’s Attorney’s Office said in a press release that Ayala allegedly voted in local and state elections in districts where she does not reside.

    Ayala also allegedly fabricated evidence to investigators with the state Election Enforcement Commission, providing an inaccurate address to justify her voting in a district where she doesn’t actually live, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
    Photo contributed to New Haven Register

    The voter fraud charges come after the Elections Enforcement Commission referred the case to the Office of the Chief State’s Attorney and recommended criminal charges in 2013.
    More from the New Haven Register:
    Ayala allegedly voted in various Bridgeport Democratic Town Committee elections, a municipal primary election and a state primary election between 2009 and 2012 in districts inconsistent with the location of her residence, according to the release. She is also accused of voting in the Bridgeport state general election in 2012 in a district where she didn’t live.
    According to the Connecticut Post, Ayala’s mother, Santa, was also investigated by the Elections Enforcement Commission. The commission also recommended criminal charges be filed against Santa Ayala, the Democratic registrar of voters in Bridgeport, but none have been filed as of Friday.
    Christina Ayala was charged with eight counts of fraudulent voting, 10 counts of primary or enrollment violations and one count of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence.
    Ayala faces the possibility of decades in prison if convicted on all charges as “fraudulent voting is a felony punishable by not less than one year or more than two years in prison and a fine of $300 to $500 per count” and primary or enrollment violations and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence comes with a “maximum prison sentence of up to five years per count,” according to the Register.
    This is not her first experience with the criminal justice system either.
    Roughly two years ago, Ayala was fined for her involvement in a hit-and-run car accident. She later faced domestic violence charges after she got into a fight with her boyfriend, but they were dropped when she completed required counseling.

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    Voter Fraud in the US: Documented: Part 1

    As the elections approach - volunteer to be poll watchers and remember that the requirement for citizenship is the ability to speak English and it is ILLEGAL for non-citizens to vote in federal elections. Green card holders do not qualify either.
    Voter Fraud in the US: Documented:
    Part 1


    August 22, 2004: Voter-Registration Fraud in New York and Florida

    Voting twice in an election is punishable by up to five years in prison. Some 46,000 New Yorkers are registered to vote in both the city [New York] and Florida, a shocking finding that exposes both states to potential abuses that could alter the outcome of elections, a Daily News investigation shows. Registering in two places is illegal in both states, but the massive snowbird scandal goes undetected because election officials don't check rolls across state lines. The finding is even more stunning given the pivotal role Florida played in the 2000 presidential election, when a margin there of 537 votes tipped a victory to George W. Bush.

    Computer records analyzed by
    The News don't allow for an exact count of how many people vote in both places, because millions of names are regularly purged between elections. But The News found that between 400 and 1,000 registered voters have voted twice in at least one election, a federal offense punishable by up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. (Source)

    Autumn 2004: Voter-Registration Fraud in Michigan

    Barely a day has gone by in the run-up to the 2004 election without another outrageous story hitting the headlines. In Lansing, Michigan, the City Clerk's office complained in late September about 5,000 to 8,000 fraudulent voter-registration forms that had recently come in—courtesy, election officials believed, of the Public Interest Research Group, a liberal advocacy outfit. (Source)

    Autumn 2004: Voter Fraud in California

    Among the many abuses it has spawned, the Motor Voter law seems to have enabled illegal aliens to vote—for Democrats, evidence suggests. A 1996 INS investigation into alleged Motor Voter fraud in California's 46th Congressional district discovered that "4,023 illegal voters possibly cast ballots in the disputed election between Republican Robert Dornan and Democrat Loretta Sanchez." Dornan lost by fewer than 1,000 votes. (Source)

    Autumn 2004: Voter-Registration Fraud in Missouri

    In the 2000 election, as the Missouri Secretary of State later discovered, 56,000 St. Louis-area voters held multiple voter registrations. No one knows how much actual fraud took place, but it may have played a role in the Democratic defeats of incumbent Republican Senator John Ashcroft, who lost his seat by 49,000 votes, and gubernatorial candidate Jim Talent, who lost by 21,000 votes. (Source)

    February 10, 2005: Voter-Registration Fraud in St. Louis

    Nonaresa Montgomery was found guilty by a jury late today of perjury in a trial in St. Louis Circuit Court in the St. Louis vote fraud trial. She was found not guilty of evidence tampering. Nonaresa Montgomery, a paid worker who ran Operation Big Vote during the run-up to 2001 mayoral primary, was on trial this week in St. Louis Circuit Court on charges of perjury and tampering with evidence. Big Vote was part of a national campaign — promoted by Democrats — to register more black voters and get them to vote in the November elections.

    Montgomery is accused of hiring about 30 workers to do fraudulent voter-registration canvassing. They were supposed to have canvassed black neighborhoods and recorded names of potential voters to be contacted later to vote in the Nov. 7 election. And they were paid by the number of cards they filled out. Instead of knocking on doors, however, they sat down at a fast-food restaurant and wrote out names and information from an outdated voter list.

    The charges stem from about 1,500 fraudulent voter registration cards that were turned in to the St. Louis Board of Elections on Feb. 7, 2001, the deadline for registering for the mayoral primary. Board employees realized that there was a serious problem with some of the cards when they spotted the name of longtime Alderman Albert “Red” Villa, who died in 1990. (Source)

    2006: United States Election Assistance Commission Report on Outcomes of Court Cases of Voter Fraud

    This document contains 197 pages detailing the facts of voter-fraud cases across the United States. (Source)

    June 2006: Report of the Investigation into the November 2, 2004 General Election in the City of Milwaukee [Wisconsin]

    This 67-page report examines evidence of widespread voter fraud in Milwaukee. (Source)

    October 29, 2006: Voter Fraud in the Names of Dead People on Voter Rolls in New York and Chicago

    The new [New York] statewide database of registered voters contains as many as 77,000 dead people on its rolls, and as many as 2,600 of them have cast votes from the grave. The [Poughkeepsie] Journal identified dead people on the voter rolls in all 62 counties and people in as many as 45 counties who had votes recorded after they had died.

    One address in the Bronx was listed as the home for as many as 191 registered voters who had died. The address is 5901 Palisade Ave., site of the Hebrew Home for the Aged.

    Democrats who cast votes after they died outnumbered Republicans by more than a 4-to-1 margin. The reason: Most of them came from Democrat-dominated New York City, where higher population produced more matches.

    Inspectors estimated as many as 1 in 10 ballots cast in Chicago during the 1982 Illinois gubernatorial election were fraudulent for various reasons, including votes by the dead. (Source)

    July 27, 2007: Voter-Registration Fraud in Washington State (ACORN)

    Workers accused of concocting the biggest voter-registration-fraud scheme in [Washington] state history said they were under pressure from the community-organizing group that hired them to sign up more voters, according to charging papers filed Thursday.

    To boost their output, the defendants allegedly went to the downtown Seattle Public Library, where they filled out voter-registration forms using names they made up or found in phone books, newspapers and baby-naming books. One defendant "said it was hard work making up all those cards," and another "said he would often sit at home, smoke marijuana and fill out cards," according to a probable-cause statement written by King County sheriff's Detective Christopher Johnson.

    Prosecutors in King and Pierce counties filed felony charges Thursday against seven employees of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, claiming they turned in more than 1,800 phony voter-registration forms, including an estimated 55 in Pierce County.

    Most of the alleged fraud took place in King County, whose Elections Canvassing Board on Thursday revoked 1,762 voter registrations filled out by ACORN canvassers. Most of the registrations used the addresses of Seattle homeless shelters. (Source) and (Source)

    September 29, 2008: Voter-Registration Fraud in Florida and New Mexico (ACORN)

    The taxpayer-financed community group known for its fraudulent national voter registration drives has struck again, this time submitting forged applications in the key battleground state of Florida where it has signed up tens of thousands of new voters for the upcoming election.

    Just last week the Chicago-based Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), which incidentally endorses Barack Obama, got busted for submitting more than 1,000 fraudulent voter registration cards in New Mexico’s most populous county (Bernalillo).

    ACORN is notorious for falsifying information to register new voters and has been caught doing so in Milwaukee, Missouri, Ohio, North Carolina and Colorado to name a few. Last year the group settled the largest case of voter fraud in the history of Washington State after seven workers were caught submitting about 2,000 fake registration forms.

    Its latest scam was discovered in two north Florida counties (Seminole and Orange) where ACORN staffers submitted multiple duplicate registrations on behalf of six separate voters. One individual had 21 duplicate applications, according to the Election Supervisor in Orange County. (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

    October 7, 2008: Voter-Registration Fraud in Indiana (ACORN)

    New voter registrations closed Monday in Lake County [Indiana] with possible record-breaking numbers and simmering allegations of fraud and racial discrimination. Elections board Director Sally LaSota said more than 12,000 voter registration forms are waiting to be processed from recent days before the county knows how many potential voters are ready to cast ballots in the Nov. 4 general election. “It may be a record,” she said. Porter County has processed at least 3,500 voter applications since the spring primary in May, officials there said. However, the large influx has brought new controversies.

    LaSota said Monday representatives of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, a grassroots activist group conducting registration drives, dropped off 2,000 new voter applications last week in Lake County.

    “About 1,100 are no good,” she said. LaSota said the flawed forms are incomplete or contain unreadable handwriting – similar to hundreds of other forms ACORN produced prior to this week. She said some ACORN vote canvassers apparently pulled names and addresses from telephone books and forged signatures. (Source)

    October 8, 2008: Voter-Registration Fraud in Missouri (ACORN)

    Officials in Missouri, a hard-fought jewel in the presidential race, are sifting through possibly hundreds of questionable or duplicate voter-registration forms submitted by an advocacy group that has been accused of election fraud in other states. Charlene Davis, co-director of the election board in Jackson County, where Kansas City is, said the fraudulent registration forms came from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. She said they were bogging down work Wednesday, the final day Missourians could register to vote.

    “I don’t even know the entire scope of it because registrations are coming in so heavy,” Davis said. “We have identified about 100 duplicates, and probably 280 addresses that don’t exist, people who have driver’s license numbers that won’t verify or Social Security numbers that won’t verify. Some have no address at all.” (Source)

    October 10, 2008: Voter-Registration Fraud in Indiana (ACORN)

    More than 2,000 voter registration forms filed in northern Indiana's Lake County by a liberal activist group this week have turned out to be bogus, election officials said Thursday. The group – the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN – already faces allegations of filing fraudulent voter registrations in Nevada and faces investigations in other states.

    And in Lake County, home to the long-depressed steel town of Gary, the bipartisan Elections Board has stopped processing a stack of about 5,000 applications delivered just before the October 6 registration deadline after the first 2,100 turned out to be phony. (Source)

    October 13, 2008: Voter-Registration Fraud in 13 States (ACORN)

    The Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now has compiled an irrefutable record of voter registration fraud in recent elections. The non-profit is accused of submitting fraudulent voter registration applications in 13 states this election cycle. Seven of those states have already launched investigations into ACORN’s activities.

    During the 2006 election cycle, ACORN submitted false applications to election officials in Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Washington.

    Several of their organizers have already landed in jail. Seven ACORN workers were indicted for voter registration fraud in Washington last year for submitting nearly 3,400 fraudulent forms in King and Pierce County, which included applications for “Veronica Mars” and the deceased Army Ranger and NFL player Pat Tillman. Three of the workers eventually pled guilty and ACORN was ordered to pay a $25,000 settlement fee. (Source) and (Source)

    November 4, 2008: Voter Fraud in Milwaukee (ACORN)

    Investigators found after an eighteen-month probe that in 2004 there had been an “illegal organized attempt to influence the outcome of an election in the state of Wisconsin.” Among the problems it cited were ineligible voters casting ballots, felons not only voting but working at the polls, transient college students casting improper votes, and homeless voters possibly voting more than once.

    Examples of incompetence included the fact that between 4,600 and 5,300 more ballots were cast than voters who were recorded as having shown up at the polls in Milwaukee. More than 1,300 registration cards filled out at the polls were declared “un-enterable” or invalid by election officials.

    The report directly implicated the John Kerry campaign and allied get-out-the-vote organizations in widespread illegal voting committed by their campaign workers, many of whom came from out-of-state. The most common method they used was to abuse the state’s same-day voter registration law, which allowed anyone to show up at the polls, register and then cast a ballot. Local election officials who asked for proof of residence from these Kerry campaign staff members were often stymied when “other staff members who were registered voters vouched for them by corroborating their residency. More alarmingly, other staff members who were deputy registrars for this election simply registered these individuals as Milwaukee residents, bypassing Election officials altogether. The actions of the listed campaign and 527 staff members appear to be violations of State of Wisconsin law….”

    The [Milwaukee Police Department’s Special Investigation Unit’s] report went on at length to detail how these paid, professional workers violated the law. Case #4 was an attorney who had lived in Washington, D.C., since 1999 but came to Wisconsin to help with the campaign and voted using an address in Milwaukee. Case #6 involved another attorney who was living in England before the 2004 election. After coming to work on the Kerry campaign in Milwaukee, the person registered and voted in the 2004 election using a Milwaukee address. The owner of that address was interviewed by investigators and “stated that #6′s sole purpose in coming to the state of Wisconsin was to work on the presidential campaign” and that the person returned to England after the election.

    Investigators found that “two persons who had entered guilty pleas to misdemeanor charges of Election Fraud within one year of the November General Election also were employed as Election Inspectors” when voting took place on November 2, 2004. A total of eighteen convicted felons were sworn in as deputy registrars in 2004. Of the fifteen felons who listed a sponsoring organization, eight named ACORN as their sponsor.

    The investigators believed that at least sixteen workers from all levels of the Kerry campaign and the two get out-the vote groups “committed felony crimes.” But no prosecutors chose to pursue them, the report noted.

    The police report found that Milwaukee had no system to prevent felons, who are blocked from casting a ballot under Wisconsin law, from voting, due to the same-day registration system: It determined that at least 220 ineligible felons voted in 2004. Because it listed someone as ineligible only if it found an exact match between a voter and an ineligible felon, the report noted “there is a strong probability that the number of felons illegally voting in November 2004 is higher.”

    Milwaukee police also remarked that the city has a sad history of abusing homeless voters, with the most famous incident being the “Smokes for Votes” scandal in which a Park Avenue heiress flew in from New York in 2000 to offer cigarettes to the homeless if they voted for Al Gore. (Source)


    March 2009: Voter Fraud in Milwaukee

    In February 2008, the Milwaukee [Wisconsin] Police Department's Special Investigation Unit released a stunning report that should silence skeptics who say vote fraud is not an issue in Wisconsin. The investigators found after an 18-month probe that in 2004 there had been an "illegal organized attempt to influence the outcome of an election in the state of Wisconsin."

    Among the problems cited were ineligible voters casting ballots, felons not only voting but working at the polls, transient college students casting improper votes, and homeless voters possibly voting more than once. The report said the problem was compounded by incompetence resulting from abysmal record-keeping and inadequately trained poll workers.

    One investigator, after examining Milwaukee's election system, was quoted as saying: "I know I voted in the election, but I can't be certain it counted."

    Examples of incompetence included the fact that between 4,600 and 5,300 more ballots were cast than actual voters recorded as having shown up at the polls. Election officials declared more than 1,300 registration cards filled out at the polls were "un-enterable" or invalid....

    The Milwaukee Police Department's report minced no words about what should be done to prevent future scandals: The state should end its policy of allowing people to show up at the polls on Election Day, register to vote and then immediately cast a ballot. (Source)

    May 7, 2009: Voter-Registration Fraud in Nevada (ACORN)

    Three members of ACORN in Nevada have been indicted for voter fraud. Along with those three members of ACORN, one of which was a regional director-type person, ACORN itself was indicted. The amount of fraudulent voter registrations for these three people is astronomical.
    The New York Times, hardly a conservative newspaper, reported out of 91,002 voter registration forms for Clark County, Nevada, only 23,186 turned out to be valid. That means barely over one out of four forms in a single county in Nevada was legitimate. (Source)

    April 24, 2010: Voter Fraud in Wisconsin

    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. After the infamous registration scandals involving ACORN in 2008, this was clearly a strange priority. Requests for an absentee ballot in a single election would also become permanent (without requiring a legitimate reason, such as infirmity), and the ballots would be automatically mailed out in future elections.

    Coercion and chicanery are made much easier by the excessive use of absentee ballots. Most of the elections thrown out by courts—Miami, Florida's mayoral election in 1998, the East Chicago, Indiana's mayor's race in 2005—involved fraudulent absentee votes.

    Three decades ago absentee and early ballots were only 5% of all votes cast nationwide. In 2008, they exceeded 25%. Wisconsin's bill would also have allowed voters to register on the Internet without supplying a signature—thus removing a valuable protection against identity theft and election fraud.

    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. The report was largely ignored, and just before the 2008 election the police department's Special Investigative Unit was ordered by superiors not to send anyone to polling places on Election Day.

    The Milwaukee Police Department's report on the 2004 election concluded "the one thing that could eliminate a large percentage of the fraud" would be to end same-day registration. Today, eight other states have some form of Election Day voter registration: Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Wyoming. Montana began Election Day voter registration in 2006, North Carolina in 2007, and Iowa in 2008.

    But Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold, a Democrat, has introduced federal legislation to mandate same-day registration in every state, claiming the system has worked well in his state. Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York is readying a bill to override the election laws of all 50 states and require universal voter registration—which would automatically register anyone on key government lists. This is a move guaranteed to create duplicate registrations, register some illegal aliens, and sow confusion. (Source)

    September 25, 2010: Voter-Registration Fraud in Texas

    Two weeks ago the Harris County [Texas] voter registrar took [True The Vote's] work and the findings of his own investigation and handed them over to both the Texas Secretary of State’s office and the Harris County district attorney. Most of the findings focused on a group called Houston Votes, a voter registration group headed by Sean Caddle, who also worked for the Service Employees International Union before coming to Houston. Among the findings were that only 1,793 of the 25,000 registrations the group submitted appeared to be valid.


    The other registrations included one of a woman who registered six times in the same day; registrations of non-citizens; so many applications from one Houston Voters collector in one day that it was deemed to be beyond human capability; and 1,597 registrations that named the same person multiple times, often with different signatures. (Source)

    October 22, 2010: Voter-Registration Fraud in Arizona

    Yesterday, the Yuma Sun reported that two organizations, Mi Familia Vota and One Vote Arizona, submitted more than 3,000 voter registrations in Yuma County [Arizona] right before the deadline for registering voters. The groups submitted over 20,000 registrations statewide. Even more, they have signed up 43,000 people statewide for the permanent early voter list.

    What the
    Yuma Sun did not tell you is that over 65% of these last minute registrations were invalid due to the registrant not being a citizen, a wrong/invalid address, or a false signature. What they didn’t tell you is that voter fraud on a massive scale could be taking place, ostensibly to help Raul Grijalva keep the Congressional seat he holds by stealing the election.

    These 3000 voter registration forms were all dropped off at once by the one group on the deadline to turn in voter registration forms. Almost all of the registrations were for the Democratic Party, a statistical improbability at best.

    The Yuma Recorder’s office is checking the voter registration forms and have found that already more than 65% of them are invalid due to the registrant not being a citizen, wrong/invalid address, false signature, etc. (Source)

    November 12, 2010: Suspected Voter Fraud in Pennsylvania

    Late last week, the Bucks County [Pennsylvania] Republican Committee made the sensible decision to withdraw its challenges to over 1,600 absentee ballot applications. The GOP's action was the right thing to do, since the ballots can't change the results of Tuesday's election. That should hardly end the matter, however. Any allegation of voter fraud must be taken seriously. Although the votes cast via absentee ballot no longer matter in this case, the integrity of the process has come under fire. (Source)

    January 12, 2011: Voter Fraud in Nevada and Other States (ACORN)

    A Las Vegas [Nevada] 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.

    This isn’t the first time Busefink was involved in shady electoral dealings. Even while under indictment in Nevada she ran the 2010 national voter drive for Project Vote, which was President Obama’s employer in 1992. Project Vote and ACORN have long been indistinguishable. Project Vote still operates out of ACORN’s offices in Washington, D.C.

    Busefink also ran ACORN’s fraud-ridden 2008 voter registration drive. In that drive, officials chucked an astounding 400,000 bogus registrations. (Source)

    March 31, 2011: Voter Fraud and Voter-Registration Fraud in Colorado

    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.

    Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler, a Republican, told the panel that his department’s study identified nearly 12,000 people who were not citizens but were still registered to vote in Colorado.

    Of those non-citizen registered voters, nearly 5,000 took part in the 2010 general election in which Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet narrowly defeated Republican Ken Buck.

    Colorado conducted the study by comparing the state’s voter registration database with driver’s license records. (Source)

    June 11, 2011: Voter Fraud in New Mexico

    New Mexico State Police will review a staggering 64,000 voter cases to determine if any fraud has occurred in recent elections.

    Public Safety Director Gorden Eden outlined the scope of the investigation during an interview last week. He said the voter files were turned over to state police by Secretary of State Dianna Duran. Duran, a Republican, publicly told legislators in March that her staff had uncovered 37 instances of possible voter fraud, though she said her investigation had only begun. That small stack of what Duran called "questionable" cases has turned into a mountain of files for police to pore over. Duran said her staff had flagged tens of thousands of voter records that needed "further review" by criminal investigators.

    New Mexico has about 1.16 million registered voters, so the cases Duran has sent to police could account for more than 5 percent of the total. (Source)

    August 10, 2011: Voter-Registration Fraud in Nevada (ACORN)

    A Nevada judge on Wednesday gave ACORN, the defunct grass-roots community organization, the maximum fine for its illegal voter-registration scheme in that state. District Court Judge Donald Mosley was blunt and unsparing in his criticism of the discredited activist group. Citing the long history of voter registration fraud allegations that engulfed ACORN across the country, he slapped the group with a $5,000 fine for violating Nevada election law during the 2008 presidential election.

    Mosley, reading the pre-sentence report, listed a series of voter registration fraud allegations against ACORN workers. He said that if the claims have been true, then "It is making a mockery of our election process. If I had an individual in this courtroom...who was responsible for this kind of thing, I would put that person in prison for 10 years, hard time, and not think twice about it," he said. "To me this is reprehensible. This is the kind of thing you see in some banana republic, Uruguay or someplace, not in the United States."

    In Nevada, ACORN pleaded guilty to one felony count of unlawful compensation for registration of voters, stemming from an illegal voter registration scheme in its Las Vegas office during in the 2008 race.

    The group paid a bonus to workers to sign up 21 or more voters per shift, calling the program "21," or "Blackjack." It is illegal in Nevada to pay bonuses to register voters.

    The case was the first and so far only prosecution of ACORN itself. The previous ACORN cases that made headlines nationwide, included numerous convictions of ACORN employees for voter registration fraud.

    Allegations ranged from trying to register dead people and making up fictitious voters, to plucking names out of the phone book. (Source) and (Source)

    October 16, 2011: Voter Fraud in Minnesota

    A group that monitors elections in Minnesota and roots out fraudulent votes is warning ballot fraud is on the rise across the nation, and if unchecked, the ultimate consequences would be an electorate that simply doesn’t believe the system works and refuses to participate – “a total breakdown in the cohesion of American society.” That’s from spokesman Dan McGrath of the Minnesota Majority, which advocates for traditional values in state and federal public policy through grassroots activism. The group also contributes to the work of ElectionIntegrityWatch.com to focus specifically on elections and voter fraud.

    Minnesota Majority reported that its investigations of fraud allegations arising from the 2008 general election in the state so far have resulted in 113 convictions. Another 200 or so cases are being processed or are pending but might not be completed because the statute of limitations expires next month, three years after the election.

    And a stunning 2,800 or more cases cannot be prosecuted because of the wording in the state law that essentially requires voter fraud participants to admit they knew what they were doing was illegal in order for a conviction to be obtained, the organization said.

    The organization’s report on voter fraud said the convictions appear to be the highest number since a scheme in Jackson County, Mo., in 1936 resulted in 259 individuals convicted of voter fraud.

    A more recent effort by the U.S. Department of Justice that encompassed five years resulted in just 53 convictions, the group said. (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

    January 12, 2012: Voter Fraud in South Carolina

    [South Carolina] 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.

    What is unclear from the analysis released Wednesday to a House Judiciary Committee panel from the state Department of Motor Vehicles is whether voter fraud was committed by people assuming the identities of the deceased, or if poor record keeping has resulted in South Carolina residents being classified as deceased. (Source)

    January 17, 2012: [Thousands of] Unverifiable Voters in Minnesota’s Elections
    (Source) and (Source)

    January 30, 2012: Voter Fraud in West Virginia

    Lincoln County [West Virginia] Sheriff Jerry Bowman and Clerk Donald Whitten will plead guilty to charges that they attempted to flood the 2010 Democratic primary with fraudulent absentee ballots, becoming the latest southern West Virginia officeholders ensnared by an investigation into election fraud, federal and state officials announced Monday.

    Bowman has agreed to plead guilty to a federal conspiracy charge. He is accused of trying to stuff the ballot box in his favor while running for circuit clerk, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin and Secretary of State Natalie Tennant said. Whitten will plead guilty to lying to a retired FBI agent hired by Tennant to investigate the influx of absentee ballots in that primary.

    A judge later threw out more than 300 contested absentee ballots, reversing Bowman's initial victory and securing the nomination for incumbent Circuit Clerk Charles Brumfield. Bowman and Whitten have agreed to resign by the time of their plea hearing, which are not yet scheduled, and have already begun cooperating with investigators. Their plea agreements, filed Monday, mention but do not identify co-conspirators. (Source)

    February 14, 2012: Almost 2 Million Dead People Registered to Vote

    A new report by the Pew Center on the States finds that more than 1.8 million dead people are currently registered to vote. And 24 million registrations are either invalid or inaccurate. The Pew study found that almost 3 million people are registered to vote in more than one state. (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

    February 16, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Maryland

    An analysis of 7,000 Montgomery County [Maryland] voter registrations found that 5,400 registrations contained irregularities. (Source)

    February 29, 2012: Fraudulent Recall Petition Signatures in Wisconsin

    "True the Vote," in conjunction with the "Verify the Recall" volunteers, recently completed its data input and analysis of [Governor Scott] Walker Recall Petition signatures. (The link to actual data can be found at:http://www.truethevote.org/reports/w...ec-summary.pdf.) Here's a brief breakdown of the numbers:

    * Total number of signatures submitted was approximately 800,000.
    * Number of pages (of recall petitions) submitted: 152,508
    * Number of records processed: 1,382,058
    * Blank lines (on petition pages): 557,469
    * Unique records: 819,233
    * Incomplete/undecipherable records: 36,127
    * Signed w/date out of range: 14,763
    * Out of state: 4,718
    * Duplicate signatures: 5,356
    * TOTAL INELIGIBLE SIGNATURES: 55,606
    * TOTAL SIGNATURES FOR FURTHER INVESTIGATION: 228,940
    (These signatures were partially marked through, illegible, possibly false, mismatched, or otherwise compromised.)
    * TOTAL ELIGIBLE SIGNATURES based on data available: 534,685
    (Source)

    March 9, 2009: Voter Fraud in Iowa

    Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz said Friday he is pursuing a number of cases of voter fraud, proving the need for his now-stalled voter ID bill. Following an appearance at Cafe Diem in Ames, Schultz said there could be “hundreds” of such cases but he could not elaborate on specific cases.“Because they are at the investigation level, and those cases were specifically referred to county attorneys, once the county attorneys have determined whether they can prosecute then it will be public,” Schultz said. Schultz also said the number of cases is an estimate. “We’re not sure (how many cases there are),” he said. “We’ve got to verify that information.” (Source)

    May 4, 2012: Voter Fraud in Philadelphia

    In the 1960s [in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania], a Democratic ward leader took shoe boxes full of quarters to the polls in poor neighborhoods – "to pay off voters," a veteran election lawyer recalls.

    In 1993, a judge overturned a pivotal State Senate race because of hundreds of bogus absentee ballots.

    In last year's primary, dozens of polling places mysteriously recorded more votes in some races than the number of voters who'd signed in. (Source)


    May 7, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Florida

    The NBC2 Investigators have uncovered hundreds of convicted felons registered to vote in Florida.

    When you're found guilty of a crime in the state of Florida, you lose your right to vote, but NBC2 Investigator Andy Pierrotti found, drug traffickers, murders and rapists remain on the voter rolls.

    Our investigation uncovered 414 inmates who were registered to vote, after matching names of felons in the Department of Corrections with Floridians voter registration records. (Source)


    May 9, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Florida, Colorado, and New Mexico

    The state's investigation into potential noncitizens registered to vote has nearly doubled. It's an update to an exclusive NBC2 investigation we first broke on Monday, showing state election supervisors were now investigating non-citizens registered, and in some cases, casting ballots in elections.

    Originally, 1,251 voters were discovered. The Division of Elections now says it's at 2,671. Miami Dade [Florida] County's Elections Supervisor's office confirms says the state has identified nearly 2,000 potential non-citizens registered in its county alone.

    Amid an increasingly partisan dog fight, Florida elections officials say the number of potential non-citizens they’re examining on the state voter rolls is far higher than what was initially reported: 180,000.

    By the end of the process, the state could send counties as many as 22,000 names to check, one election source indicated, in a state with more than 12 million total voters. Right now, supervisors have been sent nearly 2,700 names, about 2,000 of which are in Miami-Dade, Florida’s most-populous and most-immigrant heavy county.

    Some Democrats accuse the Republican-appointed Secretary of State Ken Detzner of engaging in a type of “voter suppression.”

    The effort in Florida was inspired by Colorado’s Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler, who said last year that he initially identified a pool of 16,000 potential non-citizen voters in his state. New Mexico — also run by a Republican Secretary of State — searched and found 104. (Source) and (Source) and (Source)


    May 16, 2012: Voter Fraud in Michigan

    A state audit showing about 1,500 votes cast by dead people and prisoners during a period of less than three years ignited a debate Tuesday over whether voter fraud is a serious problem in Michigan.

    The Secretary of State's Office, which supervises Michigan elections, said every example cited in a new report by Auditor General Thomas McTavish involved clerks accidentally crossing incorrect names off voter lists, and not one example was the result of someone voting using another person's identity.

    But dead people and prisoners aren't supposed to be on voter lists, and critics say such sloppiness can undermine the system's integrity. They say further outside investigation might be needed to determine whether fraud was a factor in what McTavish found. (Source)


    May 17, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Florida

    [Florida's local election] supervisors, meeting at their annual summer conference, peppered state election officials with questions about the list of more than 2,600 people who have been identified as being in Florida legally but ineligible to vote. That list was sent to supervisors recently, but state officials have also said there may be as many as 182,000 registered voters who may not be citizens.

    The questions about voter eligibility surface as the state continues its months-long efforts to scrub the rolls, including asking supervisors to remove more than 53,000 dead people discovered by comparing voter rolls to federal Social Security files. This was the first time the state checked the files.

    Florida law requires voters to be a U.S. citizen residing in the state. Florida also does not allow someone to vote if they are a convicted felon and have not had their civil rights restored.

    The state has been responsible for helping screen voters since 2006 when it launched a statewide voter registration database. The state database is supposed to check the names of registered voters against other databases, including ones that contain the names of people who have died and people who have been sent to prison.

    Prior to the launch of the database, Florida had come under fire for previous efforts to remove felons from the voting rolls, including a purge that happened right before the 2000 presidential election. (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

    May 29, 2012: Voter Fraud in Florida

    Just last month Florida election officials were denied help by the feds to confirm citizenship status (and voter fraud) for an estimated 180,000 illegal immigrants already registered to vote in Florida. That’s 180,000 votes in just one SWING state in an election that is going to boil down to, as Mrs. Obama said, a “few thousand votes.”

    According to state records, Florida election officials have determined that massive voter fraud is taking place and that as many as 180,000 non-residents are registered to vote in the sunshine state, and it only came to the attention of state election officials early last year when the state’s DMV turned over a large data-set containing the population’s residency information. Upon sampling the data and running some preliminary checks, officials narrowed their estimate of illegally registered voters to 180,000.

    Florida’s Motor Voter Act of 1993 (which most states have some form of) PROHIBITED even asking immigration status when an individual filled out their voter registration form while FAILING to require proof of citizenship. One Naples voter admitted to NBC-2 Tampa reporter Andy Pierrotti that she was not a U.S. Citizen NOR A LEGAL IMMIGRANT – election records show she voted six times in the past eleven years. (Source) and (Source)

    June 5, 2012: Voter Fraud in Wisconsin

    A Madison City Clerk has told a Wisconsin radio host that turnout for the area is expected at over 100%, up to 119%.

    Heavy turnout in Madison, a liberal stronghold, would likely benefit Democrat Tom Barrett.

    Progressives shrug the 119% figure off as evidence that people are registering at the polls to vote. Considering that Wisconsin has oddly relaxed voter ID laws and a judge granted an injunction against measures that would have protected people's votes, is it any surprise? (Source) and (Source) and (Source)


    June 5, 2012: Suspected Voter Fraud in New Jersey

    New Jersey Democrats Reps. Bill Pascrell and Steve Rothman – facing one another in a primary election after their districts were merged as a result of redistricting – exchanged heated accusations of dirty politics in the hours before voting got underway on Tuesday.

    Rothman's team complained about possible irregularities and had a county elections superintendent impound 2,000 absentee ballots they found suspicious. Late Monday night a judge ruled that decision went too far and ordered the ballots be counted.

    Pascrell called the effort "the most pathetic thing I've ever seen in politics" when he went to vote Tuesday morning. His campaign manager, Justin Myers, said the effort "rings eerily similar to Republican efforts across the country to impede people's rights to vote."

    "To deny people the right to vote, to manufacture a reason why votes are not counted, it's worse than Jim Crow," Pascrell said.

    Rothman sought to impound the ballots after 680 postcards mailed to people who registered to vote in Passaic County (were Pascrell was running registration drives) were returned as undeliverable. "People aren't there. This raises serious questions about potential voter fraud by the Pascrell campaign," said Rothman spokesman Paul Swibinski. (Source) and (Source)

    July 15, 2012: Voter Fraud and Voter-Registration Fraud in Texas

    Greg Abbott [the Texas attorney general], defending the state’s stalled voter identification law, said in a
    Fox News interview on July 15, 2012: "What we have proved in Texas is that voter fraud exists. We have more than 200 dead people who voted in the last election – and we proved that in court in addition to the fact that the voter ID law will have no disenfranchisement effect on the voters in the state of Texas."

    To our inquiry, Abbott spokeswoman Lauren Bean passed along a fact sheet from Abbott’s office related to the just-completed trial. By email, Bean said an official with the Texas Secretary of State’s office, which oversees elections, testified that it had found 239 people who voted in the May 2012 primaries "who were actually dead when they supposedly voted."

    Bean told us a list presented by the Justice Department at the trial identified 57,718 registered Texas voters as deceased. Bean said the comparison of that list to reports of who voted in the 2012 primaries revealed that 239 voter identification numbers belonging to deceased registered voters were used to cast ballots. (Source)


    July 18, 2012: Voting Irregularities in Philadelphia County, 2012 Primary Election

    See this detailed 27-page PDF report on voter fraud in Philadelphia, released by Al Schmidt – City Commissioner of Philadelphia. (Source) and (Source)

    July 25, 2012: Vote-Buying in Kentucky

    Voter fraud has a shocking new meaning in eastern Kentucky. That is where in some cases, major cocaine and marijuana dealers admitted to buying votes to steal elections, and the result is the corruption of American democracy. The government continues to mete out justice in the scandal, as two people convicted in April in a vote-buying case face sentencing this week, and another public official pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy.

    "We believe that drug money did buy votes," Kerry B. Harvey, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, said of a separate vote-buying case.

    He described a stunning vote-buying scheme that includes "very extensive, organized criminal activity, involving hundreds of thousands of dollars, and in many cases that involves drug money."

    In Clay County, according to court testimony, some of the funds to purchase votes came from massive cocaine and marijuana drug trafficking operations.

    "They did use drug money to buy votes, and drug dealers felt they would be protected," Harvey said.

    Prosecutors say more than $400,000, part of it drug proceeds, was pooled by Democratic and Republican politicians over several elections, and spent to buy the votes of more than 8,000 voters, usually at $50 apiece. One voter was even able to bid up the cost of his vote to $800.

    In the Eastern District of Kentucky alone, more than 20 public elected officials and others have either been convicted or plead guilty in various vote-buying cases just in the last two years.

    On Tuesday, former Breathitt County School Superintendent Arch Turner pleaded guilty to conspiracy during the 2010 primary election, admitting he handed out money to buy votes. On Thursday, two others will be sentenced after they were convicted of vote-buying-related charges in the same contest. (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

    July 26, 2012: Voter Fraud and Voter-Registration Fraud in Virginia

    A felon living in Louisa County [Virginia] registered to vote illegally and then cast a ballot in the 2008 presidential election after filling out and submitting a voter-registration form she received by mail from the Voter Participation Center, a State Senator who prosecuted the case confirmed Wednesday.

    The case is the first known instance of voter fraud that resulted from voter registration mailings by the Voter Participation Center, a nonprofit that has distributed 5 million third-party registration forms across the country and nearly 200,000 in Virginia this year targeting Democrat-leaning voting blocs, such as unmarried women, young people and minorities.

    State election officials and local registrars say hundreds, if not thousands, of the forms have been sent to ineligible voters, including dead relatives, children, non-U.S. citizens, already registered voters, and pets. The voting group, which has ties to progressive organizations, fills in the documents with the names and addresses of the people they are trying to reach.

    In 2010, then Louisa County Commonwealth's Attorney Thomas A. Garrett Jr. — now a State Senator — prosecuted Bonnie Nicholson, 57, on felony charges of illegally registering to vote and unlawfully casting a ballot in the 2008 general election. (Source)

    July 27, 2012: Voter Fraud in Maryland

    A Maryland group with loose ties to a tea party organization in Texas says it has found evidence of ballots cast at polling places in the state long after the voters were listed as deceased, but has not decided what to do with the information.

    Election Integrity Maryland has turned over information to state and county election board officials on 9,000 people listed on voter rolls in Montgomery and Prince George's counties and Baltimore city who, it says, are deceased or have an improper address.

    Asked whether the group has found evidence of voter fraud in the state, Election Integrity Maryland President Cathy Kelleher said it has.“We have evidence of it we've not made public yet because we're quintuple verifying,” she said. “We have evidence of voters voting long after their deaths.” (Source)

    August 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Virginia

    All is not well in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The state has announced the shocking preliminary results of an extensive police investigation of voter registration "irregularities" – a polite word for the ugly reality of voter fraud.

    As the
    Richmond Times-Dispatch has reported, the investigation has resulted in charges filed against 38 people across the state, with a warrant issued for a 39th person who can't be found. " According to reports, most of those cases have resulted in convictions, while 26 more cases continue to be investigated "nearly 3 years after the Board of Elections forwarded more than 400 voter and election fraud allegations from 62 cities and counties to the Virginia State Police for individual investigation." And Richmond, the city with the highest minority population in the group, had the largest number of election "irregularities" referred for prosecution.

    The scam in several jurisdictions involved left-wing voter advocacy groups asking convicted felons to register to vote even though their felon-status prevented them from casting a legal ballot. These liberal groups would convince the felons that they could register to vote and that their voting rights had been or would be restored. "Don't worry," they essentially said, "just register and we'll take care of the legalities." In the end, Virginia officials now believe, the felons cast illegal votes, which effectively diluted and nullified the votes of law-abiding Virginians. (Source)

    August 6, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Virginia

    Virginia election officials decided Monday to not take action against a D.C. group that sent voter registration cards to dead people, children and pets and prompted calls for an investigation from Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

    The Virginia Board of Elections said it was already working with the Voter Participation Center to improve the group's registration practices so ineligible voters would not be targeted in the future.

    Romney's campaign recently called for an investigation of the group, which targeted minorities and young voters when it sent out 200,000 registration cards. The campaign said it was satisfied with the board's decision.

    "The Voter Participation Center has already admitted its misconduct, and we are glad that the State Board of Elections quickly convened a meeting on the issue," said Romney spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg. "Even in the absence of a formal investigation, we are heartened that the group is being forced to stop mailing misleading, [partially completed] voter registration forms in Virginia."

    The Voter Participation Center's effort led to about 15,000 legal registrations, though the group admitted that many ineligible voters also inadvertently received cards. State election officials said they received hundreds of complaints about the group's latest mailing. (Source) and (Source)

    August 8, 2012: Voter Fraud in Minnesota

    In the '08 campaign, Republican Sen. Norm Coleman was running for re-election against Democrat Al Franken [in Minnesota]. It was impossibly close; on the morning after the election, after 2.9 million people had voted, Coleman led Franken by 725 votes.

    Franken and his Democratic allies dispatched an army of lawyers to challenge the results. After the first canvass, Coleman's lead was down to 206 votes. That was followed by months of wrangling and litigation. In the end, Franken was declared the winner by 312 votes. He was sworn into office in July 2009, eight months after the election.

    During the controversy a conservative group called Minnesota Majority began to look into claims of voter fraud. Comparing criminal records with voting rolls, the group identified 1,099 felons – all ineligible to vote – who had voted in the Franken-Coleman race.

    Minnesota Majority took the information to prosecutors across the state, many of whom showed no interest in pursuing it. But Minnesota law requires authorities to investigate such leads. And so far, Fund and von Spakovsky report, 177 people have been convicted – not just accused, but convicted – of voting fraudulently in the Senate race. Another 66 are awaiting trial. (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

    August 9, 2012: Dead People on the Voter Rolls in Virginia

    Around 10,000 deceased people were recently found on Virginia's voter rolls by the State Board of Elections. (Source)

    August 11, 2012: Voter Fraud in Iowa

    An Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation agent has been assigned to work full-time with Secretary of State Matt Schultz's office to look into allegations of voter fraud, the Republican election chief's top cause, state officials confirmed Friday.

    Schultz's office said it will spend up to $280,000 in tax dollars over the next two years for the services of Special Agent Daniel Dawson, who has been reassigned from the major crimes unit to work exclusively on voting and election fraud issues. DCI assistant director Charis Paulson said Dawson is already looking into about 2,000 possible voter fraud violations identified through data matching performed by Schultz's office. (Source)


    August 12, 2012: Cases of Election Fraud Since 2000

    The nation has 2,068 cases of alleged election fraud since 2000. By category, Unknown had the highest percentage of accused at 31 percent (645 cases), followed by Voters at 31 percent (633 cases). The most prevalent fraud was Absentee Ballot Fraud at 24 percent (491 cases). The status of most cases was Pleaded at 27 percent (558 cases). Responses to requests for public records varied from state to state. Some state and local officials were quick to respond by sending available records; others failed to provide a single document. (Source)

    August 20, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in New Hampshire

    Back in 2000, as many as 1,700 UNH students illegally registered to vote in Durham, New Hampshire, and very likely voted here illegally as well.

    UNH is not the only college, nor is Durham the only college town in New Hampshire. And this is why New Hampshire Democrats have been watering down same day voter registration rules, domicile or proof of residency rules, object to voter ID, and put in place regulations to limit challenging voters. They wanted tens of thousands of same-day-registration voters and all those out-of-state college students who vote Democrat. (Source)

    August 30, 2012: Election Fraud Across the United States

    A new database from News21 provides an extensive examination of election fraud cases in all 50 states and the District of Columbia since 2000. So far, this research has found 2,068 cases of election fraud. The top-two most common types of accusations are absentee ballot fraud at 23.7 percent and voter registration fraud at 19.3 percent. The remaining 57 percent comprise a variety of types, including non-citizens casting ineligible ballots, making up 2.7 percent of the accusations, and the 10 cases of voter impersonation fraud, comprising 0.5 percent of the accusations, among others. (Source)

    August 31, 2012: Voter Rolls with Large Numbers of Ineligible Names

    Months after Judicial Watch warned election officials in a key battleground state to remove ineligible voters from its rolls JW has uncovered an alarming case that proves the integrity and legitimacy of the electoral process is not being ensured as required by federal law.

    The story, out of Florida, is almost unbelievable but JW has all the documentation to prove it. JW obtained publicly available data that indicates voter rolls around the country—including key swing states—contain the names of individuals who are ineligible to vote. They include Mississippi, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Florida, Alabama, California, and Colorado. JW found that there appear to be more individuals on voter registration lists in these states than there are individuals eligible to vote, including dead people. (Source)

    September 4, 2012: Ten Counties in Colorado Where Registered-Voter Rolls Are Larger Than the Total Voting-Age Population

    A review of voter registration data for ten counties in Colorado details a pattern of voter bloat inflating registration rolls to numbers larger than the total voting age population. Using publicly available voter data and comparing it to U.S. Census records reveals the ten counties having a total registration ranging between 104 to 140 percent of the respective populations.

    Counties such as Gilpin and Hinsdale have 110 percent of their populations registered to vote. Gilpin County has a total population of 5,441 with 17.4% of the population below the voting age, making the highest possible number of registered voters 4,494. Currently Gilpin County has 4,909 registered voters. Hinsdale County has a total population of 830 with 20% of the population below the voting age, making the highest possible number of registered voters 664. At 110 percent registration, that means that there are 515 excess voter registrations in Gilpin county and 68 excess registrations for Hinsdale.

    When Media Trackers requested comment on the voter bloat in Gilpin county, Chief Deputy Gail Maxwell explained that “This is just a reminder Gilpin is a Gaming Community. The voters come and go!”

    While these voters come and go, they manage to turn out to vote. Records show Gilpin County had 61 percent voter turnout in the 2010 election and Hinsdale County had an astounding 92 percent voter turnout. This is far above the Colorado average turnout of 48 percent, and the national average of 41 percent.

    All ten counties investigated by Media Trackers reported voter turnout greater than the national average. Nine out of ten also showed voter turnout well above the Colorado average. Mineral and San Juan counties, which have voter registration numbers of 126 percent and 112 percent respectively, had voter turnout of 96 and 83 percent respectively.

    Jackson, Summit, Cheyenne, and Elbert counties have 111, 107, 105, and 104 percent of their population registered to vote, while managing 71, 44, 71, and 63 percent voter turnout.

    Rounding out the ten counties looked at by Media Trackers are San Miguel county, which topped the list at 140 percent of the population being registered to vote and 52 percent voter turnout, and Ouray county, which had 119 percent of the population registered to vote and a whopping 74 percent voter turnout.

    While Ouray County has a total population of 4,356, with 17.8 percent of the population below the voting age, the county has 4,246 people registered to vote. The highest possible number of voting age residents in the county is 3,581, which is 775 less than the actual registered total.

    San Miguel County has a total population of 7,359 with 19.2 percent of the population below the voting age, making the highest possible number of registered voters 5,946. If the census numbers are to be trusted, that results in the possibility of up to 2,390 individuals on the voter rolls who should not be.

    In a separate analysis done by the Franklin Center, it was found that seventeen of Colorado’s sixty four counties have registration greater than 100 percent of the US Census voting age population. (Source) and (Source)

    September 5, 2012: Nearly 30,000 Dead People Are Still Registered to Vote in North Carolina

    A Raleigh-based [North Carolina] group devoted to reducing the potential for voter fraud presented the N.C. Board of Elections on Friday with a list of nearly 30,000 names of dead people statewide who are still registered to vote. The Voter Integrity Project compiled the list after obtaining death records from the state Department of Public Health from 2002 to March 31 and comparing them to the voter rolls. (Source) and (Source)

    September 16, 2012: Registered Voters in Ohio Who Should Be Ineligible to Vote

    More than one out of every five registered Ohio voters is probably ineligible to vote. In two counties, the number of registered voters actually exceeds the voting-age population: Northwestern Ohio’s Wood County shows 109 registered voters for every 100 eligible, while in Lawrence County along the Ohio River it’s a mere 104 registered per 100 eligible.

    Another 31 counties show registrations at more than 90 percent of those eligible, a rate regarded as unrealistic by most voting experts. The national average is a little more than 70 percent.

    Of the Buckeye State’s 7.8 million registered voters, nearly 1.6 million are regarded as “inactive.” That generally means either they haven’t voted in at least four years or they apparently have moved. (Source) and (Source)


    September 19, 2012: Non-Citizens Who Are Registered to Vote in Michigan

    Michigan Republican Secretary of State Ruth Johnson said Tuesday that an estimated 4,000 non-citizens are registered to vote in her state. Her announcement came a day after voting rights advocates and labor unions sued her in federal court Monday over the question of whether she can legally require voters to affirm their U.S. citizenship at their polling places.

    Plaintiffs in the case say the question of legitimate citizenship is irrelevant, because voters affirm their citizenship when they register in the first place. Johnson’s revelation Tuesday, however, demonstrated that thousands have been deemed eligible to vote despite being citizens of other countries.

    “If someone is legitimately trying to misrepresent themselves as a citizen in order to interfere with our elections, then what’s to say they won’t misrepresent themselves a second time at the ballot box?” election attorney Jocelyn Benson asked the Detroit News.

    Johnson’s estimate of illegal voters in Michigan is based on the state’s access to citizenship information for one-fifth of the population, she told the newspaper. A study of 58,000 driver’s licenses and state-issued identification cards uncovered 963 non-citizens who were registered to vote. Michigan Department of State employees also determined that 54 of those 963 already have a voting history, and have voted a total of 95 times. (Source)

    September 25, 2012: Ineligible People on Voter Rolls in Ohio

    County elections officials dismissed a slate of voter-registration challenges yesterday, the most recent skirmish in a national battle over voter rolls. The Franklin County [Ohio] Board of Elections voted 3-0 to reject a request to remove 308 people from the county’s list of registered voters for reasons as varied as providing incomplete address information, being registered at a vacant lot — or being dead.

    Carol Bicking, 62, of Blacklick, submitted the challenges this month. Bicking worked with the Ohio Voter Integrity Project to compile the request. The project is the state arm of the national True the Vote group that has issued similar challenges across the country. (Source)


    September 26, 2012: Dead People on Voter Rolls in North Carolina

    Forsyth County [North Carolina] has 550 dead people on its voter registration rolls, according to a Raleigh-based group dedicated to rooting out potential voter fraud.

    The Voter Integrity Project delivered to the N.C. State Board of Elections the names of 27,561 people who the group says are registered voters who are dead. That list included 550 people in Forsyth, Coffman said.

    The N.C. State Board of Elections looked at the same databases examined by the group and came up with 4,946 names of people who might be dead and still on the voter rolls. (Source)

    September 26, 2012: Voter Fraud in Florida and New York

    A national group looking to expose voter fraud announced Tuesday that it has unearthed more than 30 cases of absentee ballot fraud in Florida and New York. True the Vote, an advocacy group seeking to “restore integrity” in the U.S. electoral process, affirmed that it provided state and federal election officials with more than 31 cases detailing how individuals cast votes in two separate states in the same federal election.

    Logan Churchwell, a spokesman for True the Vote, told
    Fox News that the group analyzed Florida’s entire voter registration roll and evaluated it against 10 percent of New York’s voter roll. In its study, the organization pinpointed 1,700 people with voter registrations in both states. Of those people, 31 purportedly cast ballots in both states during the same election cycle. (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

    September 28, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in South Carolina

    In September 2004, Terrence Hines appeared to register voters in the city of Florence, South Carolina, at a fast pace. Paid for each completed card by the South Carolina Progressive Network, Hines submitted 1,800 registrations. But it turned out that the signatures were forged. One easy clue for election officials was that Hines had signed up Frank Willis, who was then the town's Mayor. (Source)

    September 30, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Maryland

    In Prince George’s County alone, the group identified nearly 500 dead people still on active registration rolls. Several hundred voters were found to be registered twice – primarily in Maryland and another state, and 400 voters listed vacant lots or businesses as their residential addresses.

    In Montgomery County, Election Integrity challenged over 4,000 voter records in two different submissions, the first in February and the second in July. There was a large number of deceased in the first batch, the vast majority coming from nursing home addresses, Kelleher said.

    The second submission produced a report from the Montgomery County election board which concluded that 26% of its 1,115 challenges were found to be associated with nursing homes. As a result, election board staff was assigned to address “nursing home and assisted living facility residents.”

    Kelleher and her research partners dedicate much of their days to finding fraudulent voter registration information. Just last week she concluded a report which shows 42 dead people on the state’s active voter rolls – all with the same nursing home address in Montgomery County… (Source)

    October 1, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in 12 States

    Seventy ACORN employees in 12 states have been convicted of voter registration fraud and a Congressional report revealed that more than one-third of the 1.3 million registrants submitted by the group in the 2008 election cycle were invalid. (Source) and (Source)


    October 2, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Numerous States

    True The Vote (TTV), the nonpartisan election integrity organization, today announces new research findings of voter fraud in Ohio, Florida, New York and Rhode Island. The Offices of Florida, Ohio and Rhode Island Secretaries of State, the New York State Board of Elections and the U.S. Department of Justice were formally notified of ballots cast simultaneously in both states for federal elections.

    “Our initial belief that we had uncovered only the tip of the iceberg continues to be reinforced,” True The Vote President, Catherine Engelbrecht said. “Pew Research’s finding that 2.75 million Americans are registered to vote in more than one state continues to ring true. Unfortunately, we keep seeing more people possibly voting illegally. It’s important for voters to remember that no candidate or cause is worth a felony conviction. While some will no doubt commit the same fraud this year, we can find them in a matter of months. True The Vote calls on Florida, New York, Rhode Island, Ohio and federal officials to investigate and confirm our latest research.”

    Ohio & Florida


    Similar to last week’s findings of voters committing interstate absentee ballot fraud, True The Vote cross-referenced entire voter registration lists between Ohio and Florida and alerted appropriate authorities to voters with matching full names, birthdates, addresses and voting histories demonstrating ballots cast in multiple states in a single federal election.

    True The Vote found more than 19,000 Ohio voters claiming Florida mailing addresses, according to state records. More than 6,390 people hold registrations in both states. True The Vote identified 534 individuals allegedly casting ballots in both Ohio and Florida. Today 34 cases were turned over to federal and state authorities.

    “To his credit, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted has indicated he is taking steps to address the situation with respect to voter roll maintenance,” Engelbrecht said. “However, these findings are particularly troubling given Ohio’s wholesale approach to dispensing absentee ballots for all this year. This combination of poor voter roll maintenance, emerging evidence of interstate fraud and Ohio’s new policy of absentee voting for all could create a perfect storm. The last thing we want is a repeat of the 2000 Election – this time by mail.”

    New York & Florida

    True The Vote offers new findings of absentee voter fraud between New York and Florida. Citing a new sample of less than one (1) percent of upstate New York voters, TTV found 48,630 voters claiming Florida mailing addresses. Of that sample, more than 19,000 are registered to vote in both states. Today federal and state officials were alerted to 32 new cases of interstate fraud between the Empire and Sunshine States.

    Rhode Island & Florida

    True The Vote also reports instances of voter fraud between Rhode Island and Florida. After the comprehensive cross-reference process, TTV found 53 Rhode Island voters claimed Florida addresses. More than 15 are currently registered in both states, with two (2) having voted.

    Federal and state laws were potentially violated as a result of these activities. Ohio, New York, Rhode Island and Florida each require voters to cast ballots corresponding with their permanent residential addresses. Federal law, specifically 42 U.S.C. § 1973i(e) clearly states that voters cannot cast more than one ballot in the same election. (Source)

    October 2, 2012: Disenfranchising Members of the U.S. Military

    If you are a member of the U.S. military on deployment, and you hail from the state of Wisconsin, please know that you have the heartfelt thanks of every patriotic American for your service … but you might not be able to vote in the 2012 election. That’s because, as reported by the MacIver Institute, “At least 30 Wisconsin municipalities failed to send absentee ballots to military voters before the 45 day deadline, according to former U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Anthony Principi, and he’s demanding the Government Accountability Board address the problem immediately.”

    The deadline was calculated using the estimated length of time required to send, complete, and return absentee ballots. This creates a strong risk that military ballots won’t be returned in time to be counted in the election. The deadline was not an idle suggestion – it’s part of the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voter Act.

    “This violation is particularly unsettling in light of the fact that, only six months ago, a federal court entered a consent decree against Wisconsin and the Government Accountability Board for similar violations of military voting rights,” Principi pointed out. He said these violations “may deprive service members of their fundamental right to vote.” (Source) and (Source) and (Source)


    October 2, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Florida

    A mover and shaker in Arizona politics is now under investigation, accused of voter fraud in Florida involving hundreds of voter registration cards.

    Nine counties in Florida said hundreds of voter registration cards Nathan Sproul's firm turned in are suspicious. They said they're noticing things like names not matching up to similar handwriting on different cards. (Source)

    October 11, 2012: Potential Voter Fraud in Colorado

    Of [Colorado's] 3.4 million registered voters, 1.2 million are considered inactive, providing an “opportunity for voter fraud,” said Earl Glynn, a special projects coordinator and researcher at the Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity, who conducted the analysis.

    The analysis found 31,655 Colorado voters last cast a ballot in 2000 or before. That number rises to 265,680 when looking at 2006 or before.

    And 592,292 voters show no voting history at all. Of those, 10,492 registered to vote in 2000, 121,569 in 2006 or before and 189,878 in 2011 or this year, and have not yet voted in a Congressional or presidential election. (Source)

    October 12, 2012: Deal People on Voter Rolls Nationwide: The Pew Research Center, an impeccably liberal organization, estimated there are 2 million dead people on the rolls today. (Source)

    October 12, 2012: Invalid or Error-Plagued Voter Registrations Nationwide: The Pew Research Center estimates one out of eight—one out of eight!—voter registrations in this country are either invalid, or contain major errors. (Source)

    October 22, 2012: Election Fraud in Michigan

    More than 800 absentee ballots have not made it to voters in Auburn Hills [Michigan] and are missing, stumping Clerk Terri Kowal. Kowal says Monday that she learned of the missing ballots last week when only about 650 of the more than 1,400 mailed to in early October to registered voters were returned completed. (Source)

    October 23, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Colorado

    Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler says 300 more suspected noncitizens have been found on the state's voter rolls. They were among more than 3,900 people who received letters in August questioning their citizenship. Gessler's office previously said another 141 people who received letters appeared to be noncitizens, based on a federal immigration database. (Source) and (Source)

    October 24, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Indiana

    The Democrat party chair is asking the federal government to get involved in the wrongful purge of 13,000 voters in La Porte County [Indiana] last year. Chairman John Jones said in a press release that he will be asking the U.S. Department of Justice Election Integrity Task Force to investigate exactly how the purge happened, which he said was an "effort led by Republican voters' appointee Donna Harris, the wife of county Republican chairman Keith Harris."

    Originally some 800 inactive voters were supposed to be purged in 2011. Voters are inactive if they fail to vote over two federal election cycles, meaning they have not voted since before the 2008 election that seated President Barack Obama in office. But the 13,303 who were canceled included voters who voted in Obama's election.

    Jones went on to say that "federal law is clear that voters can only be purged if they have not voted in two federal election cycles. Yet Ms. Harris began a systematic effort to wipe off the voter rolls over 13,000 voters even though they had voted in 2008 but not voted in 2010 and 2011. Well, 2011 was city elections and that doesn't count for purposes of a purge. This was wrong and Donna Harris and Keith Harris should have known better."

    Republican Party Chairman Keith Harris said he does not believe this was a partisan effort to eliminate Democrat voters, pointing out that it was the Republican co-director Donna, his wife, who developed the plan to correct the problem, and then led the effort to have it resolved. (Source)

    October 24, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Colorado

    Six weeks ago, the [Colorado] Secretary of State sent a mass mailing to suspected illegal voters hoping to snare a large group engaging in voter fraud. When news that his 3,903 mailers generated a response from just 141 people who shouldn’t be on the rolls, Republican Scott Gessler was roundly criticized for wasting resources and engaging in a witch-hunt of minorities.

    Not to be deterred, Gessler continued, announcing Tuesday that another 300 non-citizens were identified by the Department of Homeland Security. That’s 11 percent of his original list, which was compiled with the help of DMV records. Anyone who wants to obtain a driver’s license and ID card in Colorado must provide proof of lawful residence or obtain a waiver. (Source)


    October 26, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in North Carolina

    With the upcoming presidential election promising to be a close one, thousands of extra votes in a swing state ain’t pocket change. In North Carolina alone there are about 782,000 “inactive” voters, many of whom are either dead, living elsewhere, or otherwise unlikely to vote in November. In seven counties, the number of registered voters exceeds the number of voting-age citizens by a total of 4,500.

    Those inactive and phantom voters, revealed by Watchdog Labs sister organization of Watchdog.org, pose a risk to the electoral system. “Most of the registration lists in the United States are abysmal. North Carolina is near the bottom of the list, but is hardly unique,” said Robert Pastor, director of the Center for Democracy and Election Management at American University.

    How is it possible to have more voters than people? Because when a registered voter moves to a different county or state, or dies, the county’s election board is supposed to remove that individual from the voter rolls. (Source)

    October 29, 2012: Voter Fraud in Minnesota

    [Dan] McGrath, [executive director of Minnesota Majority] counted 113 convictions for illegal felon voting during the 2008 [Minnesota Senate] election, and he said many more felons – 1,099 – voted while still ineligible in 2008, but were not charged because the law says the act must be intentional. Voting by ineligible felons might have "tipped" the 2008 U.S. Senate election to Democrat Al Franken. (Source)

    November 2, 2012: Dead People on Voter-Registration Rolls in North Carolina

    [Jay] Delancy [director of the Voter Integrity Project], compared a list of North Carolina residents who died over the past 10 years with a list of registered voters. His investigation prompted state election officials to do the same. The state found 20,500 matches – people who were possibly dead.

    Eyewitness News dug deeper and learned 20 of those dead people showed some voter activity after they died. Six of them may have early voted and died before Election Day. (Source)

    November 5, 2012: Voter Fraud in Pennsylvania

    The Community Voters Project is a "non-partisan" lefty organization whose mission is to register people to vote, with a particular emphasis on minorities. In the 2008 election, they had offices in 10 states and registered around 300,000 minority voters. This year, however, it seems they aren't registering everyone who wants to vote. Outside a CVP office in Philadelphia [Pennsylvania], for example, they shredded and threw away numerous registration forms. A number of these were for people trying to register as a Republican.

    A citizen-journalist came across a large bag of trash outside the CVP office in Philadelphia. Glancing at it, the citizen saw what looked like shredded registration forms. The pictures in this post are from CVP's trash. The photo above clearly shows that the voter who submitted the shredded registration form was registering as a Republican. The picture below will give you a sense of the scale of CVP's fraud. (Source)

    November 6, 2012: Voter Fraud in Minnesota

    We all know that there was a very contentious Senate race in 2008 in Minnesota between former Senator Norm Coleman and Al Franken. In a very close race, Norm Coleman won on election night. There were recounts, he won those, but they kept recounting. After eight months of legal wrangling and court cases, the seat was finally declared Al Franken's by 312 votes. He went to Washington, he became the 60
    th Democratic Senator in 2009, and he became the 60th Senator for Obamacare. They needed 60 votes to break the Senate filibuster. We would not have Obamacare today if Al Franken had not been there.

    Now, months after Obamacare passed, a watchdog group, called Minnesota Majority, found irrefutable evidence that 1,100 felons had voted illegally in that election: 1,100. We cannot be sure
    how they voted, but Mike Plant from Fox News went around to a bunch of people and asked them how they voted; they were the felons who had voted illegally. Nine out of ten said they had voted for Al Franken.

    We cannot be sure how felons vote; it is a secret ballot. But when they register to vote, and in over half the states they register by party, the answer is 75-80% – I leave it to you to figure out which party that is. So the reasonable assumption is Al Franken took his seat because of illegal votes.

    You could not prosecute any of those people unless you could prove intent to commit the crime: that is the legal standard. So you basically had to have felons who were stupid enough to do the following: confess that they had voted illegally, admit they knew it was wrong, and basically said, What's it to you, copper There were 198 of them, at least, who were stupid enough; and they have all been convicted of felony voter fraud in the Minnesota election which elected Al Franken. 66 more cases are in the pipeline, and dozens more are being investigated. We may yet end up with more people convicted of felony voter fraud in the Al Franken election than Al Franken's victory margin. (Source)


    November 6, 2012: Voter Fraud in Ohio and Wisconsin

    Cleveland [Ohio] and Milwaukee [Wisconsin] have had long histories of voter fraud. A 78-page police report by the Milwaukee Police Department's Investigative Unit a few years ago found an organized conspiracy that tried to steal the 2004 Presidential Election. They found there were 6,000 people, for example, who had registered to vote at the polls on Election Day. They voted, their ballots were counted, but when the mail went out to their addresses to give them their voter registration card, 6,000 of them came back: there was no such address, or it was a vacant lot, or the person had not been there for years. (Source)

    November 6, 2012: Dead People on Voter-Registration Rolls in California

    An
    NBC Bay Area Investigation reports today that thousands of California voters who died years ago remain on the state’s voter rolls. (Source) and (Source)

    November 8, 2012: Voter Fraud in Colorado

    Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler (R) unveiled a study last year showing that almost 5,000 illegal aliens cast votes in the U.S. Senate election in that state in 2010. (Source)

    November 9, 2012: Possible Voter Fraud in Florida

    Out of 175,554 registered voters, 247,713 vote cards were cast in St. Lucie County, Florida on Tuesday. Barack Obama won the county.

    When faced with the astronomical figures, Gertrude Walker, Supervisor of Elections for St. Lucie County, said she had no idea why turnout was so incredibly high. She was flabbergasted, saying, "We've never seen that here."

    Coincidentally (or not), St. Lucie County is also in Allen West's district, where 6,000 votes mysteriously "shifted" from Mr. West to his challenger. (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

    November 12, 2012: Election Fraud in Florida

    Seven days after the election ended, and two days after the results were unofficially certified, Broward [Florida] elections workers Monday said they had found 963 unaccounted-for ballots in a warehouse.... "We searched every nook and cranny, high and low,'' said Ed Solomon, director of election planning and development." These are the additional ballots we found in several sweeps.'' (Source)

    November 19, 2012: Dead & Ineligible People on Voter Rolls in California

    An
    NBC Bay Area investigation has uncovered thousands of California voters who remain on the voter rolls despite having died several years ago. NBC Bay Area used the Social Security Administration’s Death Master File to cross reference with the California state voter rolls using name, date of birth, and similar zip codes to find matches. We found over 25,000 questionable names still on the state voter rolls. A closer look at the data revealed that some of the dead people were not only registered, but somehow, even voted, several years after their death. Sometimes, clerks say the mistake can purely be a clerical error, such as a misplaced signature or an outdated registration list that hadn't been purged. Other times, though, the voting turns out to be fraud, clerks say, where family members vote on their dead relatives' behalf.

    Our findings came as no surprise to Bill Morrison of Palo Alto. For Morrison, every trip to the mailbox during election season brings constant reminders of his late wife, Carol Morrison, who died in 2004 after battling cancer. Morrison continues to receive election materials including voter guides, pamphlets, and even ballots for his late wife. “It angers me and it hurts because she’s dead,” Morrison said. According to state records, Carol has voted in the last two presidential elections, despite having passed away. Morrison has made several attempts to notify the county that his wife died, including sending back her ballots with “DECEASED” marked on the envelope.

    NBC Bay Area found several other examples, too. People like Sara Schiffman of San Leandro who died in 2007 yet still voted in 2008, or former Hayward police officer Frank Canela Tapia who has voted 8 times since 2005, though he died in 2001.

    NBC Bay Area gave Contra Costa County Clerk and Recorder Steve Weir a list of more than 100 voters in his county who may have passed away. Around half a dozen of these voters have recorded votes since their death.

    Barry Garner serves as the registrar of Voters in Santa Clara County where
    NBC Bay Area found the names of 83 people who are dead and still have active voter registration files. (Source)

    November 23, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Colorado

    Colorado's Secretary of State Scott Gessler maintains that voter fraud is a serious problem – and after launching initiatives to prevent illegal ballots from being cast, his office says that exactly 518 voters were removed from the rolls due to non-citizenship – more than expected. Some may have taken themselves off the list after being contacted by his office, while others were likely taken off by county clerks.

    One of the biggest loopholes in Colorado's registration system according to the Secretary of State's office is that immigrants who aren't allowed to vote can sometimes easily sign up on the voter rolls. That means that if they vote on Election Day, it would be an act of fraud. (Source)

    May 19, 2013: Voter Fraud and Voter-Registration Fraud in Washington, DC

    Washington, DC has failed to remove from its voting rolls as many as 13,000 former residents who years ago moved to Prince George’s County and cast ballots there, making fraud by voting in two jurisdictions as easy as going to the polls in their old neighborhoods,
    The Washington Times found in a review of records.

    In dozens of cases, names are listed as voting in both jurisdictions in the November presidential election. Provided a subset of the names, the District pulled paper records and said most did not vote, but that other voters accidentally associated their ballots with the former residents’ names instead of their own.

    For others listed as voting in both jurisdictions, they had no such explanation.

    Democrats who have been deeply active for decades in the community of black, middle-class residents — who, by the tens of thousands have left the District for its eastern neighbor, though are still active in the District or employed by its government — said Prince George’s County residents using their former DC addresses to cast votes there is an open secret. (Source)

    May 23, 2013: Voter Fraud in Ohio

    In what was one of the 2012 election cycle’s most important battleground states, “voter fraud does exist,” Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted acknowledged in a report on Thursday. “But it is not an epidemic.”

    Husted, a Republican and the state’s chief elections official, said at a news conference and in an accompanying report that based on a survey of all of Ohio’s 88 counties conducted in the wake of last November’s election, 625 possible voting irregularities were reported across the state and 135 of them have been sent to law enforcement for further investigation.

    Of the 135 investigated instances of fraud in Ohio, a state where President Obama beat Mitt Romney by some 166,214 votes, 20 of them involved voters who cast ballots in both Ohio and another state and will be referred to the Ohio Attorney General.

    “Our effort to look into irregularities and root out voter fraud sends a strong message that no amount of fraud is acceptable,” Husted said in a statement. “If you cheat, you will be caught and held accountable.”

    Other “irregularities” that surfaced in the post-election survey included double voting, standing in for another voter, and voting from an address from which an individual was not eligible, according to the Secretary of State’s report.

    Before Election Day in 2012, a federal judge blocked new voting laws proposed by Ohio Republican lawmakers that were aimed at reducing voter fraud by restricting early voting. Ohio requires voters provide proof of identity at polling places such as a driver’s license, bank statement or utility bill. (Source) and (Source)

    June 17, 2013: Ballot Fraud in Indiana

    As Hillary Clinton prepares for a possible presidential run in 2016, it appears that she could have knocked then-candidate Barack Obama off the 2008 primary ballot in Indiana. If anyone, including her campaign, had challenged the names and signatures on the presidential petitions that put Obama on the ballot, election fraud would have been detected during the race. But at the time, no one did.

    On Monday, there was some closure to the case, though, as the four defendants who were convicted or pleaded guilty in the state's presidential petition fraud scandal were sentenced. Only one received prison time for the illegal scheme that touched the race for the White House.

    The plot successfully faked names and signatures on both the Obama and Clinton presidential petitions that were used to place the candidates on the ballot. So many names were forged – an estimated 200 or more – that prosecutor Stanley Levco said that had the fraud been caught during the primary, "the worst that would have happened, is maybe Barack Obama wouldn't have been on the ballot for the primary."

    In court, former longtime St. Joseph County Democratic Chairman Butch Morgan, Jr. was sentenced to one year behind bars, and is expected to serve half that, as well as Community Corrections and probation. Former St. Joseph County Board of Elections worker and Democratic volunteer Dustin Blythe received a sentence of one year in Community Corrections and probation, which means no jail time.

    Former St. Joseph County Board of Voter Registration Democratic board member Pam Brunette and Board of Voter Registration worker Beverly Shelton previously pleaded guilty and testified for prosecutors against Morgan and Blythe. They both received two years of probation. (Source)


    June 19, 2013: Election Fraud in Virginia

    A Virginia man has pleaded guilty to forging thousands of signatures in trying to get former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on the ballot in the state’s 2012 presidential primary, an NBC affiliate in Charlottesville reported.

    In December 2011, Adam Ward, 28, collected more than 11,000 signatures, according to prosecutors, but investigators could not verify more than 4,000 of them, WVIR reported. Mr. Ward has pleaded guilty to 36 counts of voter fraud and perjury. (Source) and (Source)

    August 6, 2013: Voter-Registration Fraud in Ohio

    Thirty Cincinnati-area law enforcement officers used the police stations where they work — rather than their home addresses — to register to vote, a felony punishable by up to a year in prison, Cincinnati.com reports. It's not clear whether the false registration was intentional or based on a misunderstanding of voting law. The officers may have used their work addresses so as not disclose their home addresses in public documents. And elections officials also identified more than 250 other residents of surrounding Hamilton County who were improperly using commercial addresses such as post offices and UPS stores for voter registration. The county will issue warning letters ordering residents, including the cops, to change their registrations rather than pursuing criminal charges. (Source) and (Source) and (Source)



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    Each case represents a single person voting in both states during the same federal election cycle, dating to 2006. “The 173 cases does not mean 173 illegal votes,” said Logan Churchwell, communications director for True the Vote, a nonpartisan voters’ rights and election integrity group. “It means at least double that.”

    The group used updated 2012 voting data to cross-reference Florida and Maryland registration lists. Maryland is the latest state under review in what Churchwell described as the “snow bird” project.

    Using names, dates of birth, residential addresses and federal voting information, True the Vote has already identified potential double voting abuses in Florida by way of Ohio (534 cases), New York (32) and Rhode Island (2), as of October last year. (Source)

    September 6, 2013: Voter Fraud in North Carolina

    A voting watchdog group says that election data revealing nearly 500 instances of alleged voter fraud in North Carolina dispels claims that voter fraud [in] the state is “insignificant.”

    This week, the Voter Integrity Project of North Carolina released a North Carolina Board of Elections document showing that from 2008-2012 there have been 475 cases of alleged voter fraud in the state referred to district attorneys’ offices.

    The type of fraud included in the tally includes double voting, impersonation, vote buying or selling, ineligible voting, voter registration issues and absentee voting issues. (Source) and (Source)

    September 9, 2013: Voter Fraud in North Carolina

    In Mississippi last Wednesday, the American Civil Rights Union won a significant victory for election integrity when a federal judge approved a consent decree in which Walthall County agreed to finally clean up its bloated voter-registration list. The county has more registered voters than the Census says it has eligible voters. Walthall County will have to remove felons, noncitizens, decedents, and voters who have moved away from its registration list.

    The Voter Integrity Project (VIP), a local citizens’ group concerned with election integrity, released a report on Wednesday that it finally obtained from the North Carolina Board of Elections “after repeated requests.” The report shows that there were 475 cases of election fraud that the Board “believed merited a referral” to prosecutors between 2008 and 2012. The fraud included double voting, impersonation and registration fraud, and illegal voting by noncitizens and felons. (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

    October 10, 2013: Voter-Registration Fraud in 22 States

    More than half of states are now working in broad alliances to scrub voter rolls of millions of problematic registrations, identifying people registered in multiple states and tens of thousands of dead voters who linger on election lists

    The efforts are already finding massive numbers of outdated or problematic registrations. This year, the Kansas project identified some 5 million potential duplicate registrations across 22 states and also identified some people who voted in multiple states, according to officials. The newer project — known as the Electronic Registration Information Center — identified hundreds of thousands of other registrations that need updating, including 23,000 people who were dead.

    The larger system identified more than a dozen people who voted in Kansas and another state, said Kansas Republican Secretary of State Kris Kobach, and those identifications could lead to prosecution. He said the expansion of the checks and awareness of the program will hopefully deter others from double-voting. (Source)

    October 30, 2013: Voter Fraud in New York

    Evelyn E. Burwell's family was surprised to learn she voted in the 2012 general and primary elections. They knew she was an avid voter, but she's been dead since 1997. Burwell is one of about 6,100 deceased people still registered to vote in Nassau County [New York], a Newsday computer analysis shows. The former Wantagh resident, who died at age 74, is also among roughly 270 people that records show voted in Nassau County after dying, a group that includes a man who voted 14 times since his death.

    Newsday's analysis of voter registration and U.S. Social Security Administration death records found more deceased registered voters in Nassau County than any other New York county, accounting for nearly a quarter of the 26,500 on the rolls statewide. Suffolk County has about 2,490 deceased people registered to vote, with roughly 50 listed as voting after their death.

    Seven states recently formed the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), which uses Social Security, vehicle registration, change-of-address and voter-list data to identify ineligible voters. The program, which costs states about $50,000 per year, found 900,000 potentially ineligible voters among its states in its first year, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts, which helped start ERIC.

    Another group of 27 states take part in a program known as Crosscheck, which uses registration data to identify voters who have moved across state lines. The free program found 5 million potentially invalid registrations this year, according to its most recent report. (Source) and (Source)

    November 7, 2013: Voter Fraud in Florida

    More than 1,000 registered voters in Broward County [Florida] unlawfully listed United Parcel Service (UPS) boxes as the address where they live, official records show.

    According to Florida Statute 97.053, voter applicants must provide their “legal residence address.” The official Florida Voter Registration form specifically asks for “Legal Residence-no P.O. Box.” On the Broward Supervisor of Elections website, citizens are told valid applications must include, “Full Name, Date of Birth, Address of Legal Residence (address where you live), Florida Drivers License number or Florida ID card, or the last four digits of Social Security number and signature.”

    Despite the clear instructions, a Media Trackers Florida investigation found 1,128 registered voters in Broward County listed a UPS box as the place where they live. (Source)

    December 18, 2013: Voter Fraud in Ohio

    Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted announced Wednesday that his office found 17 non-citizens illegally cast ballots in the 2012 presidential election – and has referred the case for possible prosecution.

    Husted also found that 274 non-citizens remain on the voting rolls.... [E]lection officials discovered that more than 257,000 dead people were still listed as active voters. (Source)

    January 17, 2014: 24 Million Voter-Registration Errors Nationwide

    As you may recall, as part of our Election Integrity Project, JW investigators found that voter rolls in a number of states contained a great number of registrations for individuals who were ineligible to vote. The Obama Justice Department, which is more interested in registering Obama’s Food Stamp Army (with all the attendant fraud) and opposing voter ID, has zero interest in enforcing laws to ensure clean elections.

    Judicial Watch notified a dozen states that they must clean up their voter registration lists or face lawsuits. Judicial Watch and True the Vote subsequently filed lawsuits against election officials in Indiana and Ohio, and prompted the state of Florida and other states, without litigation, to remove thousands of ineligible voters from state registration lists. According to independent research published by Pew Charitable Trusts in February 2012, approximately 24 million active voter registrations throughout the United States – or one out of every eight registrations – are either no longer valid or are significantly inaccurate. (Source)

    January 17, 2014: Voter-Registration Fraud in MO, PA, & TX



    • Of 5,379 voter registration cards ACORN submitted in St. Louis [Missouri], only 2,013 of those appeared to be valid. At least 1,000 are believed to be attempts to register voters illegally.
    • Pennsylvania state election officials have thrown out 57,435 voter registrations, the majority of which were submitted by ACORN. The registrations were thrown out after officials found “clearly fraudulent” signatures, vacant lots listed as addresses, and other signs of fraud.
    • In Harris County, Texas, nearly 10,000 ACORN-submitted registrations were found to be invalid, including many with clearly fraudulent addresses or other personal information. (Source)



    January 17, 2014: Voter-Registration Fraud in Ohio

    Wood County, Ohio (which Obama won) has a voting age population of 98,213, but somehow 106,258 voters were registered to vote on Election Day. (Source)

    January 23, 2014: Voter Fraud and Voter-Registration Fraud in Multiple States

    This first report of fraudulent activities is taken from the Republican National Lawyers Association website and includes only
    the last 12 months. There are 151 entries logged and it should be noted that some of the entries contain multiple fraudulent events that occurred on the same date.

    This week, the Voter Integrity Project of North Carolina released a document showing that from 2008-2012 there have been 475 cases of alleged voter fraud in North Carolina
    referred to district attorneys’ offices.

    Florida and Maryland state election authorities and the U.S. Department of Justice were formally notified of 173
    cases of voters casting ballots simultaneously in both states during federal elections. The notification resulted from an investigation by True the Vote, the nation’s leading election integrity organization.

    They also discovered 6,390 people registered in both Florida and Ohio. Of those, 534 appear to have voted twice in the same federal election. The examination also discovered at least 19,000 people registered in both New York and Florida. A voter may only declare domicile in one place for each election. (Source) and (Source)

    February 5, 2014: Voter Fraud in Multiple States (ACORN):

    AR – 1998: A contractor with ACORN-affiliated Project Vote was arrested for falsifying about 400 voter registration cards.

    CO – 2005: Two ex-ACORN employees were convicted in Denver of perjury for submitting false voter registrations.
    – 2004: An ACORN employee admitted to forging signatures and registering three of her friends to vote 40 times.


    CT – 2008: The New York Post reported that ACORN submitted a voter registration card for a 7-year-old Bridgeport girl. Another 8,000 cards from the same city will be scrutinized for possible fraud.

    FL – 2009: In September, 11 ACORN workers were accused of forging voter registration applications in Miami-Dade County during the last election. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the state attorney’s office scoured hundreds of suspicious applications provided by ACORN and found 197 of 260 contained personal ID information that did not match any living person.
    – 2008: Election officials in Brevard County have given prosecutors more than 23 suspect registrations from ACORN. The state's Division of Elections is also investigating complaints in Orange and Broward Counties.
    – 2004: A Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokesman said ACORN was “singled out” among suspected voter registration groups for a 2004 wage initiative because it was “the common thread” in the agency’s fraud investigations.


    IN – 2008: Election officials in Indiana have thrown out more than 4,000 ACORN-submitted voter registrations after finding they had identical handwriting and included the names of many deceased Indianans, and even the name of a fast food restaurant.

    MI – 2008: Clerks in Detroit found a "sizeable number of duplicate and fraudulent [voter] applications" from the Michigan branch of ACORN. Those applications have been turned over to the U.S. Attorney's office for investigation.
    – 2004: The Detroit Free Press reported that “overzealous or unscrupulous campaign workers in several Michigan counties are under investigation for voter-registration fraud, suspected of attempting to register nonexistent people or forging applications for already-registered voters.” ACORN-affiliate Project Vote was one of two groups suspected of turning in the documents.


    MO – 2008: Nearly 400 ACORN-submitted registrations in Kansas City have been rejected due to duplication or fake information.
    – 2007: Four ACORN employees were indicted in Kansas City for charges including identity theft and filing false registrations during the 2006 election.
    – 2006: Eight ACORN employees in St. Louis were indicted on federal election fraud charges. Each of the eight faces up to five years in prison for forging signatures and submitting false information.
    – 2003: Of 5,379 voter registration cards ACORN submitted in St. Louis, only 2,013 of those appeared to be valid. At least 1,000 are believed to be attempts to register voters illegally.


    MN – 2004: During a traffic stop, police found more than 300 voter registration cards in the trunk of a former ACORN employee, who had violated a legal requirements that registration cards be submitted to the Secretary of State within 10 days of being filled out and signed.

    NC – 2008: County elections officials have sent suspicious voter registration applications to the state Board of Elections. Many of the ACORN submitted applications had similar or identical names, but with different addresses or dates of birth.
    – 2004: North Carolina officials investigated ACORN for submitting fake voter registration cards.


    NM – 2008: Prosecutors are investigating more than 1,100 ACORN-submitted voter registration cards after a county clerk found them to be fraudulent. Many of the cards included duplicate names and slightly altered personal information.
    – 2005: Four ACORN employees submitted as many as 3,000 potentially fraudulent signatures on the group’s Albuquerque ballot initiative. A local sheriff added: “It’s safe to say the forgery was widespread.”
    – 2004: An ACORN employee registered a 13-year-old boy to vote. Citing this and other examples, New Mexico State Representative Joe Thompson stated that ACORN was “manufacturing voters” throughout New Mexico.


    NV – 2009: Nevada authorities indicted ACORN on 26 counts of voter registration fraud and 13 counts of illegally compensating canvassers. ACORN provided a bonus compensation program called “Blackjack” or “21+” for any canvasser who registered more than 20 voters per shift, which is illegal under Nevada law.
    – 2008: Nevada state authorities raided ACORN's Las Vegas headquarters as part of a task force investigation of election fraud. Fraudulent registrations included players from the Dallas Cowboys.


    OH – 2008: ACORN activists gave Ohio residents cash and cigarettes in exchange for filling out voter registration card, according to the New York Post. Some voters claim to have registered dozens of times, and one man says he signed up on 72 cards.
    – 2007: A man in Reynoldsburg was indicted on two felony counts of illegal voting and false registration, after being registered by ACORN to vote in two separate counties.
    – 2004: A grand jury indicted a Columbus ACORN worker for submitting a false signature and false voter registration form. In Franklin County, two ACORN workers submitted what the director of the board of election supervisors called “blatantly false” forms. In Cuyahoga County, ACORN and its affiliate Project Vote submitted registration cards that had the highest rate of errors for any voter registration group.


    PA – 2009: Seven ACORN workers in the Pittsburgh area were indicted for submitting falsified voter registration forms. Six of the seven were also indicted for registering voters under an illegal quota system.
    – 2008: State election officials have thrown out 57,435 voter registrations, the majority of which were submitted by ACORN. The registrations were thrown out after officials found "clearly fraudulent" signatures, vacant lots listed as addresses, and other signs of fraud.
    – 2008: An ACORN employee in West Reading, PA, was sentenced to up to 23 months in prison for identity theft and tampering with records. A second ACORN worker pleaded not guilty to the same charges and is free on $10,000 bail.
    – 2004: Reading’s Director of Elections received calls from numerous individuals complaining that ACORN employees deliberately put inaccurate information on their voter registration forms. The Berks County director of elections said voter fraud was “absolutely out of hand,” and added: “Not only do we have unintentional duplication of voter registration but we have blatant duplicate voter registrations.” The Berks County deputy director of elections added that ACORN was under investigation by the Department of Justice.


    TX – 2008: In Harris County, nearly 10,000 ACORN-submitted registrations were found to be invalid, including many with clearly fraudulent addresses or other personal information.
    – 2008: ACORN turned in the voter registration form of David Young, who told reporters “The signature is not my signature. It’s not even close.” His social security number and date of birth were also incorrect.


    VA – 2005: In 2005, the Virginia State Board of Elections admonished Project Vote and ACORN for turning in a significant number of faulty voter registrations. An audit revealed that 83% of sampled registrations that were rejected for carrying false or questionable information were submitted by Project Vote. Many of these registrations carried social security numbers that exist for other people, listed non-existent or commercial addresses, or were for convicted felons in violation of state and federal election law.

    In a letter to ACORN, the State Board of Elections reported that 56% of the voter registration applications ACORN turned in were ineligible. Further, a full 35% were not submitted in a timely manner, as required by law. The State Board of Elections also commented on what appeared to be evidence of intentional voter fraud. "Additionally,” they wrote, “information appears to have been altered on some applications where information given by the applicant in one color ink has been scratched through and re-entered in another color ink. Any alteration of a voter registration application is a Class 5 Felony in accordance with § 24.2-1009 of the Code of Virginia."


    WA – 2007: Three ACORN employees pleaded guilty, and four more were charged, in the worst case of voter registration fraud in Washington state history. More than 2,000 fraudulent voter registration cards were submitted by the group during a voter registration drive.

    WI – 2008: At least 33,000 ACORN-submitted registrations in Milwaukee have been called into question after it was found that the organizations had been using felons as registration workers, in violation of state election rules. Two people involved in the ongoing Wisconsin voter fraud investigation have been charged with felonies.
    – 2004: The district attorney’s office investigated seven voter registration applications Project Vote employees filed in the names of people who said the group never contacted them. Former Project Vote employee Robert Marquise Blakely told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he had not met with any of the people whose voter registration applications he signed, “an apparent violation of state law,” according to the paper. (Source)

    February 26, 2014: Voter Fraud in North Carolina

    Q: How many cases of voter fraud have there been in North Carolina in the past 10 years, and how many people have been prosecuted? – J.H., Fayetteville

    A: We don't know how many people have been prosecuted or convicted per se, but the N.C. State Board of Elections released last year an analysis of voter fraud cases that were investigated. State election officials identified a total of 631 fraud cases between 2000 and 2012.

    According to the state report, those cases "merited a referral" to the district attorney's office where the fraud occurred.

    The state report shows 11 types of fraud, such double voting, vote buying/selling, illegal voter assistance and voter impersonation.

    Over the 12-year period, the most common fraud type, with 377 cases, was felon voting.... The second most common type of voter fraud, according to the state list, was voting twice, with 91 cases. Third-highest on the list was a noncitizen registering or voting, with 58 cases. (Source)

    March 11, 2014: Voter-Registration Inaccuracies in New York

    Newsday's analysis found more than 842,000 registered New York voters who records show haven't cast a ballot in 10 years. Harvard University professor of government Stephen Ansolabehere, an expert on voter list issues, said those registrations are likely not current. (Source) and (Source)


    March 18, 2014: Voter-Registration Inaccuracies in Maryland

    Maryland’s voter registration rolls are bloated with names of dead people – an estimated 20,000 as revealed by a 2013 study from the state Republican party.

    Preserving a dead voter on the voter rolls can lead to fraud during elections. From 2004 to 2008, at least two dead voters cast their ballots, according to watchdog group Election Integrity Maryland. That led to the group filing a complaint with the Board of Elections. (Source) and (Source)

    March 19, 2014: Voter-Registration Fraud in Florida

    It is an article of faith on the Left that voter fraud does not exist beyond the imaginations of racist right-wingers, hell-bent on imposing "unconstitutional" voter ID laws fashioned to "suppress" minority turnout in elections. These objections are race-baiting nonsense; they're unsupported by both empirical evidence and Supreme Court precedent. The high court upheld Indiana's law in a 6-3 decision in 2008. The ruling was authored by uber-liberal Justice John Paul Stevens. And after Georgia implemented its own law in 2007 (which survived a legal challenge), minority voter participation increased in the next two election cycles.
    ABC Newshas called voter fraud a "rare but real" phenomenon, evidenced by a number of relatively high-profile convictions in recent years. Congress defunded the left-wing group ACORN (for whom Barack Obama once organized) over widespread voter registration fraud and other outrages. The watchdog group True the Vote – whose founder's businesses and family have been harassed by the IRS and other federal agencies – documents voter fraud prosecutions in 46 states since 2000. Which brings us to a report that aired earlier this month on NBC's local affiliate in Ft. Myers, Florida. WBBH-TV reporter Andy Pierrotti managed to track down dozens of local residents who were (a) both non-US citizens and (b) registered to vote in the swing state. Many of them had illegally voted in recent elections.

    "We don't know how widespread this problem is because elections offices don't keep track of where non-citizens live," Pierrotti reports, "So we decided to do something that they'd never tried to do before: We found them on our own." The investigation began by examining state forms on which residents had declined jury duty by checking a box indicating that they weren't US citizens, and were therefore ineligible to serve. Pierrotti then cross-referenced those results with local voter rolls, identifying at least 94 people who were registered to vote in the state of Florida. Next, he visited some of these people at their homes, where they admitted that they weren't citizens and professed ignorance as to how they were registered to vote in the first place. But voting records confirmed that they'd exercised their "right" to vote that, as non-citizens, they do not actually possess. The NBC 2 team interviewed a number of these illegal voters on camera, including a Jamaican national who simply attested that he was a US citizen on a voter registration form, and – voila! – he joined the American electorate. It was a felony, but it was that easy. And if a news crew hadn't connected the dots, no one would have ever known. This passage in the report is crucial:


    REPORTER: County supervisors of elections tell me they have no way to verify citizenship. Under the 1992 "Motor Voter" law, they're not required to ask for proof.
    HARRINGTON: We have no policing authority. We don't have any way of bouncing that information off of any other database.
    REPORTER: The only way supervisors of elections can investigate voter fraud is if they get a tip, so that's what our list became.
    HARRINGTON: It could be very serious. It could change the whole complexion of an election.


    Here's the problem: This handful of wrongs are now being looked at and dealt with, but it took an enterprising and creative journalist to uncover them. These are 94 cases he uncovered in his own backyard alone, using just one narrow method. How many people in this country are registered to vote, and actually do
    vote, who are not US citizens? We don't know. It is lunacy that election supervisors "have no way to verify citizenship" in many places, even at the point of registration. It's further lunacy that we would not require every potential voter to produce valid proof of citizenship before casting a ballot, from coast to coast. These steps are so basic, so fundamentally fair, and so rudimentary that it's difficult to accept that an entire political party is dead-set against these voter integrity efforts for reasons that are not nefarious. Only US citizens are allowed to participate in US elections under the law. Citizens who don't have proper identification ought to be able to obtain them quickly and easily. That's the reasonable recourse for the "suppression" non-problem. But every single person who wants to vote should prove that they're doing so legally.

    A quick calculation, as a point of reference. This local reporter [Andy Pierrotti] found 94 illegally registered voters in one small region using one narrow verification method. If you extrapolate his number over Florida's 67 counties, that's nearly 6,300 people. (Source)

    March 25, 2014: Voter-Registration Fraud in Iowa, Colorado, and Washington DC

    Iowa, Colorado and the District of Columbia have one thing in common — they have more registered voters than people eligible to vote. In 24 Iowa counties, more people were registered to vote than were eligible in 2012. In 2010, there were 10 such counties. In Colorado during the same two-year period, the number of counties with uneven rolls rose from 10 to 22. (Source) and (Source)

    March 26, 2014: Election Fraud in New York

    Three former campaign workers for [New York City] Councilwoman Maria del Carmen Arroyo were officially charged with fraud Wednesday. Betty Julien, Elbin Lopez and Luis Vargas were quietly arrested Tuesday night — eight months after being accused by the elected official of forging signatures for her reelection petitions. The trio of hired staffers were fingered by the Councilwoman after volunteers for her primary challenger, Julio Pabon, noticed names such as Derek Jeter Jr. and Kate Moss on the rolls....

    Arroyo, who went on to win both the primary and general elections, was nearly booted from the ballot for lack of legitimate signatures.... A staggering 81% of the 3,339 signatures filed by the campaign were deemed invalid.... Lopez testified before the Board of Elections that he was paid $1 per signature and that he reported directly to Arroyo’s nephew. (Source)

    April 1, 2014: Voter Fraud in North Carolina

    House Speaker Thom Tillis (R-Mecklenburg) and Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) issued a joint statement Wednesday in response to more alarming evidence of voter error and fraud discovered by the North Carolina State Board of Elections.

    State elections officials said Wednesday that they’re investigating hundreds of cases [and potentially thousands] of voters who appear to have voted in two states and several dozen who appear to have voted after their deaths.

    North Carolina’s check found 765 registered North Carolina voters who appear to match registered voters in other states on their first names, last names, dates of birth and the final four digits of their Social Security numbers. Those voters appear to have voted in North Carolina in 2012 and also voted in another state in 2012.

    The crosscheck also found 35,570 voters in North Carolina who voted in 2012 whose first names, last names and dates of birth match those of voters who voted in other states in 2012, but whose Social Security numbers were not matched.

    Additionally, the analysis found 155,692 registered North Carolina voters whose first and last names, dates of birth and final four Social Security number digits match voters registered in other states but who most recently registered or voted elsewhere. That last group, Strach said, was most likely voters who moved out of state without notifying their local boards of elections. "Those may be voters we need to remove because they've left North Carolina."

    Strach also said a "10-year death audit" found 13,416 deceased voters who had not been removed from voter rolls as of October 2013. Eighty-one of those individuals, she said, died before an election in which they are recorded as having voted. Strach cautioned that about 30 of those 81 voters appear to have legally cast their votes early via absentee ballot and then died before Election Day. However, she said, "There are between 40 and 50 [voters] who had died at a time that that's not possible."

    "I think the big bombshell today is that you have documented voter fraud that has occurred," said Rep. Tim Moore, R-Cleveland. "We have over 36,000 people who apparently voted in this state illegally and committed felonies." Moore said he believes at least 36,000 people committed voter fraud in 2012. (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

    April 8, 2014: Voter-Registration Fraud in Florida and North Carolina

    The Voter Integrity Project of North Carolina today released the results of their year-long research effort that found 5,167 people who appeared to be registered to vote in both Florida and North Carolina, and 147 people who “were involved” in voter fraud. They gave the information to election officials in both Florida and North Carolina, in addition to a member of the North Carolina Senate committee responsible of election law. (Source)

    April 9, 2014: Voter Fraud in Oregon

    [In Oregon], a look at voting results showed dozens of cases in which a single voter cast multiple votes in one match-up. In the most egregious case, 253 votes for Jessica Vega Pederson came from a single IP address, which is how Poll Daddy, the tool we are using, tracks votes. The next most prolific voter checked Monica Wehby 145 times. Ultimately, Wehby won her bracket against Pederson. There were also cases of someone voting 107 times in the Roy Jay vs. John Davis pairing, 127 times in Jeff Merkley vs. Steve Doell and 120 times in Tina Kotek vs. Joe Cortright. (Source)

    April 23, 2014: Voter-Registration Fraud in Virginia and Maryland

    A crosscheck of voter rolls in Virginia and Maryland turned up 44,000 people registered in both states, a vote-integrity group reported Wednesday.

    “The Virginia Voters Alliance is investigating how to identify voters who are registered and vote in Virginia but live in the states that surround us,” Alliance President Reagan George told the State Board of Elections. (Source) and (Source)

    June 27, 2014: Voter Fraud in Mississippi

    The Chris McDaniel campaign identified multiple Mississippi counties in which enough improper ballots were cast that a legal challenge to the outcome of the election is warranted. The McDaniel campaign has already found 1,000 examples in one county of Democrats who voted in the June 3rd primary as Democrats and then crossed over into the Republican primary this week. This is illegal and their votes should not be counted.

    Lindsay Krout, a volunteer working in Mississippi, was barred from reviewing voter rolls in Lafayette County Mississippi Friday morning. Lindsay said when she went to the Lafayette County courthouse this morning and was forced to wait for an hour. Then the county clerk told her the Secretary of State’s office said the county had to redact the Social Security number and addresses from the voter rolls. The clerk said it will take until Wednesday to redact the information. And, the county will charge McDaniel supporters for the extra work. (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

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    October 17, 2002: Voter-Registration Fraud in Minnesota

    Dakota County [Minnesota] prosecutors charged 95 people Wednesday in an alleged scheme to rig elections in the small town of Coates for the benefit of a strip club that officials have long been trying to shut down.

    County Attorney James Backstrom said 94 of the defendants filled out voter registration cards claiming they lived at the same address. The address turned out to be that of the club, named Jake's.

    Prosecutors charged Jake's owner Richard J. Jacobson, 32, of Prescott, Wis., with conspiracy to commit forgery and conspiracy to commit unlawful voting, another felony, for allegedly orchestrating the scheme. The other 94 all were charged with forgery and conspiracy to commit forgery. All the charges are felonies. (Source)

    Autumn 2004: Voter Fraud in California

    In 2002, Dean Gardner, a losing GOP candidate for California's state legislature, sent out a survey to 14,000 first-time voters. A total of 1,691 surveys came back. The results were startling: 76 people admitted that they weren't citizens but had voted, while 49 claimed not to have registered at their correct residence, as the law requires. Gardner lost by only 266 votes. (Source)

    Autumn 2004: Voter-Registration Fraud in Wisconsin

    In Racine, Wisconsin, around the same time, election officials discovered that Project Vote, another left-wing advocacy group, had filed scores of applications with phony addresses and other questionable items. The acting City Clerk asked the district attorney's office to pursue possible criminal charges. Ohio, Nevada, Iowa—similar stories abounded in states across the country. (Source)

    August 12, 2005: Voter-Registration Fraud in Arizona

    Ten Valley residents who are not U.S. citizens were charged Thursday with fraudulently registering to vote in Maricopa County [Arizona]. They admitted they were not citizens on jury duty affidavits, but county officials discovered they were still registered to vote, Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas said.

    The 10 are among 159 people the County Attorney's Office is investigating for voter fraud. Out of the 10, one is German, one is from Tonga and the rest are Hispanic with seven from Mexico and the last from an unspecified country, according to the affidavits. Four actually voted in recent elections and another tried to vote, but his ballot was rejected, Thomas said. All are legal residents of the United States.

    All 10 are charged with presentment of a false instrument, a felony with a presumptive sentence of one year in prison, but people convicted of such lower-level felonies often receive probation. The other 149 cases are still under investigation, and Thomas said that he expected more indictments. (Source)

    September 21, 2006: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    The Lake County [Indiana] Vote Fraud Task Force has issued arrest warrants and filed nine felony charges against eight more people linked to voter fraud in the 2003 Lake County primary elections, the Indiana Attorney General's office announced this morning. The newest charges … bring the total number of people charged to 53. (Source)

    October 27, 2006: Voter-Registration Fraud in California

    Felony charges were filed this week against 12 signature gatherers accused of registering Orange County [California] voters as Republicans without their consent – part of a criminal probe into voter flipping.

    An
    Orange County Register investigation in April found that more than 100 people who thought they were signing petitions to cure breast cancer and punish child molesters were duped into registering as Republicans. The signature gatherers were part of an Orange County Republican registration drive that paid up to $10 for each "convert," especially in the heated state 34th Senate District.

    In a joint investigation by the California Secretary of State and the Orange County Office of the District Attorney, each defendant was charged Tuesday with two to four counts of falsifying a voter registration card. Each charge carries a maximum penalty of three years in state prison. (Source)

    December 1, 2006: Voter Fraud in Virginia

    The former Mayor of a small Virginia coal town pleaded guilty to hundreds of felonies this week for masterminding a scheme to buy votes with beer, cigarettes and pork rinds. As Mayor of Appalachia, a town of less than 2,000 residents in historic southwest Virginia, Ben Cooper rigged votes, stole election records, forged ballots, voted more than once in an election and violated absentee voting procedures. In all, Cooper pleaded guilty to 243 felonies.

    The corruption took place during the 2004 town elections in which voter signatures were forged, absentee ballots were intercepted in the mail and many voters were actually prevented from going to the polls. A variety of officials and residents participated in the fraud and have also pleaded guilty.

    They include the town’s de facto chief of police, a mail carrier and a man who exchanged drugs for votes. The police chief, who admitted getting paid for doing nothing, was the mayor’s friend and together they planned to take control over the department. The postal worker pleaded guilty to passing absentee ballots to the parks and recreation director and the resident who bought votes with drugs pleaded guilty to fraud.

    Additionally, several residents involved in the scheme have pleaded guilty to charges of hindering citizens of their right to vote and entering false information about absentee ballots. (Source)

    November 8, 2007: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    Two more people charged with vote fraud by the Lake County [Indiana] Joint Vote Fraud Task Force have pled guilty and another person has been sentenced announced Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter. There are now 37 convictions against 53 defendants for vote fraud. (Source) and (Source)

    June 16, 2008: Voter-Registration Fraud in Utah

    The prosecutor in the Daggett County [Utah] voter-fraud scandal is quitting the case. County Attorney Bryan Sidwell removed himself before 20 of 51 defendants could be arraigned. Sidwell refused to say why, leaving the Utah Attorney General's Office to step in or appoint a special prosecutor.

    The voters are accused of illegally registering in Daggett County even though they don't live or maintain a primary residence there. The charge is a class A misdemeanor. The case involves the 2006 election, when then-Sheriff Alan Campbell complained that the voter rolls were growing in the small county near the Wyoming border. Campbell, a Democrat, lost the election to Republican Rick Ellsworth by 20 votes. (Source)

    August 8, 2008: Voter Fraud and Voter-Registration Fraud in Texas

    Some 16 months after Bexar County [Texas] 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.

    The investigation discovered more than 300 noncitizens had registered to vote in Bexar County, some as far back as the mid-1990s, and that 41 of them had actually cast a ballot. But officials acknowledged that none will be prosecuted because the statute of limitations had expired. (Source)

    August 25, 2008: Voter Fraud and Voter-Registration Fraud in Indiana

    The Lake County [Indiana] Vote Fraud Task Force has issued arrest warrants and has filed 56 felony charges against 12 more people linked to voter fraud in the 2003 Lake County primary elections. The individuals involved include [among others] a Lake County Deputy Sheriff, a former East Chicago [Indiana] City Councilman, and a current precinct committeeman....

    Today’s action brings the total number of individuals charged for fraud by the Task Force to 34 since it was convened by Lake County Prosecutor Bernard A. Carter two years ago. The total number of felony charges filed is now nearly 160. (Source)

    October 8, 2008: Voter-Registration Fraud in Wisconsin (ACORN)

    Milwaukee County [Wisconsin] prosecutors Tuesday charged a convicted felon with illegally registering himself and others to vote between his conviction and his sentencing. The complaint accuses Adam Mucklin, 22, of registering to vote in June, after he was convicted of battery in April, and after a judge told him he couldn’t vote as a convicted felon. Later in June, Mucklin signed up to work as a paid voter registrar for the Community Voters Project, something else he couldn’t do as a convicted felon, the complaint says....

    Mucklin was among 49 voter registration workers who were referred to the Milwaukee County district attorney’s office by the Milwaukee Election Commission on suspicion of election fraud. He is the second to be charged.

    Last week, the district attorney’s office charged Endalyn Adams, 21, with submitting registration cards with dozens of fake names to meet what amounted to a quota from the Community Voters Project. Some of the false names were flagged by voters project leaders before the cards were turned over to the Milwaukee Election Commission; those names were never added to the voter rolls, and the rest have been removed.

    Virtually all the workers under scrutiny were employed by either the voters project or by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. (Source)

    October 15, 2008: Voter-Registration Fraud by ACORN

    US Congressman Thad Cotter [R-MI] told
    Fox News that ACORN recruiters are registering "voters" multiple time and, in one instance, one young man who was just caught, had registered 52 times. (Source)

    May 7, 2009: Voter-Registration Fraud in Pennsylvania (ACORN)

    The Allegheny County [Pennsylvania] District Attorney yesterday charged seven people with a combined 51 counts of forgery and other violations, saying they worked with the group ACORN to deliver forged registrations during the 2008 election.

    District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. said the workers for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now were driven to fraud by a quota that required them to register anywhere from a dozen to 20 new voters daily, something a spokesman for ACORN yesterday said did not exist. State election law makes it a misdemeanor to require a quota on such registrations, because lawmakers view a quota as an invitation to the kind of fraud the DA is alleging.

    "People got paid by the hour, not the form," said Scott Levenson, ACORN's national spokesman. "No one did not get paid because they did not bring in X amount of forms."

    Mr. Zappala said the opposite was the case, and that some of the workers charged yesterday told investigators they needed to meet a daily quota to be paid their hourly wage of $8.

    What did not appear to be in dispute yesterday was that dozens of bogus registrations – including a registration form for a county elections department employee with the signature forged – were turned in during the group's voter registration drive last year. It appeared the workers were submitting fake or doctored registration forms to be paid their daily $40 wage for five hours of work.

    The forgery counts – 51 in all – are third-degree felonies … (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

    August 4, 2009: Voter Fraud in New Jersey

    More arrests are likely in a voter-fraud case involving supporters of failed Atlantic City [New Jersey] mayoral candidate Marty Small, according to information from the state Attorney General's Office and a defense attorney. Five people who collected votes for Small have been charged with mishandling messenger ballots and disenfranchising voters. The councilman has denied any connection to the workers.

    Two of those defendants, Floyd Tally and David Callaway, appeared in court Monday. They are accused of fraudulently completing and submitting more than 130 messenger ballot applications. During the brief hearing, a new date was set for Sept. 10. By that time they should be indicted, according to officials.

    The number of charges also could grow, according to those involved in the case. "It looks like we're moving toward a multiple-count indictment on voter fraud," said Steven Scheffler, Callaway's attorney. "Probably more than 10 counts each."

    Five messengers – Demaris Jones, Ramona Stephens, Yolanda Barrios, Frank Taylor and Ronald Harris – all had several of their ballots rejected, but have not been charged in the case. In addition to Tally and Callaway, those charged are Michelle Griffin, of Pleasantville, and LuQuay Q. Zahir and Toni Dixon, both of Atlantic City. All but Zahir have a clear connection to the Callaway group, which raised messenger and absentee ballot collection [to] a near art form.

    The family claims that is the reason for the charges. While Attorney General Anne Milgram has said the defendants disenfranchised voters, Callaway's brother Ronald – who is better known as Jihad Q. Abdullah – previously said it is the state that is trying to disenfranchise the black voters who have used the method in Atlantic City. (Source)

    March 17, 2010: Voter-Registration Fraud in Nebraska

    Channel 6 News learned Wednesday that nearly 200 phony names have been purged from Douglas County [Nebraska] voter files. A worker who was paid to collect the signatures was arrested for felony voter fraud. Twenty-one-year-old Eddie Pierce of Omaha is accused of submitting 195 phony voter registrations during a drive last fall by the group Project 10,000 Voters. The nonprofit paid workers $1 a name. If convicted, he could be sentenced to five years in prison.

    Douglas County Sheriff's Department investigators found some people did not know their signatures had been forged. Other applications contained fictitious names and addresses. Deputies attempted to call people on those forms that had wrong numbers. (Source)

    September 30, 2010: Voter Fraud in Minnesota

    Three felons have been charged with illegally voting in Olmsted County [Minnesota] during the 2008 election, according to County Attorney Mark Ostrem. The felony charges come after the conservative interest group Minnesota Majority issued a statewide report that alleged 50 felons might have illegally cast ballots in Olmsted County during the presidential election. Ostrem said that list was eventually whittled down to six individuals who might have voted illegally. (Source)

    May 9, 2011: Voter Fraud in New Mexico

    Secretary of State Dianna Duran says her office has turned over records to the state police department to investigate charges of voter fraud in New Mexico but Duran says she can’t reveal how many instances have been recorded or whether the investigation is nearly completed because of the ongoing nature of the case.

    Back in late March, Duran told lawmakers she had found preliminary data showing at least 37 recorded instances of people without valid Social Security numbers voting in various elections across New Mexico between 2003 and 2010 and that 117 foreign nationals were registered to vote — which is illegal since only US citizens are allowed to vote. After making the announcement, Duran — the first Republican elected to the Secretary of State’s job in 82 years — was criticized by Democrats and immigrant rights groups who said such alleged incidents were isolated and don’t point to a widespread problem. (Source) and (Source)

    July 29, 2011: Voter Fraud in Various States (ACORN and the NAACP)

    While NAACP President Benjamin Jealous lashed out at new state laws requiring photo ID for voting, an NAACP executive sits in prison, sentenced for carrying out a massive voter fraud scheme.

    In a story ignored by the national media, in April a Tunica County, Miss., jury convicted NAACP official Lessadolla Sowers on 10 counts of fraudulently casting absentee ballots [and was given a five-year sentence for each of the ten counts of voter fraud for which she was convicted, but the sentencing judge allowed her to serve the terms concurrently]. Sowers is identified on an NAACP website as a member of the Tunica County NAACP Executive Committee.

    The NAACP has had other problems with voter fraud. The NAACP National Voter Fund registered a dead man to vote in Lake County, Ohio, in 2004. That same year, out of 325 voter registration cards filed by the NAACP in Cleveland, 48 were flagged as fraudulent.

    But the NAACP’s voter fraud record doesn’t approach that of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. At least 54 individuals employed by or associated with ACORN have been convicted of voter fraud....

    And ACORN, which filed for bankruptcy last November, was itself convicted of voter fraud in Nevada in April. (Source) and (Source)

    October 13, 2011: [113] Felon Voter Fraud Convictions Stemming from Minnesota’s 2008 General Election (Source)

    November 5, 2011: Voter Fraud in Minnesota

    Dozens of Dakota County [Minnesota] residents were charged this week with voting illegally in the 2008 general election, just days before the statute of limitations expired. The 49 people charged were among 282 complaints registered with Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom’s office in the wake of the controversial—and hard-fought—2008 election, which spurred a months-long recount in the U.S. Senate race between Republican incumbent Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken, who was eventually declared the winner. (Source)

    November 22, 2011: Voter Fraud in Minnesota

    Fox News reports: It took a few years, but prosecutors are rolling out charges in response to accusations of felons voting in one of the tightest elections in the state.

    Looking back, it's clear that the 2008 election was significant for many reasons. “Actually, that was my first time voting,” said Dwayne Thomas, of St. Paul [Minnesota]. Now, Thomas is facing two felony charges. He was not supposed to vote on Nov. 4, 2008, because he was still on probation for a previous felony.

    Three years later, just before the statute of limitations would run out, Washington County prosecutors sent him back to jail. “I just think it's not right that they are doing this,” said Thomas. “I don't really understand how they feel like I knew about it. I didn't know about it.”

    Prosecutors say they don't buy that claim. “That's the same defense I've heard on other people who violate their probation,” said Rick Hodsdon, assistant Washington County Attorney. So far he’s charged 25 felons with illegally voting in the 2008 election and another seven for voting in 2010. (Source)

    December 7, 2011: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    Charity Rorie, a mother of four, sat in her Mishawaka, Indiana, kitchen, stunned that her name appeared on a 2008 Democratic presidential primary petition for then-candidate Barack Obama. "That's not my signature," she told
    Fox News, saying her signature is "absolutely" a fake. She also said she was troubled someone forged both her signature and that of her husband, Jeff, and listed personal details such as their address and birthdays. "It's scary," Rorie said. "It's shocking. It definitely is illegal. A lot of people have already lost faith in politics and the whole realm of politics, so that just solidifies all of our worries and concerns."

    Robert Hunter Jr. said his name was faked, too. "I did not sign for Barack Obama," he told
    Fox News, adding his signature supporting the then-Illinois senator's effort to get on the primary ballot was also a forgery. As he examined the Obama petition he held in his hands, Hunter pointed out that "I always put 'Junior' after my name, every time ... there's no 'Junior' there." He said the signature on the petition looks "very close" to his real one, but it clearly is not. "My wife and I actually signed a petition for Hillary Clinton," he said. "I am an Obama fan, but not in the primaries I wasn't."

    The prospect that theirs are two of an estimated 150 signatures that may have been forged on the petitions has raised the question of whether President Obama actually reached the legitimate number of signatures needed to be placed on the ballot in Indiana. Under state law, presidential candidates need to file 500 signatures from each of the state's nine Congressional districts. Indiana election officials say that in St. Joseph County, the Obama campaign qualified with 534 signatures; Clinton's camp had 704. The certified signatures were never challenged.

    "I had always thought that, now-President Obama, had earned his victory in Indiana," said the state's Republican chairman, Eric Holcomb. "But then I quickly learned that he had cheated his way on to the ballot in the primary." (Source)

    December 20, 2011: Voter Fraud in Minnesota

    Dozens of felony cases against convicted felons accused of illegally voting in the 2008 elections continued moving through the court system this week in Dakota County [Minnesota]. More than 30 felons appeared Monday in court on ineligible-voter charges.

    The investigation into alleged fraudulent voting started after the Dakota County attorney's office received 282 referrals alleging illegal voting after the 2008 general election, said County Attorney James Backstrom. Of the tips, 202 came from Minnesota Majority, a grass-roots advocacy nonprofit that calls itself a "state legislative watchdog group." (Source)

    February 12, 2012: Voter Fraud in New York

    Through three weeks of testimony, 46 city voters have testified about how they didn't know absentee ballots were cast in their names in the 2009 Working Families Party primary. Special Prosecutor Trey Smith has called the 46 people to show the Rensselaer County [New York] Court jury the victims of the absentee ballot fraud scandal. These voters have included public housing residents, college students, the semi-literate, a deaf man, the chronically ill and non-English speakers.

    Smith wants the jury to hear the personal stories of how voters were approached by Democratic and Working Families Party operatives in the days leading up to the minor-party Sept. 15, 2009 primary.

    Some city Democrats schemed to forge absentee ballots in an attempt to win the third-party line. Four Democrats have pleaded guilty for their roles in the case.

    Many voters, according to their testimony, were told that by filling out an absentee ballot application it would be "easier" for them to vote. (Source)

    March 7, 2012: Voter Fraud in West Virginia

    As the sheriff of Lincoln County, West Virginia, Jerry Bowman is sworn to uphold the law. But the 58-year-old law enforcement veteran stood in a federal courtroom in Charleston on Wednesday and pleaded guilty in a shocking voter fraud case that has stripped him of his job and could send him to prison for a decade. Prosecutors say Bowman and former Lincoln County Clerk Donald Whitten, 62, were part of a scheme to steal the May 2010 Democratic primary by stuffing ballot boxes with illegal absentee ballots.

    Bowman admitted to falsifying more than 100 of the absentee ballot applications and even voting with some of the ballots himself, while Whitten, who also pleaded guilty Wednesday, acknowledged lying to investigators about the plan to try to throw the election. (Source)

    April 22, 2012: Voter Fraud in Virginia

    Results of an ongoing Virginia State Police investigation of voter registration irregularities from the 2008 general election may signal a more significant voter fraud issue than some state lawmakers realized.

    As Virginia legislators hotly debated a voter ID bill that narrowly passed the General Assembly, many were unaware of a state police investigation that, so far, has resulted in charges against 38 people statewide for voter fraud. Warrants have been obtained for a 39th person who can't be located.

    A majority of those cases already have resulted in convictions, and 26 additional cases are still being actively investigated nearly 3½ years after the state Board of Elections forwarded more than 400 voter and election fraud allegations from 62 cities and counties to Virginia State Police for individual investigation. (Source) and (Source)

    May 25, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Virginia

    Two more people have been charged with voting fraud offenses following a Virginia State Police investigation of voter registration irregularities from the 2008 general election that so far has yielded 40 arrests statewide.

    Sheila J. Peterson, 53, was indicted Monday by a Chesterfield County [Virginia] grand jury on one felony count of making a false statement on an election form on Oct. 3, 2008, according to court records. Last week, Michael Anthony Harris, 50, was arrested in Chesterfield on a similar charge for an offense that occurred on Sept. 26, 2008, records show.

    Chesterfield authorities allege that both defendants registered to vote for the 2008 election despite having been previously convicted of felonies. Felons cannot vote in Virginia unless their rights are restored by the governor.

    The arrests are the latest to come from a state police review of 400-plus complaints forwarded to the agency for investigation in October 2008, before the November election, by then-State Board of Elections Secretary Nancy Rodrigues. So far, 40 people have been charged and warrants have been obtained for a 41st person who can't be located. A majority of those cases have resulted in convictions, and 24 additional cases are being actively investigated, state police said. (Source)

    May 29, 2012: Voter Fraud in Texas

    Voter fraud and the manipulation of the election process is a cost of doing business in many communities in Hidalgo County [Texas]. Candidates are faced with paying an exorbitant amount of money to party bosses and politiqueras who hold these elections ransom. Just yesterday, my office received a copy of 88 election complaints filed by concerned citizens of a small community in the Delta Area.

    In the 2010 Democratic Primary, nearly a third of the votes cast in the Delta Area were assisted. In the city of Hidalgo’s May 2012 election 22.5% of votes cast were assisted. Reports are coming in from across Hidalgo County that the practice is rampant in certain communities during this primary election. (Source)

    July 13, 2012: Voter Fraud in Colorado

    [Colorado] Secretary of State Scott Gessler has taken his most expansive step yet to identify noncitizens who may be registered to vote, filing open- records requests with jails in 10 of Colorado's largest counties for lists of anyone held on an immigration detainer since 2010.

    The office then ran the names and birth dates of people on the lists — about 10,000 so far — against the state's voter-registration database.

    They came up with 85 people who appear to be registered to vote, spokesman Rich Coolidge said. Of those, 29 were active voters, or had cast ballots in or since the 2010 general election. (Source)

    July 20, 2012: Voter Fraud in Philadelphia

    At a time when voter ID laws in 30 states are coming under intense fire from the liberal media, the Obama administration and civil rights leaders, one of the strongest cases anywhere was offered for voter identification by the lone Republican on the three-member panel overseeing elections in Philadelphia [Pennsylvania].

    Wednesday, City Commissioner Al Schmidt unveiled a 27-page report that his office had commissioned entitled “Voting Irregularities in Philadelphia County, 2012 Primary Election.” The report, which focused on cases in 15 of the city’s 1,687 election districts, found cases of double voting, voter impersonation, voting by non-citizens, and 23 cases of people who were unregistered to vote but nonetheless permitted to do so.

    Almost as soon as the 40-year-old Schmidt released the report at a news conference, his two fellow commissioners — both Democrats — denounced its findings. Insisting that its findings did not document a problem with voting city-wise, Commission Chairman Stephanie Singer branded the report a “stunt.” (Source)

    July 22, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Virginia

    Voter-registration forms being mailed to Virginia residents are addressed to dead relatives, children, family members in other states, non-U.S. citizens, people with similar names, existing registered voters and residents' cats and dogs.

    The errant forms are among tens of thousands being distributed in Virginia by a national voter-registration group that pre-populates the documents with key information, including names and addresses of prospective voters.

    The mailings have become a source of confusion among many who receive them and are creating headaches for local registrar offices, which must spend time in a busy presidential election year investigating which of the forms are legitimate. The mailings also can create opportunities for voter fraud, election officials say.

    Virginia election officials have contacted the nonprofit group, the Washington-based Voter Participation Center, to express their concern and ask it to adjust its methods.

    The Virginia Board of Elections has received more than 100 complaints so far from residents and state registrars about the third-party voter-registration forms. The Voter Participation Center mass-mails the forms, targeting Democrat-leaning voting blocks [sic] such as young adults, unmarried women, African-Americans and Latinos. The center calls these voting groups the "Rising American Electorate." (Source)

    July 23, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Florida

    Frustrated with accounts of voter fraud and ineligible voters statewide, residents of Orange County [Florida] undertook their own investigation to reveal whether noncitizens were present on the county voter rolls. Kelli McNair-Lee and Bill Barnett, members of the East Side Tea Party and Eastern Orlando Tea Party,
    petitioned Orange County Jury Services for the list of people exempt from jury duty, because they were not citizens.

    After paying exorbitant fees to gain access to the jury list, McNair-Lee and Barnett cross-referenced that list — totaling more than 1,100 people — with a voter-registration database, and found that 156 potential noncitizens were listed on the voter rolls in Orange County, according to Florida Political Press. (Source)

    July 26, 2012: Voter Fraud in Mississippi

    The official numbers are in for the Ward 3 [Mississippi] runoff election between LaRita Stokes and Joyce Jackson, but there is a discrepancy between the vote totals and the number of voters who signed the roll at Precinct 11. No one at the city or county seems to know anything about it, and everyone wants to direct questions to another department.

    The precinct, located in the Jackson Medical Mall, reported only 33 total votes, according to the official numbers from the Hinds County Election Commission. When this reporter and JFP intern Aaron Cooper stopped by the precinct around 2:30 p.m. on Election Day, though, 67 voters had already signed the roll.

    Joyce Jackson said Tuesday night that one of her poll watchers saw more than 100 voter signatures at the Precinct 11 around the polls’ 7 p.m. closing time. Cooper-Stokes defeated Jackson by 163 votes.

    Neither Hinds County Election Commissioner Connie Cochran nor county Election Commission Office Manager Grace Wallace knew anything about the discrepancy until this reporter told them about 1 p.m. Thursday. Neither seemed pleased to hear the news, either. “Don’t come in here and open up a can of worms,” Wallace said after hearing the report. Cochran said that if not all the votes were officially counted, it probably means the city election commission workers did not download all the voting machines correctly....

    When asked about the discrepancy, [city election commission worker Beryl] Williams said she had not looked at the number of people who signed the roll. When asked who was supposed to compare voter-roll numbers to election totals, Williams said the election had been certified and she had nothing else to tell me. When I asked the question again, Williams answer was only slightly more telling. “It didn’t come up for there to be...(trailed off) Well, anyway, I don’t know anything about the people that signed the voter rolls, about their numbers or whatever,” Williams said. “Nothing came up as a question when we were certifying, and we certified, and it’s a done deal.” (Source) and (Source)

    July 29, 2012: Voter Fraud in Texas

    The district attorney for Jim Wells and Brooks Counties [Texas] made new allegations of voter fraud and misconduct just before a trial begins today to hear his challenge of the May primary's outcome.

    District Attorney Armando Barrera filed an amended petition to contest the primary, which he lost by 19 votes. The final tally put challenger Carlos Omar Garcia at 3,809 and Barrera at 3,790. The winner faces Christina Flores in the November general election.

    According to the amended petition, more than 30 people cast a ballot who were not registered to vote at least 30 days before the election. The petition states the voters registered between May 14-19. The primary was May 29.

    It also lists several voters who submitted mail-in ballots stating they are disabled. Barrera's petition asks for those ballots to be declared void because those people are not disabled. Others, the petition states, have permanent addresses in Alice but actually live in Corpus Christi. (Source)

    August 6, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Ohio

    The Montgomery County [Ohio] Board of Elections is investigating a large case of possible voter registration fraud, after receiving more than 100 “suspicious” registration cards from a single organization, many that appeared to have false or nonexistent addresses.

    Board of Elections Director Betty Smith said the registrations were turned in by The Ohio Organizing Campaign, which listed a Poe Avenue address in Dayton. The OOC is tied to the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, which describes itself as “a statewide organization that unites community organizing groups, labor unions, faith organizations, and policy institutes across the state.” (Source)

    August 17, 2012: Voter Fraud in Philadelphia

    Last month, City Commissioner Al Schmidt, a Republican, issued a 27-page report on irregularities he found in a sample of Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] precincts during this year’s primary. The report, which looked at only 1 percent of the city’s 1,687 districts, found cases of double voting, voter impersonation, and voting by non-citizens, as well as 23 people who were not registered to vote but nonetheless voted. Schmidt also found reports of people who were counted as voting in the wrong party’s primary. (Source)

    August 22, 2012: Voter Fraud in Virginia

    The Albemarle County [Virginia] Commonwealth's attorney says her office is spending a lot of hours investigating the possibility of voter fraud. Meanwhile, members of the electoral board may be charged with contempt of court for photocopying sensitive information.

    Now three Albemarle County residents are under investigation for voter fraud and whoever made copies of those documents is under investigation for contempt of court.

    From prospective jurors that had been excused over the past three years on behalf of the electoral board, they found 159 that were questionable. Wheeler stated, "They said they were not a U.S. citizen, they were a convicted felon whose rights had not been restored, they were dead or they moved out of the county." (Source)

    September 7, 2012: Voter Fraud in Colorado

    [Colorado] Secretary of State Scott Gessler said Friday his office had found 35 noncitizens who have voted in Colorado elections, but in the face of criticism over how his office has tried to identify them, Gessler said he would not move forward with proposed regulations to deal with suspected noncitizen voters until after the election.

    Gessler, a Republican, blamed the federal government for not giving him access to a Department of Homeland Security database quickly enough to check the citizenship status of registered voters. (Source)


    September 26, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in California

    Republicans have fraudulently registered Democrats to vote … as Republicans, a Riverside County [California] Democratic group claims, according to a story by California Watch.

    The GOP has reported an increase of about 35,000 new Republicans in Riverside County this year alone, the nonprofit news organization reported.

    “In a complaint filed last week with the
    county registrar of voters, the Democrats presented affidavits from 133 Democratic voters who said they had been re-registered as Republicans without their consent after they encountered petition circulators outside welfare offices and stores,” California Watch reported Wednesday. (Source)

    October 19, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Florida

    Dead people aren't supposed to vote — not even in Florida. Eugenia Huguenin says breast cancer killed her daughter long before a voter registration card with Michele Huguenin's name and supposed signature was filed this year in Palm Beach County. Her name was on one of the disputed 106 voter registration forms gathered on behalf of the Republican Party that have spawned a statewide voter fraud investigation. (Source)

    October 26, 2012: Voter Fraud in Ohio

    Two volunteer poll workers at an Ohio voting station told
    Human Events that they observed van loads of Ohio residents born in Somalia — the state is home to the second-largest Somali population in the United States — being driven to the voting station and guided by Democratic interpreters on the voting process. No Republican interpreters were present, according to these volunteers.

    While it’s not unusual for get-out-the-vote groups to help voters get to the polls, the volunteers who talked to
    Human Eventsobserved a number of troubling and questionable activities.

    A source, who wishes to remain anonymous, is a volunteer outside the Morse Road polling center. She has witnessed Somalis who cannot speak English come to the polling center. They are brought in groups, by van or bus. The Democrats hand them a slate card and say, “vote Brown all the way down.” Given that Sherrod Brown is the incumbent Democrat Senator in Ohio, one can assume that this is the reference.

    Non-English speaking voters may use an interpreter. The interpreters are permitted by law to interpret for the individual voting; however, they are forbidden from influencing their vote in any way. Another source who also wishes to remain anonymous has seen Democrat interpreters show the non-English speaking Somalis how to vote the Democrat slate that they were handed outside. According to this second source, there are not any Republican Somali interpreters available.

    The logical follow-up question is whether a non-English speaking person is an American citizen. Although Republican leadership in Ohio passed a voting reform law, it was repealed by the legislature itself after the Democrats threatened a referendum. According to the Ohio Secretary of State’s web site, someone wanting to vote early in Ohio must supply one of the following in writing on the absentee ballot form, whether voting early by mail or in person: an Ohio driver’s license number; the last four digits of the social security number; or a copy of a current and valid photo identification, military identification, or a current — within the last 12 months — utility bill, including cell phone bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck, or other government document that shows the person’s name and address in addition to the voter registration acknowledgement.

    The voter is not required to show the driver’s license or social security card, but must merely write it on the absentee ballot request form. While the individual would be required to show a utility bill, bank statement or other printed document if he or she chooses that option, this is in lieu of writing the driver’s license or social security number. Therefore, the information cannot be checked against the Bureau of Motor Vehicles or other state databases. Essentially, a person is asked to check a box stating that they are a citizen, and the poll worker is to trust that they are the person who is listed on the item being shown or the information being written. In other words, someone can be an illegal resident of the state of Ohio and the United States, get an apartment, turn on the heat, bring in the Columbia Gas bill, register to vote by the deadline, and vote by showing that same bill. There is then no verification that this individual is a citizen of the United States. (Source)

    November 21, 2012: Voter Fraud in Louisiana

    Chief Eddie Stewart said Wednesday the Clinton [Louisiana] Police Department is investigating voter fraud related to this month's election. Stewart said he received a list of 115 names of voters who allegedly cast illegal ballots. Only 879 votes were cast, so the claim would involve more than 13 percent of the total. Stewart said those people might have voted in Clinton's elections for Mayor and Alderman without living in the town. He said his department is also looking into accusations of vote buying. (Source)

    March 6, 2013: Voter-Registration Fraud in Florida

    Two people have been charged with filling out fraudulent voter registration cards at two local universities. A two-year Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigation found that two employees of Strategic Allied Consulting, Rebekah Paul and Christian Price, were filling out fake forms at the University of North Florida and Jacksonville University. Over a two-year long investigation, FDLE found Paul and Price turned in 29 fake forms. (Source)

    April 26, 2013: Election Fraud in Indiana

    A jury in South Bend, Indiana has found that fraud put President Obama and Hillary Clinton on the presidential primary ballot in Indiana in the 2008 election. Two Democratic political operatives were convicted Thursday night in the illegal scheme after only three hours of deliberations. They were found guilty on all counts.

    Former longtime St. Joseph County Democratic party Chairman Butch Morgan Jr. was found guilty of felony conspiracy counts to commit petition fraud and forgery, and former county Board of Elections worker Dustin Blythe was found guilty of felony forgery counts and falsely making a petition, after being accused of faking petitions that enabled Obama, then an Illinois Senator, to get on the presidential primary ballot for his first run for the White House. Morgan was accused of being the mastermind behind the plot.

    According to testimony from two former Board of Election officials who pled guilty, Morgan ordered Democratic officials and workers to fake the names and signatures that Obama and Clinton needed to qualify for the presidential race. Blythe, then a Board of Elections employee and Democratic Party volunteer, was accused of forging multiple pages of the Obama petitions.

    "I think this helped uphold the integrity of the electoral system," the prosecutor, Stan Levco told reporters. “Their verdict of guilt is not a verdict against Democrats, but for honest and fair elections,” he said.

    The scheme was hatched in January of 2008, according to affidavits from investigators who cite former Board of Registration worker Lucas Burkett, who told them he was in on the plan at first, but then became uneasy and quit. He waited three years before telling authorities about it, but if revelations about any forgeries were raised during the election, the petitions could have been challenged during the contest. A candidate who did not qualify with enough legitimate signatures at the time, could have been bounced from the ballot.

    The case raise questions about whether in 2008, then candidate Obama actually submitted enough legitimate signatures to have legally qualified for the primary ballot. “I think had they been challenged successfully, he probably would not have been on the ballot,” Levco told
    Fox News.

    Under state law, presidential candidates need to qualify for the primary ballots with 500 signatures from each of the state's nine Congressional districts. Indiana election officials say that in St. Joseph County, which is the 2nd Congressional district, the Obama campaign qualified with 534 signatures; Clinton's camp had 704.

    Prosecutors say that in President Obama's case, nine of the petition pages were apparently forged. Each petition contains up to 10 names, making a possible total of 90 names, which, if faked, could have brought the Obama total below the legal limit required to qualify. Prosecutors say 13 Clinton petitions were apparently forged, meaning up to 130 possibly fake signatures. Even if 130 signatures had been challenged, it would have still left Mrs. Clinton with enough signatures to meet the 500 person threshold. Levco said a total of “100 to 200” signatures had been forged on Obama’s and Clinton’s petitions. (Source)

    May 15, 2013: Possible Voter Fraud in Ohio

    Yamiah Davis was excited to vote in her first presidential election last fall. The 21-year-old Avondale [Ohio] woman mailed in her early ballot in October, but then realized she had forgotten to include a form. “I was excited to have my voice count,” Davis said. “When I realized what I did I thought, ‘Crap, my vote didn’t count.’ ” So, she said, she went to her polling location on Election Day and explained what happened. They told her to cast a provisional ballot, she said. Now, she could face prosecution and wonders: “Am I going to jail?”

    She and dozens of others – people who voted early by mail or in person at the [Cincinnati] Board of Elections, then cast a provisional ballot on Election Day – could face felony prosecution.

    In the November election, 421,997 votes were cast countywide. Ninety-three remain on an anomaly list under review by the Board of Elections. Ahead of today’s discussion, The
    Enquirer reviewed what happened in all 93 cases, interviewed several voters, and read through hundreds of pages of transcripts from two recent Board of Election meetings where some of the voters testified. The Enquirer found 59 voters remain under scrutiny for voting absentee or in-person and provisionally. (Source)

    June 3, 2013: Voter Fraud in West Virginia

    Officials in Lincoln County [West Virginia] say they're working hard to clean house and restore confidence in voters. They say the elections office is getting a much-needed makeover, starting with voting records and machines.

    It's the start of a voter roll purging process – a massive effort to make sure every vote counts, after the election fraud scandal of 2010 brought problems to light. Several public officials were sentenced to prison following the investigation. Authorities say more than 100 absentee ballots were falsified in that race. (Source)

    November 2, 2013: Ballot Fraud in Connecticut

    If there’s any office for which a candidate should be disqualified for engaging in absentee ballot fraud, it’s City Clerk, which, among other responsibilities, is in charge of handling absentee ballots. Yet in an astounding claim made just days before Tuesday’s election, City Clerk Ron Smith said late last week that he planned to file a complaint with the state Elections Enforcement Commission concerning complaints about absentee ballot fraud.

    At issues are affidavits from 11 residents of Ward 8 [New Haven, Connecticut] — the ward represented by Smith’s opponent Alderman Michael Smart — claiming their absentee ballots were illegally picked up. One resident told the
    Register’s Mary O’Leary on Thursday that Smart himself picked up her ballot. The woman, Cynthia Britt, issued a statement Friday walking back her original comments and saying that Smart had merely handled her application for an absentee ballot, and not the ballot himself.

    Records in the City Clerk’s office show that Smart took out the majority of the 181 absentee ballot applications tallied in the office by Deputy City Clerk Sally Brown. Taking out the ballots is legal. But only a family member of an incapacitated person, a designated caretaker or a police officer can return the ballot if the voter is incapable of mailing it back. (Source)

    November 19, 2013: Voter Fraud in New York

    Christopher Rasco told the person who came to his door that he might not make it out to vote on Election Day. He was told he had another option – apply for, and then fill out, an absentee ballot. "They were gonna help everybody by bringing the ballots to them and helping them fill out the ballots," Rasco said. "It seemed pretty legit to me."

    Rasco's absentee ballot is one of nearly 100 ballots under the legal microscope. It appears he unknowingly filled out an absentee ballot when he was not qualified to do so. "They can't have an absentee ballot because they don't want to go to the polls or they had no intention of voting and someone wants them to vote, that's not the way our election process works in New York State," said Mark Dame, R-Plattsburgh [New York] District 8. (Source)

    December 30, 2013: Voter Fraud in New York

    The election board’s susceptibility to voter fraud by people impersonating the departed was uncovered during a massive probe of the agency by the Department of Investigation. The probe uncovered 63 instances when voters’ names should have been stricken from the rolls, but weren’t — even though some of them had died years before.

    “The majority of those 63 individuals remained on the rolls nearly two years — and some as long as four years — since a death, felony conviction, or move outside of New York City [New York],” said DOI Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn.

    Undercover DOI agents were able to access voting booths in 61 instances — including 39 dead people, 14 jail birds and eight non-residents. Only twice were the agents blocked.

    For example, a 24-year female was able to access the ballot at a Manhattan poll site in November under the name of a deceased female who was born in 1923 and died in April 25, 2012 — and would have been 89 on Election Day.

    Also at a Manhattan poll site, a 33-year-male investigator was able to vote under the name of a deceased man who would have been 94 on Election Day. (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

    February 26, 2014: Voter Fraud in Iowa

    Iowa’s DCI wrapped up its investigation this month and has referred more than 80 cases of voter fraud to county attorneys for possible prosecution. Since the investigation was initiated by GOP Secretary of State Matt Schultz a year and a half ago, five people have pleaded guilty to voter fraud and 15 others are facing charges. (Source) and (Source)

    May 8, 2014: Voter Fraud in Iowa

    A two-year investigation of voter fraud in Iowa turned up 117 cases of illegal voting but only 27 people have been charged so far, Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz said Thursday when releasing a final report of the probe.

    Schultz began the investigation in 2012 after cross-checking Iowa voter records with driver’s license records from the Iowa Department of Transportation. Schultz said it appeared more than 3,000 individuals had registered to vote between 2010 and 2012 that had identified themselves in DOT records as non-citizens.

    He entered an agreement with the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation to pay $250,000 over two years to look into the cases.

    “There are people who voted who weren’t supposed to, and this is a situation where we tried to do something about it,” Schultz said. “I think it was the right thing to do and I stand by that.”

    After the DCI compared the names Schultz provided with a federal immigration database, potential cases of non-citizen voters were narrowed to 147. In addition, the DCI agents looked into alleged cases of ineligible felons voting and began investigating 68 of those. Another 23 cases were investigated and included voters suspected of casting ballots in two states and those voting in Iowa but living elsewhere.

    Out of the total 238 cases, the agents confirmed 117 illegal voting ones. The 27 people charged so far include six who have pleaded guilty, one found not guilty by a jury, and four whose cases were dismissed. One person was given a deferred prosecution and 15 remain in the court system. (Source)

    May 9, 2014: Election Fraud in Alabama

    Three women who worked on the 2013 campaign for District 2 City Commissioner Amos Newsome were arrested Friday and charged with a combined 56 counts of voter fraud stemming from the 2013 District 2 election, according to Houston County [Alabama] Sheriff Andy Hughes.

    Olivia Lee Reynolds, 65, of West Main Street, was charged with 26 counts of falsifying ballots, while Lesa Renee Coleman, 49, of South Range Street, was charged with 20 counts. Janice Lee Hart, 63, of Eagle Road, was charged with 10 counts.

    “Basically, they took part in falsifying applications for absentee ballots during the election,” said Hughes, who had been asked by District Attorney Doug Valeska to conduct an investigation into the allegations. In the August election, Newsome won against challenger Lamesa Danzey by 14 votes. Newsome received 119 of the 124 absentee votes that were cast. Danzey received more votes than Newsome at the polls. (Source)

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    October 17, 2002: Voter-Registration Fraud in Minnesota

    Dakota County [Minnesota] prosecutors charged 95 people Wednesday in an alleged scheme to rig elections in the small town of Coates for the benefit of a strip club that officials have long been trying to shut down.

    County Attorney James Backstrom said 94 of the defendants filled out voter registration cards claiming they lived at the same address. The address turned out to be that of the club, named Jake's.

    Prosecutors charged Jake's owner Richard J. Jacobson, 32, of Prescott, Wis., with conspiracy to commit forgery and conspiracy to commit unlawful voting, another felony, for allegedly orchestrating the scheme. The other 94 all were charged with forgery and conspiracy to commit forgery. All the charges are felonies. (Source)

    Autumn 2004: Voter Fraud in California

    In 2002, Dean Gardner, a losing GOP candidate for California's state legislature, sent out a survey to 14,000 first-time voters. A total of 1,691 surveys came back. The results were startling: 76 people admitted that they weren't citizens but had voted, while 49 claimed not to have registered at their correct residence, as the law requires. Gardner lost by only 266 votes. (Source)

    Autumn 2004: Voter-Registration Fraud in Wisconsin

    In Racine, Wisconsin, around the same time, election officials discovered that Project Vote, another left-wing advocacy group, had filed scores of applications with phony addresses and other questionable items. The acting City Clerk asked the district attorney's office to pursue possible criminal charges. Ohio, Nevada, Iowa—similar stories abounded in states across the country. (Source)

    August 12, 2005: Voter-Registration Fraud in Arizona

    Ten Valley residents who are not U.S. citizens were charged Thursday with fraudulently registering to vote in Maricopa County [Arizona]. They admitted they were not citizens on jury duty affidavits, but county officials discovered they were still registered to vote, Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas said.

    The 10 are among 159 people the County Attorney's Office is investigating for voter fraud. Out of the 10, one is German, one is from Tonga and the rest are Hispanic with seven from Mexico and the last from an unspecified country, according to the affidavits. Four actually voted in recent elections and another tried to vote, but his ballot was rejected, Thomas said. All are legal residents of the United States.

    All 10 are charged with presentment of a false instrument, a felony with a presumptive sentence of one year in prison, but people convicted of such lower-level felonies often receive probation. The other 149 cases are still under investigation, and Thomas said that he expected more indictments. (Source)

    September 21, 2006: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    The Lake County [Indiana] Vote Fraud Task Force has issued arrest warrants and filed nine felony charges against eight more people linked to voter fraud in the 2003 Lake County primary elections, the Indiana Attorney General's office announced this morning. The newest charges … bring the total number of people charged to 53. (Source)

    October 27, 2006: Voter-Registration Fraud in California

    Felony charges were filed this week against 12 signature gatherers accused of registering Orange County [California] voters as Republicans without their consent – part of a criminal probe into voter flipping.

    An
    Orange County Register investigation in April found that more than 100 people who thought they were signing petitions to cure breast cancer and punish child molesters were duped into registering as Republicans. The signature gatherers were part of an Orange County Republican registration drive that paid up to $10 for each "convert," especially in the heated state 34th Senate District.

    In a joint investigation by the California Secretary of State and the Orange County Office of the District Attorney, each defendant was charged Tuesday with two to four counts of falsifying a voter registration card. Each charge carries a maximum penalty of three years in state prison. (Source)

    December 1, 2006: Voter Fraud in Virginia

    The former Mayor of a small Virginia coal town pleaded guilty to hundreds of felonies this week for masterminding a scheme to buy votes with beer, cigarettes and pork rinds. As Mayor of Appalachia, a town of less than 2,000 residents in historic southwest Virginia, Ben Cooper rigged votes, stole election records, forged ballots, voted more than once in an election and violated absentee voting procedures. In all, Cooper pleaded guilty to 243 felonies.

    The corruption took place during the 2004 town elections in which voter signatures were forged, absentee ballots were intercepted in the mail and many voters were actually prevented from going to the polls. A variety of officials and residents participated in the fraud and have also pleaded guilty.

    They include the town’s de facto chief of police, a mail carrier and a man who exchanged drugs for votes. The police chief, who admitted getting paid for doing nothing, was the mayor’s friend and together they planned to take control over the department. The postal worker pleaded guilty to passing absentee ballots to the parks and recreation director and the resident who bought votes with drugs pleaded guilty to fraud.

    Additionally, several residents involved in the scheme have pleaded guilty to charges of hindering citizens of their right to vote and entering false information about absentee ballots. (Source)

    November 8, 2007: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    Two more people charged with vote fraud by the Lake County [Indiana] Joint Vote Fraud Task Force have pled guilty and another person has been sentenced announced Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter. There are now 37 convictions against 53 defendants for vote fraud. (Source) and (Source)

    June 16, 2008: Voter-Registration Fraud in Utah

    The prosecutor in the Daggett County [Utah] voter-fraud scandal is quitting the case. County Attorney Bryan Sidwell removed himself before 20 of 51 defendants could be arraigned. Sidwell refused to say why, leaving the Utah Attorney General's Office to step in or appoint a special prosecutor.

    The voters are accused of illegally registering in Daggett County even though they don't live or maintain a primary residence there. The charge is a class A misdemeanor. The case involves the 2006 election, when then-Sheriff Alan Campbell complained that the voter rolls were growing in the small county near the Wyoming border. Campbell, a Democrat, lost the election to Republican Rick Ellsworth by 20 votes. (Source)

    August 8, 2008: Voter Fraud and Voter-Registration Fraud in Texas

    Some 16 months after Bexar County [Texas] 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.

    The investigation discovered more than 300 noncitizens had registered to vote in Bexar County, some as far back as the mid-1990s, and that 41 of them had actually cast a ballot. But officials acknowledged that none will be prosecuted because the statute of limitations had expired. (Source)

    August 25, 2008: Voter Fraud and Voter-Registration Fraud in Indiana

    The Lake County [Indiana] Vote Fraud Task Force has issued arrest warrants and has filed 56 felony charges against 12 more people linked to voter fraud in the 2003 Lake County primary elections. The individuals involved include [among others] a Lake County Deputy Sheriff, a former East Chicago [Indiana] City Councilman, and a current precinct committeeman....

    Today’s action brings the total number of individuals charged for fraud by the Task Force to 34 since it was convened by Lake County Prosecutor Bernard A. Carter two years ago. The total number of felony charges filed is now nearly 160. (Source)

    October 8, 2008: Voter-Registration Fraud in Wisconsin (ACORN)

    Milwaukee County [Wisconsin] prosecutors Tuesday charged a convicted felon with illegally registering himself and others to vote between his conviction and his sentencing. The complaint accuses Adam Mucklin, 22, of registering to vote in June, after he was convicted of battery in April, and after a judge told him he couldn’t vote as a convicted felon. Later in June, Mucklin signed up to work as a paid voter registrar for the Community Voters Project, something else he couldn’t do as a convicted felon, the complaint says....

    Mucklin was among 49 voter registration workers who were referred to the Milwaukee County district attorney’s office by the Milwaukee Election Commission on suspicion of election fraud. He is the second to be charged.

    Last week, the district attorney’s office charged Endalyn Adams, 21, with submitting registration cards with dozens of fake names to meet what amounted to a quota from the Community Voters Project. Some of the false names were flagged by voters project leaders before the cards were turned over to the Milwaukee Election Commission; those names were never added to the voter rolls, and the rest have been removed.

    Virtually all the workers under scrutiny were employed by either the voters project or by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. (Source)

    October 15, 2008: Voter-Registration Fraud by ACORN

    US Congressman Thad Cotter [R-MI] told
    Fox News that ACORN recruiters are registering "voters" multiple time and, in one instance, one young man who was just caught, had registered 52 times. (Source)

    May 7, 2009: Voter-Registration Fraud in Pennsylvania (ACORN)

    The Allegheny County [Pennsylvania] District Attorney yesterday charged seven people with a combined 51 counts of forgery and other violations, saying they worked with the group ACORN to deliver forged registrations during the 2008 election.

    District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. said the workers for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now were driven to fraud by a quota that required them to register anywhere from a dozen to 20 new voters daily, something a spokesman for ACORN yesterday said did not exist. State election law makes it a misdemeanor to require a quota on such registrations, because lawmakers view a quota as an invitation to the kind of fraud the DA is alleging.

    "People got paid by the hour, not the form," said Scott Levenson, ACORN's national spokesman. "No one did not get paid because they did not bring in X amount of forms."

    Mr. Zappala said the opposite was the case, and that some of the workers charged yesterday told investigators they needed to meet a daily quota to be paid their hourly wage of $8.

    What did not appear to be in dispute yesterday was that dozens of bogus registrations – including a registration form for a county elections department employee with the signature forged – were turned in during the group's voter registration drive last year. It appeared the workers were submitting fake or doctored registration forms to be paid their daily $40 wage for five hours of work.

    The forgery counts – 51 in all – are third-degree felonies … (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

    August 4, 2009: Voter Fraud in New Jersey

    More arrests are likely in a voter-fraud case involving supporters of failed Atlantic City [New Jersey] mayoral candidate Marty Small, according to information from the state Attorney General's Office and a defense attorney. Five people who collected votes for Small have been charged with mishandling messenger ballots and disenfranchising voters. The councilman has denied any connection to the workers.

    Two of those defendants, Floyd Tally and David Callaway, appeared in court Monday. They are accused of fraudulently completing and submitting more than 130 messenger ballot applications. During the brief hearing, a new date was set for Sept. 10. By that time they should be indicted, according to officials.

    The number of charges also could grow, according to those involved in the case. "It looks like we're moving toward a multiple-count indictment on voter fraud," said Steven Scheffler, Callaway's attorney. "Probably more than 10 counts each."

    Five messengers – Demaris Jones, Ramona Stephens, Yolanda Barrios, Frank Taylor and Ronald Harris – all had several of their ballots rejected, but have not been charged in the case. In addition to Tally and Callaway, those charged are Michelle Griffin, of Pleasantville, and LuQuay Q. Zahir and Toni Dixon, both of Atlantic City. All but Zahir have a clear connection to the Callaway group, which raised messenger and absentee ballot collection [to] a near art form.

    The family claims that is the reason for the charges. While Attorney General Anne Milgram has said the defendants disenfranchised voters, Callaway's brother Ronald – who is better known as Jihad Q. Abdullah – previously said it is the state that is trying to disenfranchise the black voters who have used the method in Atlantic City. (Source)

    March 17, 2010: Voter-Registration Fraud in Nebraska

    Channel 6 News learned Wednesday that nearly 200 phony names have been purged from Douglas County [Nebraska] voter files. A worker who was paid to collect the signatures was arrested for felony voter fraud. Twenty-one-year-old Eddie Pierce of Omaha is accused of submitting 195 phony voter registrations during a drive last fall by the group Project 10,000 Voters. The nonprofit paid workers $1 a name. If convicted, he could be sentenced to five years in prison.

    Douglas County Sheriff's Department investigators found some people did not know their signatures had been forged. Other applications contained fictitious names and addresses. Deputies attempted to call people on those forms that had wrong numbers. (Source)

    September 30, 2010: Voter Fraud in Minnesota

    Three felons have been charged with illegally voting in Olmsted County [Minnesota] during the 2008 election, according to County Attorney Mark Ostrem. The felony charges come after the conservative interest group Minnesota Majority issued a statewide report that alleged 50 felons might have illegally cast ballots in Olmsted County during the presidential election. Ostrem said that list was eventually whittled down to six individuals who might have voted illegally. (Source)

    May 9, 2011: Voter Fraud in New Mexico

    Secretary of State Dianna Duran says her office has turned over records to the state police department to investigate charges of voter fraud in New Mexico but Duran says she can’t reveal how many instances have been recorded or whether the investigation is nearly completed because of the ongoing nature of the case.

    Back in late March, Duran told lawmakers she had found preliminary data showing at least 37 recorded instances of people without valid Social Security numbers voting in various elections across New Mexico between 2003 and 2010 and that 117 foreign nationals were registered to vote — which is illegal since only US citizens are allowed to vote. After making the announcement, Duran — the first Republican elected to the Secretary of State’s job in 82 years — was criticized by Democrats and immigrant rights groups who said such alleged incidents were isolated and don’t point to a widespread problem. (Source) and (Source)

    July 29, 2011: Voter Fraud in Various States (ACORN and the NAACP)

    While NAACP President Benjamin Jealous lashed out at new state laws requiring photo ID for voting, an NAACP executive sits in prison, sentenced for carrying out a massive voter fraud scheme.

    In a story ignored by the national media, in April a Tunica County, Miss., jury convicted NAACP official Lessadolla Sowers on 10 counts of fraudulently casting absentee ballots [and was given a five-year sentence for each of the ten counts of voter fraud for which she was convicted, but the sentencing judge allowed her to serve the terms concurrently]. Sowers is identified on an NAACP website as a member of the Tunica County NAACP Executive Committee.

    The NAACP has had other problems with voter fraud. The NAACP National Voter Fund registered a dead man to vote in Lake County, Ohio, in 2004. That same year, out of 325 voter registration cards filed by the NAACP in Cleveland, 48 were flagged as fraudulent.

    But the NAACP’s voter fraud record doesn’t approach that of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. At least 54 individuals employed by or associated with ACORN have been convicted of voter fraud....

    And ACORN, which filed for bankruptcy last November, was itself convicted of voter fraud in Nevada in April. (Source) and (Source)

    October 13, 2011: [113] Felon Voter Fraud Convictions Stemming from Minnesota’s 2008 General Election (Source)

    November 5, 2011: Voter Fraud in Minnesota

    Dozens of Dakota County [Minnesota] residents were charged this week with voting illegally in the 2008 general election, just days before the statute of limitations expired. The 49 people charged were among 282 complaints registered with Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom’s office in the wake of the controversial—and hard-fought—2008 election, which spurred a months-long recount in the U.S. Senate race between Republican incumbent Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken, who was eventually declared the winner. (Source)

    November 22, 2011: Voter Fraud in Minnesota

    Fox News reports: It took a few years, but prosecutors are rolling out charges in response to accusations of felons voting in one of the tightest elections in the state.

    Looking back, it's clear that the 2008 election was significant for many reasons. “Actually, that was my first time voting,” said Dwayne Thomas, of St. Paul [Minnesota]. Now, Thomas is facing two felony charges. He was not supposed to vote on Nov. 4, 2008, because he was still on probation for a previous felony.

    Three years later, just before the statute of limitations would run out, Washington County prosecutors sent him back to jail. “I just think it's not right that they are doing this,” said Thomas. “I don't really understand how they feel like I knew about it. I didn't know about it.”

    Prosecutors say they don't buy that claim. “That's the same defense I've heard on other people who violate their probation,” said Rick Hodsdon, assistant Washington County Attorney. So far he’s charged 25 felons with illegally voting in the 2008 election and another seven for voting in 2010. (Source)

    December 7, 2011: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    Charity Rorie, a mother of four, sat in her Mishawaka, Indiana, kitchen, stunned that her name appeared on a 2008 Democratic presidential primary petition for then-candidate Barack Obama. "That's not my signature," she told
    Fox News, saying her signature is "absolutely" a fake. She also said she was troubled someone forged both her signature and that of her husband, Jeff, and listed personal details such as their address and birthdays. "It's scary," Rorie said. "It's shocking. It definitely is illegal. A lot of people have already lost faith in politics and the whole realm of politics, so that just solidifies all of our worries and concerns."

    Robert Hunter Jr. said his name was faked, too. "I did not sign for Barack Obama," he told
    Fox News, adding his signature supporting the then-Illinois senator's effort to get on the primary ballot was also a forgery. As he examined the Obama petition he held in his hands, Hunter pointed out that "I always put 'Junior' after my name, every time ... there's no 'Junior' there." He said the signature on the petition looks "very close" to his real one, but it clearly is not. "My wife and I actually signed a petition for Hillary Clinton," he said. "I am an Obama fan, but not in the primaries I wasn't."

    The prospect that theirs are two of an estimated 150 signatures that may have been forged on the petitions has raised the question of whether President Obama actually reached the legitimate number of signatures needed to be placed on the ballot in Indiana. Under state law, presidential candidates need to file 500 signatures from each of the state's nine Congressional districts. Indiana election officials say that in St. Joseph County, the Obama campaign qualified with 534 signatures; Clinton's camp had 704. The certified signatures were never challenged.

    "I had always thought that, now-President Obama, had earned his victory in Indiana," said the state's Republican chairman, Eric Holcomb. "But then I quickly learned that he had cheated his way on to the ballot in the primary." (Source)

    December 20, 2011: Voter Fraud in Minnesota

    Dozens of felony cases against convicted felons accused of illegally voting in the 2008 elections continued moving through the court system this week in Dakota County [Minnesota]. More than 30 felons appeared Monday in court on ineligible-voter charges.

    The investigation into alleged fraudulent voting started after the Dakota County attorney's office received 282 referrals alleging illegal voting after the 2008 general election, said County Attorney James Backstrom. Of the tips, 202 came from Minnesota Majority, a grass-roots advocacy nonprofit that calls itself a "state legislative watchdog group." (Source)

    February 12, 2012: Voter Fraud in New York

    Through three weeks of testimony, 46 city voters have testified about how they didn't know absentee ballots were cast in their names in the 2009 Working Families Party primary. Special Prosecutor Trey Smith has called the 46 people to show the Rensselaer County [New York] Court jury the victims of the absentee ballot fraud scandal. These voters have included public housing residents, college students, the semi-literate, a deaf man, the chronically ill and non-English speakers.

    Smith wants the jury to hear the personal stories of how voters were approached by Democratic and Working Families Party operatives in the days leading up to the minor-party Sept. 15, 2009 primary.

    Some city Democrats schemed to forge absentee ballots in an attempt to win the third-party line. Four Democrats have pleaded guilty for their roles in the case.

    Many voters, according to their testimony, were told that by filling out an absentee ballot application it would be "easier" for them to vote. (Source)

    March 7, 2012: Voter Fraud in West Virginia

    As the sheriff of Lincoln County, West Virginia, Jerry Bowman is sworn to uphold the law. But the 58-year-old law enforcement veteran stood in a federal courtroom in Charleston on Wednesday and pleaded guilty in a shocking voter fraud case that has stripped him of his job and could send him to prison for a decade. Prosecutors say Bowman and former Lincoln County Clerk Donald Whitten, 62, were part of a scheme to steal the May 2010 Democratic primary by stuffing ballot boxes with illegal absentee ballots.

    Bowman admitted to falsifying more than 100 of the absentee ballot applications and even voting with some of the ballots himself, while Whitten, who also pleaded guilty Wednesday, acknowledged lying to investigators about the plan to try to throw the election. (Source)

    April 22, 2012: Voter Fraud in Virginia

    Results of an ongoing Virginia State Police investigation of voter registration irregularities from the 2008 general election may signal a more significant voter fraud issue than some state lawmakers realized.

    As Virginia legislators hotly debated a voter ID bill that narrowly passed the General Assembly, many were unaware of a state police investigation that, so far, has resulted in charges against 38 people statewide for voter fraud. Warrants have been obtained for a 39th person who can't be located.

    A majority of those cases already have resulted in convictions, and 26 additional cases are still being actively investigated nearly 3½ years after the state Board of Elections forwarded more than 400 voter and election fraud allegations from 62 cities and counties to Virginia State Police for individual investigation. (Source) and (Source)

    May 25, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Virginia

    Two more people have been charged with voting fraud offenses following a Virginia State Police investigation of voter registration irregularities from the 2008 general election that so far has yielded 40 arrests statewide.

    Sheila J. Peterson, 53, was indicted Monday by a Chesterfield County [Virginia] grand jury on one felony count of making a false statement on an election form on Oct. 3, 2008, according to court records. Last week, Michael Anthony Harris, 50, was arrested in Chesterfield on a similar charge for an offense that occurred on Sept. 26, 2008, records show.

    Chesterfield authorities allege that both defendants registered to vote for the 2008 election despite having been previously convicted of felonies. Felons cannot vote in Virginia unless their rights are restored by the governor.

    The arrests are the latest to come from a state police review of 400-plus complaints forwarded to the agency for investigation in October 2008, before the November election, by then-State Board of Elections Secretary Nancy Rodrigues. So far, 40 people have been charged and warrants have been obtained for a 41st person who can't be located. A majority of those cases have resulted in convictions, and 24 additional cases are being actively investigated, state police said. (Source)

    May 29, 2012: Voter Fraud in Texas

    Voter fraud and the manipulation of the election process is a cost of doing business in many communities in Hidalgo County [Texas]. Candidates are faced with paying an exorbitant amount of money to party bosses and politiqueras who hold these elections ransom. Just yesterday, my office received a copy of 88 election complaints filed by concerned citizens of a small community in the Delta Area.

    In the 2010 Democratic Primary, nearly a third of the votes cast in the Delta Area were assisted. In the city of Hidalgo’s May 2012 election 22.5% of votes cast were assisted. Reports are coming in from across Hidalgo County that the practice is rampant in certain communities during this primary election. (Source)

    July 13, 2012: Voter Fraud in Colorado

    [Colorado] Secretary of State Scott Gessler has taken his most expansive step yet to identify noncitizens who may be registered to vote, filing open- records requests with jails in 10 of Colorado's largest counties for lists of anyone held on an immigration detainer since 2010.

    The office then ran the names and birth dates of people on the lists — about 10,000 so far — against the state's voter-registration database.

    They came up with 85 people who appear to be registered to vote, spokesman Rich Coolidge said. Of those, 29 were active voters, or had cast ballots in or since the 2010 general election. (Source)

    July 20, 2012: Voter Fraud in Philadelphia

    At a time when voter ID laws in 30 states are coming under intense fire from the liberal media, the Obama administration and civil rights leaders, one of the strongest cases anywhere was offered for voter identification by the lone Republican on the three-member panel overseeing elections in Philadelphia [Pennsylvania].

    Wednesday, City Commissioner Al Schmidt unveiled a 27-page report that his office had commissioned entitled “Voting Irregularities in Philadelphia County, 2012 Primary Election.” The report, which focused on cases in 15 of the city’s 1,687 election districts, found cases of double voting, voter impersonation, voting by non-citizens, and 23 cases of people who were unregistered to vote but nonetheless permitted to do so.

    Almost as soon as the 40-year-old Schmidt released the report at a news conference, his two fellow commissioners — both Democrats — denounced its findings. Insisting that its findings did not document a problem with voting city-wise, Commission Chairman Stephanie Singer branded the report a “stunt.” (Source)

    July 22, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Virginia

    Voter-registration forms being mailed to Virginia residents are addressed to dead relatives, children, family members in other states, non-U.S. citizens, people with similar names, existing registered voters and residents' cats and dogs.

    The errant forms are among tens of thousands being distributed in Virginia by a national voter-registration group that pre-populates the documents with key information, including names and addresses of prospective voters.

    The mailings have become a source of confusion among many who receive them and are creating headaches for local registrar offices, which must spend time in a busy presidential election year investigating which of the forms are legitimate. The mailings also can create opportunities for voter fraud, election officials say.

    Virginia election officials have contacted the nonprofit group, the Washington-based Voter Participation Center, to express their concern and ask it to adjust its methods.

    The Virginia Board of Elections has received more than 100 complaints so far from residents and state registrars about the third-party voter-registration forms. The Voter Participation Center mass-mails the forms, targeting Democrat-leaning voting blocks [sic] such as young adults, unmarried women, African-Americans and Latinos. The center calls these voting groups the "Rising American Electorate." (Source)

    July 23, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Florida

    Frustrated with accounts of voter fraud and ineligible voters statewide, residents of Orange County [Florida] undertook their own investigation to reveal whether noncitizens were present on the county voter rolls. Kelli McNair-Lee and Bill Barnett, members of the East Side Tea Party and Eastern Orlando Tea Party,
    petitioned Orange County Jury Services for the list of people exempt from jury duty, because they were not citizens.

    After paying exorbitant fees to gain access to the jury list, McNair-Lee and Barnett cross-referenced that list — totaling more than 1,100 people — with a voter-registration database, and found that 156 potential noncitizens were listed on the voter rolls in Orange County, according to Florida Political Press. (Source)

    July 26, 2012: Voter Fraud in Mississippi

    The official numbers are in for the Ward 3 [Mississippi] runoff election between LaRita Stokes and Joyce Jackson, but there is a discrepancy between the vote totals and the number of voters who signed the roll at Precinct 11. No one at the city or county seems to know anything about it, and everyone wants to direct questions to another department.

    The precinct, located in the Jackson Medical Mall, reported only 33 total votes, according to the official numbers from the Hinds County Election Commission. When this reporter and JFP intern Aaron Cooper stopped by the precinct around 2:30 p.m. on Election Day, though, 67 voters had already signed the roll.

    Joyce Jackson said Tuesday night that one of her poll watchers saw more than 100 voter signatures at the Precinct 11 around the polls’ 7 p.m. closing time. Cooper-Stokes defeated Jackson by 163 votes.

    Neither Hinds County Election Commissioner Connie Cochran nor county Election Commission Office Manager Grace Wallace knew anything about the discrepancy until this reporter told them about 1 p.m. Thursday. Neither seemed pleased to hear the news, either. “Don’t come in here and open up a can of worms,” Wallace said after hearing the report. Cochran said that if not all the votes were officially counted, it probably means the city election commission workers did not download all the voting machines correctly....

    When asked about the discrepancy, [city election commission worker Beryl] Williams said she had not looked at the number of people who signed the roll. When asked who was supposed to compare voter-roll numbers to election totals, Williams said the election had been certified and she had nothing else to tell me. When I asked the question again, Williams answer was only slightly more telling. “It didn’t come up for there to be...(trailed off) Well, anyway, I don’t know anything about the people that signed the voter rolls, about their numbers or whatever,” Williams said. “Nothing came up as a question when we were certifying, and we certified, and it’s a done deal.” (Source) and (Source)

    July 29, 2012: Voter Fraud in Texas

    The district attorney for Jim Wells and Brooks Counties [Texas] made new allegations of voter fraud and misconduct just before a trial begins today to hear his challenge of the May primary's outcome.

    District Attorney Armando Barrera filed an amended petition to contest the primary, which he lost by 19 votes. The final tally put challenger Carlos Omar Garcia at 3,809 and Barrera at 3,790. The winner faces Christina Flores in the November general election.

    According to the amended petition, more than 30 people cast a ballot who were not registered to vote at least 30 days before the election. The petition states the voters registered between May 14-19. The primary was May 29.

    It also lists several voters who submitted mail-in ballots stating they are disabled. Barrera's petition asks for those ballots to be declared void because those people are not disabled. Others, the petition states, have permanent addresses in Alice but actually live in Corpus Christi. (Source)

    August 6, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Ohio

    The Montgomery County [Ohio] Board of Elections is investigating a large case of possible voter registration fraud, after receiving more than 100 “suspicious” registration cards from a single organization, many that appeared to have false or nonexistent addresses.

    Board of Elections Director Betty Smith said the registrations were turned in by The Ohio Organizing Campaign, which listed a Poe Avenue address in Dayton. The OOC is tied to the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, which describes itself as “a statewide organization that unites community organizing groups, labor unions, faith organizations, and policy institutes across the state.” (Source)

    August 17, 2012: Voter Fraud in Philadelphia

    Last month, City Commissioner Al Schmidt, a Republican, issued a 27-page report on irregularities he found in a sample of Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] precincts during this year’s primary. The report, which looked at only 1 percent of the city’s 1,687 districts, found cases of double voting, voter impersonation, and voting by non-citizens, as well as 23 people who were not registered to vote but nonetheless voted. Schmidt also found reports of people who were counted as voting in the wrong party’s primary. (Source)

    August 22, 2012: Voter Fraud in Virginia

    The Albemarle County [Virginia] Commonwealth's attorney says her office is spending a lot of hours investigating the possibility of voter fraud. Meanwhile, members of the electoral board may be charged with contempt of court for photocopying sensitive information.

    Now three Albemarle County residents are under investigation for voter fraud and whoever made copies of those documents is under investigation for contempt of court.

    From prospective jurors that had been excused over the past three years on behalf of the electoral board, they found 159 that were questionable. Wheeler stated, "They said they were not a U.S. citizen, they were a convicted felon whose rights had not been restored, they were dead or they moved out of the county." (Source)

    September 7, 2012: Voter Fraud in Colorado

    [Colorado] Secretary of State Scott Gessler said Friday his office had found 35 noncitizens who have voted in Colorado elections, but in the face of criticism over how his office has tried to identify them, Gessler said he would not move forward with proposed regulations to deal with suspected noncitizen voters until after the election.

    Gessler, a Republican, blamed the federal government for not giving him access to a Department of Homeland Security database quickly enough to check the citizenship status of registered voters. (Source)


    September 26, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in California

    Republicans have fraudulently registered Democrats to vote … as Republicans, a Riverside County [California] Democratic group claims, according to a story by California Watch.

    The GOP has reported an increase of about 35,000 new Republicans in Riverside County this year alone, the nonprofit news organization reported.

    “In a complaint filed last week with the
    county registrar of voters, the Democrats presented affidavits from 133 Democratic voters who said they had been re-registered as Republicans without their consent after they encountered petition circulators outside welfare offices and stores,” California Watch reported Wednesday. (Source)

    October 19, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Florida

    Dead people aren't supposed to vote — not even in Florida. Eugenia Huguenin says breast cancer killed her daughter long before a voter registration card with Michele Huguenin's name and supposed signature was filed this year in Palm Beach County. Her name was on one of the disputed 106 voter registration forms gathered on behalf of the Republican Party that have spawned a statewide voter fraud investigation. (Source)

    October 26, 2012: Voter Fraud in Ohio

    Two volunteer poll workers at an Ohio voting station told
    Human Events that they observed van loads of Ohio residents born in Somalia — the state is home to the second-largest Somali population in the United States — being driven to the voting station and guided by Democratic interpreters on the voting process. No Republican interpreters were present, according to these volunteers.

    While it’s not unusual for get-out-the-vote groups to help voters get to the polls, the volunteers who talked to
    Human Eventsobserved a number of troubling and questionable activities.

    A source, who wishes to remain anonymous, is a volunteer outside the Morse Road polling center. She has witnessed Somalis who cannot speak English come to the polling center. They are brought in groups, by van or bus. The Democrats hand them a slate card and say, “vote Brown all the way down.” Given that Sherrod Brown is the incumbent Democrat Senator in Ohio, one can assume that this is the reference.

    Non-English speaking voters may use an interpreter. The interpreters are permitted by law to interpret for the individual voting; however, they are forbidden from influencing their vote in any way. Another source who also wishes to remain anonymous has seen Democrat interpreters show the non-English speaking Somalis how to vote the Democrat slate that they were handed outside. According to this second source, there are not any Republican Somali interpreters available.

    The logical follow-up question is whether a non-English speaking person is an American citizen. Although Republican leadership in Ohio passed a voting reform law, it was repealed by the legislature itself after the Democrats threatened a referendum. According to the Ohio Secretary of State’s web site, someone wanting to vote early in Ohio must supply one of the following in writing on the absentee ballot form, whether voting early by mail or in person: an Ohio driver’s license number; the last four digits of the social security number; or a copy of a current and valid photo identification, military identification, or a current — within the last 12 months — utility bill, including cell phone bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck, or other government document that shows the person’s name and address in addition to the voter registration acknowledgement.

    The voter is not required to show the driver’s license or social security card, but must merely write it on the absentee ballot request form. While the individual would be required to show a utility bill, bank statement or other printed document if he or she chooses that option, this is in lieu of writing the driver’s license or social security number. Therefore, the information cannot be checked against the Bureau of Motor Vehicles or other state databases. Essentially, a person is asked to check a box stating that they are a citizen, and the poll worker is to trust that they are the person who is listed on the item being shown or the information being written. In other words, someone can be an illegal resident of the state of Ohio and the United States, get an apartment, turn on the heat, bring in the Columbia Gas bill, register to vote by the deadline, and vote by showing that same bill. There is then no verification that this individual is a citizen of the United States. (Source)

    November 21, 2012: Voter Fraud in Louisiana

    Chief Eddie Stewart said Wednesday the Clinton [Louisiana] Police Department is investigating voter fraud related to this month's election. Stewart said he received a list of 115 names of voters who allegedly cast illegal ballots. Only 879 votes were cast, so the claim would involve more than 13 percent of the total. Stewart said those people might have voted in Clinton's elections for Mayor and Alderman without living in the town. He said his department is also looking into accusations of vote buying. (Source)

    March 6, 2013: Voter-Registration Fraud in Florida

    Two people have been charged with filling out fraudulent voter registration cards at two local universities. A two-year Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigation found that two employees of Strategic Allied Consulting, Rebekah Paul and Christian Price, were filling out fake forms at the University of North Florida and Jacksonville University. Over a two-year long investigation, FDLE found Paul and Price turned in 29 fake forms. (Source)

    April 26, 2013: Election Fraud in Indiana

    A jury in South Bend, Indiana has found that fraud put President Obama and Hillary Clinton on the presidential primary ballot in Indiana in the 2008 election. Two Democratic political operatives were convicted Thursday night in the illegal scheme after only three hours of deliberations. They were found guilty on all counts.

    Former longtime St. Joseph County Democratic party Chairman Butch Morgan Jr. was found guilty of felony conspiracy counts to commit petition fraud and forgery, and former county Board of Elections worker Dustin Blythe was found guilty of felony forgery counts and falsely making a petition, after being accused of faking petitions that enabled Obama, then an Illinois Senator, to get on the presidential primary ballot for his first run for the White House. Morgan was accused of being the mastermind behind the plot.

    According to testimony from two former Board of Election officials who pled guilty, Morgan ordered Democratic officials and workers to fake the names and signatures that Obama and Clinton needed to qualify for the presidential race. Blythe, then a Board of Elections employee and Democratic Party volunteer, was accused of forging multiple pages of the Obama petitions.

    "I think this helped uphold the integrity of the electoral system," the prosecutor, Stan Levco told reporters. “Their verdict of guilt is not a verdict against Democrats, but for honest and fair elections,” he said.

    The scheme was hatched in January of 2008, according to affidavits from investigators who cite former Board of Registration worker Lucas Burkett, who told them he was in on the plan at first, but then became uneasy and quit. He waited three years before telling authorities about it, but if revelations about any forgeries were raised during the election, the petitions could have been challenged during the contest. A candidate who did not qualify with enough legitimate signatures at the time, could have been bounced from the ballot.

    The case raise questions about whether in 2008, then candidate Obama actually submitted enough legitimate signatures to have legally qualified for the primary ballot. “I think had they been challenged successfully, he probably would not have been on the ballot,” Levco told
    Fox News.

    Under state law, presidential candidates need to qualify for the primary ballots with 500 signatures from each of the state's nine Congressional districts. Indiana election officials say that in St. Joseph County, which is the 2nd Congressional district, the Obama campaign qualified with 534 signatures; Clinton's camp had 704.

    Prosecutors say that in President Obama's case, nine of the petition pages were apparently forged. Each petition contains up to 10 names, making a possible total of 90 names, which, if faked, could have brought the Obama total below the legal limit required to qualify. Prosecutors say 13 Clinton petitions were apparently forged, meaning up to 130 possibly fake signatures. Even if 130 signatures had been challenged, it would have still left Mrs. Clinton with enough signatures to meet the 500 person threshold. Levco said a total of “100 to 200” signatures had been forged on Obama’s and Clinton’s petitions. (Source)

    May 15, 2013: Possible Voter Fraud in Ohio

    Yamiah Davis was excited to vote in her first presidential election last fall. The 21-year-old Avondale [Ohio] woman mailed in her early ballot in October, but then realized she had forgotten to include a form. “I was excited to have my voice count,” Davis said. “When I realized what I did I thought, ‘Crap, my vote didn’t count.’ ” So, she said, she went to her polling location on Election Day and explained what happened. They told her to cast a provisional ballot, she said. Now, she could face prosecution and wonders: “Am I going to jail?”

    She and dozens of others – people who voted early by mail or in person at the [Cincinnati] Board of Elections, then cast a provisional ballot on Election Day – could face felony prosecution.

    In the November election, 421,997 votes were cast countywide. Ninety-three remain on an anomaly list under review by the Board of Elections. Ahead of today’s discussion, The
    Enquirer reviewed what happened in all 93 cases, interviewed several voters, and read through hundreds of pages of transcripts from two recent Board of Election meetings where some of the voters testified. The Enquirer found 59 voters remain under scrutiny for voting absentee or in-person and provisionally. (Source)

    June 3, 2013: Voter Fraud in West Virginia

    Officials in Lincoln County [West Virginia] say they're working hard to clean house and restore confidence in voters. They say the elections office is getting a much-needed makeover, starting with voting records and machines.

    It's the start of a voter roll purging process – a massive effort to make sure every vote counts, after the election fraud scandal of 2010 brought problems to light. Several public officials were sentenced to prison following the investigation. Authorities say more than 100 absentee ballots were falsified in that race. (Source)

    November 2, 2013: Ballot Fraud in Connecticut

    If there’s any office for which a candidate should be disqualified for engaging in absentee ballot fraud, it’s City Clerk, which, among other responsibilities, is in charge of handling absentee ballots. Yet in an astounding claim made just days before Tuesday’s election, City Clerk Ron Smith said late last week that he planned to file a complaint with the state Elections Enforcement Commission concerning complaints about absentee ballot fraud.

    At issues are affidavits from 11 residents of Ward 8 [New Haven, Connecticut] — the ward represented by Smith’s opponent Alderman Michael Smart — claiming their absentee ballots were illegally picked up. One resident told the
    Register’s Mary O’Leary on Thursday that Smart himself picked up her ballot. The woman, Cynthia Britt, issued a statement Friday walking back her original comments and saying that Smart had merely handled her application for an absentee ballot, and not the ballot himself.

    Records in the City Clerk’s office show that Smart took out the majority of the 181 absentee ballot applications tallied in the office by Deputy City Clerk Sally Brown. Taking out the ballots is legal. But only a family member of an incapacitated person, a designated caretaker or a police officer can return the ballot if the voter is incapable of mailing it back. (Source)

    November 19, 2013: Voter Fraud in New York

    Christopher Rasco told the person who came to his door that he might not make it out to vote on Election Day. He was told he had another option – apply for, and then fill out, an absentee ballot. "They were gonna help everybody by bringing the ballots to them and helping them fill out the ballots," Rasco said. "It seemed pretty legit to me."

    Rasco's absentee ballot is one of nearly 100 ballots under the legal microscope. It appears he unknowingly filled out an absentee ballot when he was not qualified to do so. "They can't have an absentee ballot because they don't want to go to the polls or they had no intention of voting and someone wants them to vote, that's not the way our election process works in New York State," said Mark Dame, R-Plattsburgh [New York] District 8. (Source)

    December 30, 2013: Voter Fraud in New York

    The election board’s susceptibility to voter fraud by people impersonating the departed was uncovered during a massive probe of the agency by the Department of Investigation. The probe uncovered 63 instances when voters’ names should have been stricken from the rolls, but weren’t — even though some of them had died years before.

    “The majority of those 63 individuals remained on the rolls nearly two years — and some as long as four years — since a death, felony conviction, or move outside of New York City [New York],” said DOI Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn.

    Undercover DOI agents were able to access voting booths in 61 instances — including 39 dead people, 14 jail birds and eight non-residents. Only twice were the agents blocked.

    For example, a 24-year female was able to access the ballot at a Manhattan poll site in November under the name of a deceased female who was born in 1923 and died in April 25, 2012 — and would have been 89 on Election Day.

    Also at a Manhattan poll site, a 33-year-male investigator was able to vote under the name of a deceased man who would have been 94 on Election Day. (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

    February 26, 2014: Voter Fraud in Iowa

    Iowa’s DCI wrapped up its investigation this month and has referred more than 80 cases of voter fraud to county attorneys for possible prosecution. Since the investigation was initiated by GOP Secretary of State Matt Schultz a year and a half ago, five people have pleaded guilty to voter fraud and 15 others are facing charges. (Source) and (Source)

    May 8, 2014: Voter Fraud in Iowa

    A two-year investigation of voter fraud in Iowa turned up 117 cases of illegal voting but only 27 people have been charged so far, Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz said Thursday when releasing a final report of the probe.

    Schultz began the investigation in 2012 after cross-checking Iowa voter records with driver’s license records from the Iowa Department of Transportation. Schultz said it appeared more than 3,000 individuals had registered to vote between 2010 and 2012 that had identified themselves in DOT records as non-citizens.

    He entered an agreement with the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation to pay $250,000 over two years to look into the cases.

    “There are people who voted who weren’t supposed to, and this is a situation where we tried to do something about it,” Schultz said. “I think it was the right thing to do and I stand by that.”

    After the DCI compared the names Schultz provided with a federal immigration database, potential cases of non-citizen voters were narrowed to 147. In addition, the DCI agents looked into alleged cases of ineligible felons voting and began investigating 68 of those. Another 23 cases were investigated and included voters suspected of casting ballots in two states and those voting in Iowa but living elsewhere.

    Out of the total 238 cases, the agents confirmed 117 illegal voting ones. The 27 people charged so far include six who have pleaded guilty, one found not guilty by a jury, and four whose cases were dismissed. One person was given a deferred prosecution and 15 remain in the court system. (Source)

    May 9, 2014: Election Fraud in Alabama

    Three women who worked on the 2013 campaign for District 2 City Commissioner Amos Newsome were arrested Friday and charged with a combined 56 counts of voter fraud stemming from the 2013 District 2 election, according to Houston County [Alabama] Sheriff Andy Hughes.

    Olivia Lee Reynolds, 65, of West Main Street, was charged with 26 counts of falsifying ballots, while Lesa Renee Coleman, 49, of South Range Street, was charged with 20 counts. Janice Lee Hart, 63, of Eagle Road, was charged with 10 counts.

    “Basically, they took part in falsifying applications for absentee ballots during the election,” said Hughes, who had been asked by District Attorney Doug Valeska to conduct an investigation into the allegations. In the August election, Newsome won against challenger Lamesa Danzey by 14 votes. Newsome received 119 of the 124 absentee votes that were cast. Danzey received more votes than Newsome at the polls. (Source)

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    October 28, 1986: Voter Fraud & Voter Registration Fraud in South Philadelphia

    A 63-count federal grand jury indictment charging City Councilman Leland M. Beloff, his wife and two Democratic committee people with vote fraud marks the third time in 22 years that South Philadelphia's Ward 39B has been the subject of ballot irregularity investigations. It also marks the second time Beloff – Democratic leader of Ward 39B – has been charged with vote fraud.

    The indictment, released today, includes charges of criminal conspiracy, giving false information on voter registration and balloting materials, and voting more than once. Beloff, 44, is charged with 14 counts of vote fraud, and his wife, Diane, 28, with four counts. (Source)


    November 5, 1986: Voter Fraud & Voter Registration Fraud in South Philadelphia

    Margie Giordano Coyle, a veteran Democratic committeewoman in South Philadelphia, has agreed to plead guilty today in federal court to vote fraud charges stemming from the 1984 general election, the Daily News has learned.

    Coyle, 55, involved in South Philadelphia ward politics for 30 years, was indicted on the vote fraud charges last week, along with City Councilman Leland Beloff; his wife, Diane; and a committeeman. All were charged with conspiring to commit vote fraud during the general election [of] Nov. 6, 1984, by submitting forged absentee ballots "to secure the election" of their candidates.

    Coyle, a committeewoman in the ward's 11th Division, also was charged in a separate count with voting more than once in the 1984 election. (Source)


    August 15, 1987:
    Voter Fraud & Voter-Registration Fraud in South PhiladelphiaCharles Pollan, a Democratic committeeman from South Philadelphia, once confided in a friend that one didn't win elections "by being honest." But Pollan's longtime political practice had a downside, one that landed him yesterday in a federal courtroom where he pleaded guilty to conspiring with ex-City Councilman Leland Beloff and others to commit vote fraud in 1984.

    Beloff, sentenced last week to a 10-year prison term for extortion, and his wife, Diane, are scheduled to go on trial Monday before U.S. District Judge Thomas N. O'Neill Jr. on the vote fraud charges. (Source)


    April 22, 1988:
    Voter Fraud & Voter Registration Fraud in South PhiladelphiaFormer Democratic City Councilman Leland M. Beloff will write yet another sorry chapter in the annals of South Philadelphia politics today when he pleads guilty and is sentenced in federal court for vote fraud. Beloff, 45, has agreed to admit involvement in a scheme to forge dozens of absentee ballots during the 1984 general election, said his attorney, Robert F. Simone. (Source)


    1993: The “Motor Voter” Law Encourages Voter Fraud

    In 1993, President Bill Clinton signed the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA, also known as the Motor Voter Law). The driving forces behind getting this legislation passed were the socialists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. At the time, Cloward stated, “It's better to have a little bit of fraud than to leave people off the rolls who belong there.” (Source)

    The NVRA requires each U.S. state to provide people with an opportunity to submit voter-registration applications for federal elections by: (a) registering to vote at the same time that they apply for, or seek to renew, a driver's license (hence the name “motor voter”); (b) submitting their voter-registration applications by mail, using forms developed jointly by each state and the Election Assistance Commission; and (c) requiring states to offer voter-registration opportunities at all offices that provide public assistance of any kind.


    The NVRA explicitly
    requires each state to keep its voter-registration rolls accurate and currentand to remove voters' names from those lists when they (the voters) have either been convicted of a disqualifying crime, been adjudged mentally incapacitated, moved to another state, or died. But in practice, the lists contain many names of people who are legally ineligible to vote and who are simply fictitious. Such abuses occur because under the Act's provisions: (a) when people register by mail they are not required to provide any form of identification; (b) when people register in person at a Department of Motor Vehicles or a Social Services office, the government workers who handle their cases are not permitted to challenge their applications; and (c) the NVRA makes it quite difficult to purge "deadwood" voters (those who have died or moved away) from the rolls.

    February 14, 1996: Voter Fraud in PhiladelphiaThe election forms for one potential voter said she had a “heart condition.'' She didn't. The form for another said she had to use an absentee ballot because of her ``high-risk pregnancy.'' Trouble was, she wasn't pregnant. Sound familiar? The bag of hustles and tricks used to steal an election in Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] three years ago yawned open again yesterday as one of the participants in that theft stood before a judge for sentencing. And after being tongue-lashed by a prosecutor and more gently criticized by the judge, the defendant, Craig Cummons, 42, was placed on one year's probation for his crimes in the infamous, fraud-soaked 1993 state Senate election in Philadelphia. (Source)

    1997: Voter Fraud in Miami

    The mayoral election in Miami in 1997 was nullified by a judge because of widespread fraud, including a number of established cases of fraudulent votes cast in the name of dead people. (Source)

    February 21, 1
    997: Voter Fraud in Georgia

    A federal grand jury has indicted 21 Dodge County residents in what is being called one of the largest vote-buying scandals in Georgia history. The 21 were charged in connection with two conspiracies to buy or offer to buy votes, usually for between $20 and $60, during last year's July 9 primary … In all, 124 counts of federal election law violations are alleged in the indictment....

    The judges who heard the case found votes had been cast by the same person more than once, by at least three dozen convicted felons and in the name of at least one dead person. The judges found 65 people who were helped in voting marked their oaths with an “X” but then wrote their names on voter certificates, which suggests the names were forged. (Source)

    March 4, 1998: Voter Fraud in Miami


    A judge has overturned last fall's election of Xavier Suarez as Miami's [Florida] Mayor because of evidence of absentee ballot fraud. A new election has been ordered held within 60 days, but it's unclear who will run the city until then.

    Circuit Judge Thomas Wilson's decision is the result of last month['s] trial of a lawsuit brought by former Mayor Joe Carollo, who lost to Suarez in a Nov. 13, 1997 runoff election. "The evidence presented in the case clearly demonstrated fraud and abuse of the absentee ballot laws," the judge wrote. (Source)

    March 14, 1998: Voter Fraud in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico

    Rio Arriba County [New Mexico] Clerk David Chavez and his chief deputy could be fined and sentenced to prison if they are found guilty of unlawfully opening a ballot box. Jurors deliberated here Friday after hearing two days of trial in Tierra Amarilla.

    Chavez also faced a charge of falsifying election documents for allegedly sending a certified voter list to Espanola in 1996 that contained names of people who didn't live in the city. The charges, all fourth-degree felonies, each carry a maximum penalty of a $5,000 fine and 18 months in prison.

    Chavez and his chief deputy, Vicky Martinez, were among 19 Rio Arriba County residents indicted last June 27 on charges ranging from voting illegally to ballot-box tampering to falsifying election documents.

    Most of the 45 charges involved voting by nonresidents in a municipal election. Voting fraud also was alleged in a few instances in the June 1996 primary and in a school board election. (
    Source)

    August 28, 1998: Voter Fraud in Miami

    A former Miami City [Florida] Commissioner, Humberto E. Hernandez,… has been in Federal custody since late May, when state prosecutors charged him in an investigation of vote fraud in last November's citywide elections. On Aug. 14, a jury acquitted him on charges of obstructing justice and fabricating evidence, but convicted him on a lesser count of being an accessory to covering up evidence of fraud. Three days after he was convicted, Mr. Hernandez was officially removed from the Miami City Commission by Gov. Lawton Chiles. (Source)


    May 22, 1999: Voter Fraud in Pennsylvania

    A Fayette County [Pennsylvania] vote fraud investigation that has snared a former Congressman got started when a minor township official questioned absentee ballots.

    Usually eight to 10 absentee ballots were cast in Sondra Cesarino's precinct in Wharton. But in the November 1995 election, she noticed more than 70 names on the list of absentee voters, and she recognized some as residents of the Bouras Personal Care Home, where her mother, Maetha Guthrie, was briefly a patient in 1991. "I knew some of those people weren't capable of voting," Cesarino said. "I just knew something was wrong."

    A year and a half later, after the May 1997 primary election, Cesarino challenged nine absentee ballots. Her action caught the attention of Fayette County Commissioner Sean Cavanaugh, who pressed for an investigation.

    Two months ago, District Attorney Peter Hook convened a grand jury, and on Thursday charges were filed. Former U.S. Rep. Austin J. Murphy of Farmington was accused of forgery, conspiracy and tampering with public records. Also charged were Peggy Bouras, operator of the nursing home, and Shirley Hughes, township tax collector.

    According to the grand jury report, they forged absentee ballots for residents of the nursing home and then wrote in Murphy's wife, Eileen, for township election judge, a job that pays $60. She won the election but declined to take the position, Cavanaugh said.

    But Cavanaugh and others said the vote fraud scheme went way beyond one election and one nursing home. The grand jury is still meeting, and Assistant Prosecutor Jack Heneks Jr. has said more charges could be filed. (Source)


    July 7, 2000: Voter Fraud in Florida

    Gov. Jeb Bush formally removed Hialeah Gardens [Florida] Mayor Gilda Oliveros on Thursday after a jury convicted her last week for plotting to kill her husband and committing voter fraud.

    During a 1997 voter fraud investigation, agents from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement stumbled into a plot where Oliveros had asked two city employees to kill her then-husband, Angel Ramos, in order to cash in a $45,000 insurance policy. Oliveros was convicted last Friday of five counts, including solicitation to commit murder. Bush had already suspended her from office in December. (Source)

    November 4, 2000: Voter Fraud in Wyoming

    Rep. Carolyn Paseneaux, R-Casper [Wyoming], was arrested Wednesday on two felony counts of voter fraud for allegedly listing an old address while voting in the August primary. Paseneaux appeared before Natrona County Circuit Judge Michael Huber on a count of false swearing and a count of false voting. She was released on a personal recognizance bond, which would require her to pay $2,500 if she violates the terms of her release. (Source)


    June 15, 2001: Voter Fraud in New York

    From the start, there was nothing ordinary about the case of John Kennedy O'Hara. He was … prosecuted for lying about his voting address. The Brooklyn district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, took Mr. O'Hara's case to trial not once but three times, for offenses that are usually handled as civil cases or ignored entirely.

    Today, a divided Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, upheld the 1997 convictions of Mr. O'Hara, a former lawyer, on seven felony counts, ending what the court acknowledged was one of the oddest criminal cases it had seen. Five judges ruled that Mr. O'Hara had simply lied about where he lived, but two others accepted his argument that he was held to a contradictory legal standard that ran counter to recent court rulings. Mr. Hynes said, ''The court has sent a clear and unequivocal message that one cannot defraud the voters of Kings County.''

    Mr. O'Hara was sentenced to 1,500 hours of community service, of which he still owes 1,000, and was fined $20,000. He said he has been unable to pay the fine, which has accrued interest during four years of appeals. If he does not pay, he will be subject to resentencing, which could mean prison time. (Source)


    August 16, 2002: Voter Fraud in Alabama

    Some Bullock County [Alabama] residents want Attorney General Bill Pryor and his election opponent Boyd Whigham to investigate alleged absentee ballot voter fraud in the June 4 primary and runoff, the New York Times Regional Newspapers has learned.

    Pryor and Whigham, the Democratic attorney general nominee who also is the Bullock County district attorney, acknowledged receiving information about allegations of voter fraud in the heavily Democratic county, where a former probate judge said the use of fraudulent ballots is a finely honed tradition.

    "They feel they're invincible," former three-term Bullock County Probate Judge Rufus Huffman on Friday said of so-called absentee ballot queens. (Source)


    September 25, 2002: Voter Fraud in Louisiana

    Two Marksville [Louisiana] men convicted of voter fraud in the mayoral election have been fined and placed on probation. The sentences for Lincoln Carmouche, 66, and Larry Dauzat, 48, were handed down Tuesday by 12th Judicial District Judge Billy Bennett.

    Both defendants supported incumbent [Democrat] Mayor Richard Michel in the election last spring. Michel was re-elected, defeating John Ed Laborde. Both defendants were convicted in separate bench trials by Bennett. Dauzat was found guilty of offering to buy a vote; Carmouche, of bribing a voter. (Source)


    January 2, 2003: Voter-Registration Fraud in South Dakota

    The woman at the center of South Dakota's voter fraud investigation could spend 95 years in prison if convicted on all charges. Becky Red-Earth Villeda made her first court appearance this morning. Becky Red-Earth Villeda is charged with 19 counts of forging absentee ballot applications. Each charge carries up to a five-year sentence and a 5,000 dollar fine.... [T]he people whose names appear on these absentee voter applications … say Red-Earth Villeda forged their signatures last year while she was registering Native Americans to vote.

    The Democratic Party paid her two dollars for every absentee voter application she collected, but fired her after the questionable applications were discovered. By the time the investigation was over, 277 people told the state their signatures were fake, charges Red Earth denies. (Source)


    July 24, 2003: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    Glenn Pitts testified that his precinct committeeman offered $30 to obtain his absentee ballot [in the East Chicago, Indiana mayoral race], and then failed to pay. (Source)


    August 1, 2003: Voter Fraud in indiana

    A Highland resident for the past two years, Florentino Guillen says he had no interest in the race for Mayor in East Chicago [Indiana]. But his apathetic view and Highland address didn't stop Guillen, a custodian for the School City of East Chicago, from applying for an absentee ballot to vote in the May 6 primary in East Chicago and casting that vote.

    The 50-year-old Guillen admitted in court Thursday to listing on the application the address of his cousin, East Chicago committeeman for Precinct 2-2 Ray Guillen, who lives in the 4800 block of Wegg Street in East Chicago.

    Ray Guillen is a major supporter of East Chicago [Democrat] Mayor Robert Pastrick, who won the primary over challengers George Pabey and Lonnie Randolph. (Source)


    August 12, 2003: Voter Fraud in Connecticut

    Former Hartford [Connecticut] state Rep. Barnaby Horton [a Democrat] was arrested Monday and charged with seven counts of absentee ballot fraud – all felonies – in connection with his unsuccessful Democratic primary battle last fall against Kenneth R. Green.

    The violations allegedly occurred at the Betty Knox apartment complex on Woodland Street in Hartford, where one resident, Silas Woodward, told investigators Horton sat at his kitchen table as Woodward completed the ballot, and pointed to his own name and that of state Sen. Eric Coleman, another Hartford Democrat, as the boxes to check.

    “Against his wishes, Woodward checked the box, thereby casting a vote for Horton,”' the arrest warrant affidavit states. “Woodward stated he felt compelled to vote for Horton because of Horton's presence while Woodward completed the ballot.” … The arrest warrant affidavit alleges that not only did Horton leave the complex with ballots, but also brought along postage stamps and affixed them to the envelopes. (Source)


    March 16, 2004: Voter Fraud in Kentucky

    Assistant Attorney General Christopher A. Wray of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Gregory F. Van Tatenhove of the Eastern District of Kentucky, and FBI Special Agent in Charge David D. Elder of Kentucky announced today that Knott County Judge Executive Donnie Newsome has been sentenced for leading a conspiracy to buy votes in the May 26, 1998 primary election in Knott County, Kentucky.

    Newsome, 53, of Dema, Kentucky, was sentenced this afternoon by District Judge Danny C. Reeves at U.S. District Court in Pikeville, Kentucky, to 26 months in prison and a $20,000 fine. Judge Reeves also sentenced a co-conspirator, Willard Smith, 55, of Hindman, Kentucky, to two years in prison and a $5,000 fine. (Source)


    August 29, 2004: Voter Fraud in Kentucky

    [I]n a wide-ranging conspiracy trial that opened here this week, federal prosecutors are contending that influential people ... try to buy elections in eastern Kentucky.... At the heart of the case is a coal miner's son turned wealthy coal mine operator named Ross Harris, one of eastern Kentucky's most prominent political fund-raisers....

    Prosecutors contend that in the fall of 2002, Mr. Harris funneled $41,000 in illegal contributions to the campaign of John Doug Hays, a candidate for a Pike County district judgeship. The money financed a vote-buying scheme disguised as a program to pay people $50 each to transport, or haul, voters to the polls, the prosecutors contend. "There was no systematic plan for hauling," Kenneth Taylor, an assistant United States attorney, told jurors this week. "It was a ruse."

    Mr. Harris and his nine co-defendants have pleaded not guilty, arguing that the people who received $50 checks really did drive voters to the polls. State law allows campaigns to pay for "vote hauling," a practice that began decades ago when many poor and elderly voters in isolated hollows lacked transportation.

    "It can't be a plan to use vote-hauling to buy votes if voters were, in fact, hauled," Larry A. Mackey, Mr. Harris's lawyer, said in his opening remarks. "There may not be many states where it is legal, but it is in Kentucky."

    Only Mr. Harris and one of his employees, Loren Glenn Turner, are currently on trial. The other eight defendants, including Mr. Hays, are scheduled for trial in October. The Harris case is one of several in Kentucky and West Virginia that prosecutors say confirm longstanding suspicions that vote-buying remains common in Appalachia. (Source)

    August 29, 2004: Voter Fraud in Kentucky

    Last year, Donnie Newsome, the judge-executive of Knott County in eastern Kentucky, was convicted of buying votes for $50 to $100 a piece in a 1998 primary race. He has been sentenced to 26 months in prison....

    Vote fraud, of course, is a fact of life in many places. In Kentucky, it ruined the career of Edward F. Prichard Jr., a former law clerk to Justice Felix Frankfurter of the Supreme Court who was widely seen as a future governor. Mr. Prichard was sentenced to two years for stuffing ballot boxes in 1948. He later distinguished himself as an education reformer.

    In the mountains of eastern Kentucky, one of the poorest regions of the country, vote fraud has most often taken the form of vote-buying, experts said. (Source)

    August 29, 2004: Voter Fraud in West Virginia

    In West Virginia, Johnny Mendez, the sheriff of Logan County, pleaded guilty last month to federal charges that he accepted $10,000 in illegal contributions and used the money to buy votes in 2000 and 2004. (Source)

    Autumn 2004: Voter-Registration Fraud in Florida, Virginia, and Texas

    At least eight of the 19 foreign-national September 11 hijackers had registered to vote in either Florida or Virginia.

    This past March, in just one of many recent cases, Texas representative Ciro Rodriguez, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, lost a close Democratic primary after a missing ballot box suddenly showed up in South Texas, stuffed with votes for his opponent. Rodriguez charged fraud but could never definitively prove it. (Source)


    October 14, 2004: Voter-Registration Fraud in Oregon

    Officials in Oregon have launched a criminal investigation after receiving numerous complaints that a Republican-affiliated group was destroying registration forms filed by Democratic voters statewide, Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury told
    CBSNews.com. Meanwhile, CBS affiliate KLAS-TV is reporting accusations of similar malfeasance in Nevada. (Source)


    October 22, 2004: Voter Fraud in Kansas

    U.S. Attorneys Todd Graves of Western Missouri and Eric Melgren of Kansas announced federal vote-fraud charges today against three Kansas City area residents.... The three were charged under federal voting-rights enforcement laws with providing false information about their residences. The offense is punishable by up to five years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine. (Source)


    October 31, 2004: Voter Fraud in Rhode Island

    A Bristol [Rhode Island] man and his son have been charged with voter fraud for allegedly using the wrong address when they cast ballots in the September primary elections. C. Richard Costa, 77, and his son, Keith Costa, 45, of 69 Harlem St., East Providence, were each charged with one felony count of fraudulent voting, according to the state police....

    The Costas had registered and voted in September's Democratic primary using an address of 175 Taunton Ave., East Providence, the location of Keith Costa's business, James Auto Body, state police told The Providence Journal.

    The charges against them stemmed from a criminal complaint filed by a member of the state Board of Elections. Richard and Keith Costa's names had figured in allegations of voting irregularity in which several political candidates challenged a total of 287 voters. They contended that the East Providence Board of Canvassers failed to protect the integrity of the voting process during the primary.

    The city's Board of Canvassers has identified 28 suspect voters who twice have been asked by certified mail to confirm their home addresses. If they show up at the polls without confirming that they live at the addresses on their voter-registration cards, they will be asked to sign an affidavit asserting that they live where they claim.

    Several candidates had wanted 287 people put on a list of suspect voters who would be granted provisional ballots that would be counted only after their home addresses had been verified. (Source)


    2005: Voter Fraud in Tennessee

    Actual fraudulent votes were cast on behalf of dead people include a 2005 state senate election in Tennessee that was decided by fewer than 20 votes; in this case, a post-election verification process established that two fraudulent votes were cast on behalf of dead people. Three election workers were indicted, and the results of the election were voided. (Source)


    January 21, 2005: Voter Fraud in North Dakota

    A Bismarck [North Dakota] man accused of voting twice in the November general election faces a misdemeanor charge. Jamie Rodahl, 26, voted absentee and went to the polls on Election Day, Burleigh County Assistant State's Attorney Lloyd Suhr said. The Burleigh County auditor's office discovered Rodahl's two votes during a routine check of the ballots. "We don't know what his motivation was," Suhr said. "All we know is that the investigation revealed that two votes were cast by him." … Rodahl was charged Thursday with voting twice in the same election, a class A misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail and a $2,000 fine. (Source)


    June 2: 2005: Voter Fraud in East St. Louis

    East St. Louis [Illinois] Democratic Committee chairman and former City Councilman Charles Powell, Jr., three fellow elected Democratic precinct committeemen, and one Democratic precinct worker are on trial for vote buying in U.S. District Court.

    The beneficiaries of the alleged scheme were Democrat Presidential candidate John Kerry, Illinois State Supreme Court candidate Gordon Maag and Mark Kern, the Democratic candidate for Chairman of the St. Clair County Board of Commissioners. The Democrats won two out of three. Maag lost his race for a seat on the state’s high court to Republican Lloyd Karmeier. None of the candidates have been implicated in any wrongdoing.

    “The race for county board chairman was decided by East St. Louis votes,” observed St. Clair County Board Member and Kern opponent Steve Reeb. “It was that close.”

    It used to be called “walking around money.” Now, according to the St. Clair County Democratic Central Committee’s reports to the State Board of Elections, it’s called, “election expenses.” $76,150 was reportedly paid to 51 individuals living in East St. Louis days before the 2004 election. Cooperating voters were paid $5-$10 per vote, according to a report by the Belleville News-Democrat.

    “Powell explained that the amount was based on multiplying the expected number of voters in the precinct times an amount of five dollars each,” according to a FBI report obtained by the Belleville paper. According to the indictment, Powell “explained that each Democratic precinct committeeman needed to determine how much he or she would pay voters in their own precinct.” Powell allegedly asked them to turn in “election day budgets…requesting funds from the St. Clair County Democratic Committee to be used during the November 2, 2004 general election.” After discussing “these election day budget requests with members of the St. Clair County Democratic committee, the East St. Louis precinct committeemen received funds” from the county central committee “in most instance[s] to the amount requested” on October 31st, according to one plea agreement.

    Powell was a member of the East St. Louis City Council until he was voted out of office in April. Two weeks before that election, he was indicted for vote fraud.

    In late March three other Democratic precinct committeemen–Lillie Nichols, Leroy Scott, Jr., and Terrance Stith–pled guilty to “knowingly and willfully” paying or offering “to pay voters for voting” during a federal elections....

    Standing trial with Powell will be fellow Democratic precinct committeemen Jesse Lewis, Sheila Thomas and Kevin Ellis. Ellis precinct worker Yvette Johnson is also charged.

    Ellis is also charged with writing a “threatening and misleading” letter to Republican election judges “in order to intimidate” them “so they would not appear at their assigned polling place.” (Source)


    July 13, 2005: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    Robert and Dolores Croy pleaded guilty to vote fraud during the 2003 primary election. Although Hobart residents, they voted in East Chicago [Indiana]. As part of their sentences, Lake Superior Court Judge Salvador Vasquez ordered each to make public apologies. (Source)


    October 8, 2005: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    Six more individuals have been charged on 19 counts of illegal activity in the 2003 East Chicago [Indiana] primary election announced members of the Joint Voter Fraud Task Force led by Lake County [Indiana] Prosecutor Bernard A. Carter and Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter. One of the individuals charged today is East Chicago City Councilman Levones Tolbert, who was a precinct committeeman during the ’03 primary election.

    The six individuals charged today for illegal activity in the 2003 East Chicago primary election are Arthur Vera, Armando Vera, Elvia Vera, Pedro Moro, Yolanda Ramirez, and Levones Tolbert. The 19 counts filed against them include fraudulently receiving voted ballots, voting in a precinct other than where the person lived, and perjury for lying about where he/she lived on absentee applications. (Source)


    December 13, 2005: Voter Fraud in Mississippi

    On November 10, 2004, a jury sitting before the Second Judicial District of the Tallahatchie County [Mississippi] Circuit Court found William Gregory Eason guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit voter fraud and eight counts of voter fraud. Consequently, the circuit court sentenced Eason to a one year sentence for conspiracy to commit voter fraud. As for the eight counts of voter fraud, the circuit court sentenced Eason to another one year sentence, set to run consecutive with the first one year sentence, and seven additional one year sentences, all to run concurrent with the second one year sentence. In effect, the circuit court sentenced Eason to incarceration for two years. (Source)


    December 14, 2005: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    The Lake County [Indiana] Vote Fraud Task Force has filed 22 felony charges against five more people linked to voter fraud in the 2003 Lake County primary election, Attorney General Steve Carter announced this morning. That brings to 22 the number of people charged with fraud since Lake County Prosecutor Bernard A. Carter convened the task force two years ago.

    Those charged are:



    • Shelly White, 54, of East Chicago, charged with 10 D felonies, six of receiving prepared ballots and four of examining a ballot.
    • Ramon Guillen, 54, of East Chicago, charged with four D felonies, two of receiving a prepared ballot, one of examining a ballot and one count of delivering a ballot.
    • Michael Lopez, 33, of Dyer, charged with three D felonies for allegations of voting in a precinct other than where he lived.
    • Christopher Lopez, 32, of Dyer, charged with three D felonies for allegations of voting in a precinct other than where he lived.
    • Natividad (Natalie) Hernandez, 49, of East Chicago, is charged with two D felonies for allegations of voting in a precinct other than where she lived in the 2003 East Chicago primary election and 2003 general election. (Source)



    December 15, 2005: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter announced a new round of vote fraud charges Wednesday arising from an investigation of the city's 2003 Democratic mayoral primary. Five men and women are accused of illegally meddling in absentee balloting or voting outside their home precincts. The charges are brought by the Joint Vote Fraud Task Force, which consists of the attorney general, County Prosecutor Bernard Carter and state police, who have spent two years investigating the 2003 election. (Source)


    January 13, 2006: Voter Fraud in West Virginia

    Former Lincoln County [West Virginia] Circuit Clerk Gregory Brent Stowers and two other individuals pled guilty to election fraud, including charges of vote-buying in what most observers is likely to be an ongoing investigation into election irregularities in Lincoln and Logan counties.

    Stowers said he funneled $7,000 into the 2004 Democratic Party primary to bribe county voters. Co-defendant Toney “Zeke” Dingess also pleaded guilty to helping to buy votes with that money. He was joined by another co-defendant, Ralph Dale Adkins, who pleaded guilty to buying votes with Stowers’ money in the 1992 primary. Wandall “Rocky” Adkins, also pled guilty to helping buy votes. He is not related to Ralph Dale Adkins....

    Stowers was the fourth elected officeholder to admit a role in alleged schemes, in Lincoln as well as neighboring Logan County, to influence voters with cash and liquor in balloting dating back to the 1980s.

    A sixth defendant, Clifford Odell “Groundhog” Vance also pleaded guilty to buying votes during a past primary election. In his plea, Vance alleged that Lincoln County Commission President Charles McCann, the county’s former schools superintendent, provided money to buy votes – a charge McCann denied. (Source) and (Source)


    February 14, 2006: Voter Fraud in New Hampshire

    Durham [New Hampshire] was “investigated” and it was found by the NH AG's office that some students there were registered in other states but voted here in NH on an impulse. That would be stealing a vote in the real world. No one was prosecuted for being an out-of-state voter, nor was any campaign or professor held accountable for lying to students or encouraging them to vote illegally in the 2000 election. (Source)


    June 28, 2006: Voter Fraud in Texas

    Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has announced the conviction of a Reeves County woman who unlawfully handled mail-in ballots in the March 2004 primary election. Trinidad Villalobos, 60, of Pecos was found guilty by a Reeves County jury and sentenced to six months probation on each count of illegally possessing and transporting election ballots of several voters. (Source)


    July 20, 2006: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    Three [more] people charged with vote fraud in the 2003 East Chicago [Indiana] primary election have admitted wrongdoing, Lake County Prosecutor Bernard A. Carter and Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter announced this morning. Antonio Mendiola and Alyicia Mendiola, both of Gary, pleaded guilty to one count of voting in a precinct [where] they didn't live, the news release said. Eduardo Perez, of East Chicago, pleaded guilty to fraudulently applying for, examining and receiving or delivering a ballot. They all face up to three years in prison. (Source)


    August 3, 2006: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    The latest round of East Chicago [Indiana] voter fraud indictments for 2003's infamous mayoral election has snagged three city police officers and several city employees. Longtime police officers Randy Morris, Lester Chandler, and Ronald DeCastro were among 11 people charged and sought for arrest Wednesday. Health inspector Raymond Carillo and city truck operator Edwin Aviles are also charged with voting outside of their districts. The others indicted were: Rachel Aviles, 36, of Portage, and Mark Orosco, 28, of Hammond. (Source)


    August 15, 2006: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    The Indiana Attorney General issued the following press release: “A Gary [Indiana] couple and an East Chicago [Indiana] man have been sentenced for violating election laws during the 2003 East Chicago primary election. Alycia and Antonio Mendiola both received an 18 month felony sentence. Eduardo Perez, Sr. has been sentenced to 180 days in jail, plus 50 hours of community service. All three sentences were suspended.” (Source) (Source)


    September 8, 2006: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    The Indiana Attorney General issued the following press release: “A Gary man has been sentenced to two years in prison for vote fraud during the 2003 East Chicago [Indiana] primary election. The Joint Task Force on Vote Fraud charged Larry Battle with seven counts of violating election laws in July, 2005. He pled guilty to three counts of vote fraud in July, 2006. His sentencing was this morning in Lake Superior Court #1.”

    “This is the fifth conviction in less than two months in which defendants have been punished for participating in illegal voting activity,” Attorney General Steve Carter said. (Source)


    November 15, 2006: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    Rather than go to trial and face possible conviction on four counts of vote fraud, Pedro Moro pleaded guilty to one count before opening arguments in his trial were to begin Tuesday in Lake County [Indiana] court. Across the hall, Tamika Lay, 30, was sentenced to one year of probation for voting outside her precinct. The convictions [were the] ninth and tenth for the Joint Vote Fraud Task Force of Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter and County Prosecutor Bernard Carter in their investigation into the discredited May 2003 East Chicago [Indiana] Democratic primary.

    Former East Chicago Mayor Robert Patrick's re-election campaign was accused of manufacturing a razor-thin victory margin with tainted absentee ballots. The Indiana Supreme Court later overturned Pastrick's win, and voters replaced Pastrick with his chief opponent, George Pabey, in a special fall 2004 election.

    Moro, 37, of Merrillville, pleaded guilty to processing a ballot even though he wasn't a poll worker. He faces up to three years in prison when sentenced Dec. 15 by Lake Criminal Court Judge Salvador Vasquez.

    Lay, of East Chicago, told Lake Criminal Court Judge Thomas P. Stefaniak Jr. her actions were an "honest mistake." But when Stefaniak questioned why she didn't vote in her own precinct, Lay admitted she wanted to vote for her brother, Terrance Lay, in his bid for Randall "Blue" Artis' council seat. Terrance Lay, 29, is charged with 10 counts of inducing others to vote outside their home precincts and conspiracy. He is the utility security manager for the East Chicago Utilities Department. Artis is charged with seven felony counts of inducing an East Chicago woman to vote outside of her home precinct and committing other voting violations.

    Lay told the judge she didn't understand why she got in trouble for her one vote. "People have been doing it (fraudulent voting) for years, and all of a sudden they want to do something about it," she said. (Source)


    January 6, 2007: Voter-Registration Fraud in Kansas City (ACORN)

    A Kansas City [Missouri] woman who worked for an advocacy group that signed up new voters was indicted yesterday on charges of election fraud and identity theft. Carmen R. Davis, 37, was charged in a four-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury. She worked in August and September as a voter registration recruiter for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN. She is accused of using another woman’s Social Security number to get hired by ACORN and Project Vote.

    Davis also is charged with causing three voter registration applications with false addresses to be filed with the Kansas City Board of Elections Commissioners.

    In November, four other people who worked for ACORN were indicted on charges of submitting false voter registrations to the Kansas City election board. (Source)


    March 29, 2007: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    Some 22 people have been convicted of vote fraud in the 2003 East Chicago [Indiana] primary election. (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source)


    May 14, 2007: Voter Fraud in Michigan

    A Benton Harbor [Michigan] activist will serve time for voter fraud. A judge on Monday sentenced the Rev. Edward Pinkney to five years probation and one year in jail. A jury convicted him of interfering with a 2005 recall election in Benton Harbor. Prosecutors say Pinkney paid people to vote. (Source)


    May 22, 2007: Fraud by Election Workers in Tennessee

    A judge said Monday he thinks the public is owed a more detailed explanation about an alleged plot by three poll workers to throw a 2005 election to Ophelia Ford, now a state senator. Shelby County [Tennessee] Criminal Court Judge John P. Colton took guilty pleas earlier this month from the three election workers who avoided jail time in a deal with prosecutors. The workers admitted to voting fraud charges against them, yet never said what motivated them to fake at least three votes, two of them cast in the names of dead people. (Source)


    June 12, 2007: Voter Fraud in Texas

    Voter fraud committed by illegal immigrants who actually cast election ballots in one Texas county is more widespread than originally thought and federal authorities have launched investigations into neighboring municipalities.

    A few weeks ago election officials in the south central Texas county of Bexar admitted that hundreds of illegal immigrants registered to vote and subsequently cast ballots, canceling out the votes of United States citizens. Now federal authorities are, not only investigating the fraud in Bexar, but also in nearby Harris, Tarrant and El Paso counties.

    It turns out that many of the illegal immigrants voted in more than a dozen local, state and federal elections since 2001. This has evidently struck the interest of the Department of Homeland Security because the violators probably filed false United States citizenship claims. (Source)


    June 15, 2007: Voter Fraud in Milwaukee

    In a 3-0 decision, a federal appeals court Thursday upheld the voter fraud conviction of Kimberly Prude, the Milwaukee [Wisconsin] grandmother of three who cast an illegal absentee ballot in the 2004 election.... Prude, a felon under state supervision, was ineligible to vote in 2004. She worked as a volunteer for the John Kerry-John Edwards campaign and cast an absentee ballot after an Oct. 22, 2004 rally that featured Rev. Al Sharpton.... In 2005, a jury convicted Prude of voter fraud and her probation was revoked. (Source)


    August 4, 2007: Voter Fraud in Mississippi

    Attorney General Jim Hood says three people have been arrested for allegedly participating in a voter fraud scheme in Benton County [Mississippi]. Lillie Jean Norton was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit voter fraud and was being held on a $20,000 bond. James Bullock was charged with bribery and voter fraud and was being held on a $40,000 bond. Ada Tucker was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit voter fraud. Her bail was set at $20,000. (Source) and (Source)


    August 24, 2007: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    Two more guilty pleas in the 2003 East Chicago [Indiana] primary election bring to 32 the number of voting fraud convictions since the maligned polling took place, prosecutors announced today. (Source)


    September 12, 2007: Voter Fraud in Texas

    Officials involved in a joint federal-state probe say that some of the dozens of people under investigation in a months-long Bexar County [Texas] voter fraud case may be charged with both state and federal crimes.... As the federal portion of the investigation begun in late May winds down, Bexar County District Attorney Susan Reed will determine how she'll proceed in the case of the 41 people who allegedly voted, some repeatedly, despite being non-citizens. (Source)


    September 21, 2007: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    Two people charged with vote fraud by the Lake County [Indiana] Joint Vote Fraud Task Force have pleaded guilty, Attorney General Steve Carter announced Thursday. Alicia Dunbar and Ivan Dunbar, both of East Chicago [Indiana], have pleaded guilty to voting in another precinct. Both received a one-year probation. They were charged in March 2006 for illegal voting activity.

    Sentencing has also occurred for two more defendants. Ricardo Alamillo, of Hammond, pleaded guilty to voting in another precinct, a Class D felony. He has been sentenced to a one and a half year suspended prison sentence and one and a half years of probation. He was charged in September 2006 by the Joint Lake County Voter Task Force for voting in another precinct other than where he lived. Alamillo is a former assistant chief bailiff in East Chicago. Mark Orosco, of Hammond, pleaded guilty in August and has been sentenced to one year suspended prison sentence and one year probation for voting in another precinct. He was ordered to perform 100 hours of community service. (Source) and (Source)


    November 5, 2007: Fraud by Election Workers in Ohio

    A special prosecutor ended a two-year drive to convict two county elections workers [in Ohio] for rigging a ballot recount during the hotly contested 2004 presidential election. In a plea deal announced this morning, prosecutors let the two women take probation without admitting any wrongdoing. Jacqueline Maiden, 60, the board's third-ranking staff member, and middle manager Kathleen Dreamer, 41, each pleaded no contest to negligent misconduct and failure to perform official duties during that November general election. The charges are, respectively, a felony and a misdemeanor, punishable by up to 18 months in prison. (Source)


    March 1, 2008: Voter Fraud in New Mexico

    A candidate for Sunland Park [New Mexico] municipal judge was charged Friday with voter fraud. He allegedly voted twice in the 2004 elections, and questions were raised as to whether he actually lives in New Mexico. Horacio Favela, 48, faces one count of false voting, a fourth-degree felony punishable by up to 18 months in prison. (Source)


    March 3, 2008: Voter Fraud in South Carolina

    Suspended Eastover [South Carolina] Mayor Chris Campbell has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after he was found guilty of voter fraud, forgery and misconduct in office. Campbell apologized to citizens of the Richland County town after Friday's verdict and said he unwittingly broke the law. The (Columbia) State reported that prosecutors accused Campbell of approaching 16 voters unable to make it to the polls and asking them to cast absentee ballots he had already marked for his candidates. (Source)


    March 13, 2008: Voter Fraud in Mississippi

    Attorney General Jim Hood confirmed Friday that indictments have been served on 16 people connected to a Benton County [Mississippi] voter fraud investigation. The investigation stems from the August 7, 2007 primary election and the August 27, 2007 runoff elections in Benton County. (Source)


    June 12, 2008: Voter-Registration Fraud in Florida

    A jury found would-be Walton County [Florida] Commission candidate Greg "Charlie" Burke guilty of voter fraud Wednesday, months after Gov. Charlie Crist suspended him from another county post. Burke could face a five-year sentence and thousands of dollars in fines. He was convicted on two counts of voter registration fraud and falsifying documents to the Walton County supervisor of elections office. (Source)


    July 10, 2008: Voter Fraud in Alabama

    Three Alabama counties are under federal investigation for voter fraud amid reports of citizens openly selling votes, casting multiple ballots and exchanging votes for a load of gravel in the recent primary election.

    Last month Alabama’s Secretary of State launched a probe into one county (Lowndes) after reports surfaced that absentee voters traded votes for a load of gravel for their driveways and other absentee ballots cast from former residents living as far away as Chicago.

    The probe quickly grew to include two other predominantly Democrat counties—Perry and Bullock—where the fraud seems to be rampant and nothing new. Residents interviewed by a national newspaper proudly admitted that they have been paid for their vote for years and that they have seen votes openly bought and sold by local officials.

    One 23-year-old man admitted has been paid by local officials to use an absentee ballot ever since he became eligible to vote. The last time he voted, he got paid $30, saying its “pretty common” and “nothing new.” Another man said he’s sold his vote for $100 and $50 a pop. (Source) and (Source)

    August 27, 2008: Voter-Registration Fraud in Ohio (ACORN)

    A national organization that conducts voter registration drives for low-income people has curtailed its push in Cuyahoga County [Ohio] after the Board of Elections accused its workers of submitting fraudulent registration cards. The board is investigating the
    Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Results of the inquiry could be turned over to the county prosecutor.

    Board employees said ACORN workers often handed in the same name on a number of voter registration cards, but showing that person living at different addresses. Other times, cards had the same name listed, but a different date of birth. Still another sign of possible fraud showed a number of people living at an address that turned out to be a restaurant.

    ACORN had a part-time staff of 30 who worked five days a week to find unregistered people. The workers made $8 an hour and were required to sign up 20 voters in each five-hour shift. (Source)


    October 5, 2008: Voter Fraud Involving ACORN

    A new federal mandate requires that all voters be allowed to cast a provisional ballot if their names don’t appear on registration lists. Liberal groups are suing to have such ballots counted even if they are cast in precincts where the voter doesn’t live. If the number of provisional ballots exceeds the margin of victory in the Senate race, you can bet lawyers will argue that “every vote must count,” regardless of eligibility. Candidates may have to hope their vote totals are beyond the “margin of litigation.”

    A left-wing “community organizing” group called ACORN has seen its employees frequently convicted of voter registration fraud. This year its employees are under active investigation in several states. Perhaps one reason for ACORN’s go-for-broke behavior is that Barack Obama used to be a lawyer and top trainer for the group. In August, the Obama campaign was caught misidentifying an $800,000 payment it had made to an ACORN subsidiary for “election services.” (Source)


    October 7, 2008: Voter-Registration Fraud in Ohio (ACORN)

    A national voter-registration group admitted to Cuyahoga County [Ohio] election officials Tuesday that it cannot eliminate fraud from its operation. The group blamed inefficiency and lack of resources for problems such as being unable to spot duplicate voter-registration cards or cards that may have been filled out by workers to make quotas.

    The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, has turned in at least 65,000 cards to the Cuyahoga County [Ohio] Board of Elections in the last year. The board has investigated potentially fraudulent cards since August.

    The group has faced similar inquiries in other large Ohio counties. And Nevada state authorities recently raided ACORN’s Las Vegas headquarters searching for evidence of fraud, according to the Associated Press.

    Local representatives of the organization told Cuyahoga board members that they don’t have the resources to identify fraudulent cards turned in by paid canvassers who are told to register low- and moderate-income voters.

    Cuyahoga election workers flagged about 50 names on suspicious cards. The cards were to register the same names, raising the possibility that canvassers shared information when trying to make quotas. (Source)

    October 8, 2008: Voter-Registration Fraud in Connecticut (ACORN)

    The State Elections Enforcement Commission has opened an investigation into allegations that a community activist organization submitted at least 10 false voter-registration cards in Bridgeport [Connecticut]. One of the phony registrations was for a 7-year-old girl in the Marina Village housing complex, whose age was listed as 27 on the voter card. Another registration came from a man who later said he couldn’t have completed the voter card purported to be his because he was in jail on the date of the document.

    Joseph J. Borges, the city’s Republican registrar of voters, filed the complaint with state officials after months of local complaints on the tactics that ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, was regularly filing applications that were ruled ineligible. (Source)


    October 20, 2008: Voter-Registration Fraud in California

    On the heels of a liberal group’s nationwide corrupt voter registration drive favoring Democrats, the owner of a firm hired by California’s Republican Party to register voters has been arrested and charged with fraud.

    The company (Young Political Majors) collects petition signatures and registers voters throughout the country and was paid $7 to $12 by California’s Republican Party for every citizen registered as a member of the GOP. Dozens of voters said they were conned into registering as Republicans by workers who claimed they were signing a petition to toughen penalties against child molesters.

    Authorities also said that the company’s owner, Mark Jacoby, fraudulently registered himself to vote at a fake California address in order to meet the legal requirement that all signature gatherers be eligible to vote in the state. The Republican operative has been charged with two felonies, voter registration fraud and perjury. (Source) and (Source)


    October 22, 2008: Voter-Registration Fraud in Philadelphia (ACORN)

    A suburban Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] man is charged with changing 18 voter registration applications while he worked briefly for ACORN — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. ACORN political director Krista Holub says Jemar Barksdale, of Chester, Pa., was paid $8 an hour to sign up new voters last summer.

    Delaware County District Attorney Mike Green says his investigators found that Barksdale filed altered registrations for 18 people, changing signatures and personal information on the applications. Barksdale is being held on $150,000 cash bail. (Source)


    March 16, 2009: Voter Fraud in Mississippi

    The Noxubee County [Mississippi] case presents a deeply disturbing account of some of the most egregious racial discrimination the Justice Department has encountered in decades. In Noxubee, 80 percent of Democrats are black; 20 percent are white. (There are some Republicans as well, but the number is negligible.) The chairman of the Democratic party, Ike Brown, is black, and he, along with the Noxubee County Democratic Executive Committee, set about to effectively disenfranchise white voters.

    The court decision shows that Brown had his own local version of Tammany Hall, and local election officials followed his orders. This included publishing in the local newspaper a list of 174 white Democratic voters whose eligibility he intended to challenge if they tried to vote in an upcoming election. According to the court, Brown compiled the list based on the individuals’ perceived lack of support for black candidates. One voter testified that she was so intimidated she didn’t vote. Another testified that she was so scared she felt she couldn’t approach the polls alone.

    The court also found that Brown took measures to ensure that absentee ballots from black voters were automatically counted even if they didn’t comply with Mississippi law, while absentee ballots from white voters with the same deficiencies were challenged and not counted. He even reviewed many absentee ballots the night before an election, placing notes on them saying which should be counted and which should be rejected.

    One victim, whose absentee ballot was basically stolen by the defendants and whose signature on the application and ballot envelope were obviously forged, was brought in a second time to testify after she was confronted by a member of the local Democratic party following her initial testimony. The witness was told that “we black people need to stick together” and was urged to testify that she “probably didn’t understand what [she was] being asked” during the first go-around.

    The court also found that Brown recruited black individuals to run for office against white incumbents despite knowing that they didn’t meet residency requirements; refused to appoint whites as poll workers; and sent out Democratic Party members to give unrequested “assistance” to black voters, marking their ballots for them and telling them how to vote. All of this was intended to dilute the voting strength of white voters and to achieve his goal, which he openly expressed — “that all of the county’s elected officials should be black.” (Source)


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    October 28, 1986: Voter Fraud & Voter Registration Fraud in South Philadelphia

    A 63-count federal grand jury indictment charging City Councilman Leland M. Beloff, his wife and two Democratic committee people with vote fraud marks the third time in 22 years that South Philadelphia's Ward 39B has been the subject of ballot irregularity investigations. It also marks the second time Beloff – Democratic leader of Ward 39B – has been charged with vote fraud.

    The indictment, released today, includes charges of criminal conspiracy, giving false information on voter registration and balloting materials, and voting more than once. Beloff, 44, is charged with 14 counts of vote fraud, and his wife, Diane, 28, with four counts. (Source)


    November 5, 1986: Voter Fraud & Voter Registration Fraud in South Philadelphia

    Margie Giordano Coyle, a veteran Democratic committeewoman in South Philadelphia, has agreed to plead guilty today in federal court to vote fraud charges stemming from the 1984 general election, the Daily News has learned.

    Coyle, 55, involved in South Philadelphia ward politics for 30 years, was indicted on the vote fraud charges last week, along with City Councilman Leland Beloff; his wife, Diane; and a committeeman. All were charged with conspiring to commit vote fraud during the general election [of] Nov. 6, 1984, by submitting forged absentee ballots "to secure the election" of their candidates.

    Coyle, a committeewoman in the ward's 11th Division, also was charged in a separate count with voting more than once in the 1984 election. (Source)


    August 15, 1987:
    Voter Fraud & Voter-Registration Fraud in South PhiladelphiaCharles Pollan, a Democratic committeeman from South Philadelphia, once confided in a friend that one didn't win elections "by being honest." But Pollan's longtime political practice had a downside, one that landed him yesterday in a federal courtroom where he pleaded guilty to conspiring with ex-City Councilman Leland Beloff and others to commit vote fraud in 1984.

    Beloff, sentenced last week to a 10-year prison term for extortion, and his wife, Diane, are scheduled to go on trial Monday before U.S. District Judge Thomas N. O'Neill Jr. on the vote fraud charges. (Source)


    April 22, 1988:
    Voter Fraud & Voter Registration Fraud in South PhiladelphiaFormer Democratic City Councilman Leland M. Beloff will write yet another sorry chapter in the annals of South Philadelphia politics today when he pleads guilty and is sentenced in federal court for vote fraud. Beloff, 45, has agreed to admit involvement in a scheme to forge dozens of absentee ballots during the 1984 general election, said his attorney, Robert F. Simone. (Source)


    1993: The “Motor Voter” Law Encourages Voter Fraud

    In 1993, President Bill Clinton signed the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA, also known as the Motor Voter Law). The driving forces behind getting this legislation passed were the socialists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. At the time, Cloward stated, “It's better to have a little bit of fraud than to leave people off the rolls who belong there.” (Source)

    The NVRA requires each U.S. state to provide people with an opportunity to submit voter-registration applications for federal elections by: (a) registering to vote at the same time that they apply for, or seek to renew, a driver's license (hence the name “motor voter”); (b) submitting their voter-registration applications by mail, using forms developed jointly by each state and the Election Assistance Commission; and (c) requiring states to offer voter-registration opportunities at all offices that provide public assistance of any kind.


    The NVRA explicitly
    requires each state to keep its voter-registration rolls accurate and currentand to remove voters' names from those lists when they (the voters) have either been convicted of a disqualifying crime, been adjudged mentally incapacitated, moved to another state, or died. But in practice, the lists contain many names of people who are legally ineligible to vote and who are simply fictitious. Such abuses occur because under the Act's provisions: (a) when people register by mail they are not required to provide any form of identification; (b) when people register in person at a Department of Motor Vehicles or a Social Services office, the government workers who handle their cases are not permitted to challenge their applications; and (c) the NVRA makes it quite difficult to purge "deadwood" voters (those who have died or moved away) from the rolls.

    February 14, 1996: Voter Fraud in PhiladelphiaThe election forms for one potential voter said she had a “heart condition.'' She didn't. The form for another said she had to use an absentee ballot because of her ``high-risk pregnancy.'' Trouble was, she wasn't pregnant. Sound familiar? The bag of hustles and tricks used to steal an election in Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] three years ago yawned open again yesterday as one of the participants in that theft stood before a judge for sentencing. And after being tongue-lashed by a prosecutor and more gently criticized by the judge, the defendant, Craig Cummons, 42, was placed on one year's probation for his crimes in the infamous, fraud-soaked 1993 state Senate election in Philadelphia. (Source)

    1997: Voter Fraud in Miami

    The mayoral election in Miami in 1997 was nullified by a judge because of widespread fraud, including a number of established cases of fraudulent votes cast in the name of dead people. (Source)

    February 21, 1
    997: Voter Fraud in Georgia

    A federal grand jury has indicted 21 Dodge County residents in what is being called one of the largest vote-buying scandals in Georgia history. The 21 were charged in connection with two conspiracies to buy or offer to buy votes, usually for between $20 and $60, during last year's July 9 primary … In all, 124 counts of federal election law violations are alleged in the indictment....

    The judges who heard the case found votes had been cast by the same person more than once, by at least three dozen convicted felons and in the name of at least one dead person. The judges found 65 people who were helped in voting marked their oaths with an “X” but then wrote their names on voter certificates, which suggests the names were forged. (Source)

    March 4, 1998: Voter Fraud in Miami


    A judge has overturned last fall's election of Xavier Suarez as Miami's [Florida] Mayor because of evidence of absentee ballot fraud. A new election has been ordered held within 60 days, but it's unclear who will run the city until then.

    Circuit Judge Thomas Wilson's decision is the result of last month['s] trial of a lawsuit brought by former Mayor Joe Carollo, who lost to Suarez in a Nov. 13, 1997 runoff election. "The evidence presented in the case clearly demonstrated fraud and abuse of the absentee ballot laws," the judge wrote. (Source)

    March 14, 1998: Voter Fraud in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico

    Rio Arriba County [New Mexico] Clerk David Chavez and his chief deputy could be fined and sentenced to prison if they are found guilty of unlawfully opening a ballot box. Jurors deliberated here Friday after hearing two days of trial in Tierra Amarilla.

    Chavez also faced a charge of falsifying election documents for allegedly sending a certified voter list to Espanola in 1996 that contained names of people who didn't live in the city. The charges, all fourth-degree felonies, each carry a maximum penalty of a $5,000 fine and 18 months in prison.

    Chavez and his chief deputy, Vicky Martinez, were among 19 Rio Arriba County residents indicted last June 27 on charges ranging from voting illegally to ballot-box tampering to falsifying election documents.

    Most of the 45 charges involved voting by nonresidents in a municipal election. Voting fraud also was alleged in a few instances in the June 1996 primary and in a school board election. (
    Source)

    August 28, 1998: Voter Fraud in Miami

    A former Miami City [Florida] Commissioner, Humberto E. Hernandez,… has been in Federal custody since late May, when state prosecutors charged him in an investigation of vote fraud in last November's citywide elections. On Aug. 14, a jury acquitted him on charges of obstructing justice and fabricating evidence, but convicted him on a lesser count of being an accessory to covering up evidence of fraud. Three days after he was convicted, Mr. Hernandez was officially removed from the Miami City Commission by Gov. Lawton Chiles. (Source)


    May 22, 1999: Voter Fraud in Pennsylvania

    A Fayette County [Pennsylvania] vote fraud investigation that has snared a former Congressman got started when a minor township official questioned absentee ballots.

    Usually eight to 10 absentee ballots were cast in Sondra Cesarino's precinct in Wharton. But in the November 1995 election, she noticed more than 70 names on the list of absentee voters, and she recognized some as residents of the Bouras Personal Care Home, where her mother, Maetha Guthrie, was briefly a patient in 1991. "I knew some of those people weren't capable of voting," Cesarino said. "I just knew something was wrong."

    A year and a half later, after the May 1997 primary election, Cesarino challenged nine absentee ballots. Her action caught the attention of Fayette County Commissioner Sean Cavanaugh, who pressed for an investigation.

    Two months ago, District Attorney Peter Hook convened a grand jury, and on Thursday charges were filed. Former U.S. Rep. Austin J. Murphy of Farmington was accused of forgery, conspiracy and tampering with public records. Also charged were Peggy Bouras, operator of the nursing home, and Shirley Hughes, township tax collector.

    According to the grand jury report, they forged absentee ballots for residents of the nursing home and then wrote in Murphy's wife, Eileen, for township election judge, a job that pays $60. She won the election but declined to take the position, Cavanaugh said.

    But Cavanaugh and others said the vote fraud scheme went way beyond one election and one nursing home. The grand jury is still meeting, and Assistant Prosecutor Jack Heneks Jr. has said more charges could be filed. (Source)


    July 7, 2000: Voter Fraud in Florida

    Gov. Jeb Bush formally removed Hialeah Gardens [Florida] Mayor Gilda Oliveros on Thursday after a jury convicted her last week for plotting to kill her husband and committing voter fraud.

    During a 1997 voter fraud investigation, agents from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement stumbled into a plot where Oliveros had asked two city employees to kill her then-husband, Angel Ramos, in order to cash in a $45,000 insurance policy. Oliveros was convicted last Friday of five counts, including solicitation to commit murder. Bush had already suspended her from office in December. (Source)

    November 4, 2000: Voter Fraud in Wyoming

    Rep. Carolyn Paseneaux, R-Casper [Wyoming], was arrested Wednesday on two felony counts of voter fraud for allegedly listing an old address while voting in the August primary. Paseneaux appeared before Natrona County Circuit Judge Michael Huber on a count of false swearing and a count of false voting. She was released on a personal recognizance bond, which would require her to pay $2,500 if she violates the terms of her release. (Source)


    June 15, 2001: Voter Fraud in New York

    From the start, there was nothing ordinary about the case of John Kennedy O'Hara. He was … prosecuted for lying about his voting address. The Brooklyn district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, took Mr. O'Hara's case to trial not once but three times, for offenses that are usually handled as civil cases or ignored entirely.

    Today, a divided Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, upheld the 1997 convictions of Mr. O'Hara, a former lawyer, on seven felony counts, ending what the court acknowledged was one of the oddest criminal cases it had seen. Five judges ruled that Mr. O'Hara had simply lied about where he lived, but two others accepted his argument that he was held to a contradictory legal standard that ran counter to recent court rulings. Mr. Hynes said, ''The court has sent a clear and unequivocal message that one cannot defraud the voters of Kings County.''

    Mr. O'Hara was sentenced to 1,500 hours of community service, of which he still owes 1,000, and was fined $20,000. He said he has been unable to pay the fine, which has accrued interest during four years of appeals. If he does not pay, he will be subject to resentencing, which could mean prison time. (Source)


    August 16, 2002: Voter Fraud in Alabama

    Some Bullock County [Alabama] residents want Attorney General Bill Pryor and his election opponent Boyd Whigham to investigate alleged absentee ballot voter fraud in the June 4 primary and runoff, the New York Times Regional Newspapers has learned.

    Pryor and Whigham, the Democratic attorney general nominee who also is the Bullock County district attorney, acknowledged receiving information about allegations of voter fraud in the heavily Democratic county, where a former probate judge said the use of fraudulent ballots is a finely honed tradition.

    "They feel they're invincible," former three-term Bullock County Probate Judge Rufus Huffman on Friday said of so-called absentee ballot queens. (Source)


    September 25, 2002: Voter Fraud in Louisiana

    Two Marksville [Louisiana] men convicted of voter fraud in the mayoral election have been fined and placed on probation. The sentences for Lincoln Carmouche, 66, and Larry Dauzat, 48, were handed down Tuesday by 12th Judicial District Judge Billy Bennett.

    Both defendants supported incumbent [Democrat] Mayor Richard Michel in the election last spring. Michel was re-elected, defeating John Ed Laborde. Both defendants were convicted in separate bench trials by Bennett. Dauzat was found guilty of offering to buy a vote; Carmouche, of bribing a voter. (Source)


    January 2, 2003: Voter-Registration Fraud in South Dakota

    The woman at the center of South Dakota's voter fraud investigation could spend 95 years in prison if convicted on all charges. Becky Red-Earth Villeda made her first court appearance this morning. Becky Red-Earth Villeda is charged with 19 counts of forging absentee ballot applications. Each charge carries up to a five-year sentence and a 5,000 dollar fine.... [T]he people whose names appear on these absentee voter applications … say Red-Earth Villeda forged their signatures last year while she was registering Native Americans to vote.

    The Democratic Party paid her two dollars for every absentee voter application she collected, but fired her after the questionable applications were discovered. By the time the investigation was over, 277 people told the state their signatures were fake, charges Red Earth denies. (Source)


    July 24, 2003: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    Glenn Pitts testified that his precinct committeeman offered $30 to obtain his absentee ballot [in the East Chicago, Indiana mayoral race], and then failed to pay. (Source)


    August 1, 2003: Voter Fraud in indiana

    A Highland resident for the past two years, Florentino Guillen says he had no interest in the race for Mayor in East Chicago [Indiana]. But his apathetic view and Highland address didn't stop Guillen, a custodian for the School City of East Chicago, from applying for an absentee ballot to vote in the May 6 primary in East Chicago and casting that vote.

    The 50-year-old Guillen admitted in court Thursday to listing on the application the address of his cousin, East Chicago committeeman for Precinct 2-2 Ray Guillen, who lives in the 4800 block of Wegg Street in East Chicago.

    Ray Guillen is a major supporter of East Chicago [Democrat] Mayor Robert Pastrick, who won the primary over challengers George Pabey and Lonnie Randolph. (Source)


    August 12, 2003: Voter Fraud in Connecticut

    Former Hartford [Connecticut] state Rep. Barnaby Horton [a Democrat] was arrested Monday and charged with seven counts of absentee ballot fraud – all felonies – in connection with his unsuccessful Democratic primary battle last fall against Kenneth R. Green.

    The violations allegedly occurred at the Betty Knox apartment complex on Woodland Street in Hartford, where one resident, Silas Woodward, told investigators Horton sat at his kitchen table as Woodward completed the ballot, and pointed to his own name and that of state Sen. Eric Coleman, another Hartford Democrat, as the boxes to check.

    “Against his wishes, Woodward checked the box, thereby casting a vote for Horton,”' the arrest warrant affidavit states. “Woodward stated he felt compelled to vote for Horton because of Horton's presence while Woodward completed the ballot.” … The arrest warrant affidavit alleges that not only did Horton leave the complex with ballots, but also brought along postage stamps and affixed them to the envelopes. (Source)


    March 16, 2004: Voter Fraud in Kentucky

    Assistant Attorney General Christopher A. Wray of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Gregory F. Van Tatenhove of the Eastern District of Kentucky, and FBI Special Agent in Charge David D. Elder of Kentucky announced today that Knott County Judge Executive Donnie Newsome has been sentenced for leading a conspiracy to buy votes in the May 26, 1998 primary election in Knott County, Kentucky.

    Newsome, 53, of Dema, Kentucky, was sentenced this afternoon by District Judge Danny C. Reeves at U.S. District Court in Pikeville, Kentucky, to 26 months in prison and a $20,000 fine. Judge Reeves also sentenced a co-conspirator, Willard Smith, 55, of Hindman, Kentucky, to two years in prison and a $5,000 fine. (Source)


    August 29, 2004: Voter Fraud in Kentucky

    [I]n a wide-ranging conspiracy trial that opened here this week, federal prosecutors are contending that influential people ... try to buy elections in eastern Kentucky.... At the heart of the case is a coal miner's son turned wealthy coal mine operator named Ross Harris, one of eastern Kentucky's most prominent political fund-raisers....

    Prosecutors contend that in the fall of 2002, Mr. Harris funneled $41,000 in illegal contributions to the campaign of John Doug Hays, a candidate for a Pike County district judgeship. The money financed a vote-buying scheme disguised as a program to pay people $50 each to transport, or haul, voters to the polls, the prosecutors contend. "There was no systematic plan for hauling," Kenneth Taylor, an assistant United States attorney, told jurors this week. "It was a ruse."

    Mr. Harris and his nine co-defendants have pleaded not guilty, arguing that the people who received $50 checks really did drive voters to the polls. State law allows campaigns to pay for "vote hauling," a practice that began decades ago when many poor and elderly voters in isolated hollows lacked transportation.

    "It can't be a plan to use vote-hauling to buy votes if voters were, in fact, hauled," Larry A. Mackey, Mr. Harris's lawyer, said in his opening remarks. "There may not be many states where it is legal, but it is in Kentucky."

    Only Mr. Harris and one of his employees, Loren Glenn Turner, are currently on trial. The other eight defendants, including Mr. Hays, are scheduled for trial in October. The Harris case is one of several in Kentucky and West Virginia that prosecutors say confirm longstanding suspicions that vote-buying remains common in Appalachia. (Source)

    August 29, 2004: Voter Fraud in Kentucky

    Last year, Donnie Newsome, the judge-executive of Knott County in eastern Kentucky, was convicted of buying votes for $50 to $100 a piece in a 1998 primary race. He has been sentenced to 26 months in prison....

    Vote fraud, of course, is a fact of life in many places. In Kentucky, it ruined the career of Edward F. Prichard Jr., a former law clerk to Justice Felix Frankfurter of the Supreme Court who was widely seen as a future governor. Mr. Prichard was sentenced to two years for stuffing ballot boxes in 1948. He later distinguished himself as an education reformer.

    In the mountains of eastern Kentucky, one of the poorest regions of the country, vote fraud has most often taken the form of vote-buying, experts said. (Source)

    August 29, 2004: Voter Fraud in West Virginia

    In West Virginia, Johnny Mendez, the sheriff of Logan County, pleaded guilty last month to federal charges that he accepted $10,000 in illegal contributions and used the money to buy votes in 2000 and 2004. (Source)

    Autumn 2004: Voter-Registration Fraud in Florida, Virginia, and Texas

    At least eight of the 19 foreign-national September 11 hijackers had registered to vote in either Florida or Virginia.

    This past March, in just one of many recent cases, Texas representative Ciro Rodriguez, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, lost a close Democratic primary after a missing ballot box suddenly showed up in South Texas, stuffed with votes for his opponent. Rodriguez charged fraud but could never definitively prove it. (Source)


    October 14, 2004: Voter-Registration Fraud in Oregon

    Officials in Oregon have launched a criminal investigation after receiving numerous complaints that a Republican-affiliated group was destroying registration forms filed by Democratic voters statewide, Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury told
    CBSNews.com. Meanwhile, CBS affiliate KLAS-TV is reporting accusations of similar malfeasance in Nevada. (Source)


    October 22, 2004: Voter Fraud in Kansas

    U.S. Attorneys Todd Graves of Western Missouri and Eric Melgren of Kansas announced federal vote-fraud charges today against three Kansas City area residents.... The three were charged under federal voting-rights enforcement laws with providing false information about their residences. The offense is punishable by up to five years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine. (Source)


    October 31, 2004: Voter Fraud in Rhode Island

    A Bristol [Rhode Island] man and his son have been charged with voter fraud for allegedly using the wrong address when they cast ballots in the September primary elections. C. Richard Costa, 77, and his son, Keith Costa, 45, of 69 Harlem St., East Providence, were each charged with one felony count of fraudulent voting, according to the state police....

    The Costas had registered and voted in September's Democratic primary using an address of 175 Taunton Ave., East Providence, the location of Keith Costa's business, James Auto Body, state police told The Providence Journal.

    The charges against them stemmed from a criminal complaint filed by a member of the state Board of Elections. Richard and Keith Costa's names had figured in allegations of voting irregularity in which several political candidates challenged a total of 287 voters. They contended that the East Providence Board of Canvassers failed to protect the integrity of the voting process during the primary.

    The city's Board of Canvassers has identified 28 suspect voters who twice have been asked by certified mail to confirm their home addresses. If they show up at the polls without confirming that they live at the addresses on their voter-registration cards, they will be asked to sign an affidavit asserting that they live where they claim.

    Several candidates had wanted 287 people put on a list of suspect voters who would be granted provisional ballots that would be counted only after their home addresses had been verified. (Source)


    2005: Voter Fraud in Tennessee

    Actual fraudulent votes were cast on behalf of dead people include a 2005 state senate election in Tennessee that was decided by fewer than 20 votes; in this case, a post-election verification process established that two fraudulent votes were cast on behalf of dead people. Three election workers were indicted, and the results of the election were voided. (Source)


    January 21, 2005: Voter Fraud in North Dakota

    A Bismarck [North Dakota] man accused of voting twice in the November general election faces a misdemeanor charge. Jamie Rodahl, 26, voted absentee and went to the polls on Election Day, Burleigh County Assistant State's Attorney Lloyd Suhr said. The Burleigh County auditor's office discovered Rodahl's two votes during a routine check of the ballots. "We don't know what his motivation was," Suhr said. "All we know is that the investigation revealed that two votes were cast by him." … Rodahl was charged Thursday with voting twice in the same election, a class A misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail and a $2,000 fine. (Source)


    June 2: 2005: Voter Fraud in East St. Louis

    East St. Louis [Illinois] Democratic Committee chairman and former City Councilman Charles Powell, Jr., three fellow elected Democratic precinct committeemen, and one Democratic precinct worker are on trial for vote buying in U.S. District Court.

    The beneficiaries of the alleged scheme were Democrat Presidential candidate John Kerry, Illinois State Supreme Court candidate Gordon Maag and Mark Kern, the Democratic candidate for Chairman of the St. Clair County Board of Commissioners. The Democrats won two out of three. Maag lost his race for a seat on the state’s high court to Republican Lloyd Karmeier. None of the candidates have been implicated in any wrongdoing.

    “The race for county board chairman was decided by East St. Louis votes,” observed St. Clair County Board Member and Kern opponent Steve Reeb. “It was that close.”

    It used to be called “walking around money.” Now, according to the St. Clair County Democratic Central Committee’s reports to the State Board of Elections, it’s called, “election expenses.” $76,150 was reportedly paid to 51 individuals living in East St. Louis days before the 2004 election. Cooperating voters were paid $5-$10 per vote, according to a report by the Belleville News-Democrat.

    “Powell explained that the amount was based on multiplying the expected number of voters in the precinct times an amount of five dollars each,” according to a FBI report obtained by the Belleville paper. According to the indictment, Powell “explained that each Democratic precinct committeeman needed to determine how much he or she would pay voters in their own precinct.” Powell allegedly asked them to turn in “election day budgets…requesting funds from the St. Clair County Democratic Committee to be used during the November 2, 2004 general election.” After discussing “these election day budget requests with members of the St. Clair County Democratic committee, the East St. Louis precinct committeemen received funds” from the county central committee “in most instance[s] to the amount requested” on October 31st, according to one plea agreement.

    Powell was a member of the East St. Louis City Council until he was voted out of office in April. Two weeks before that election, he was indicted for vote fraud.

    In late March three other Democratic precinct committeemen–Lillie Nichols, Leroy Scott, Jr., and Terrance Stith–pled guilty to “knowingly and willfully” paying or offering “to pay voters for voting” during a federal elections....

    Standing trial with Powell will be fellow Democratic precinct committeemen Jesse Lewis, Sheila Thomas and Kevin Ellis. Ellis precinct worker Yvette Johnson is also charged.

    Ellis is also charged with writing a “threatening and misleading” letter to Republican election judges “in order to intimidate” them “so they would not appear at their assigned polling place.” (Source)


    July 13, 2005: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    Robert and Dolores Croy pleaded guilty to vote fraud during the 2003 primary election. Although Hobart residents, they voted in East Chicago [Indiana]. As part of their sentences, Lake Superior Court Judge Salvador Vasquez ordered each to make public apologies. (Source)


    October 8, 2005: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    Six more individuals have been charged on 19 counts of illegal activity in the 2003 East Chicago [Indiana] primary election announced members of the Joint Voter Fraud Task Force led by Lake County [Indiana] Prosecutor Bernard A. Carter and Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter. One of the individuals charged today is East Chicago City Councilman Levones Tolbert, who was a precinct committeeman during the ’03 primary election.

    The six individuals charged today for illegal activity in the 2003 East Chicago primary election are Arthur Vera, Armando Vera, Elvia Vera, Pedro Moro, Yolanda Ramirez, and Levones Tolbert. The 19 counts filed against them include fraudulently receiving voted ballots, voting in a precinct other than where the person lived, and perjury for lying about where he/she lived on absentee applications. (Source)


    December 13, 2005: Voter Fraud in Mississippi

    On November 10, 2004, a jury sitting before the Second Judicial District of the Tallahatchie County [Mississippi] Circuit Court found William Gregory Eason guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit voter fraud and eight counts of voter fraud. Consequently, the circuit court sentenced Eason to a one year sentence for conspiracy to commit voter fraud. As for the eight counts of voter fraud, the circuit court sentenced Eason to another one year sentence, set to run consecutive with the first one year sentence, and seven additional one year sentences, all to run concurrent with the second one year sentence. In effect, the circuit court sentenced Eason to incarceration for two years. (Source)


    December 14, 2005: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    The Lake County [Indiana] Vote Fraud Task Force has filed 22 felony charges against five more people linked to voter fraud in the 2003 Lake County primary election, Attorney General Steve Carter announced this morning. That brings to 22 the number of people charged with fraud since Lake County Prosecutor Bernard A. Carter convened the task force two years ago.

    Those charged are:



    • Shelly White, 54, of East Chicago, charged with 10 D felonies, six of receiving prepared ballots and four of examining a ballot.
    • Ramon Guillen, 54, of East Chicago, charged with four D felonies, two of receiving a prepared ballot, one of examining a ballot and one count of delivering a ballot.
    • Michael Lopez, 33, of Dyer, charged with three D felonies for allegations of voting in a precinct other than where he lived.
    • Christopher Lopez, 32, of Dyer, charged with three D felonies for allegations of voting in a precinct other than where he lived.
    • Natividad (Natalie) Hernandez, 49, of East Chicago, is charged with two D felonies for allegations of voting in a precinct other than where she lived in the 2003 East Chicago primary election and 2003 general election. (Source)



    December 15, 2005: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter announced a new round of vote fraud charges Wednesday arising from an investigation of the city's 2003 Democratic mayoral primary. Five men and women are accused of illegally meddling in absentee balloting or voting outside their home precincts. The charges are brought by the Joint Vote Fraud Task Force, which consists of the attorney general, County Prosecutor Bernard Carter and state police, who have spent two years investigating the 2003 election. (Source)


    January 13, 2006: Voter Fraud in West Virginia

    Former Lincoln County [West Virginia] Circuit Clerk Gregory Brent Stowers and two other individuals pled guilty to election fraud, including charges of vote-buying in what most observers is likely to be an ongoing investigation into election irregularities in Lincoln and Logan counties.

    Stowers said he funneled $7,000 into the 2004 Democratic Party primary to bribe county voters. Co-defendant Toney “Zeke” Dingess also pleaded guilty to helping to buy votes with that money. He was joined by another co-defendant, Ralph Dale Adkins, who pleaded guilty to buying votes with Stowers’ money in the 1992 primary. Wandall “Rocky” Adkins, also pled guilty to helping buy votes. He is not related to Ralph Dale Adkins....

    Stowers was the fourth elected officeholder to admit a role in alleged schemes, in Lincoln as well as neighboring Logan County, to influence voters with cash and liquor in balloting dating back to the 1980s.

    A sixth defendant, Clifford Odell “Groundhog” Vance also pleaded guilty to buying votes during a past primary election. In his plea, Vance alleged that Lincoln County Commission President Charles McCann, the county’s former schools superintendent, provided money to buy votes – a charge McCann denied. (Source) and (Source)


    February 14, 2006: Voter Fraud in New Hampshire

    Durham [New Hampshire] was “investigated” and it was found by the NH AG's office that some students there were registered in other states but voted here in NH on an impulse. That would be stealing a vote in the real world. No one was prosecuted for being an out-of-state voter, nor was any campaign or professor held accountable for lying to students or encouraging them to vote illegally in the 2000 election. (Source)


    June 28, 2006: Voter Fraud in Texas

    Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has announced the conviction of a Reeves County woman who unlawfully handled mail-in ballots in the March 2004 primary election. Trinidad Villalobos, 60, of Pecos was found guilty by a Reeves County jury and sentenced to six months probation on each count of illegally possessing and transporting election ballots of several voters. (Source)


    July 20, 2006: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    Three [more] people charged with vote fraud in the 2003 East Chicago [Indiana] primary election have admitted wrongdoing, Lake County Prosecutor Bernard A. Carter and Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter announced this morning. Antonio Mendiola and Alyicia Mendiola, both of Gary, pleaded guilty to one count of voting in a precinct [where] they didn't live, the news release said. Eduardo Perez, of East Chicago, pleaded guilty to fraudulently applying for, examining and receiving or delivering a ballot. They all face up to three years in prison. (Source)


    August 3, 2006: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    The latest round of East Chicago [Indiana] voter fraud indictments for 2003's infamous mayoral election has snagged three city police officers and several city employees. Longtime police officers Randy Morris, Lester Chandler, and Ronald DeCastro were among 11 people charged and sought for arrest Wednesday. Health inspector Raymond Carillo and city truck operator Edwin Aviles are also charged with voting outside of their districts. The others indicted were: Rachel Aviles, 36, of Portage, and Mark Orosco, 28, of Hammond. (Source)


    August 15, 2006: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    The Indiana Attorney General issued the following press release: “A Gary [Indiana] couple and an East Chicago [Indiana] man have been sentenced for violating election laws during the 2003 East Chicago primary election. Alycia and Antonio Mendiola both received an 18 month felony sentence. Eduardo Perez, Sr. has been sentenced to 180 days in jail, plus 50 hours of community service. All three sentences were suspended.” (Source) (Source)


    September 8, 2006: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    The Indiana Attorney General issued the following press release: “A Gary man has been sentenced to two years in prison for vote fraud during the 2003 East Chicago [Indiana] primary election. The Joint Task Force on Vote Fraud charged Larry Battle with seven counts of violating election laws in July, 2005. He pled guilty to three counts of vote fraud in July, 2006. His sentencing was this morning in Lake Superior Court #1.”

    “This is the fifth conviction in less than two months in which defendants have been punished for participating in illegal voting activity,” Attorney General Steve Carter said. (Source)


    November 15, 2006: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    Rather than go to trial and face possible conviction on four counts of vote fraud, Pedro Moro pleaded guilty to one count before opening arguments in his trial were to begin Tuesday in Lake County [Indiana] court. Across the hall, Tamika Lay, 30, was sentenced to one year of probation for voting outside her precinct. The convictions [were the] ninth and tenth for the Joint Vote Fraud Task Force of Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter and County Prosecutor Bernard Carter in their investigation into the discredited May 2003 East Chicago [Indiana] Democratic primary.

    Former East Chicago Mayor Robert Patrick's re-election campaign was accused of manufacturing a razor-thin victory margin with tainted absentee ballots. The Indiana Supreme Court later overturned Pastrick's win, and voters replaced Pastrick with his chief opponent, George Pabey, in a special fall 2004 election.

    Moro, 37, of Merrillville, pleaded guilty to processing a ballot even though he wasn't a poll worker. He faces up to three years in prison when sentenced Dec. 15 by Lake Criminal Court Judge Salvador Vasquez.

    Lay, of East Chicago, told Lake Criminal Court Judge Thomas P. Stefaniak Jr. her actions were an "honest mistake." But when Stefaniak questioned why she didn't vote in her own precinct, Lay admitted she wanted to vote for her brother, Terrance Lay, in his bid for Randall "Blue" Artis' council seat. Terrance Lay, 29, is charged with 10 counts of inducing others to vote outside their home precincts and conspiracy. He is the utility security manager for the East Chicago Utilities Department. Artis is charged with seven felony counts of inducing an East Chicago woman to vote outside of her home precinct and committing other voting violations.

    Lay told the judge she didn't understand why she got in trouble for her one vote. "People have been doing it (fraudulent voting) for years, and all of a sudden they want to do something about it," she said. (Source)


    January 6, 2007: Voter-Registration Fraud in Kansas City (ACORN)

    A Kansas City [Missouri] woman who worked for an advocacy group that signed up new voters was indicted yesterday on charges of election fraud and identity theft. Carmen R. Davis, 37, was charged in a four-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury. She worked in August and September as a voter registration recruiter for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN. She is accused of using another woman’s Social Security number to get hired by ACORN and Project Vote.

    Davis also is charged with causing three voter registration applications with false addresses to be filed with the Kansas City Board of Elections Commissioners.

    In November, four other people who worked for ACORN were indicted on charges of submitting false voter registrations to the Kansas City election board. (Source)


    March 29, 2007: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    Some 22 people have been convicted of vote fraud in the 2003 East Chicago [Indiana] primary election. (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source)


    May 14, 2007: Voter Fraud in Michigan

    A Benton Harbor [Michigan] activist will serve time for voter fraud. A judge on Monday sentenced the Rev. Edward Pinkney to five years probation and one year in jail. A jury convicted him of interfering with a 2005 recall election in Benton Harbor. Prosecutors say Pinkney paid people to vote. (Source)


    May 22, 2007: Fraud by Election Workers in Tennessee

    A judge said Monday he thinks the public is owed a more detailed explanation about an alleged plot by three poll workers to throw a 2005 election to Ophelia Ford, now a state senator. Shelby County [Tennessee] Criminal Court Judge John P. Colton took guilty pleas earlier this month from the three election workers who avoided jail time in a deal with prosecutors. The workers admitted to voting fraud charges against them, yet never said what motivated them to fake at least three votes, two of them cast in the names of dead people. (Source)


    June 12, 2007: Voter Fraud in Texas

    Voter fraud committed by illegal immigrants who actually cast election ballots in one Texas county is more widespread than originally thought and federal authorities have launched investigations into neighboring municipalities.

    A few weeks ago election officials in the south central Texas county of Bexar admitted that hundreds of illegal immigrants registered to vote and subsequently cast ballots, canceling out the votes of United States citizens. Now federal authorities are, not only investigating the fraud in Bexar, but also in nearby Harris, Tarrant and El Paso counties.

    It turns out that many of the illegal immigrants voted in more than a dozen local, state and federal elections since 2001. This has evidently struck the interest of the Department of Homeland Security because the violators probably filed false United States citizenship claims. (Source)


    June 15, 2007: Voter Fraud in Milwaukee

    In a 3-0 decision, a federal appeals court Thursday upheld the voter fraud conviction of Kimberly Prude, the Milwaukee [Wisconsin] grandmother of three who cast an illegal absentee ballot in the 2004 election.... Prude, a felon under state supervision, was ineligible to vote in 2004. She worked as a volunteer for the John Kerry-John Edwards campaign and cast an absentee ballot after an Oct. 22, 2004 rally that featured Rev. Al Sharpton.... In 2005, a jury convicted Prude of voter fraud and her probation was revoked. (Source)


    August 4, 2007: Voter Fraud in Mississippi

    Attorney General Jim Hood says three people have been arrested for allegedly participating in a voter fraud scheme in Benton County [Mississippi]. Lillie Jean Norton was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit voter fraud and was being held on a $20,000 bond. James Bullock was charged with bribery and voter fraud and was being held on a $40,000 bond. Ada Tucker was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit voter fraud. Her bail was set at $20,000. (Source) and (Source)


    August 24, 2007: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    Two more guilty pleas in the 2003 East Chicago [Indiana] primary election bring to 32 the number of voting fraud convictions since the maligned polling took place, prosecutors announced today. (Source)


    September 12, 2007: Voter Fraud in Texas

    Officials involved in a joint federal-state probe say that some of the dozens of people under investigation in a months-long Bexar County [Texas] voter fraud case may be charged with both state and federal crimes.... As the federal portion of the investigation begun in late May winds down, Bexar County District Attorney Susan Reed will determine how she'll proceed in the case of the 41 people who allegedly voted, some repeatedly, despite being non-citizens. (Source)


    September 21, 2007: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    Two people charged with vote fraud by the Lake County [Indiana] Joint Vote Fraud Task Force have pleaded guilty, Attorney General Steve Carter announced Thursday. Alicia Dunbar and Ivan Dunbar, both of East Chicago [Indiana], have pleaded guilty to voting in another precinct. Both received a one-year probation. They were charged in March 2006 for illegal voting activity.

    Sentencing has also occurred for two more defendants. Ricardo Alamillo, of Hammond, pleaded guilty to voting in another precinct, a Class D felony. He has been sentenced to a one and a half year suspended prison sentence and one and a half years of probation. He was charged in September 2006 by the Joint Lake County Voter Task Force for voting in another precinct other than where he lived. Alamillo is a former assistant chief bailiff in East Chicago. Mark Orosco, of Hammond, pleaded guilty in August and has been sentenced to one year suspended prison sentence and one year probation for voting in another precinct. He was ordered to perform 100 hours of community service. (Source) and (Source)


    November 5, 2007: Fraud by Election Workers in Ohio

    A special prosecutor ended a two-year drive to convict two county elections workers [in Ohio] for rigging a ballot recount during the hotly contested 2004 presidential election. In a plea deal announced this morning, prosecutors let the two women take probation without admitting any wrongdoing. Jacqueline Maiden, 60, the board's third-ranking staff member, and middle manager Kathleen Dreamer, 41, each pleaded no contest to negligent misconduct and failure to perform official duties during that November general election. The charges are, respectively, a felony and a misdemeanor, punishable by up to 18 months in prison. (Source)


    March 1, 2008: Voter Fraud in New Mexico

    A candidate for Sunland Park [New Mexico] municipal judge was charged Friday with voter fraud. He allegedly voted twice in the 2004 elections, and questions were raised as to whether he actually lives in New Mexico. Horacio Favela, 48, faces one count of false voting, a fourth-degree felony punishable by up to 18 months in prison. (Source)


    March 3, 2008: Voter Fraud in South Carolina

    Suspended Eastover [South Carolina] Mayor Chris Campbell has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after he was found guilty of voter fraud, forgery and misconduct in office. Campbell apologized to citizens of the Richland County town after Friday's verdict and said he unwittingly broke the law. The (Columbia) State reported that prosecutors accused Campbell of approaching 16 voters unable to make it to the polls and asking them to cast absentee ballots he had already marked for his candidates. (Source)


    March 13, 2008: Voter Fraud in Mississippi

    Attorney General Jim Hood confirmed Friday that indictments have been served on 16 people connected to a Benton County [Mississippi] voter fraud investigation. The investigation stems from the August 7, 2007 primary election and the August 27, 2007 runoff elections in Benton County. (Source)


    June 12, 2008: Voter-Registration Fraud in Florida

    A jury found would-be Walton County [Florida] Commission candidate Greg "Charlie" Burke guilty of voter fraud Wednesday, months after Gov. Charlie Crist suspended him from another county post. Burke could face a five-year sentence and thousands of dollars in fines. He was convicted on two counts of voter registration fraud and falsifying documents to the Walton County supervisor of elections office. (Source)


    July 10, 2008: Voter Fraud in Alabama

    Three Alabama counties are under federal investigation for voter fraud amid reports of citizens openly selling votes, casting multiple ballots and exchanging votes for a load of gravel in the recent primary election.

    Last month Alabama’s Secretary of State launched a probe into one county (Lowndes) after reports surfaced that absentee voters traded votes for a load of gravel for their driveways and other absentee ballots cast from former residents living as far away as Chicago.

    The probe quickly grew to include two other predominantly Democrat counties—Perry and Bullock—where the fraud seems to be rampant and nothing new. Residents interviewed by a national newspaper proudly admitted that they have been paid for their vote for years and that they have seen votes openly bought and sold by local officials.

    One 23-year-old man admitted has been paid by local officials to use an absentee ballot ever since he became eligible to vote. The last time he voted, he got paid $30, saying its “pretty common” and “nothing new.” Another man said he’s sold his vote for $100 and $50 a pop. (Source) and (Source)

    August 27, 2008: Voter-Registration Fraud in Ohio (ACORN)

    A national organization that conducts voter registration drives for low-income people has curtailed its push in Cuyahoga County [Ohio] after the Board of Elections accused its workers of submitting fraudulent registration cards. The board is investigating the
    Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Results of the inquiry could be turned over to the county prosecutor.

    Board employees said ACORN workers often handed in the same name on a number of voter registration cards, but showing that person living at different addresses. Other times, cards had the same name listed, but a different date of birth. Still another sign of possible fraud showed a number of people living at an address that turned out to be a restaurant.

    ACORN had a part-time staff of 30 who worked five days a week to find unregistered people. The workers made $8 an hour and were required to sign up 20 voters in each five-hour shift. (Source)


    October 5, 2008: Voter Fraud Involving ACORN

    A new federal mandate requires that all voters be allowed to cast a provisional ballot if their names don’t appear on registration lists. Liberal groups are suing to have such ballots counted even if they are cast in precincts where the voter doesn’t live. If the number of provisional ballots exceeds the margin of victory in the Senate race, you can bet lawyers will argue that “every vote must count,” regardless of eligibility. Candidates may have to hope their vote totals are beyond the “margin of litigation.”

    A left-wing “community organizing” group called ACORN has seen its employees frequently convicted of voter registration fraud. This year its employees are under active investigation in several states. Perhaps one reason for ACORN’s go-for-broke behavior is that Barack Obama used to be a lawyer and top trainer for the group. In August, the Obama campaign was caught misidentifying an $800,000 payment it had made to an ACORN subsidiary for “election services.” (Source)


    October 7, 2008: Voter-Registration Fraud in Ohio (ACORN)

    A national voter-registration group admitted to Cuyahoga County [Ohio] election officials Tuesday that it cannot eliminate fraud from its operation. The group blamed inefficiency and lack of resources for problems such as being unable to spot duplicate voter-registration cards or cards that may have been filled out by workers to make quotas.

    The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, has turned in at least 65,000 cards to the Cuyahoga County [Ohio] Board of Elections in the last year. The board has investigated potentially fraudulent cards since August.

    The group has faced similar inquiries in other large Ohio counties. And Nevada state authorities recently raided ACORN’s Las Vegas headquarters searching for evidence of fraud, according to the Associated Press.

    Local representatives of the organization told Cuyahoga board members that they don’t have the resources to identify fraudulent cards turned in by paid canvassers who are told to register low- and moderate-income voters.

    Cuyahoga election workers flagged about 50 names on suspicious cards. The cards were to register the same names, raising the possibility that canvassers shared information when trying to make quotas. (Source)

    October 8, 2008: Voter-Registration Fraud in Connecticut (ACORN)

    The State Elections Enforcement Commission has opened an investigation into allegations that a community activist organization submitted at least 10 false voter-registration cards in Bridgeport [Connecticut]. One of the phony registrations was for a 7-year-old girl in the Marina Village housing complex, whose age was listed as 27 on the voter card. Another registration came from a man who later said he couldn’t have completed the voter card purported to be his because he was in jail on the date of the document.

    Joseph J. Borges, the city’s Republican registrar of voters, filed the complaint with state officials after months of local complaints on the tactics that ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, was regularly filing applications that were ruled ineligible. (Source)


    October 20, 2008: Voter-Registration Fraud in California

    On the heels of a liberal group’s nationwide corrupt voter registration drive favoring Democrats, the owner of a firm hired by California’s Republican Party to register voters has been arrested and charged with fraud.

    The company (Young Political Majors) collects petition signatures and registers voters throughout the country and was paid $7 to $12 by California’s Republican Party for every citizen registered as a member of the GOP. Dozens of voters said they were conned into registering as Republicans by workers who claimed they were signing a petition to toughen penalties against child molesters.

    Authorities also said that the company’s owner, Mark Jacoby, fraudulently registered himself to vote at a fake California address in order to meet the legal requirement that all signature gatherers be eligible to vote in the state. The Republican operative has been charged with two felonies, voter registration fraud and perjury. (Source) and (Source)


    October 22, 2008: Voter-Registration Fraud in Philadelphia (ACORN)

    A suburban Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] man is charged with changing 18 voter registration applications while he worked briefly for ACORN — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. ACORN political director Krista Holub says Jemar Barksdale, of Chester, Pa., was paid $8 an hour to sign up new voters last summer.

    Delaware County District Attorney Mike Green says his investigators found that Barksdale filed altered registrations for 18 people, changing signatures and personal information on the applications. Barksdale is being held on $150,000 cash bail. (Source)


    March 16, 2009: Voter Fraud in Mississippi

    The Noxubee County [Mississippi] case presents a deeply disturbing account of some of the most egregious racial discrimination the Justice Department has encountered in decades. In Noxubee, 80 percent of Democrats are black; 20 percent are white. (There are some Republicans as well, but the number is negligible.) The chairman of the Democratic party, Ike Brown, is black, and he, along with the Noxubee County Democratic Executive Committee, set about to effectively disenfranchise white voters.

    The court decision shows that Brown had his own local version of Tammany Hall, and local election officials followed his orders. This included publishing in the local newspaper a list of 174 white Democratic voters whose eligibility he intended to challenge if they tried to vote in an upcoming election. According to the court, Brown compiled the list based on the individuals’ perceived lack of support for black candidates. One voter testified that she was so intimidated she didn’t vote. Another testified that she was so scared she felt she couldn’t approach the polls alone.

    The court also found that Brown took measures to ensure that absentee ballots from black voters were automatically counted even if they didn’t comply with Mississippi law, while absentee ballots from white voters with the same deficiencies were challenged and not counted. He even reviewed many absentee ballots the night before an election, placing notes on them saying which should be counted and which should be rejected.

    One victim, whose absentee ballot was basically stolen by the defendants and whose signature on the application and ballot envelope were obviously forged, was brought in a second time to testify after she was confronted by a member of the local Democratic party following her initial testimony. The witness was told that “we black people need to stick together” and was urged to testify that she “probably didn’t understand what [she was] being asked” during the first go-around.

    The court also found that Brown recruited black individuals to run for office against white incumbents despite knowing that they didn’t meet residency requirements; refused to appoint whites as poll workers; and sent out Democratic Party members to give unrequested “assistance” to black voters, marking their ballots for them and telling them how to vote. All of this was intended to dilute the voting strength of white voters and to achieve his goal, which he openly expressed — “that all of the county’s elected officials should be black.” (Source)


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    October 22, 2010: Malfunctioning Voting Machines in Texas

    Don Relyea supports incumbent Republican Rick Perry for Governor in TX. Naturally, he went to the polls to cast his vote. But while in the privacy of his voting booth, he noticed something very strange: as he tried to submit his ballot, it changed. Again. And again. The electronic voting machine he was using kept switching his votes to Green Party candidates, and he caught it on tape. (Source)


    October 22, 2010: Voter-Registration Fraud in Kentucky

    The Clay County [Kentucky] Attorney’s Office has charged five individuals with felony voting registration violations during the 2008 general election. According to a news release this morning from County Attorney Brian Melton:

    “The individuals charged were all convicted felons whose civil rights were taken from them based on their felony crimes and were not eligible to vote. Information was initially provided to the Clay County Sheriff’s Office and County Attorney’s Office from a public interest group known as Minnesota Majority and the Minnesota Republican Party, alleging that several convicted felons had voted within Clay County.” (Source) and (Source)


    October 26, 2010: Ballot Fraud by a County Commissioner in Alabama

    Former Pike County [Alabama] Commissioner Karen Berry’s plea arrangement netted her a sentence without jail time for a felony conviction of absentee ballot fraud and first-degree perjury.... In the November 2008 general election, Berry submitted or authorized the submission of ballots she knew were improperly signed and not witnessed by a notary, according to court documents. She won the seat for County Commission against her opponent, Oren Fannin, by just six ballots.

    In April 2009, Berry lied under oath about the ballots and obtaining them; then submitted them and knew they weren’t signed correctly or witnessed, court records show. In October 2009, in a civil case brought by Fannin, Judge Joel Holley ruled that Berry had won the November election illegally. Holley said that 10 ballots were cast illegally, and Berry lost her commission seat. At the time, Holley said someone in the courtroom had committed perjury during the testimony. (Source)


    October 27, 2010: Concerns About Voting Machine Integrity in Nevada

    A conservative watchdog group is calling on Nevada officials to intervene to ensure [that] SEIU workers who operate one county's voting machines don't skew the results to boost their endorsed candidate, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. A contract between
    SEIU Local 1107 and Clark County – where voting glitches were reported Tuesday – makes the SEIU the sole union representative for, among other professions, voting machine technicians. Americans for Limited Government called the union agreement "positively outrageous" considering SEIU's political stake in the race. ALG has urged the U.S. Marshals, the state attorney general and the U.S. attorney's office to step in to uphold the integrity of the election. (Source)


    October 27, 2010: Voter Fraud in Florida

    Daytona Beach [Florida] City Commissioner Derrick Henry and his campaign manager, Genesis Robinson, were arrested Wednesday, charged with committing absentee ballot fraud during Henry’s 2010 re-election campaign, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office said.

    The arrest of Henry and Robinson comes a little more than two months after Volusia County Supervisor of Elections Ann McFall requested an investigation into irregularities in absentee ballot requests coming into her office. McFall brought her concerns to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office in August, prompting the Sheriff’s Office and the State Attorney’s Office to immediately launch a joint investigation that ultimately led to the filing of a dozen felony charges against Henry and Robinson. (Source)


    November 2010: Vote-Count Manipulation in Ohio

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    Screen Shots indicating vote-count manipulation in the Boehner-Condit-Coussoule-Harlow Race for the U.S. House of Representatives for the 8th District of Ohio, for the Election of November 2, 2010. (Source)


    November 2, 2010: Voter Fraud in Minnesota

    Minnesota officials are investigating a citizen's allegations that mentally disabled voters in one county were coached by their attendants to cast their ballots for specific candidates, a county attorney told FoxNews.com. Montgomery Jensen, a voter in Crow Wing County, says he and his wife saw a group of mentally incapacitated individuals ushered through the voting process by mental health staff, who told some of the group who they should vote for and, in some cases, filled out ballots on their behalf, according to an affidavit filed with the county attorney's office on Monday, a copy of which was obtained by FoxNews.com.

    Jensen suggested that the county officials processing the ballots were aware that some had been cast by mentally incapacitated people who may not be legally eligible to vote. "The whole issue here is that someone was filling out their ballots and it looked to me like they had no idea what they were doing or what was going on," Jensen told FoxNews.com. (Source) and (Source)


    November 6, 2010: Suspected Voter Fraud in Nevada

    Sen. Harry Reid has won reelection in a tightly contested battle with Sharron Angle. Angle, a strong supporter of the Constitution and small government, appears to have lost despite
    recent polling that had her up by as much as 3 points.

    Reports of fraud and intimidation have circulated for weeks, with early voters complaining of rigged voting machines throughout Clark County. Residents of Clark County Nevada have
    reported that upon attempting to vote for Angle they found that Reid’s name had already been checked. This is not surprising as widespread voting fraud has been reported since the inception of the fraudulent electronic voting machines. (Source) and (Source)


    November 8, 2010: Voter Fraud in Minnesota

    Members of Students Organizing for America, a group of students aligned with the Democratic Party, may face a criminal investigation and possible felony charges after confrontations with an election judge over voter vouching during Tuesday’s election.

    Ginny Gelms, the interim elections director in Minneapolis [Minnesota], said she will submit a report to the Hennepin County attorney’s office and the Minnesota Secretary of State‘s office today. The offices will investigate a possible incident of improper vouching. Gelms said she was told by the University Lutheran Church precinct’s chair election judge there were two incidents of individuals trying to vouch for people they did not personally know.

    Vouching is a way to prove residence for on-site registration on Election Day. If someone doesn’t have a proper form of ID or a bill with their current name and address on it, a voter registered in the same precinct may sign an oath that they personally know that the individual is a resident of the precinct.

    Provisions for vouching and same-day registrations are outlined in Minnesota statues and rules. Violating rules in the chapter on registration eligibility of voters is a felony.

    The election judge at University Lutheran was told some groups were congregating outside of the church. After going outside to investigate, the judge came back inside and saw a group of "around 25 people" gathered close to the entrance, Gelms said. The judge walked up to the group and heard one woman "directing individuals, dividing up the group … and assigning vouchers to groups."

    Gelms said the judge asked a woman taking one of the groups to the polling place if she knew the individuals with her and the woman replied she didn’t, Gelms said. The woman claimed she made a mistake and was just doing what Students Organizing for America told her to do, Gelms said. (Source) and (Source)


    November 23, 2010: Voter-Registration Fraud in Several States (ACORN)

    Yet another former ACORN employee was convicted of voter fraud last week. This brings the total number of convictions for former workers from the embattled group to at least 15 so far this year.

    Kevin L. Clancy of Milwaukee [Wisconsin] pleaded guilty last week to participating “in a scheme to submit fraudulent voter registration applications,” according to Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen. Clancy admitted to filing multiple voter registration applications for the same individuals and registering himself and other voter registration canvassers to vote multiple times while working on an ACORN voter drive.

    Clancy received a 10-month prison term for his crime. Clancy’s sentence will begin when he completes another sentence he is currently serving for armed robbery.

    So far 2010 has been a banner year for ACORN voter fraud prosecutions.

    * In Milwaukee, former ACORN worker Maria L. Miles, who worked with Clancy, pleaded guilty to “falsely procuring voter registration.” She will be sentenced next month.

    * Also in Milwaukee, Frank Edmund Walton was convicted of “falsely procuring voter registration.” According to Van Hollen, Walton solicited voter registrations while working for a group called the Community Voter Project. Court documents indicate that after committing the crime he became an ACORN employee. Walton will be sentenced in December.

    * In Washington State, ex-ACORN canvasser Kendra Lynn Thill was convicted of voter registration fraud and given a 12-month deferred sentence.

    * In Miami, Florida, former ACORN voter registration canvassers Maurice Childress, Kashawn John, Liltovia Rhodes, Carlos Torres, Evangeline Williams, Lilkevia Williams, and Richard Williams, were all convicted of “false swearing in an election.” All were sentenced to probation, community service, and forbidden to participate in political campaigns, according to the office of Katherine Fernandez Rundle, State Attorney for Miami-Dade County. In addition, Childress and Richard Williams were ordered to serve 72 days and 125 days in jail, respectively.

    * Arrest warrants were issued for three other former ACORN canvassers in the Miami area who are apparently still at large.

    * In Pennsylvania, former ACORN workers Alexis Givner, Mario Grisom, and Eric L. Jones, were convicted of voter registration fraud-related offenses. All three were sentenced to two years probation. (Source)


    December 1, 2010: Voter Fraud in New Jersey

    Attorney General Paula T. Dow and Criminal Justice Director Stephen J. Taylor today announced that 11 people have been arrested since yesterday in connection with alleged voter fraud schemes involving the May 2010 Paterson [New Jersey] City Council election [of Rigo Rodriguez]....

    The defendants arrested today and yesterday, as well as Fermin-Cepeda, all allegedly acted as bearers/messengers for mail-in (absentee) ballots. The complaint summonses allege that the defendants tampered with mail-in ballots and/or voted mail-in ballots on behalf of voters who did not receive the ballots or who did not authorize them to vote for them. It is also alleged that [Belkis] Cespedes [one of those who was arrested] voted twice – once using her married name of Belkis Cespedes and once using her maiden name of Belkis Nunez. (Source) and (Source)


    December 1, 2010: Voter Fraud in Idaho

    The city of Coeur d'Alene [Idaho] is seeking around $36,000 in legal fees and costs from 2009 general election challenger Jim Brannon. Brannon has objected, claiming that the city doesn't have the legal grounds to request money from him since the election challenge wasn't frivolous.

    Meanwhile, the Coeur d'Alene City Council may take action next week on whether the city will pay around $105,000 for Seat 2 incumbent Mike Kennedy's legal fees. All could be decided Tuesday....

    Brannon had challenged the Nov. 3, 2009, election on grounds that illegal ballots had been cast, and sought a new election. The suit lasted nearly a year in the courtroom, and after a six-day trial, illegal votes for Brannon and Kennedy were tossed, leaving the incumbent winning by three votes. (Source)


    December 27, 2010: Suspected Voter Fraud in Missouri

    Incoming Speaker of the House Steve Tilley says he may refuse to seat a new representative from Kansas City [Missouri] because of allegations of voter fraud in the Democratic primary. Such a move would be exceedingly rare but allowed under Missouri law, and it would cast a bright light on a topic Republicans in Missouri have been pushing unsuccessfully for several years: the concept of requiring every voter to present a photo ID when voting.

    Tilley was presented this month with a nearly 100-page document alleging widespread voter fraud from failed Democratic candidate Will Royster, who lost the primary in the 40th legislative district to John J. Rizzo by a single vote. Rizzo won the general election against a Libertarian candidate, and he said Royster's complaints are 'sour grapes." (Source)


    January 3, 2011: Voter Fraud in Iowa

    A former Morningside College [Iowa] student could be deported for claiming to be a United States citizen so he could vote. Christopher Mettin, of Germany, pled guilty to one of the two counts he was originally charged with and was sentenced to time already served, which was 52 days. Mettin allegedly checked a box stating he was a U-S citizen on a voter registration form. He's still a German citizen. (Source)


    January 19, 2011: Voter Fraud in Oregon

    An 81-year-old man who used the names of his deceased son and brother to vote was sentenced last week in Marion County [Oregon] Circuit Court. Lafayette F. Keaton of Portland pleaded guilty to two counts of making false statements in violation of state elections law, said Andrea Cantu-Schomus, a spokeswoman with the Oregon Secretary of State's Office. Keaton was sentenced to three months in jail, fined $5,000 and placed on a one-year post prison supervision plan, Cantu-Schomus said. (Source) and (Source)


    February 2, 2011: Voter Fraud and Voter-Registration Fraud in Arizona and Colorado

    Secretary of State Ken Bennett and Attorney General Tom Horne jointly announce an indictment for voter fraud. This week Mr. Rodney Paul Jones was indicted for voting both in Arizona and Colorado in the 2008 general election, fraudulent registration and presentment of a false instrument. Voting twice (illegal voting) is a class 5 felony which is punishable by up to 2 years in prison and up to a $150,000 fine. (Source)


    February 12, 2011: Voter Fraud in Minnesota

    An Andover [Minnesota] woman, accused of voter fraud in the 2008 general election, faces three felony charges in Anoka County District Court. Barbara Ann Nyhammer, 51, 791 139th Lane N.W., is due back in court Feb. 24 on felony counts of voting more than once in the same election, false absentee ballot certificate and false statement in an absentee ballot application.

    According to the complaint, records from the Anoka County Office of Elections and Voter Registration show that an absentee ballot was cast in the Nov. 4, 2008 general election for a voter, a 19-year-old woman listing Nyhammer’s Andover address and that same person had filed an application for an absentee ballot with the county elections office Sept. 24, 2008 with the ballot along with the ballot certificate being sent to the Andover address.

    The returned absentee ballot dated Oct. 26, 2008 allegedly included a certification, stating that the voter showed the witness the blank ballot before voting in private, and signature of that witness, Nyhammer, and the identity of the voter and her purported signature.

    However, the complaint alleges that the woman whose name was on the Anoka County absentee ballot had completed a state voter registration application in her name and listing a Mankato address in Blue Earth County Nov. 4, 2008 and cast a ballot at a Mankato precinct in the election that day.

    Anoka County election records also allegedly show that Nyhammer voted Nov. 4, 2008 at her Andover precinct. (Source)


    March 8, 2011: Voter Fraud in Arizona

    As Arizona’s chief elections officer, Secretary of State Ken Bennett today announced another indictment of voter fraud. Last Friday, March 4th, 2011, Peter Canova and Gina Thi Canova of Scottsdale were charged with 15 counts of voter fraud including false registrations, illegal voting and filing false instruments. The violations are class 5 and class 6 felonies and each count is punishable by up to 2.5 years in prison.

    According to court documents, Peter and Gina Canova both face charges of voting more than once in a single election by casting their ballots in the November 4, 2008 General Election in Maricopa County, Arizona and Douglas County, Nevada. (Source)


    March 16, 2011: Vote Buying in Alabama

    The Chairman of the Wilcox County [Alabama] Board of Education has been indicted by a grand jury on the charge of vote buying. According to District Attorney Michael Jackson, Clifford "Don" Twilley, the Chairman of the Wilcox County Board of Education was indicted by a Wilcox County Grand Jury for vote buying. The charge stems from an investigation into Twilley's conduct in the June 2010 elections in Wilcox County. (Source)


    March 17, 2011: Voter Fraud in Illinois

    A Filipino woman living in Grayslake [Illinois] was arrested and charged with 17 felony counts related to voter fraud Thursday after being accused of falsely pretending to be a U.S. citizen and voting nine times in elections dating back to 2003, federal officials announced. Maria Azada, 53, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations, which worked with an investigator for the Lake County [Indiana] State’s Attorney’s office.

    Azada faces charges of perjury, mutilation of election materials, and tampering with voting machines in connection with illegal voting by a non-U.S. citizen, according to an ICE news release.

    Azada allegedly admitted that she had voted in an election in February 2009 while attending an immigration benefit. It is illegal for foreign nationals to vote in national or state elections in the United States.

    “A subsequent investigation revealed that Azada allegedly voted nine times in primary, general and consolidated elections between 2003 and 2009,” according to the news release. According to the arrest warrant, Azada allegedly falsely claimed to be a U.S. citizen on two Illinois voter registration applications.

    If convicted, Azada faces up to five years in state prison on each of the two perjury counts. She also faces up to three years on each of the six counts of tampering with voting machines, and each of the nine counts of mutilation of election materials. She is also subject to deportation, according to ICE spokeswoman Gail Montenegro. (Source) and (Source)


    April 6, 2011: Voter-Registration Fraud in Nevada (2011)

    The defunct political advocacy group ACORN has pleaded guilty in a case alleging that canvassers were illegally paid to register Nevada voters during the 2008 presidential campaign.

    The
    Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Wednesday that ACORN defense attorney Lisa Rasmussen entered the guilty plea to one count of felony compensation for registration of voters. Under a deal, 12 other felony counts were dropped against the organization.

    ACORN faces a maximum $5,000 fine, and under the deal, prosecutors will not argue at the Aug. 10 sentencing hearing. ACORN supervisor Amy Busefink pleaded no contest in November to two counts of conspiracy to commit the crime of compensation for registration of voters. She is appealing to the Nevada Supreme Court. (Source)


    April 13, 2011: Voter Fraud in Illinois

    A 49-year-old Swansea, Illinois man was sentenced Wednesday to more than four years in federal prison following conviction on a litany of charges connected to tax evasion and voter fraud, US Attorney Stephen Wigginton said.

    According to court documents, Michael Collins was found guilty of tax evasion for 2003, tax evasion for 2004, tax evasion for 2005, failure to file federal income tax return for 2003, failure to file federal income tax return for 2004, failure to file federal income tax return 2005, election fraud in March 2006, and election fraud in February 2008.

    Collins will spend 50 months in prison, followed by three years supervised release. As conditions of the supervised release, Collins will be ordered to pay restitution to the IRS over $342,300. Collins is also prohibited from serving in public office, or from holding an elected public office, while on supervised release.

    Collins gave a false address to establish eligibility to vote in East St. Louis, even though he lived in Swansea. He was even elected to be a precinct committeeman in East St. Louis after getting family members to sign petitions to get him on the ballot. Prosecutors said Collins falsely reporter his family members' addresses on the petitions. (Source)


    April 19, 2011: Voter Fraud in Minnesota

    A widespread voter fraud investigation has led to charges against 11 people in Washington County [Minnesota] with prosecutors saying more charges were forthcoming.

    All of the people charged are convicted felons who had not been cleared to vote, with most infractions occurring during the 2010 election. But prosecutors said some charges went back as far as 2008. (Source)


    April 19, 2011: Voter Fraud in Iowa

    The Benton County [Iowa] Attorney said Patrick Lyons, 49, could legally vote in elections today. But he couldn't in 2004, 2005 and part of 2006. And it's what he allegedly did in those years that resulted in six felony charges filed against the former president of the Vinton-Shellsburg School District on Monday.

    Vinton Police filed charges against Lyons following a report of voter fraud activity several weeks earlier. He's accused of voting in a city election in 2004 and school elections in 2004 and 2005 when he was a convicted felon who had not had his citizenship rights restored. Lyons was charged with three counts of Perjury of Statement in connection with voter registration and three counts of Election Misconduct. Each is a class "D" felony punishable by up to five years in prison. (Source)


    May 18, 2011: Voter Fraud in Mississippi

    The conviction of a Canton [Mississippi] man on voter fraud charges stands as a warning to other would-be offenders, according to Madison County District Attorney Michael Guest. Terrance Watts, 40, was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison for his participation in two 2009 elections.

    In 2005, Watts was convicted of forgery, which is a disenfranchising crime. He also had been previously convicted of the sale of a controlled substance.

    In 2009, Watts voted by absentee ballot in the May 19 and June 2 Canton municipal elections for Alderman and mayor.

    As a result of the investigation, a Madison County grand jury indicted Watts charging him with two counts of voter fraud. Each of those counts carried a maximum of five sentences. Watts pleaded guilty on Monday and was sentenced to five years on both counts, with the prison terms to run consecutively. (Source)


    May 20, 2011: Voter Fraud in New Jersey

    A secret army tried to steal the 2009 Atlantic City [New Jersey] Democratic primary for Mayor by falsifying ballots and holding a "shredding party" in which votes cast for the opposition were destroyed and replaced, Ronald Harris told investigators that August.

    But jurors at the Atlantic City voter-fraud trial never heard that story. Instead, they watched Harris – in the words of the judge in the case – "virtually decompose on the witness stand."

    On Friday, the man the state built its case around became the only one of 14 people arrested in the case to receive a jail term.

    Harris, 25, of Atlantic City, was sentenced to 181 days in the Atlantic County Justice Facility, under a plea agreement that set the maximum at 364 days. He could avoid any time behind bars, however, if he follows the rules of a home-release program.

    Harris and 13 others were arrested in September 2009, one month after he gave his statement that discussed a so-called "shredding party" in which ballots were allegedly steamed open and votes against City Councilman Marty Small destroyed. (Source)


    June 3, 2011: Voter Fraud in Rhode Island

    Agnes Mancini has worked for the Town of Johnston [Rhode Island] since the 1970s. She is now a part-time clerk in the Fire Department, but has served in various other departments as well, including Public Works, Tax Assessors and Building Maintenance. Mancini also worked for the Board of Canvassers, the department responsible for registering voters and conducting elections at the local level.

    But last week, Channel 10 released an investigative report claiming Mancini lied about her residency in order to vote in Johnston. According to Randy Rossi, the finance director and tax collector in Smithfield, the 67-year-old Mancini signed a notarized affidavit that listed her full-time address as 69 Orchard Meadows Drive in Smithfield. Her voter registration, however, claims that she lives at 1193 Hartford Avenue, the address of Mancini’s Service Station, a business she owns with her husband Anthony. Both Agnes and Anthony Mancini registered to vote in December of 1997 from the Hartford Avenue address. (Source) and (Source)


    June 22, 2011: Voter-Registration Fraud in Los Angeles

    Immigrant-rights activist and former Santa Ana [California] schools trustee
    Nativo Lopez pleaded guilty today to one felony count of voter-registration fraud related to charges that he lived in Santa Ana when he registered to vote in Los Angeles in 2008.

    Los Angeles Superior Court Judge
    William C. Ryan sentenced Lopez to three years probation and ordered him to complete 400 hours of community service. Seven remaining felony counts – including perjury, filing a false instrument and fraudulent voting – were dropped by Deputy District Attorney Ed Miller. (Source)


    July 1, 2011: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    The special prosecutor appointed to examine allegations of voter fraud against Austin [Indiana] Mayor Doug Campbell confirmed that he expects to review a completed Indiana State Police investigation by the end of this month and to decide then on any possible charges.

    David Powell, the former Greene County prosecutor, also indicated Friday that the state police detective assigned to the case had spoken with several Austin voters in addition to four people who alleged irregularities in May's Democratic mayoral primary. (Source)


    August 12, 2011: Voter Fraud in North Carolina

    Authorities have charged four Wake County [North Carolina] residents with voter fraud in connection with the last presidential election. Twenty-six-year-old Kierra Fontae Leache of Pheiffer Drive in Raleigh, 46-year-old Shelia "Sheilia" Romona Hodges, also of Pheiffer Drive in Raleigh, and 25-year-old Brandon Earl McLean of Bethune Drive in Raleigh, allegedly cast two ballot votes in 2008. All three are registered Democrats.

    According to arrest warrants, Leache filed a no-excuse absentee application on Oct. 29, 2008, as well as voted at the polling place on Martin Luther King Boulevard in Raleigh on Nov. 4. Leache later admitted to authorities that she did vote twice in the presidential election.

    Hodges and McLean – who also is facing unrelated charges from this past June – both each participated in early voting at Chavis Heights Community Center in Raleigh and later voted on Election Day at their local fire department polling place, according to court documents. They also admitted to the charges. (Source) and (Source)


    August 18, 2011: Voter Fraud in Minnesota

    St. Louis County [Minnesota] Auditor election department records show that Brown voted in the November 2008 general election. According to the criminal complaint against him, Brown has been convicted of multiple felonies in multiple states. He told an investigator that his probation officer told him that he could vote because “no one checks up on it.’’ The probation officer was interviewed by police and said that he never told Brown such a thing. He said he typically tells probationers about their loss of such civil rights.

    Lisa May Burleson, 34, of Hibbing, is accused of voting after pleading guilty to felony theft in 2006. She was placed on five years probation. According to the criminal complaint, Burleson told a Hibbing police officer that she had no idea that she could not vote and did not remember reading the probation agreement stating that she would lose her civil right to vote while on felony probation. (Source)


    August 25, 2011: Voter Fraud in Minnesota

    Five Wright County [Minnesota] residents have been charged with voting even though they were on probation for felony convictions at the time. Assistant County Attorney Greg Kryzer said the five were among several hundred names of suspected illegal voters sent in April to county attorney offices around the state by Minnesota Majority, an advocacy group that has been pushing for stricter laws on voter identification and fraud.

    The five charged Wednesday were among 30 suspected cases that Minnesota Majority sent to Wright County. Three of those prosecuted are accused of illegally voting in the 2008 election, and the other two allegedly voted illegally in 2010. "These are the first we've actually charged ... that I know of" for specifically voting as a felon on probation, Kryzer said. More common, the prosecutor said, is charging felons on probation with registering to vote.

    The five charged, all with felonies, are Douglas E. McLean, 22, of Rockford; Gregory L. Britton, 56, of St. Michael; Alan S. Case, 29, of Montrose; Nicholas M. Gessell, 26, of Big Lake; and Jacqueline J. Nelson, 49, of Clearwater.

    Each was charged with being an ineligible voter. Case, Gessell and Nelson also were charged with felonies of fraudulently registering to vote while being felons on probation. Nelson and Britton were convicted of drug crimes. Gessell and Case were convicted of burglary. McLean was found guilty of making terroristic threats. (Source)


    August 26, 2011: Voter Fraud in New York

    Former Troy City [New York] Clerk William A. McInerney pleaded guilty Friday to a charge that he signed a voter's signature to a Working Families Party absentee primary ballot in 2009 to steer the vote to his Democratic Party candidates. ''I signed an absentee ballot 'Dametrias Banks,''' McInerney told visiting Greene County Judge George J. Pulver in Rensselaer County Court.

    McInerney, 47, who pleaded guilty to one felony count of second-degree forgery, is the first person convicted in a ballot-fraud investigation that began in September 2009. Several public officials have been charged in the probe, and McInerney has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. He will be sentenced to 90 days in a Rensselaer County Sheriff's Department work program and avoid jail time. (Source)


    September 7, 2011: Voter Fraud in Washington, DC

    Andi Pringle, the new deputy chief of staff to [Washington D.C.] Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D), is resigning, according to a source close to the administration. Pringle has come under fire for voting in the District primary last year even though she lives in Maryland. The source, who was not authorized to speak on the matter, said Pringle was giving Gray her resignation letter Wednesday because she believes she has become a “distraction” in the mayor’s office.

    Earlier Wednesday, Gray (D) spoke publicly on the matter for the first time, saying that he was unaware that Pringle had voted in the District last year. He said he learned of the voting discrepancy in the media. He also said that he only recently learned that Pringle’s business license had lapsed in 2009. (Source) and (Source)


    September 21, 2011: Efforts to Prevent Voter Fraud in Colorado

    [Colorado] Secretary of State Scott Gessler today sued Denver's clerk and recorder, saying the law is clear that Denver cannot send ballots to inactive voters as it planned. The lawsuit stated Gessler was challenging Denver to "ensure the uniformity of election processes throughout the state and to reduce the potential for fraud."

    Afterward, at a news conference at his office, the Republican Secretary of State said he is not taking aim at Denver because it is heavily Democratic. "If there was a Republican county violating state law we'd be behaving the same way," Gessler said. (Source)


    September 29, 2011: Voter Fraud in Iowa

    Former Vinton-Shellsburg [Iowa] School Board President will not face any prison time after pleading guilty to election fraud and perjury of statement. [Pat] Lyons was sentenced today in Benton County District Court. He was sentenced to five years and fined $750 plus costs on each count, with the prison sentences suspended. He was also placed on supervised probation for two years.

    Lyons was charged in April for voting and running for election as a school board candidate even though he knew he was not eligible to vote or run for public because a previous felony conviction had made him ineligible to vote, and his voting rights had not yet been restored. (Source) and (Source)


    October 12, 2011: Ballot Fraud in Indiana

    Suspected fake petition pages to place Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the ballot during the 2008 Indiana primary passed through the county voter registration office on days when the Republican head of the office was absent,
    The Tribune has learned.

    The pages in question bear the stamped signature of Republican Linda Silcott, indicating Silcott was not in the office at the time to sign the documents by hand. By comparison, most of the other, non-suspicious pages examined by
    The Tribune contain Silcott's written signature.

    Meanwhile, 13 more St. Joseph County residents whose signatures appear on the petitions, including former South Bend Mayor and Indiana Governor Joe Kernan, have come forward to say they did not sign the documents, and the Indiana Republican Party has called for a federal investigation into the matter. (Source)


    October 21, 2011: Voter Fraud in Indiana

    Mike Marshall, the man in charge of soliciting absentee ballots in the re-election campaign of Jeffersonville [Indiana] Mayor Tom Galligan, resigned Friday after being indicted on vote fraud, perjury and forgery charges.

    A Jennings County Grand Jury issued 66 indictments on Marshall, his son Christopher Marshall and a third Jennings resident, John Cook on Friday. The charges follow an investigation by the Indiana State Police, according to a press release from special prosecutor Aaron Negangard. The investigation stemmed from voter fraud issues regarding absentee ballots and applications submitted in Jennings County in 2010. (Source)


    October 27, 2011: Ineligible Wards Voting in Crow Wing County [Minnesota] 2010 Election
    (Source)


    November 1, 2011: Voter Fraud in Florida

    Tallahassee [Florida] Regional Operations Center and the Tallahassee office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation today arrested eight individuals in connection with multiple voter fraud violations that occurred in Madison County’s District One School Board race last year. The investigation began in November 2010 after FDLE was contacted by the Department of State’s Division of Elections regarding possible fraud in the 2010 Madison County election. The complaint noted that the District One School Board race, which was won by candidate Abra “Tina” Hill Johnson, had an extraordinarily disproportionate amount of absentee votes.

    The investigation revealed that Johnson and her husband, Ernest Sinclair Johnson, Jr., approached voters and obtained their agreement to vote, after which the voters were asked to sign an “Absentee Ballot Request Form.” Without the voters’ knowledge or consent, an alternate address was handwritten on the form, causing the ballots to be mailed to a third party rather than directly to the registered voters.

    Abra “Tina” Hill Johnson, 43, was charged with 10 counts of fraud in connection with casting a vote, and two counts of absentee ballots and voting violations. Her husband Ernest Sinclair Johnson, Jr., 45, was charged with 11 counts of fraud in connection with casting votes, one count of corruptly influencing voting, and one count of perjury by false written declaration. Jada Woods Williams, 34, Madison County Supervisor of Elections, was charged with 17 counts of neglect of duty and corrupt practices for allowing the distribution of these absentee ballots, contrary to Florida state statute.... The case will be prosecuted by the State Attorney’s Office, Second Judicial Circuit. The investigation is ongoing and more arrests are possible. (Source)


    November 22, 2011: Voter Fraud in Georgia

    12 former Brooks County [Georgia] officials were indicted for voter fraud. The suspects are accused of illegally helping people vote by absentee ballot.

    State officials launched an investigation after an unusually high number of absentee ballots were cast in the July 2010 primary election. "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 so that will be pending this next year," said District Attorney Joe Mulholland.

    The defendants include some workers in the voter registrar's office and some school board members. They are Angela Bryant, April Proctor, Brenda Monds, Debra Denard, Lula Smart, Kechia Harrison, Robert Denard, Sandra Cody, Elizabeth Thomas, Linda Troutman, Latashia Head, and Nancy Denard. (Source) and (Source) and (Source)


    November 22, 2011: Election Fraud in Michigan

    A former operations director of the Oakland County [Michigan] Democratic Party pleaded no contest to charges that he committed election fraud when he attempted to get fake Tea Party candidates on the Michigan ballot.

    Jason Bauer pleaded no contest to five felonies related to the scheme, which was an effort to split the Republican vote by putting people on the ballot as "Michigan Tea Party" candidates last November, without the candidates' knowledge. Bauer notarized affidavits for 12 of these fake candidates, and was scheduled to go on trial December 8 before he entered the plea, according to the
    Detroit Free Press.

    Michael McGuinness, the former chair of the Oakland County Democratic Party, also pleaded no contest last month. He is scheduled to be in sentenced December 7. Bauer will be sentenced in January. Both face up to 14 years in prison. (Source) and (Source)


    December 2, 2011: Voter Fraud in Minnesota

    A Duluth [Minnesota] man charged over the summer with ineligible voting has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for a crime that usually results in probation. Antonio Vassel "Detroit" Brown, 48, was one of six people charged in St. Louis County with "voting while ineligible" in the November 2008 general election because they were convicted felons. Under Minnesota law, a person is ineligible to vote if their civil rights have not been restored after being convicted of a felony or of treason. Citizens also are ineligible to vote if they've been found legally incompetent or the court has revoked their right to vote.

    The crime is a felony, but it's considered to be at the bottom of the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines 1-to-11 severity scale: murder is an 11 and voting violations are a 1. While the maximum sentence is five years in prison and a $10,000 fine, a conviction is likely to result in probation unless the ineligible voter has a record of several felonies....

    According to the criminal complaint against him, Brown voted in the November 2008 general election. Brown was not imprisoned at the time and told an investigator that his probation officer said he could vote because "no one checks up on it." The probation officer was interviewed by police and said he never told Brown such a thing. He said he typically tells probationers about their loss of civil rights.

    The only other defendant sentenced so far was given probation. Lavern Antoinette Bowman, 41, of Duluth pleaded guilty to voting while ineligible and was sentenced last month to two years of supervised probation and ordered to do 40 hours of community service. (Source)


    December 6, 2011: Election Fraud in Maryland

    A Baltimore [Maryland] jury Tuesday found Paul Schurick, former Gov.
    Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s campaign manager, guilty of fraud and related charges for his role in an Election Day 2010 robocall — a decision hailed by government watchdog groups who say that for too long dirty tricks have tainted Maryland politics.

    The robocall, sent to thousands of voters as Democratic Gov.
    Martin O'Malley swept to a re-election victory, was designed to suppress black votes by telling recipients to "relax" and assuring them that O'Malley had been successful even though the polls had not yet closed, the jury found. The call was scripted to give the impression it was coming from Democrats, not Republicans, jurors said.

    The jury found Schurick guilty on all four counts, including election fraud and failing to include an Ehrlich campaign authorization line on the calls. (Source)


    December 12, 2011: Election Fraud in Indiana

    The chairman of the Indiana Democratic Party announced his resignation Monday, as investigators probe allegations of election fraud stemming from the 2008 Democratic presidential primary.

    Dan Parker, who served for seven years, did not cite the scandal as a reason for his decision. But the uproar over possible fraud in a race for the White House has already claimed the job of one county Democratic Chairman, who sources say was forced out because of the allegations.

    Numerous signatures on petitions that placed then-candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the party's primary ballot were allegedly forged and then certified by the St. Joseph County Voter Registration Office in South Bend. (Source)


    December 21, 2011: Voter Fraud in New York

    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.

    Former Troy [New York] Democratic City Clerk William McInerney, Democratic Councilman John Brown, and Democratic political operatives Anthony Renna and Anthony DeFiglio have entered guilty pleas in the case, in which numerous signatures were allegedly forged on absentee ballots in the 2009 Working Families Party primary, the political party that was associated with the now-defunct community group, ACORN. (Source) and (Source)


    December 30, 2011: Voter Fraud in Florida

    Elections officials said a woman illegally filled out and cast two ballots at her [Florida] precinct during the Nov. 8 general election. Honora Boulahanis, 57, of the 2500 block of Buena Vista Boulevard, was charged Thursday with fraud in connection with casting a vote, a third-degree felony offense. She could not be reached for comment Friday. Boulahanis cast her ballots at Trinity Episcopal Church in the 2300 block of Pine Avenue. She and other residents were voting for three City Council seats and the referendum on the Vero Beach electrical plant. (Source)


    January 17, 2012: Voter Fraud in New York (ACORN)

    Michael LoPorto arrived at the Rensselaer County Courthouse in Troy, N.Y. on Tuesday for his trial, which accuses him of being part of a “massive” voter fraud scheme.... For a year now, LoPorto has steadfastly maintained his innocence, along with current Rensselaer County Democratic Elections Commissioner Edward McDonough, who refused to comment on the case Tuesday. They are the first indicted officials to be tried in a widespread investigation that has implicated eight Democrats, including county and city elected officials and party operatives. Four defendants have already pleaded guilty to a variety of charges, and what has already unfolded exposes just how easy it could be for political insiders to illegally manipulate the electoral system.

    Voters told
    Fox News they never filled out absentee ballot applications for the 2009 Working Families Party primary, and were later stunned to learn the applications were, in fact, turned in to the Board of Elections, with ballots cast in their names. Democratic candidates routinely try to secure the Working Families electoral line to obtain more votes in the general election. The party was associated with the now-defunct community group ACORN. (Source)


    January 20, 2012: Voter Fraud in Maine

    Maine’s Secretary of State has levied new allegations of possible voter fraud and again called on lawmakers to address what he believes are deficiencies in the state’s election system. In an annual report to the Legislature’s Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee on the state’s Central Voter Registration system, Charlie Summers said his yearlong review of voter registration data was troubling.... The data “suggests that a substantial number of noncitizens (over 150) may have registered to vote, and approximately one-third of that number may have actually voted in elections over the past few years,” Summers wrote. “I have turned this information over to the Attorney General for further investigation and to pursue whatever action he deems appropriate.” (Source)


    January 21, 2012: Election Fraud in Michigan

    Jason Bauer and Mike McGuinness, two former Democrat Party officials in Oakland County, Michigan, have been convicted on various criminal counts regarding their fraudulent attempts to add fake “Tea Party” candidates to the 2010 ballots, all in an attempt to steal the 2010 elections for Democrats.

    Jason Bauer, a former Oakland Country Democratic Party official,
    was sentenced to one year of probation and $2,600 in fines for his involvement with a 2010 fake Tea Party scheme. Bauer is the second person involved in the plot to be sentenced. Former Oakland County Democratic Party Chair Mike McGuinness pleaded no contest in October to charges of perjury and forgery.

    Zach Edwards, an Obama operative, has been arrested on Identity Theft charges. He (allegedly) stole the identities of Iowa's Republican Secretary of State and/or his brother in an attempt to manufacture a fraudulent email trail to use in an accusation of ethics violations. Zach Edwards was not a “nobody” involved in criminal activities. He was a major Democrat and Obama operative, and had been such for at least four years. (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source)


    January 23, 2012: Voter Fraud in Kansas and Colorado

    Six individuals are suspected of voter fraud in the 2010 election, according to the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office. Based on a comparison of voting records between Kansas and Colorado, the individuals appear to have cast ballots in both states. The information has been turned over to the FBI for investigation.... The alleged individuals are suspected to be landowners in both Colorado and Kansas. (Source)


    February 2, 2012: Petition Fraud in Wisconsin

    An investigation Thursday night into recall petition fraud after a man's name is found four times on a petition against a state senator. TODAY'S TMJ4 talked to three people Thursday – who say their names were forged on petitions to recall Van Wanggaard [of Racine, Wisconsin], including a woman who wonders if her son forged her name. (Source) and (Source)


    February 2, 2012: Voter Fraud and Voter-Registration Fraud in Florida

    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.

    "I vote every year," Hinako Dennett told NBC2. The Cape Coral [Florida] resident is not a US citizen, yet she's registered to vote. NBC2 found Dennett after reviewing her jury excusal form. She told the Clerk of Court she couldn't serve as a juror because she wasn't a U.S. citizen.

    We found her name, and nearly a hundred others like her, in the database of Florida registered voters.

    Naples resident Yvonne Wigglesworth is also a not a citizen, but is registered to vote. She claims she doesn't know how she got registered. "I have no idea. I mean, how am I supposed to know?" Records show Wigglesworth voted six times in elections dating back eleven years. (Source)

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