Thread: RAMPANT VOTER FRAUD IN HOUSTON

Citizens' Group Helps Uncover Alleged
Rampant Voter Fraud in Houston

By Ed Barnes

Published September 25, 2010
| FoxNews.com


When Catherine Engelbrecht and her friends sat down and started talking politics several years ago, they soon agreed that talking wasn’t enough. They wanted to do more. So when the 2008 election came around, “about 50â€

LEO VASQUEZ
Tax Assessor-Collector & Voter Registrar
Harris County Tax Office

Leo Vasquez serves as the Tax Assessor-Collector & Voter Registrar of Harris County, Texas, the nation’s third-most populous county comprising over 4 million people.

Harris County is recognized as the Energy Capital of the world, home of more Fortune 500 company headquarters and Fortune 100 fastest-growing companies than any other U.S. city, the Texas Medical Center (world’s largest medical center), Port of Houston (ranked first in the U.S. in foreign tonnage and 10th in the world overall), Houston Airport System (fourth-largest U.S. multi-airport system and sixth world-wide), NASA’s Johnson Space Center, and a thriving arts community. The City of Houston resides within Harris County and was named “One of the Best U.S. Cities in Which To Do Businessâ€

tax_voters@hctx.net


To register to vote in Harris County, send completed voter registration applications to the address below:

Leo Vasquez
Tax Assessor-Collector and Voter Registrar
P.O. Box 3527
Houston, TX 77253-3527


You may request an application from this office via email.

tax_voters@hctx.net


You may call the Voter Registration Department at 713-368-VOTE (8683) to request an application by mail.

You may stop by any of the 15 area Tax Offices in person to register to vote.
You may also visit any of the state agencies listed below, which are designated as voter registration sites per Texas Election Code, Section 20.001:

State law requires you to register 30 days prior to the election in which you wish to vote. Due to the Help America Vote Act which was enacted in September 2003, applicants must now provide a form of identification when registering by mail. An applicant’s spouse, parent, or child (acting as an agent) may complete and sign a Voter Registration Application, provided that the agent is a registered voter, or has applied for voter registration.

You may register to vote if you:

Are a resident of Harris County, and

Are at least 17 years, 10 months of age (To vote, you must be 1,
and
Are a U.S. citizen,
and
Have not been declared totally mentally incapacitated or partially mentally incapacitated without the right to vote by a final judgment of a court exercising probate jurisdiction

Are not finally convicted of a felony—or have satisfied the court’s requirements after a felony conviction or have received a pardon.

The Harris County Voter Registration Department mails renewal Voter Registration Certificates at the end of every odd-numbered year.


Voter Registration Duties


In Texas, the County Tax Assessor-Collector is the Voter Registrar for the
county unless the position of county elections administrator is created or the
County Clerk is designated as the Voter Registrar.

Leo Vasquez serves as the Tax Assessor-Collector and Voter Registrar in Harris County.

The Voter Registrar may not charge a fee for performing voter registration functions unless expressly authorized by law. The Voter Registrar shall conduct voter registration activities at all times during regular office hours. The Voter Registrar may establish one or more branch offices in the county to conduct voter registration activities for the convenience of persons desiring to register; a branch office may be temporary or permanent.

The Voter Registrar maintains files containing the approved registration applications of the registered voters of the county. These files are kept in the Voter Registrar's office at all times in a place and manner ensuring their security.

Before all county elections, the Voter Registrar must prepare for each county election precinct a certified list of the registered voters in the precinct. The list must contain the name of each voter whose registration is effective on the date of the first election held in the county in that voting year.

The office of the Voter Registrar is funded by the Secretary of State. Each year, the Voter Registrar must prepare and submit to the Comptroller of Public Accounts and to the Secretary of State the number of initial registrations and the number of registrations cancelled for the previous voting year. This list is to include voters who are deceased, felons, and those who have moved out of the county. The Voter Registrar is to also provide the total number of registrations for information updates

HOUSTON VOTES RESPONSE TO VOTER FRAUD ALLEGATIONS IS DESPICABLE

John G. Winder, The Cypress Times
Published 08/27/2010 - 8:45 p.m. CST

The voter registration group bashes its own underpaid staff as “bad actors,â€

Houston Votes Project Director admits to possible voter fraud




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIboqi_k ... r_embedded

Thousands of voter registrations from Houston Votes called fraudulent, incomplete
Tue Aug 24 21:53:00 2010 CST
By Steve Miller and Trent Seibert


Voter registration group Houston Votes has inundated the county voter registrar's office with faulty registrations, including multiple applications for the same voters and for noncitizens, registrar Leo Vasquez said. He likens it to ACORN.

Two Texas activist groups, Houston Votes and Texans Together Education Fund, were accused Tuesday of an organized voter fraud campaign by Harris County Voter Registrar Leo Vasquez, who likened the groups to the now-discredited ACORN.

“The integrity of the voting rolls in Harris County, Texas, appears to be under an organized and systematic attack by the group operating under the name Houston Votes,â€

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Houston Votes, a project of Texans Together, is a nonpartisan voter registration drive in Harris County. Its goal is to register 100,000 new voters by the October 4th deadline and turn out 50,000 new voters on election day.

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Houston Votes responds

Aug 27th, 2010 by Charles Kuffner.

Earlier today Houston Votes responded to the accusations lobbed at them by outgoing Tax Assessor Leo Vasquez. First, here’s their press release:

[b]On Tuesday, August 24, Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector and Voter Registrar Leo Vasquez made reckless and false allegations against Houston Votes in an apparently coordinated, partisan effort to suppress voter registration and to intimidate citizens into not voting. Sadly, this type of shameful tactic has worked all too well in the past. Houston Votes is committed to non-partisan voter registration and helping register the over 600,000 citizens eligible to vote who are not even registered in Harris County.

Fred Lewis, head of Houston Votes, said, “Those who propagate lies and distortions like those of Mr. Vasquez and his partisan allies are eroding our democracy, and we ask the Voting Rights Section of the Justice Department to immediately investigate and monitor his office and his radical allies.â€

http://www.truethevote.org/





Vote fraud attacks the heart of our political system and threatens our rights as citizens.

When True the Vote began monitoring elections last fall in Houston, we were shocked at the fraud we discovered. Precinct judges often failed to check voters IDs, and some even filled out ballots to “helpâ€

Somehow I just don't buy-in that the destruction of most of Harris country voting machines was an accident. Much too convenient to suggest that it was accidental.