Voter Fraud Information Thread

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NATIONAL ELECTION INTEGRITY GROUPS CALL UPON OHIO CONGRESSMEN CHABOT, TURNER TO REJECT BILL FORCING VOTER SEGREGATION

25th of June 2014
Groups argue bill will drive American elections backwards toward partisan, racial enforcement of laws
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- June 25, 2014: A national collection of voters’ rights organizations and leaders continued their effort to alert Members of Congress on the potentially disastrous effects of the Voting Rights Act Amendment (S 1945 / HR 3899) with letters submitted to Ohio Congressmen Steve Chabot and Michael Turner – recent cosponsors for the legislation.
"HR 3899, the Voting Rights Amendment Act is a step backward, not forward, in securing American voters’ rights,” the letter stated. “The truth is, this bill would fundamentally and intentionally change American elections into race-reliant battlefields where, for the first time in our history, the United States, as a legal matter, would exclude a majority of Americans as a class from the full protection of federal law – based solely on the color of their skin.”
Signatories of the letters argue that critical attention be paid to the expansion of powers to an increasingly partisan Holder Justice Department – rather than hyperbolic claims that American voters are without protection. The letters highlight a number of problem areas with the proposed legislation:
- Clouds definitions of voting rights violations which can lead to partisan enforcement;
- Empowers the U.S. Attorney General to sidestep federal courts in weighing evidence of alleged discrimination;
- Deliberately excludes “non-minorities” from full protection under the existing Voting Rights Act;
- Significantly reduces the requirements for the DOJ to supersede local jurisdictions in managing elections.
“We’re asking Representatives Chabot and Turner to take a look at the broader picture,” former Ohio Secretary of State and current SOSforSoS Chairman Ken Blackwell said. “We are not living in 1965 anymore. Blacks are out-voting whites and inorities getting elected to statewide office are no longer groundbreaking news. Participating in an effort that turns Constitutionally-guaranteed powers into playthings for political appointees is dangerous business for all voters, and inconsistent with the principles of federalism.”
“Our goal is to ask Reps. Chabot and Turner if they truly wish to further subject their constituencies to the ever-broadening powers of the federal bureaucracy and its unaccountable political leadership,” True the Vote President Catherine Engelbrecht said. “We have witnessed enormous failures in even the most basic tasks of government recently. Are these members of the Ohio Congressional Delegation willing to potentially turn over their state’s right to run elections to the Department of Justice’s D.C. lawyers?”
The letters seek to further discuss the matters involving the Voting Rights Act Amendment with the congressmen and their respective staff.
The letters, like recently delivered to former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor were submitted by national voters’ rights groups and leaders including True the Vote, VotersTrust, SOSforSoS, Election Law Center, American Civil Rights Union and the Black Conservatives Fund.
Representatives Chabot and Turner’s letters may be viewed online.
http://www.truethevote.org/node/376

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Breitbart: QUESTIONS MOUNT ABOUT EFFORT TO DRIVE DEMOCRAT VOTES FOR COCHRAN

21st of June 2014
Outside the Bolivar County Courthouse, Carter said he is delivering voters for Cochran in the Republican primary runoff but voting for Democrat Travis Childers in the general election in November. Experts argue that voting for a Republican in the runoff but a Democrat in the general election is technically illegal, but the strategy is the linchpin of a desperate bid by Cochran to use Democratic voters to prevail against Tea Party-backed state Senator Chris McDaniel.
In Mississippi, voting is more racially segregated than almost anywhere else. In 2008, for example, 88 percent of white voters cast their ballots for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), while 98 percent of blacks voted for President Obama.
And the racial divide is evident in Carter's remarks. “White folks—and I hate to use that word—but they going to be back down there in the position that blacks was in, in slavery, if they don’t open their eyes and put the hatred out of their minds and go on get something done for the people of this country,” Carter said. “You can’t tie people down.”
Cochran has faced complaints for trying to go around the Republican party to win its primary. But the efforts have also run into a series of allegations about legally questionable tactics being used.
Technically, according to former Department of Justice Civil Rights division attorney J. Christian Adams, it is illegal for Democrats to vote in the GOP primary in Mississippi unless they plan on supporting the Republican candidate in the general election.
Rickey Cole, chairman of the Mississippi Democratic party, has advised his party’s voters against voting in Tuesday’s GOP primary runoff—citing the law that states it is illegal for them to do so in a Friday email to Democrats.
“That is the black letter law,” Cole wrote. “Look it up.”
Jackson-based attorney Mitch Tyner contacted the U.S. Attorney’s office in Jackson to inform them of the issue. Tyner—a supporter of state Sen. Chris McDaniel who actually ran against former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour in 2003’s GOP primary—told Breitbart News the U.S. Attorney’s office has informed him that the FBI has been made aware of these happenings and may be conducting investigative work in Mississippi over the coming days leading up the election.
Cole and others have also said shadowy Democratic operatives working to drive Democrats to the polls for Cochran, like James “Scooby Doo” Warren, are known for using “walking around money” and other tactics to incentivize voters to the polls.
A black conservative political activist even recently posted the “going rates” for black preachers to endorse Cochran from the pulpit, saying he was familiar with how much they were being paid.
Carter, though, denies he's receiving any money for his work to help Cochran.
“I ain’t seen no kind of money around here,” he said when asked if he received any cash from Cochran’s team to help deliver voters to the polls. “I ain’t seen no walking around, no crawling around, no jumping around money.”
The efforts by Cochran allies to reach out to Democratic voters became more pronounced and open after the initial primary election but appear to have begun before it.
Allegations of voting fraud and other problems prompted officials from True The Vote, a national election integrity organization, to come to Mississippi to investigate, and the group is conducting a review of voting patterns and results in the recent primary, the group's president, Catherine Engelbrecht, told Breitbart News.
So far, the review is still in process, but officials are looking for precincts that historically saw little turnout in Republican primaries but large numbers of voters cast ballots in the recent election.
“What we’re trying to determine is what has happened right now in this election cycle that has never happened before and what might the reasons for that be,” Engelbrecht said in a Friday interview on the steps of Panola County Courthouse in Batesville, Mississippi.
“What might those numbers suggest it means for Tuesday? From that, does it appear to be there were efforts to subvert process? Does it break the law?” she said.
In the June 3 primary, McDaniel beat Cochran by only 1,386 votes. Neither candidate reached an absolute majority, given a third party entrant, and the runoff could be similarly close, raising the stakes of the review.
Engelbrecht said she’s found some irregularities in voting patterns already from the June 3 primary results.
The Adams County North Side precinct had zero Republican voters in the 2012 GOP primary election, according to documents posted on the Mississippi Secretary of State's website. In the 2014 GOP primary, however, 68 people voted for Cochran, six for McDaniel, and one for Thomas Carey.
Coahoma County Lyon District saw 95 votes in the 2012 GOP primary, the documents show, but in 2014 Cochran got 202 votes while McDaniel got 63 there. That’s a more than 200 percent increase in GOP turnout there, while the state as a whole only saw about an 8 percent increase in turnout since 2012’s GOP primary.
Meanwhile, Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund, Senate Conservatives Fund, and FreedomWorks have teamed up to send Adams, the former DOJ attorney, to Mississippi to fight for a clean election in the runoff on Tuesday.
Adams has already, on his blog at conservative outlet PJ Media, reported that there are Democrat notaries who engaged in allegedly illicit conduct in previous elections in state working to help Democrats vote for Cochran right now in the state.
“[PJ] Tatler [the name of Adams’ blog] has learned that Democrat notaries who engaged in illegal conduct in previous elections in Mississippi (according to a federal court ruling) are now harvesting absentee ballots for the Republican runoff from African-Americans who have always voted in Democratic Party primaries,” Adams wrote on Thursday, referring to various Democratic Party notaries public are “voting the actual ballots of the voters” for the voters.
“This is the sort of voter fraud that academics and political hacks (but I repeat myself) say is rare and doesn’t really amount to much,” Adams wrote. “Tatler can report that the notaries who have been engaged in voter fraud going back at least a decade are now in the field once again harvesting absentee ballots from African-Americans in the Republican primary who normally never vote in the Republican primary in Mississippi.”
Read the Full Article at the original source: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/06/21/Questions-Mount-About...

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6.9 million multiple voters in 28 states, report finds

By Kenric Ward /
June 25, 2014

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‘IT’S A MESS’: True The Vote executive director Catherine Engelbrecht says “radical special interests” can game the electoral system.

By Kenric Ward | Watchdog.org

RICHMOND, Va. — Some 6.9 million Americans are registered to vote in two or more states, according to a report obtained by Watchdog.org.
“Our nation’s voter rolls are a mess,” says Catherine Engelbrecht, president of the election-watch group True The Vote.
“Sensible approaches to roll maintenance are fought tooth and nail by radical special interests who can use the duplicity in the system to their advantage,” she said.
The latest interstate voter cross check tallied 6,951,484 overlapping voter registrations, and they’re just the tip of the iceberg.
The cross-check program involves only 28 states and does not include the three largest: California, Texas and Florida.
“Duplicate registration is an open invitation to voting fraud,” said Clara Belle Wheeler, a member of the Election Board in Albemarle County, Va. “This ability to vote more than once dilutes the legal votes and changes the results of elections.”
The interstate cross-check program matches first and last names and dates of birth to identify multiple registrations.But the data are not routinely used to purge duplicates.
“Increasingly lax standards in our election process produce increasingly unreliable results,” Engelbrecht asserted.
“The few conversations that are had about how to shore up these weaknesses are immediately seized on by certain politicians and special-interest groups as fuel to further divide American voters based on trumped-up race and class-based narratives,” she said.
Engelbrecht said the “vicious cycle” can be fixed “if citizens wake up, stand up and refuse to settle for a broken system.”
Jay DeLancy, executive director of the Voter Integrity Project of North Carolina, says the solution is as simple as one-two-three.
“First, tie registrations more closely to (each state’s) Department of Motor Vehicles. All voter ID cards would originate there,” he explained.
“As is today, when we get an ID card from DMV, we get registered to vote — but turning in your former state’s ID card should revoke your right to vote in the state that issued it.
“Second, make it a felony to possess a voter ID card — or any other DMV-issued ID card — from more than one state.
“Third, we would only be allowed to vote from the address on that ID card. If a voter shows up with the wrong address, the vote is provisional until the card is corrected,” DeLancy concluded.
He added: “We don’t need a federal ID card to do this. In fact, it wouldn’t require any more feds to be hired.”
States, however, will have to tighten up. And that could be a challenge — both politically and fiscally.
In Virginia, Wheeler noted that the State Board of Elections and Department of Elections “have had their funding reduced greatly by the (Terry) McAuliffe administration.” McAuliffe is a Democrat.
“With reduced funding, they have a grossly limited staff and thus, will be greatly limited in the ability to do the cross checks and reduce voter fraud.”
SBE officials, who provided the cross-check data in response to a Freedom of Information Act filing by the Virginia Voters Alliance, did not respond to Wheeler’s assertion.
Watchdog previously reported Virginia and Maryland have 44,000 duplicate voters between them.
Two national voting-rights groups — the League of Women Voters and America Votes — did not respond to Watchdog’s requests for comment.
http://watchdog.org/156197/multiple-voters-crosscheck/

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Thad Cochran's Tea Party Challenger Announces $1,000 Reward for 'Voter Fraud' Proof

By Abby Ohlheiser4 hours ago

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Thad Cochran's Tea Party Challenger Announces $1,000 Reward for 'Voter Fraud' Proof

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Chris McDaniel, the Mississippi Tea Party hero who lost his runoff election to longtime Republican Senator Thad Cochran in late June, is convinced that the incumbent must have cheated his way into a primary victory. McDaniel, who ran far to the right of Cochran, is now offering $1,000 for anyone who can provide his campaign with evidence of voter fraud. The McDaniel campaign has accused Cochran of buying the votes of black Democrats in the state.

McDaniel's new "Election Integrity Challenge" will pay "for evidence leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in voter fraud on or leading up to the June 24, 2014, Republican primary runoff election in Mississippi," the campaign announced in a fundraising email on Thursday. McDaniel is also fundraising off of the challenging, asking for $15 donations from his supporters — the same amount of money that McDaniel's camp believes Cochran's campaign paid voters to go to the polls. He will pay up to 15 bounties of $1000 for the requested evidence.

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The vote-buying conspiracy theory that McDaniel based his allegations on comes from a blog post from a single conservative blogger, Charles C. Johnson, who paid a pastor in the state to talk on the record about a deal he allegedly had with the Cochran campaign. Rev. Stevie Fielder claimed that the campaign offered to pay him each time he bought the vote of a black resident of Mississippi. However, the Cochran campaign clarified to the Clarion-Journal that it had hired Fielder to do pretty standard get-out-the-vote work. And that the evidence the pastor provided to Johnson detailing Cochran campaign requests for names and addresses were pretty standard record keeping required for FEC filings for campaigns. Plus, there are other ways that Fielder's version of events doesn't hold up.

Cochran's campaign was pretty open about its strategy to recruit non-Republicans, including black Democrats, to help vote for the incumbent in the run-off elections. They had no reason to conceal that strategy: it's perfectly legal in Mississippi for a member of another party to vote in a Republican primary runoff, so long as that voter didn't participate in the first round of voting. But McDaniel has refused to back down from his conviction that Cochran somehow broke the law with this strategy, leading to an increasingly bizarre series of events as his supporters rally behind the Tea Partier.

Yesterday, a Cochran press call to discuss the allegations devolved into an argument when a group of McDaniel supporters crashed the call. One participant asked the Cochran campaign to explain why "If black people were harvesting cotton, why is it OK to harvest their votes?"

http://news.yahoo.com/thad-cochrans-...165958061.html

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True the Vote says records made partially available to the plaintiffs indicated "double-voting" from Democratic to Republican primaries -- potentially diluting votes in violation of the Equal Protection Clause. The McDaniel campaign says it has inspected records in half the counties in the state.
"All we are asking is that the MS State Republican Party follow the law; allow their designated county representatives to inspect the poll books and ballots, give them the review time they are permitted by law, and allow them to uphold their responsibility to MS voters," True the Vote President Catherine Engelbrecht said. "True the Vote has been inundated with reports from voters across Mississippi who are outraged to see the integrity of this election being undermined so that politicos can get back to business as usual. Enough is enough."
Harrison County has allowed volunteers to look at its records and that examination is ongoing. Hancock and Jackson counties have said they will allow their records to be examined after they finish with their work at 5 p.m. Tuesday. Those records could be ready for the volunteers as early as Wednesday.

Read more here: http://www.sunherald.com/2014/07/01/...#storylink=cpy

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McDaniel Campaign Offers $1,000 Rewards For Evidence Of Voter Fraud

AP Photo / Rogelio V. Solis

Daniel Strauss – July 3, 2014, 12:33 PM EDT

Mississippi State Sen. Chris McDaniel's (R) campaign announced Thursday that they are offering 15 rewards of $1,000 each for people who can bring evidence that leads to the arrest and conviction of people involved in voter fraud in the Mississippi Republican runoff for U.S. Senate between McDaniel and Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), who won the runoff.

McDaniel's Senate campaign announced the reward in an email as part of his newly launched "Election Integrity Challenge and Voter Fraud Reward."
"The Challenge is aimed at funding fifteen $1,000 rewards which will be paid to individuals who provide evidence leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in voter fraud on or leading up to the June 24, 2014, Republican primary runoff election in Mississippi," the announcement on Thursday said.
The reward comes as McDaniel's campaign says it has found more evidence of rampant misconduct and voter fraud in the runoff election.
McDaniel and his supporters argue that the state senator is actually the rightful winner of the Republican primary and Cochran only won through foul play, partially by recruiting African-Americans and Democrats to vote for the incumbent senator.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewir...d-thad-cochran