Voter Fraud in the US: Documented: Part 1

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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
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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 60^th 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)

August 14, 2013: Voter Fraud in FL, MD, NY, and RI

The organization [True the Vote] has identified 173 cases of alleged interstate voter fraud, or double voting, in Florida and Maryland, the group announced Monday.

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 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 current—and 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, 1997: 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 toldCBSNews.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 theAssociation 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

This page shows 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
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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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February 4, 2012: Voter Fraud in Indiana

The top elections official in Indiana was convicted of multiple charges in a voter fraud case on Saturday, bringing uncertainty to one of the state’s most powerful offices. A Hamilton County jury found Charlie White, the Indiana secretary of state, guilty of six of seven felony charges: two counts of perjury and one each of false registration, voting in another precinct, submitting a false ballot and theft. He was acquitted of one fraud charge. (Source)

February 6, 2012: Voter Fraud in Alabama

The district attorney for Sumter County [Alabama] is preparing to look into claims of voter fraud. The concerns were raised by Sumter County's circuit clerk regarding possible fraud in absentee voting. Prior to the concerns being made public last week, District Attorney Greg Griggers said the circuit clerk had notified him about a possible problem with voter fraud. Griggers says his office is preparing to conduct an in-depth investigation. (Source)

February 7, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Washington State

A 35-year-old Glenoma [Washington] woman who emigrated to the United States from Ghana, Africa, is accused of voter fraud in Lewis County Superior Court. Marda Aglubi-Blomstrom is expected on Feb. 16 to enter a plea to one count of providing false information on an application for voter registration. (Source)

February 14, 2012: Voter Fraud in Texas

The voter fraud trial of former Dallas County [Texas] Justice of the Peace Carlos Medrano began this morning in Rockwall County – the first of three trials set against the politically powerful clan based on allegations of illegal voting and perjury. Carlos Medrano is facing trial along with his brother Frank Medrano III in a case that revolves around the votes of two young women, the daughters of Frank Medrano III....

The case revolves around allegations that two college-age women, Raquel Medrano and her sister, Veronica Medrano, illegally cast ballots in the March 2010 Democratic primary. The two lived in Mesquite but transferred their voter registration to a home on Douglas Street in Dallas, the Medrano family’s traditional power base, so they could vote for their uncle, prosecutors allege. (Source)

February 15, 2012: Voter Fraud in Massachusetts

A former candidate for Marlborough City [Massachusetts] Council was arraigned today on voter fraud charges for allegedly handing in an absentee ballot application at City Hall for a man who had died earlier in the year, Middlesex County prosecutors said today. Mark Evangelous, 51, of Marlborough faces charges of forgery, uttering, and violating absentee voting laws, District Attorney Gerard T. Leone Jr.’s office said.

Prosecutors said that on Oct. 28 at about 9:45 a.m. Evangelous handed in a handwritten absentee ballot application that was filled out with the name of an 89-year-old city resident. The resident’s signature appeared at the bottom of the application; an area designated for indicating that the person needed assistance in filling out the form was left blank. A City Hall worker found that the resident on the application was not registered to vote and had passed away earlier in the year, prosecutors said. Marlborough police investigated. The defendant was indicted on Jan. 31. (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

February 17, 2012: Voter Fraud and Voter-Registration fraud in North Carolina

The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) has charged one person with voter fraud in Candor in Montgomery County and charges against other voters may be coming. Erik Ray Jackson, 24, a previous candidate for Candor police chief, was charged on Friday with fraudulent voter registration and fraudulent voting in the 2011 municipal election. The warrant states that Jackson registered to vote in Montgomery County on Oct. 4, 2011, and used the address of 305 N. Tomlinson St., Candor, the same address as Wayne Holyfield, a state trooper who was elected to the Candor Board of Commissioners last November and has been embroiled in a controversy over firing four of the five officers on the town police force.

According to the warrant, Jackson lived at 131 Young Drive, Lexington, at the time of the election and had lived there since Sept. 16, 2011. The warrant also says that Jackson voted in the Candor municipal election on Nov. 8, 2011, and was not a resident of Candor for at least 30 days preceding the election as required by law. (Source) and (Source)

February 27, 2012: Voter Fraud in Texas

Carlos Medrano was sentenced to 180 days in county jail, five years probation, and assessed a $2,500 fine. He will remain free pending the outcome of an appeal of the case after posting a $10,000 bond.

Judge Richard Mays has found former Dallas County [Texas] Justice of the Peace Carlos Medrano guilty of a felony charge that he illegally solicited the vote of his niece Veronica Medrano. He was found not guilty of wrongly soliciting the vote of his niece Raquel Medrano.

His brother, Frank Medrano, was found not guilty on two counts of perjury before a grand jury. The charges regarded statements he made about his daughters’ residence when they voted for their uncle, Carlos Medrano, in the March 2010 Democratic primary. (Source) and (Source)

February 28, 2012: Voter Fraud in Illinois

There's an old saying that we vote early and often in Chicago [Illinois]. But in Elmwood Park, there’s a new twist. People are coming back to vote long after they've moved away.

FOX Chicago News and the Better Government Association were able to identify Frank Cupello in person because he put his picture on his real estate website, talking about how much his family enjoys living in Lake County. Cupello also owns a giant home in affluent Kildeer, Ill.

But how can a guy who has lived in Lake County for nearly two decades can get away with voting, year after year, in west suburban Elmwood Park – 26 miles from his Kildeer home. Frank Cupello's parents, who live at the Elmwood Park address he's been voting from, didn't want to talk about it either. (Source) and (Source)

February 29, 2012: Voter Fraud in West Virginia

James A. Matheny, 61, of Midkiff [West Virginia] was arrested on charges of Assaulting a Federal Officer with a deadly weapon. The arrest was made late on Tuesday afternoon by FBI Special Agents from the Huntington and Charleston Resident Agencies, along with West Virginia State Police Troopers from the Hamlin Detachment.

The criminal complaint filed in connection with this case alleges that an FBI Special Agent and an investigator assisting that Agent attempted to interview Matheny in connection with the investigation of voter fraud relating to the 2010 Primary Election in Lincoln County. Matheny allegedly brandished a handgun and threatened to kill the Agent and the investigator. (Source)

March 1, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in New Mexico

A Republican voter in New Mexico is under criminal investigation for signing up his dog as a Democrat in a bid to highlight what he considers deficiencies in the state’s registration process. The probe, opened this afternoon by the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office, is targeting Thomas Tolbert, an Albuquerque man who appeared last night on a local TV news station discussing how he had used a phony Social Security number and date of birth to enroll Buddy, his three-year-old Labrador. The canine’s voter registration card–in the name "Buddy W. Tolbert"–arrived in the mail yesterday.

Tolbert, who was not named in the broadcast report, complained that election officials did nothing to confirm the validity of the registration, adding that he had no intention of voting in his pet’s name. He claimed that he was spurred to action after recently strolling across the University of New Mexico campus, where he passed individuals offering to “get voters registered.” According to the TV report, the man “decided he would see how easy it is to register with bogus information.” (Source)

March 4, 2012: Voter Fraud in New Mexico

The director of Sunland Park’s [New Mexico] senior center was arrested today on felony charges alleging she influenced two El Paso residents to illegally vote for Daniel Salinas in the March 6 mayoral election. Silvia Gomez, who is also a former Sunland Park City Councilor, faces two charges of false voting and two charges of conspiracy to commit false voting. Each is a fourth-degree felony, and she faces a maximum of six years in prison if convicted on all charges. She’s being held at the Doña Ana County Detention Center on a $50,000 surety bond. (Source) and (Source)

March 6, 2012: Voter Fraud in North Carolina

As Statesville City [North Carolina] Councilman Flake Huggins faces indictments against him, his colleagues on the council remain supportive. Huggins was indicted by a grand jury on Monday charges stemming from a voter fraud investigation.

“I think he’s innocent until proven guilty,” said Councilman Michael Johnson. “It’s a matter for the courts but (the indictments) will not impair my ability to work with Flake. I personally like Flake and I think this is a very unfortunate situation. I don’t think Flake has a malicious bone in his body and my hope is that he will be exonerated.”

Huggins, who represents Ward 6 on the council, is being charged with one count of common law aiding and abetting and one count of obstruction of justice, which are Class I and Class H felonies respectively. The charges are related to Huggins’ alleged knowledge of votes illegally cast by family members in the November run-off between Huggins and challenger J.D. Williams. Those family members – sister Rhonda Williams, brother-in-law Willie Williams Jr. and nephew Christopher Williams – were indicted for one count each of illegally voting. Christopher Williams was also faces an obstruction of justice charge. All of these charges are also felonies. (Source)

March 6, 2012: Voter Fraud and Voter-Registration Fraud in New Mexico

A former Sunland Park [New Mexico] City Councilor and a current city employee were charged today in the alleged voter-fraud scheme that has rocked the town. Priscilla Morales, the public works director’s secretary, and former Councilor Angelica Marquez each face fourth-degree felony charges of false voting and conspiracy to commit false voting. Morales was arrested outside city hall at about 6 p.m., an hour before the polls close in today’s municipal election.

District Attorney Amy Orlando confirmed the charges against the two women, which stem from allegations identified as part of Secretary of State Dianna Duran’s investigation conducted last week. According to Duran’s report, Marquez registered four people to vote at her own residence, including Morales, and another four at a residence next door.

None of those eight are Sunland Park residents eligible to vote in the election, Duran’s report states, yet some of them have voted. That includes Morales, an El Paso resident who is registered to vote in Texas but voted in Sunland Park on Feb. 17, Duran’s report alleges. (Source) and (Source)

March 6, 2012: Vote-Buying in Kentucky

Four Tompkinsville [Kentucky] residents were sentenced in U.S. District Court by Chief United States District Judge Joseph H. McKinley, Jr. on Friday, March 1, after pleading guilty to charges of conspiring to buy votes in the 2006 General Election in Monroe County.

Martha J. Hughes, age 49, Corey Page, age 31, and Michael Page, age 52, were each sentenced to two years probation and six months home detention. In addition, Corey Page and Michael Page were each ordered to pay a $2,000 fine. Todd Newport, age 29, was sentenced to two years probation, two months home incarceration, and ordered to pay a $500 fine.

According to the federal grand jury indictment, beginning in October, 2006, and continuing to the date of the general election on November 7, 2006, Tony Gumm, Martha J. Hughes, Jeffrey Todd Newport, William H. Proffitt, Corey Page, and Michael Page, conspired to pay voters to cast walk-in absentee ballots. The object of the conspiracy was to secure the election for Gumm and other candidates. At the time, Gumm was a write-in candidate for Monroe County Magistrate.

All six defendants have admitted to participating in this scheme in which voters were instructed to lie about their intended whereabouts on election day, and to falsely state they were blind, disabled or unable to read English and thus in need of assistance to vote. Members of the conspiracy would then accompany the voters into the booth to cast the voters’ ballot. The indictment specifies 17 voters who were paid $25 to $80 dollars for voting in the election. (Source)

March 7, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Alabama

Federal authorities prosecuted Venustiano Hernandez-Hernandez for Social Security fraud and theft of government funds related to his life under an assumed name in Baldwin County [Alabama], but they may have been able to add voter fraud, as well. Records from the Baldwin County Board of Registrars show that Hernandez-Hernandez is registered to vote under the name of Severo Benavidez, the name he used for almost 4 decades after slipping into the United States from his native Mexico in the 1970s.

The Perdido Beach resident pleaded guilty earlier today to federal fraud charges as part of a deal in which aggravated identity theft will be dropped. He also faces possible deportation. It is unclear whether federal prosecutors might pursue criminal charges against Hernandez-Hernandez related to voter fraud. (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

March 15, 2012: Voter Fraud in Texas

More than a year since a state district judge ruled 10 Montgomery County [Texas] residents voted fraudulently in a Woodlands election, a grand jury last week indicted seven of those individuals for illegal voting. The indictments stem from the May 8, 2010, election of The Woodlands Road Utility District No. 1. Ten individuals listed their voter registration address as that of a hotel in order to take control of the RUD board. Former Montgomery County Judge candidate Adrian Heath heads the list of people charged with the third-degree felony. Heath declined comment, saying he was looking into hiring an attorney. (Source)

March 22, 2012: Election Fraud in Wisconsin

Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced today that Michael Henderson, of Milwaukee [Wisconsin], was convicted of election fraud arising out of the 2008 general Presidential election. Henderson was convicted of Election Fraud – Providing False Information to Election Official, a Class I felony. An additional count of Voting By Disqualified Person was dismissed against Henderson but read-in for the purposes of sentencing. At sentencing, Henderson was ordered to serve 30 days in jail. He faced a maximum potential penalty of three and a half years imprisonment and a $10,000 fine. (Source)

March 24, 2012: Voter Fraud in Ohio and South Carolina

Ohio's top elections official has referred a case of potential voter fraud to the state's attorney general for investigation. Republican Jon Husted said Friday that an initial review by the Fulton County Board of Elections revealed that an individual appeared to have voted in both northwest Ohio and South Carolina in the 2008 and 2010 general elections. Husted asked Attorney General Mike DeWine to investigate. The county board told Husted the individual has been registered there since 2006. A person with the same name and personal information has also been a registered and active voter in South Carolina since 2002. (Source)

March 29, 2012: Voter Petition Fraud in New Mexico

The battle for a Bernalillo County [New Mexico] state Senate seat heated up on Thursday as Action 7 News learned of claims of voter fraud leveled against one of the candidate's campaigns. The campaign of District 26 candidate Jacob Candelaria submitted more than 150 signatures to get on the ballot.

But when Action 7 News showed up at a number of the listed addresses Thursday afternoon, some folks say they never signed the petition and that their signature was forged. At one household, a man found his name on the petition twice with two different style signatures and also found his wife's signature. (Source)

April 3, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Virginia

A Richmond [Virginia] grand jury on Monday indicted 10 convicted felons on charges of election fraud for allegedly lying on voter registration forms during the 2008 presidential election campaign. The grand jury indicted five men and five women on one count each of making a material false statement on a voter registration form, a felony. Commonwealth's Attorney Michael N. Herring said the charges stem from a statewide investigation by the Virginia State Police into allegations of fraud in 2008. Herring said each of those indicted spoke with a solicitor who was trying to get people to register to vote. In most cases, the person told the solicitor that he or she was a felon, and some of those indicted told a solicitor they therefore could not vote.

Herring said the solicitors told each person they could vote, which wasn't true. In some cases, Herring said, a solicitor told the felon that new legislation had restored the felon's right to vote or that if he or she was going through a process to have voting rights restored, he or she could vote. Each of the felons indicated on a form that he or she was not a convicted felon, Herring said. (Source) and (Source)

April 3, 2012: Forging of Presidential Primary Petitions in Indiana

Felony charges related to election fraud have touched the 2008 race for the highest office in the land. Prosecutors in South Bend, Indiana, filed charges Monday against four St. Joseph County Democratic officials and deputies as part of a multiple-felony case involving the alleged forging of Democratic presidential primary petitions in the 2008 election, which put then-candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the Indiana ballot.

The officials are accused of taking part in a scheme to fake signatures and names on the primary petitions needed to run for president. Court papers say the plan was hatched by local Democratic Party officials inside the local party headquarters.

Among those charged is the former long-time chairman of the St. Joseph County Democratic Party, Butch Morgan, who allegedly ordered the forgeries. He was forced to resign when the allegations were first made public last October, even though his lawyer, Shaw Friedman, told Fox News at the time that Morgan did not do anything wrong.

The St. Joseph County Board of Voter Registration's Democratic board member, Pam Brunette, Board of Voter Registration worker Beverly Shelton and Democratic volunteer and former board worker Dustin Blythe also face charges. According to affidavits, St. Joseph County Voter Registration Office worker Lucas Burkett told investigators that he was part of the plan that started in January 2008 "to forge signatures on presidential candidate petitions instead of collecting actual signatures from citizens." (Source)

April 5, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Virginia

In a case that illustrates the need for stricter laws to clean up the election process, nearly a dozen convicted felons have been charged with voter fraud for lying on registration forms during the 2008 presidential campaign.

The crimes took place in Virginia, where ironically Democratic lawmakers opposing a voter ID law recently contended there was no evidence of election fraud in their state. Like their party’s national leaders and other assorted liberals, Virginia Dems claim such measures discriminate against minorities. (Source)

April 10, 2012: Voter Fraud in California

The first competitive election in Vernon [California] in years was thrown into chaos late Tuesday amid accusations of voter fraud before officials could begin counting the ballots.

A city canvassing board was set to tally the 53 ballots cast in the election at 8 p.m. when an attorney representing the Chamber of Commerce said he wanted to present evidence that seven voters didn't live in the city.

The board decided to hold a hearing on the allegations before the counting of the ballots for one City Council seat. Shortly after 10:30 p.m., challenger Michael Ybarra claimed a narrow victory, with 24 votes to incumbent Daniel Newmire's 19. But that result was likely to be challenged because eight ballots were disallowed and two others weren't counted.

In one of the disallowed ballots, the chamber alleged voter Gary Sabara Jr. actually lived in Buena Park. Frederic Woocher, the chamber's attorney, presented evidence gathered by a private investigator, including Sabara's Facebook page and an Orange County Register article that listed him as a resident of Buena Park.

Sabara, who was at the meeting awaiting the vote count, told the board he did not have a permanent residence and that he lives at several locations. "I come and go" at a house of a friend in Vernon, Sabara said. "Not having a whole lot of money, it's a gas situation." (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

April 23, 2012: Voter Fraud in Indiana

Four Democrat Party officials in South Bend, Indiana were indicted on April 2nd for allegedly forging voter petitions during the 2008 Democrat presidential primary to get Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and James Edwards on the state ballot.

Prosecutors allege the former long-time chairman of the St. Joseph County Democratic Party, Butch Morgan, hatched up and ordered the scheme.

During the Democrat Primary in January 2008, Morgan instructed St. Joseph County Voter Registration Office worker Lucas Burkett and three others how to forge the petitions using older documents. Burkett, along with St. Joseph County Board of Voter Registration’s Democratic board member, Pam Brunette, Board of Voter Registration worker Beverly Shelton, and Democratic volunteer and former board worker Dustin Blythe, were each assigned a candidate to forge signatures for.

Burkett, who blew the whistle on the operation, says he had “personally forged several such signatures.”

When Edwards dropped out of the race at the end of January 2008 and Burkett refused to continue the forgeries, Morgan allegedly ordered Blythe to then forge petitions for Barack Obama. Several voters, including Indiana’s former Democratic Gov. Joe Kernan, told Fox News their names and signatures that appeared on the petitions were not theirs. (Source) and (Source)

April 26, 2012: Voter Fraud in Wisconsin

The Milwaukee County [Wisconsin] district attorney's office is investigating claims that three men broke the law last year when they registered and voted in the county. Voter registration applications from three men who listed the Glendale Residence Inn as their address is what sparked this investigation.

Search warrants obtained by TODAY'S TMJ4 shows the Milwaukee County district attorney's office is requesting paycheck stubs and bank statements from their home states to determine if they were and are legal Wisconsin residents. The three including Austin Thompson, who was arrested last year during an occupy protest, are accused of voter fraud by registering and voting even though they lived in a hotel. (Source) and (Source)

May 2, 2012: Voter Fraud in Texas

Just this week in Fort Worth, Texas, a Democratic precinct chairwoman was indicted on charges of arranging an illegal vote. Hazel Woodard James has been charged with conspiring with her non-registered son to have him vote in place of his father. The only reason the crime was detected was that the father showed up later in the day to vote at the same precinct.

[Artur Davis, who was a Democratic Congressman from Alabama] told me that the voter suppression he most observed in his 68 percent African-American district was rampant fraud in counties with powerful political machines. To keep themselves in power, these machines would frequently steal the votes of members of minority groups. “I know it exists, I’ve had the chance to steal votes in my favor offered to me, and the people it hurts the most are the poor and those without power,” (Source) and (Source)

May 2, 2012: Election Fraud in indiana

Prosecutors have charged that the Mayor of a small southern Indiana city tampered with absentee ballots during last year's primary campaign. Austin Mayor Douglas Campbell and a city employee surrendered Tuesday to face the felony voter fraud and conspiracy charges. They are charged with illegally taking absentee ballots from voters and that in one instance Campbell filled out a woman's incomplete ballot. Under state law, absentee ballots not mailed in can only be handled by election board workers. Campbell is a Democrat first elected Mayor in 2007. (Source) and (Source)

May 3, 2012: Voter Fraud in California

Moving swiftly after a judge dismissed its case, the district attorney's office refiled 24 perjury and voter-fraud charges late Thursday afternoon against Councilman Richard Alarcon and his wife, Flora Montes De Oca Alarcon.

The new charges make the same allegations as a case thrown out by Superior Court Judge Kathleen Kennedy on Thursday morning, accusing the Alarcons of lying about living in a house in Panorama City [California] so that the councilman could run for his 7th District office.

Thursday's charges mirror the earlier indictment against Richard Alarcon, including two felony counts of filing false candidacy papers in 2006 and 2008, seven counts of voter fraud and nine counts of perjury. Montes de Oca Alarcon is again charged with three counts of perjury and three counts of voter fraud. (Source)

May 17, 2012: Voter Fraud and Voter-Registration Fraud in New Mexico

There is perhaps no other city in the country like Sunland Park, New Mexico The dusty border town minutes from El Paso, Texas, has been called "a city in chaos" by the state auditor, because a slew of public officials are facing felony charges that they ran City Hall like a personal piggy bank, tried to steal an election in order to remain in power and ruled the 14,000 residents through intimidation and fear.

The state is now moving to take over financial oversight of the city, as the council scrambles to try and name a new mayor. The explosive case even involves Mexican prostitutes, strippers and an undercover video of a mayoral candidate getting a lap dance from a topless woman. The video allegedly was used to try to force him to drop out of the race. Authorities say the extortion investigation has revealed widespread voter fraud and public corruption in the small city just south of the Rio Grande.

"It started with extortion charges, and from that it then led us to the voter fraud cases," says Dona Ana Third Judicial District Attorney Amy Orlando, who is prosecuting the growing case. So far, her office has charged 12 people, many public officials and city employees, including 28-year-old Mayor-elect Daniel Salinas, who faces dozens of charges in four separate cases. He was barred from taking office, and the city has been without a Mayor since the election on March 6. Isabel Santos is serving as Mayor pro tem in the meantime.

The criminal charges against all the defendants range from voter fraud to bribery to extortion to conspiracy to kickbacks to blackmail. "The whole common scheme was to get Mr. Salinas elected," Orlando told Fox News. "It was all done to further Daniel Salinas and the other people who wanted to stay in control of all the money, all the resources, which just hurts all of the citizens of Sunland Park.”

Among the allegations are charges that city workers registered people who didn't even live in New Mexico and convinced them to vote for Salinas during early voting. In addition, absentee ballot applications were allegedly intercepted before reaching the City Clerk, so that Salinas’ opponents could not hand them out to their supporters. (Source)

May 23, 2012: Voter Fraud in Texas

Dozens of people packed into the Lorenzo [Texas] Community Center Monday night for the city's council meeting. The near-record turnout of about 50 people prompted city leaders to move the meeting to the Community Center because it had more space. But the crowd didn't come to watch the Mayor and new council members get sworn in for a new term. Instead, they were on hand to voice their concerns over irregularities in the recent election.

"I'm frustrated because I feel like the outcome could have been altered due to a lot of possible mistakes," Joanna Harvey said. Harvey ran for Mayor against Lester Bounds, who's been in office for nearly two decades. She was among the people at Monday night's council meeting questioning the outcome of the election. The race was close, Harvey received 96 votes, just eight[sic] votes less than Bounds' 103 votes. She's not unhappy about losing, but she does question the vote count. A KAMC investigation shows Harvey has reason to question her election.

We obtained a copy of the official list of voters filed with the Texas Secretary of State's Office by officials in Crosby County. That list says 187 people voted in the recent election. We also go a copy of the tally sheet used by election officials to count the votes. It lists 199 total votes for mayor. That tally sheet was canvassed and certified by the City Council on Monday night.

When Mayor Bounds was asked where the extra twelve votes come from, he said he didn't know. "We elect our judges and elect them to serve and that's all we can do as a council," Bounds said.

But the election judge hired by the City Council made notes of her own that make some question the election's outcome. One the side of the election sign-in sheet, the judge noted that twelve people voted twice in the election for Mayor. Despite that notation, the City Council certified the results as listed on the tally sheets. Other residents we spoke two said they experienced other irregularities at the voting booth, too.

Rowland and Jane King said two of their neighbors were given ballots for council races where they weren't eligible to vote. When they went to City Hall to question the validity of that, nobody could give them an answer. "My husband went down to city hall to find out why we couldn't vote and he couldn't get an answer," Jane King explained. "They told him to ask this one and this one didn't know and told us to ask that one and they said 'well, there's nothing you can do about it now, the election's over and the counts are in,'."

Joanna Harvey, who narrowly lost in her bid for Mayor, said other people called her wondering why they were being forbidden from voting in black or blue ink. According to the Texas Secretary of State's Office, it is illegal to require voters to use a pencil to vote. (Source)

May 23, 2012: Voter Fraud in Idaho

Election officials in north Idaho are investigating an incident of possible voter fraud.

This morning's Coeur d'Alene Press reports that "no mistakes were egregious enough to affect the winners of each race," but polling station errors were discovered in Kootenai County's primary election results. Five precincts indicated discrepancies between the number of poll workers' ballot stubs and totals by optical scan equipment.

According to the Press, "one incident of voter fraud appears to have occurred at Precinct 39 [in Kootenai County], where a poll worker accidentally allowed a voter to vote a second time on Election Day, after already casting an absentee ballot."

Other errors included:

-Voters issued ballots in spite of missing information on their registration cards.
-A ballot from a precinct committeeman was discovered in a supply box, six days after the election
-Poll workers not following instructions they had received in training. (Source) and (Source)

May 30, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Wisconsin

Documents provided to the MacIver News Service by the New Berlin [Wisconsin] City Clerk in response to an open records request confirm that Peter Koremenos, a resident of the Linden Grove nursing home put his initials on a voter registration application and an application for permanent absentee ballot status in 2010. Records indicate that to date he has only voted absentee in the high profile November 2010 general and May 8 Recall primary elections, however. Absentee ballots sent to him for the April 2011 spring election and the April 2012 presidential preference primary and spring election were not returned.

Records show 15 individual Linden Grove residents requested permanent absentee voter status within a week of Mr. Koremenos, many on the same day in October of 2010. Presently, there are 13 registered voters, including Peter Koremenos listed as living at 13755 W Fieldpointe Drive in New Berlin, the address for Linden Grove

"In 1998, a former Democratic Congressman from Pennsylvania, Ausitn Mruphy[Austin Murphy], was convicted of absentee ballot fraud in a nursing home, where residents' failing mental capacities make them an easy mark.” (Source)

June 4, 2012: Voter Fraud in New Mexico

Alcohol and voting do not mix, but that didn’t stop campaign workers in Rio Arriba [New Mexico] from offering people miniature bottles of whiskey while giving them rides to an early voting center. On the first day of early voting, 4 On Your Sidewatched some campaign workers and voters taking what looked like small bottles of alcohol from a cooler in the back of a truck used to shuttle voters to the polls.

To get closer, 4OYS reporter Gadi Schwartz and producer Peter St. Cyr disguised themselves as homeless people and spent two days walking up and down the streets, standing on corners, and even hanging out at an empty lot known to attract drug addicts and transients.

Eventually, a black Tahoe slowly approached St. Cyr. County employee Elias Fresquez, who is on leave from his job at a senior facility in Chimayo, offered him a ride to go early vote. St. Cyr climbed in the Tahoe and turned on a hidden camera built into a key chain remote.

Inside, St. Cyr was told he should vote for County Commissioner Alfredo Montoya who is running for State Senate against incumbent Sen. Richard Martinez. St. Cyr was also told to vote for Elias Coriz, candidate for Rio Arriba county treasurer, and incumbent County Clerk Moises Morales.

With the hidden camera rolling, St. Cyr asked for something to drink. “Do you guys having anything to drink or anything like that,” St. Cyr asked Fresquez. “Like Whiskey,” Fresquez responded. “Yeah,” St. Cyr said. “Give him a shot of Admiral,” Fresquez said to a man sitting in the back of the truck.

On the way to the polls, Fresquez, who has been arrested for DWI and is not licensed to drive, spotted a State Police car and pulled the SUV over. (Source)

June 11, 2012: Voter Fraud in Pennsylvania

The Monroe County [Pennsylvania] district attorney's office charged the embattled former Middle Smithfield Township golf course director with several counts of voter fraud Monday. Robyn Pugh was charged with perjury, false swearing in official matters and unlawful voting. She could receive up to 10 years in prison and fines of $20,000. The DA alleged that Pugh registered to vote in Middle Smithfield Township and voted there four times when she was actually living in Stroud Township. (Source)

June 14, 2012: Voter Fraud in Wisconsin

The Racine County [Wisconsin] sheriff's department is trying to find out how election related documents ended up in a dumpster. The sheriff's department confirms they are investigating possible voting irregularities at the Cesar Chavez Community Center. They told TODAY'S TMJ4 they are looking into whether voter registration documents were tossed into a dumpster on Election Day.

The votes are tallied, and John Lehman won Senate District 21 by more than 800 votes, but this race is far from over. While Van Wanggaard has remained silent since election night, his campaign spokesperson says they are considering a recount because of rumored voter fraud. (Source)

June 19, 2012: Ballot Fraud in Arkansas

Prosecuting Attorney Scott Ellington has asked a state police investigator to look into suspected absentee ballot fraud in one Region 8 county [in Arkansas]. In a letter released by Scott Ellington's office, Ellington said although he has not yet received a file from the Mississippi County election commission, he wants the state police to look into the matter. Ellington said because he was a candidate on the ballot, he will ask the Arkansas Prosecutor Coordinator to appoint a special prosecutor. (Source)

June 20, 2012: Voter Fraud in New York

The commissioner of the state Department of Education is investigating election fraud accusations at the Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk [New York] School District. Superintendent Elisabeth Smith confirmed the investigation at Tuesday night's school board meeting after a resident brought up concerns with the district's May budget vote.

The vote approved a budget that raised taxes by 6.8 percent, but did not require a supermajority because of the expiration of a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement with the Selkirk Cogen natural gas plant.

John Allen said he brought up concerns because he saw more than one person vote more than once at the May 15 election, saw students wearing "Vote Yes" T-shirts in the polling place and said the voting procedures were disorganized. (Source)

June 22, 2012: Suspicions of Voter Fraud in California

The federal investigation also appears to be looking at whether elections in Cudahy [California] were tainted by fraud. Two FBI agents served a grand jury subpoena to the City Clerk Wednesday asking for documents relating to the March 2007 and March 2009 City Council elections, including ballots and documents pertaining to absentee votes. (Source)

June 22, 2012: Voter Fraud in Wisconsin

In March, Dan Shansky left Wisconsin for California to take a job with a union there, but that didn’t stop him from casting a ballot in the June 5th recall election. The community organizer, who lists the Milwaukee-based Community Action Now as a recent employer, was heavily involved over the past year and a half in the protest and recall movement in Wisconsin. Shansky’s Facebook comments announcing his new job and the move to California in March were greeted with congratulations by various liberal organizers employed by many of Wisconsin’s most high profile left-wing groups.

Wisconsin state law requires that before a person cast their ballot in a Wisconsin election they be a resident of the state. Specifically, residence is defined as the place “where the person’s habitation is fixed, without any present intent to move, and to which, when absent, the person intends to return.” [Wis. Stat. 6.10(1)]

Shansky’s move to California in March, nearly two months before the election, and acceptance of a job out there would almost certainly mean that he does not qualify as a Wisconsin elector and should not have cast a ballot. He no longer lives in the state and he does not appear regard his move as a mere temporary absence from Wisconsin. (Source) and (Source)

June 25, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Virginia

A grand jury handed down an indictment against Feda Kidd Morton Monday morning in Fluvanna County [Virginia] Circuit Court, formally accusing her of making a false statement on a voter registration form, Commonwealth’s Attorney Jeffery W. Haislip confirmed.

Morton, a biology teacher at Fluvanna High School, was arrested in March after a special prosecutor, Greene County Commonwealth’s Attorney Ronald Morris, requested the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s Appomattox field office look into an allegation of election fraud in Fluvanna, VSP spokeswoman Corrine Geller said in a previous interview.

Morton, 59, of Scottsville, is accused of falsifying a petition of qualified voters form, which is used to collect signatures from registered voters in order to get a candidate on the ballot in an election.

The form requires circulators personally witness signatures added by voters to the petition. A circulator must also sign an affidavit on the form swearing that each signature was personally witnessed. Several witnesses testified and said Morton was not present when they signed the form. (Source)

June 26, 2012: Voter Fraud in Ohio

Robert Gilchrist, former director of the Lorain County [Ohio] Community Action Agency and Lorain city official, was secretly indicted on four counts of illegal voting. The charges stem from a complaint the Lorain County Board of Elections received about Gilchrist voting in the wrong Lorain city ward in the November 2009, May 2010, November 2010 and May 2011 elections. Gilchrist, 42, was booked into the Lorain County Jail yesterday morning, but was released on a personal bond of $10,000, Lorain County Prosecutor Dennis Will said. (Source)

July 2, 2012: Voter-Registration Problems in New York

Representative Charles B. Rangel, for decades the unchallenged political titan of northern Manhattan [New York], is suddenly besieged. A week ago, he was celebrating his victory in a five-way Democratic primary in which he sought the nomination for a 22nd term in Congress. But now that victory — particularly significant because it came after Mr. Rangel was censured by his colleagues for ethical violations — is being overshadowed as his margin of victory has been revised downward and his main challenger questioned whether he had won at all.

On Monday, acknowledging the increasingly contested results of the election, the Congressman, 82, e-mailed his supporters, asking them to send him money to help him defend his victory in court. At the same time, the second-place finisher, State Senator Adriano Espaillat, for the first time publicly questioned the results, calling it a “phantom election.”

“We cannot have a Florida type of situation in New York State,” Mr. Espaillat said, referring to the much-disputed results of the 2000 presidential balloting in Florida. He spoke to reporters before visiting a senior center in Washington Heights, a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood where, he said, many voters were turned away last Tuesday by poll workers who said there was no record that they were on the voter rolls.

“I have received hundreds of complaints of voter suppression and voters’ being turned away,” Mr. Espaillat said. “We will go to court, and we will go to the final round. I am going to fight to ensure that every single vote is counted.” Some Espaillat supporters have gone even further in their assertions. His chief of staff, Aneiry Batista, vented on Facebook over the weekend, complaining about voters “turned away at their poll sites without explanation, poll watchers requesting ID to vote, B.O.E. officials hiding results,” referring to the New York City Board of Elections.

A national advocacy organization, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, called on Monday for the Justice Department to investigate the board’s handling of the race, saying it had received reports of Spanish-speaking voters’ being unable to receive Spanish-language assistance at polling sites and being either turned away or forced to vote by affidavit ballots. The group also said there were reports that longtime bilingual polling workers at sites in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx had been reassigned at the last minute, leaving a shortage of such workers in those areas.

Political consultants generally believe that Mr. Rangel’s victory in the 13th Congressional District is unlikely to be overturned. He is ahead by 802 votes, with about 2,000 absentee and affidavit ballots still uncounted, and there were five candidates in the race. (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

July 4, 2012: Voter Fraud in California

When Luis Garcia and Daniel Cota decided to run for City Council in the small Southeast L.A. County town of Cudahy [California] in 2007, bad things started happening. Men followed them around town, they said. Their cars were vandalized with buckets of paint. Rocks and bricks were launched at Garcia’s window. It was the first contested council race in nearly a decade, and they lost by a few dozen votes.

In 2009, Garcia and Cota decided to run again — and things got worse. Late one night, a surveillance camera on Garcia’s home captured a car stopping nearby. A man crouched behind Garcia’s pickup and hurled a Molotov cocktail at the house. A pulsing white sheet of flame blinded the camera. The firebomb had bounced off a window frame and gutted the front of Garcia’s truck. “If it had gone through the window into my house, it would have burned with my kids and wife inside,” Garcia said.

Those two elections are now part of an FBI investigation into allegations of corruption at Cudahy City Hall. Three city officials — including Councilman Osvaldo Conde and Mayor David Silva — were arrested June 22 on charges of taking bribes from the owner of a medical marijuana dispensary seeking to open in the city.

The FBI, which has subpoenaed documents from the Cudahy City Clerk, declined to reveal specifics about the election fraud probe. But transcripts of wiretaps allegedly show that local officials believed they could control the outcome of elections.

In one conversation, officials talked about how a former city manager had handpicked council members whom he could “manipulate.”

In another, Angel Perales — the code enforcement director and the third official arrested last month — appeared to brag about engineering the results of the 2007 election. Perales said he could turn to “60, 70 people” to get Conde reelected or cast aside. Conde “would’ve lost by a 120 votes,” if Perales hadn’t taken action, he told an FBI informant. (Source)

July 6, 2012:

A former Charlottesville [Virginia] City Council candidate will spend 60 days in jail for using a false address on campaign filings. Media outlets report that [Democrat] James Halfaday received a five-year sentence Thursday in Charlottesville Circuit Court. But Judge Edward Hogshire suspended all but 60 days of the term. The judge also ordered Halfaday to complete 40 hours of community service. Halfaday pleaded guilty in August 2011 to a felony election fraud count. Prosecutors say he no longer lived at an address he listed on campaign paperwork that he filed for the 2011 election. (Source)

July 6, 2012: Voter Fraud in Texas

There are about 325 super centenarians in the country and 79th District Attorney Armando Barrera finds it hard to believe 18 of them voted in the Brooks County [Texas] primary in May. In a petition to contest the election filed Friday, Barrera lists 18 voters who were all born on either Jan. 1, 1900, or Jan. 1, 1901, making each of them more than 110 years old. “Can you believe it?” Barrera said. “Maybe they’ve found the fountain of youth.”

Armando and Homero Cruz are two men listed in the petition. According to Barrera, the two were both born on Jan. 1, 1900 and they both live at the same address in Falfurrias.

The 79th District governs both Jim Wells and Brooks counties. Barrera lost the May 29 election by 19 votes after a recount. The final tally put challenger Carlos Omar Garcia at 3,809 and Barrera at 3,790. The petition alleges voter misconduct and fraud.

“There were so many violations of the election code in Jim Wells and Brooks County, it makes you wonder if they’ve even read it,” Barrera said. (Source)

July 10, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Virginia

[In Virginia] a convicted drug felon who pleaded no contest Tuesday to illegally registering to vote in the 2008 general election later withdrew her plea after a judge – concerned about her sobriety – ordered that she immediately be tested for drugs. She failed, testing positive for cocaine.

Sheila J. Peterson, 53, who was convicted in 1993 of possession of cocaine, was set to plead no contest to obstruction of justice – reduced from a felony count of making a false statement on an election form on Oct. 3, 2008. Under the terms of a plea agreement, she was to be sentenced to 90 days in jail with 86 suspended and would be able to serve the time on weekends. (Source)

July 12, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Arizona

A former candidate for Mohave County [Arizona] Sheriff was charged on felony counts for claiming to be a resident of the county when he actually was not. Michael David Hays of Flagstaff was charged in Kingman Justice Court on four counts of voter fraud. The first count stated that on March 11, 2010, Hays allegedly made fraudulent statements about his residence on a voter registration form. The second count stated that on Jan. 22, 2011, he allegedly made fraudulent statements on the form. (Source)

July 12, 2012: Election Fraud in California

Cudahy [California] officials at the city's highest levels tampered with and manipulated the results of at least two city elections, according to federal documents released Thursday. The documents were part of the plea agreements of two Cudahy city officials who agreed to plead guilty Thursday to bribery and extortion.

But the documents also shed light on a culture of corruption within City Hall, with examples of widespread bribery and developer payoffs to voter fraud. “The very definition of democracy is that all those qualified as voters have the opportunity to cast their votes and to have those votes counted,” Assistant U.S. Atty. Joseph Akrotirianakis said.

Details of the election fraud were spelled out by Angel Perales, the city's former interim city manager and code enforcement director. Perales and former Mayor David Silva have agreed to plead guilty to bribery and extortion.

The documents show that a city official identified only as G.P. asked Perales and others to make non-residents register to vote in elections. They used an address that belonged to a Cudahy city employee. In exchange, that employee was rewarded with promotions and other favorable treatment, the documents say.

In addition, the city officials tossed out ballots that did not favor incumbents. Perales said that when absentee ballots were delivered to City Hall, he and G.P. determined through "trial and error" the best way to open the sealed envelopes without defacing them. "Routinely and systematically," they opened the ballots. If they contained votes in favor of incumbents, they were resealed and counted. Ballots for non-incumbents were discarded.

The same process was used during the 2009 election, the documents said. (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

July 13, 2012:

Four more people, including a brother and niece of a former City Councilor, were charged Friday in the Sunland Park [New Mexico] election fraud case. (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

July 19, 2012: Voter Fraud in Wisconsin

In recent weeks, opponents of voter ID laws have escalated their attacks on the measures by claiming the common sense requirement that a voter be able to identify him or herself at the polls is a new form of Jim Crow. But because the measure applies equally to everyone and the Supreme Court has ruled such laws are constitutional, their charges have more to do with inciting racial discord than actually affirming the right to vote. At the same time, others are seeking to undermine the entire premise of voter ID advocates by claiming there is no such thing as voter fraud in the United States. That’s the conceit of a piece in the Daily Beast today that repeats the charge made by liberal and Democratic foes of the laws that there is no evidence of voter fraud going on anywhere in the country.

But on the same day the Daily Beast piece was published, evidence surfaced that union officials in Wisconsin have been subpoenaed in an investigation of, you guessed it, voter fraud. As the Washington Free Beacon reports, the DA’s office demanded the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) hand over records that relate to the conduct of their officials who may have voted in the city earlier this year while using a Marriott hotel as a residence and using out of state IDs. The Wisconsin legislature passed a photo ID law, but state courts have blocked its enforcement, so the lack of such a requirement and a same day registration process makes it easy for anyone, including those who aren’t legally qualified to vote there, to cast a ballot. All of which makes a good argument for exactly the laws liberals tell us are not only racist but also unnecessary. (Source)

July 20, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Wisconsin

A 41-year-old Wisconsin Rapids [Wisconsin] man who was convicted of a felony in 2009 faces a new felony charge after authorities say he voted in the June 5 recall election. Brice E. Liezen is charged with voter registration fraud. The charge carries a repeat offender enhancer that means he has previous convictions but not necessarily for the same crime. If convicted, he faces a maximum of 31/2 years in prison, plus an additional four years in prison for the repeat offender enhancer. (Source)

July 20, 2012: Voter Fraud in Arkansas

A special prosecutor has been appointed to handle a case involving allegations of voter fraud in Mississippi County [Arkansas]. The Jonesboro Sun reports that H.G. Foster will serve as special prosecutor in the case involving ballots cast in the June 12 runoff election. Prosecutor Scott Ellington requested a special prosecutor in the case, citing his own conflict of interest. Ellington was on the runoff ballot for the Democratic nomination for the 1st Congressional District. Ellington won the runoff by fewer than 300 votes. The Mississippi County Election Commission says three ballots have been sent to the prosecutor for review. (Source)

July 23, 2012: Voter Fraud in Michigan

Mark Maiuri has filed lawsuits against Macomb [Michigan] Township Clerk Michael Koehs and Macomb County Clerk Carmella Sabaugh, citing election fraud and violation of the Freedom of Information Act.

A Macomb Township resident has filed a lawsuit against the county and Macomb Township clerks that challenges the validity of more than 50 signatures on supervisor candidate Janet Dunn's nominating petitions and alleges wrongful denial of a Freedom of Information Act request.

Maiuri claims that from May 15, when he began his own investigation of Dunn's nominating petitions, and the present he has uncovered "extensive fraud." (Source)

July 25, 2012: Suspected Voter Fraud in Virginia

The Voter Participation Center, the organization whose mailings are under scrutiny, fired back this afternoon at the Romney campaign. In a letter to Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, it charged that what it called attempts by the Romney campaign to block voter registration efforts in Virginia “may rise to the level of interference with legitimate voter registration efforts contrary to applicable state and federal laws." The organization asked Cuccinelli to refuse the Romney campaign's request to investigate what it called "completely lawful efforts by the VPC to register Virginians."

“The Romney campaign’s request for a probe into over 15 thousand returned legal and state-approved registration application forms is part of a blatant and ongoing partisan effort to keep people from voting, “ said VPC founder and president Page Gardner. (Source)

July 25, 2012: Vote-Buying in Kentucky

Three people from Breathitt County [Kentucky] who were involved in a vote buying scheme in a 2010 magistrate's race are expected to be sentenced. Naomi Johnson, Jackie Jennings, and Earl Young all pleaded guilty or were convicted in the case. Their sentencing is set for tomorrow at 1pm in Lexington. Former Breathitt County Schools Superintendent Arch Turner also pleaded guilty to federal vote buying charges. He will be sentenced on October 24th. (Source)

July 26, 2012: Voter Fraud in Arizona

A Pinal County [Arizona] supervisor candidate has withdrawn from the race in the wake of voter-fraud allegations involving a former companion who, records show, has continued to vote by absentee ballot in the five years since her death. (Source)

July 26, 2012: Voter Fraud and Voter-Registration Fraud in New Mexico

Two more people have been charged in connection to alleged voter fraud in a New Mexico border town. Authorities say 56-year-old Luz Vargas registered El Paso, Texas, resident Mary Ann O'Brien to vote in Sunland Park's municipal election in March. They were charged Wednesday with false voting, conspiracy to commit false voting, registration offenses, falsifying election documents and false swearing.

The Las Cruces Sun reports that Vargas serves as director of the town's library. O'Brien told investigators that Vargas approached her in Sunland Park and told her it was OK to register and vote in New Mexico as long as she didn't also vote in El Paso.

At least seven other people are facing voter fraud charges related to the election, including a former City Councilor and the former senior center director. (Source)

July 27, 2012: Suspected Voter Fraud in Hawaii

The FBI has gotten involved in an investigation into allegations of voter fraud on the Big Island, sources told Hawaii News Now Friday. The elections office in Hilo run by Hawaii County Clerk Jamae Kawauchi shut down Monday for what she called an "audit" less than three weeks before the primary election, without further explanation.

That raised concern among politicians and other elections officials in the state, especially since for the last five days, Kawauchi has not returned State Elections Officer Scott Nago's calls to brief him on problems in her office. About one week ago, state officials received reports about possible voter fraud on the Big Island, allegations that someone was doctoring absentee ballots, sources said. (Source)

July 30, 2012: Voter Fraud in Texas

Esiquiel Silva joined the Citizens Against Voter Abuse because he said his father was almost victimized. He claims the elderly man was almost forced into a van headed to the polls to vote for a certain candidate. Silva said it all happened while his father was at an adult day care in Brownsville [Texas]. Silva said the elderly have the right to vote, without being pressured.

"When you're just there for one specific reason, that to me is abuse because they don’t care about them throughout the year,” Silva said. “They only care for them for that day, and that is to take them to vote and then coach them how to vote."

These are some of the issues CAVA is hoping to bring to light. Ruben Peña, one of the group’s founders, said there needs to be more resources available to better train poll judges, workers and watchers, as well as voters to ensure elections are not tainted.

"We're seeing an exponential growth in what we believe to be voter fraud in Cameron County,” Peña said. “We've seen a growth in mail-in ballots (from a) minor number in the primaries (Source)

August 2, 2012: Voter Fraud in Florida

A Hialeah [Florida] boletera at the center of a weeklong absentee-ballot investigation that muddied the Miami-Dade mayor’s race was arrested Thursday after police say she fraudulently obtained an absentee ballot from a terminally ill woman in a nursing home.

Deisy Penton de Cabrera, 56, was charged with absentee-ballot fraud, a third-degree felony, and two misdemeanor counts of violating a county ordinance that makes it illegal for anyone to possess more than two ballots belonging to other voters. Investigators say Cabrera illegally collected at least 31 absentee ballots for the Aug. 14 primary election. (Source) and (Source)

August 2, 2012: Suspected Voter Fraud in Texas

Upshur County [Texas] GOP Chairman Ken Ambrose has filed a new complaint with the Texas attorney general regarding potential voter fraud in the county’s primary election.

“It has come to the attention of the Upshur County Republican Party that several individuals claiming residence in Upshur County and voting in the recent primary may or may not be qualified to vote as residents of this county,” Ambrose said. “To ensure the quality of the electorate, this matter has been referred to the office of the attorney general for their review.”

Ambrose said at least six people participated in early voting for the May 29 Republican Primary with “questionable” addresses. (Source)

August 2, 2012: Voter Fraud in Texas

A supporter of Lubbock County [Texas] Commissioner Gilbert Flores filed an official complaint with Lubbock County Elections Administrator Dorothy Kennedy and the state claiming voter fraud and wrongdoing by poll workers and the campaign of Lorenzo Bubba Sedeno. Sedeno defeated Flores Tuesday night in the Democratic runoff election for county commissioner precinct three.

Political activist Armando Gonzales says in his letter to Kennedy that there was suspect activity both during the early vote and on Election Day. He claims voters were unduly influenced on their way to the polls and at the voting booth.

"So when you have a narrow margin like 19 votes, and then you have this suspect activity going on, you have to do something. I don't think it's a clean, honest election,” said Gonzales. Gonzales asked that the election be nullified and that a new election be ordered. Copies of the letter were sent to the Texas attorney general, the ethics commission and Lubbock County Judge Tom Head. (Source)

August 3, 2012: Voter Fraud in California

Local Republican officials on Thursday filed a voter fraud complaint against Democratic Rep. Jerry McNerney, alleging he violated the elections code by voting as a Stockton [California] resident while living in Pleasanton.

Garry Duncan, chairman of the San Joaquin County Republican Party, submitted the complaint to the county registrar of voters and the Secretary of State's Election Fraud Investigation Unit, a news release said.

A Record investigation found McNerney registered and voted in the primary election in Stockton, though his main residence appears to be in Pleasanton. McNerney's Republican rival, Ricky Gill, alleges the Congressman violated the Elections Code. (Source)

August 9, 2012: Voter Fraud in Alabama

You’ve probably never heard of Greene County, Alabama. Yet this small county of 9,000 people in western Alabama, about an hour from Tuscaloosa, was home to one of the biggest voter-fraud scandals in recent history. Corrupt incumbents devised an elaborate scheme to rig the election using absentee ballots. When they prevailed on Election Day, skeptical citizens began asking questions. A subsequent investigation and trial led to the convictions of 11 people involved in the plot. (Source)

August 9, 2012: Voter Fraud in Washington State and Connecticut

In the 2004 Washington State Governor’s race, the Republican’s early lead was overcome by the miraculous discovery of previously uncounted ballots squirreled away in the Democratic stronghold of Seattle, handing the election to the Democrat.

In the close Governor’s race in Connecticut in 2010, a mysterious shortage of ballots in Bridgeport kept the polls open an extra two hours as allegedly blank ballots were photocopied and handed out in the heavily Democratic city. Dannel Malloy defeated Republican Tom Foley by nearly 7,000 votes statewide — but by almost 14,000 votes in Bridgeport. (Source) and (Source)

August 9, 2012: Voter Fraud in West Virginia

A third former West Virginia county official pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal charge arising from a scheme to sway a 2010 Democratic primary with fraudulent absentee ballots. Ex-Lincoln County Commissioner Thomas Ramey Jr. pleaded guilty to lying to an FBI agent investigating the plot. U.S. District Judge Thomas Johnston set a Nov. 15 sentencing hearing for the 32-year-old Democrat, who faces up to five years in prison and a fine. Ramey remains free on bond.

Ramey admitted that he lied in a Feb. 7 interview to conceal his role in arranging for the altering of around 20 absentee ballot applications he had filed on behalf of county voters, a document filed as part of his July 5 plea agreement said.

Ramey had conspired with Lincoln County Sheriff Jerry Bowman and Clerk Donald Whitten to flood their party's primary with absentee ballots, the filing said. Whitten was campaigning for another term in the Democrat-dominated county, where that party's primary winners typically prevail the following November. Unable to run for sheriff again this year because of term limits, Bowman was running for circuit clerk in 2010 while Ramey had been appointed commissioner and sought election to keep the seat. (Source) and (Source)

August 9, 2012: Election Fraud in Michigan

Four staff members of former [Michigan] GOP Rep. Thaddeus McCotter’s office will be charged with misdemeanor and felony election fraud violations, including forgery and conspiracy on ballot petitions, after an investigation that prompted the five-time incumbent Congressman and one-time presidential candidate to resign in July.

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette announced the charges in a scathing report released Thursday morning. In it, he said Mr. McCotter’s staff had “lost its moral compass” and shown indifference to the election process, calling their actions “disgraceful.”

Mr. Schuette did not finger the former lawmaker as responsible, but called Mr. McCotter “asleep at the switch” as his staff undermined his credibility — and broke the law — in an “amateurish” way. (Source) and (Source)

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August 10, 2012: Voter Fraud in Florida

The uncle of Hialeah’s [Florida] former Mayor was arrested Friday as part of a broad voter-fraud investigation, after police say he filled out two absentee ballots with his own choices, not those of the voters involved, including a woman with dementia.

Sergio Robaina, 74, turned himself in Friday afternoon. He was briefly held at Ward D of Jackson Memorial Hospital, where inmates receive medical treatment, before posting a nominal bond Friday evening. His nephew is former Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina.

Sergio Robaina was charged with two felony counts of voter fraud for allegedly filling out the two ballots in a way that did not match the voters’ intentions. He also faces two counts of violating a county ordinance by possessing more than two absentee ballots belonging to others.

Robaina admitted to police he picked up the ballots of seven or eight other people, according to an arrest affidavit, and told police that “he will continue to do it.”

Robaina is the second ballot broker arrested as part of the investigation, which has brushed the political campaigns of the Miami-Dade Mayor and state attorney, and the office of a sitting county commissioner. (Source) and (Source)

August 14, 2012: Efforts to Defend Voter-Registration Fraud in Florida and Iowa

Watching the litigation strategy of radical advocacy groups is very revealing. The Justice Department lost in its initial bid to get a temporary restraining order in a lawsuit it filed in Florida to stop state election officials from removing non-citizens from Florida’s voter-registration lists. Now, the ACLU and LULAC (the League of United Latin American Citizens) have filed a similar suit in Iowa to try to stop a new program put in place by the Secretary of State, Matt Schultz, which will compare Iowa’s list of 2.1 million registered voters with state and federal lists of foreign nationals living in Iowa. Any registered voters who are flagged would then be investigated to determine if they are non-citizens who are ineligible to vote.

Liberals really seem intent on winning the upcoming election at any cost — including trying to make sure that non-citizens who have, by registering to vote, committed a federal felony stay on the rolls so they can commit a second felony by voting in November. (Source)

August 14, 2012: Efforts to Curtail Voter Fraud in Iowa

A top Senate Democrat on Tuesday criticized Iowa’s Republican Secretary of State for “undermining” the voting rights of Iowans by enacting emergency rules to purge foreign nationals from the state’s voter registration list and make it easier to file allegations of voter fraud. (Source)

August 14, 2012: Voter Fraud in Massachusetts

The district attorney in Hampden County [Massachusetts] is investigating whether a Republican candidate for state representative orchestrated an illegal scheme to cast absentee ballots on behalf of hundreds of voters in hope of winning a primary election.

State election officials were tipped off to the potential voter fraud when a suspiciously large number of residents of the Springfield suburb of East Longmeadow suddenly changed party registration from Democrat to independent, making them eligible to vote in the upcoming Republican primary.

When contacted, several of the voters said they had not changed party affiliations, raising concern that someone had switched their party in an attempt to cast fraudulent absentee ballots on their behalf. (Source) and (Source)

August 15, 2012: Forging Signatures on Petitions in Ohio

A former Ohio University student was in jail in Hamilton County [Ohio] Wednesday, facing multiple felony counts for allegedly forging 22 signatures on a petition for the redistricting amendment to the Ohio Constitution. He faces an additional criminal charge for having allegedly signed his own name with a false address.

Timothy Noel Zureick, 21, allegedly faked the signatures while he was working in Athens for a major Washington, D.C., political canvassing firm. The signatures he allegedly forged, according to Athens County Prosecutor Keller Blackburn, included those of OU College Democrats and prominent members of the county's Democratic Party. According to Blackburn, Zureick had some involvement with the College Dems, though it's not clear how extensive this was, or how long ago. (Source)

August 16, 2012: Calls for Permitting Everyone to Vote by Absentee Ballot

Democrats have spent much political energy this election season trying to churn the waters about state voting procedures, with the Obama Justice Department challenging voter ID laws it says are schemes to suppress voting. In Ohio, the tables are turned, with the Obama campaign trying to shut down a law that allows early voting for military members.

Yesterday a federal judge in Columbus, Ohio heard arguments in the Obama campaign's lawsuit challenging the law. The campaign isn't trying to suppress military voting, Obama campaign attorney Bob Bauer has said, but having different rules for Servicemen and women violates the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause. The solution should be to allow absentee voting for everyone. (Source)

August 21, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Virginia

Hans A. von Spakovsky writes: “I've never understood why the NAACP is so set against voters having to show a photo ID when they vote, but a recent incident suggests one possibility. An election official I know in Virginia recently received a pre-completed voter registration form in the mail from the Virginia NAACP headquarters in Richmond. The form was addressed to the election official’s dog, Crease, but with the election official’s last name.... [T]he voter registration form already had Crease’s name and address printed on it and the NAACP says that its 'records show that you are eligible to vote in the 2012 presidential election.' The NAACP asked Crease to 'please fill in' the rest of the form because 'registering to vote is easy' – even for dogs.” (Source)

August 23, 2012: Voter Fraud in Rhode Island

Among the many individuals who impersonated voters in Rhode Island during the 2010 election cycle, there was one that really stood out. That was the year Democratic Mayor David Cicilline of Providence, Rhode Island, ran for and won the seat Congressional seat vacated by Rep. Patrick Kennedy. A key witness who claims she was hired by Cicilline in 2010 alleges in sworn statement that several individuals impersonated actual voters, and voted in disguise. Here is where it gets very creative.

"That afternoon I identified individuals who had voted in disguise, including cross-gender clothing, earlier in the day," the witness said. "This included a currently powerful leader in the Rhode Island House of Representatives."

U.S. Rep. David Cicilline's political campaigns benefitted from a highly organized voter-fraud effort dating back to 2002, his Democratic primary opponent alleged in a press conference yesterday. (Source)

August 24, 2012: Voter Fraud in the U.S.

Liberals who frequently claim that there is no such thing as voter fraud or ballots cast by ineligible voters were served yet another dose of reality by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals this week. On August 22, the court released two decisions concerning noncitizens who registered and voted illegally in federal elections.

In Kimani v. Holder, the court refused to grant review of an immigration petition. Kimani was a citizen of Kenya who entered the U.S. in 2000 on a visitor’s visa. He did not leave when the visa expired. Instead, three years later, he got married, and his wife applied for a visa on his behalf. In addition to the fact that he stayed in the U.S. illegally after his visa had expired, he also violated federal law by registering and voting in the 2004 general election. If he had simply continued to reside in the U.S. illegally without applying for a visa, his voting would probably have never been discovered by DHS. It was only his application that led to an investigation of his voting and registration records.

Similarly, in Keathley v. Holder, Elizabeth Keathley, a Philippine citizen, married an American in 2003 in the Philippines. She received a nonimmigrant visa that allowed her to live in the U.S. while waiting for her application for permanent residence to be considered. But she also registered and voted in the 2006 general election. The Court did grant her a review based on her unsupported claim that an Illinois DMV official told her it was ok to register and vote. (Source)

August 24, 2012: Voter Fraud in Alabama

Two women were jailed Friday in Phenix City [Alabama] on charges they forged absentee ballot applications ahead of next week’s municipal election, authorities said, continuing a long history of absentee voting irregularities. Shelia Pritchett, 50, of Phenix City, was charged with two counts of second-degree forgery and two counts of absentee ballot fraud. Stephanie Elias, 31, of Columbus, was charged with four counts of second-degree forgery and four counts of absentee ballot fraud. A grand jury Friday indicted both women and another suspect whom the authorities declined to identify because he or she apparently had not yet been arrested. The forgery and ballot fraud charges both are Class C felonies. (Source)

August 26, 2012: Election Fraud in Florida

[Florida Republican Paul Crespo said:] “While campaigning at a senior citizen residence facility in Sweetwater [Florida] during my recent race for State Representative, several elderly voters mentioned that a person closely related to an important city official “handled” their absentee voting in that center. Some even said this person “voted for them.” One angry voter pulled me aside discreetly to warn me that this politically connected person actually got the mailbox keys from the residents to access their ballots, and begged me to do something about it. Unfortunately, the person they identified was also openly working on behalf of my opponent. (Source)

August 28, 2012: Voter Fraud in Georgia

Richard Roundtree released a statement Tuesday night in response to the allegations saying "I am not aware of nor have I been contacted by anyone from Secretary of State's Office regarding my campaign. However, I am aware of an Incident Report filed with the Sheriff's Office. I find the report to be so absurd that I will not add any credibility to it by commenting any further to its content. I look forward to continuing my campaign and I ask that the voters will support me in November. Thank you."

The Georgia Secretary of State's Office confirms it is investigating allegations of voter fraud in the Richmond County Sheriff's Runoff. A week ago, an Augusta woman filed a police report with Richmond County Investigators claiming that someone who worked for Richard Roundtree told her he would get her a car if she could find four other people to vote for Roundtree in the August 21st runoff. The woman told investigators that she never got the car. (Source)

August 29, 2012: Voter Fraud in West Virginia

Two men who pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a Lincoln County [West Virginia] voter fraud scheme have been sentenced.

Former Sheriff Jerry Bowman will serve one year and one day in prison for conspiring to stuff the primary ballot box while running for circuit clerk. Former Lincoln County Clerk Donald Whitten will serve 18 months for lying to a Secretary of State investigator, denying he had provided absentee ballots to Bowman. After the prison terms are complete, both men will be subject to two years of supervised release and both also must pay a $5,000 fine. Both men pleaded guilty to those charges in March. (Source)

August 30, 2012: Voter Fraud in Florida

A Plantation [Florida] man pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges he illegally voted in the 2008 general election and also pretended he was a U.S. citizen when he bought firearms.

Josef Sever, 52, admitted in federal court in Miami that he illegally voted in a federal election and falsely claimed he was a citizen in order to buy guns from a licensed dealer, renew a state concealed weapon license and register to vote, prosecutors said. Sever faces up to five years in federal prison when he is sentenced Nov. 9 by U.S. District Judge Ursula Ungaro. (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

September 1, 2012: Voter Fraud in Florida

Rep. John Patrick Julien’s official challenge to the results of the District 107 primary race for the Florida House includes allegations of absentee ballot fraud at assisted living facilities and nursing homes.

Julien, D-North Miami, who lost a razor-thin Democratic primary to Miami Gardens Rep. Barbara Watson last month, is fighting the results of the race in a Leon County court. After a recount, Watson won with 50.06 percent of the vote—a 13 vote edge.

The court complaint, to be filed Tuesday, alleges that several absentee ballots tied to a North Miami nursing home may have been cast fraudulently. It highlights a political consultant who advertised herself as “The Queen of Absentee Ballots” and a woman who appeared on Haitian Creole radio, warning absentee voters to consult with “teacher Carline” before filling out their ballots. (Source)

September 2, 2012: Voter Fraud in California

Roderick Wright, 60, is accused of living in a home outside his district and lying about his residency. A pretrial conference is slated for Sept. 26.

Almost two years after his grand jury indictment on eight felony counts of voter fraud and perjury, [California] State Sen. Roderick Wright has yet to stand trial. The longtime Inglewood Democrat may not get his full day in court before voters decide this fall whether to give him another term in the Legislature.

The case against the first-term Senator, who previously served in the Assembly, revolves around whether he fraudulently claimed to live in an Inglewood apartment complex, which he owns, at the time he registered to vote in 2007 and filed papers to run in the 2008 elections. Prosecutors allege that Wright, 60, actually lived in a single-family house outside the district he was seeking to represent and cooked up an elaborate lie about his residency. California requires that candidates for the Legislature live in the districts where they run. (Source)

September 3, 2012: Voter Fraud in Chicago

Despite a conviction for committing vote fraud when he ran for office, Juan Elias now leads [Chicago] 1st Ward Ald. Joe Moreno’s new “independent Democratic political organization.” Since becoming president of the 1st Ward First campaign group last year, Elias has wiped clean a rap sheet that also included being arrested with more than 3 pounds of marijuana.

Elias was one of a group of convicted criminals who recently received pardons from [Illinois] Gov. Pat Quinn. (Source)

September 3, 2012: Voter Fraud in Florida

Derrick Henry's campaign workers responded to allegations of voter wrong-doing Sunday. Henry is running for Mayor of Daytona Beach [Florida]. Two weeks ago, the Supervisor of Elections, Ann McFall, announced her office was looking into questionable absentee ballots gathered by Henry's campaign. In 2012, Henry won a city commission seat for zone five and was in office when he was charged and arrested for voter fraud after one of his workers fraudulently requested absentee ballots. Henry was suspended from office by then-Governor Charlie Christ. Henry resigned his seat shortly thereafter. (Source)

September 5, 2012: Election Fraud in Arkansas

A Democratic state legislator from east Arkansas, his father and two campaign workers pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to commit election fraud after federal prosecutors said the lawmaker's campaign bribed absentee voters and destroyed ballots in a special election last year.

Prosecutors said Democratic Rep. Hudson Hallum of Marion, Kent Hallum, Phillip Wayne Carter and Sam Malone acknowledged that they participated in a conspiracy to bribe voters to influence absentee votes in the Arkansas District 54 primary, runoff and general elections in 2011. The four were released pending a sentencing hearing. (Source) and (Source)

September 5, 2012: Voter Fraud in Florida

At least three voters told investigators that Hialeah [Florida] ballot-broker Deisy Cabrera, who is charged with forging one voter's ballot signature, suggested candidates or filled out portions of their ballot.

Ramon Del Pino can’t say for sure whom he voted for last month. And the blind man from Hialeah also can’t identify the two women who came to his home to help him vote.

When interviewed July 31 by police detectives investigating absentee-ballot fraud, Del Pino said he told the women that he wanted to vote for Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez, but “he allowed the two females to choose the remaining candidates for him.”

Del Pino is among more than a dozen people interviewed by police investigating ballot-broker Deisy Cabrera, who is facing a felony vote fraud charge and two misdemeanor counts of illegal ballot possession. Prosecutors on Wednesday released police reports from interviews with Del Pino and 16 other voters whose ballots Cabrera, a so-called boletera, is accused of collecting before the Aug. 14 primary election. The most serious charge Cabrera faces is a felony count for allegedly forging the signature of 81-year-old Zulema Gomez, who lies unresponsive from a brain tumor in a Miami Springs nursing home. (Source) and (Source)

September 6, 2012: Voter Fraud in Alabama

Attorney General Luther Strange on Thursday asked U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance in Birmingham [Alabama] to use her newly created civil rights unit to investigate allegations of voter fraud. Strange is the second state official to ask the Justice Department to probe voter fraud allegations in Alabama. Last week, state Agriculture Commissioner John McMillan asked the Justice Department to investigate unusually high voter registration and participation in Uniontown's municipal election. (Source)

September 6, 2012: Voter Fraud in North Dakota

Eight players — including starting running back Samuel Ojuri, defensive backs Marcus Williams and Brendin Pierre and offensive lineman Josh Colville — are among 10 people facing criminal charges for forging signatures as part of an alleged fraud that North Dakota Secretary of State Al Jaeger said has made both initiatives ineligible for statewide vote in November, according to an Associated Press report.

State Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem told the AP that many of the petition signatures were copied from the phone book or simply fabricated, and Jaeger said the alleged fraud was discovered because people checking the petitions noticed repeated ZIP code mistakes and signatures with the same handwriting. (Source)

September 6, 2012: Election Fraud in California

San Francisco [California] District Attorney George Gascón has determined there is insufficient evidence to file criminal charges after a months-long investigation into alleged voter fraud in Chinatown during last year's mayor's race. Gascón, though, said he remained "concerned" about the allegations, which involved supporters of Mayor Ed Lee filling out and collecting absentee ballots for elderly Chinese-speaking voters during the November election, which Lee won handily.

The Chronicle first reported in October that Lee supporters were staffing a makeshift voting station in Chinatown. Videos showed the workers placing stencils over ballots as people marked them. Two independent witnesses said the people staffing the makeshift voting area were also filling in ballots for voters.

A third witness, Adam Keigwin, chief of staff for State Sen. Leland Yee, a rival candidate, said the workers would then keep the ballots and place them in a bag. State election law forbids anyone from turning in someone else's absentee ballot other than certain family members or a designated resident of the same home. (Source)

September 7, 2012: Voter Fraud in California

A Mexican who was deported decades ago for drug trafficking pleaded guilty this week to living illegally in Escondido [California] under a false identity and fraudulently voting in the 2008 U.S. presidential election, federal authorities said Friday. Ricardo Lopez-Munguia, 45, pleaded guilty Thursday to attempted entry to the U.S. after deportation, making a false claim to U.S. citizenship, and voter fraud by an illegal alien, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney's office. Lopez-Munguia faces a maximum term of 28 years in federal prison, followed by deportation. He is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 19 in San Diego. In 1986, Lopez-Munguia was convicted of heroin trafficking. A federal judge ordered him to be deported the following year. (Source)

September 7, 2012: Disenfranchising Members of the U.S. Military

The administration has taken various states to court to block voter ID laws on the grounds it will disenfranchise voters. But it has no qualms about the disenfranchisement of military voters overseas through its failure to comply with and enforce the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) Act, passed by Congress in 2009 and signed into law by President Barack Obama.

The law acknowledges the difficulties caused by time and distance for deployed soldiers in exercising the right to vote they put their lives on the line to protect. One of the key provisions required each military branch to create an Installation Voting Assistance Office (IVAO) for every military base outside an immediate combat zone.

Last week, however, the Pentagon's inspector general reported that attempts to locate and contact IVAO offices at overseas military installations failed about half the time.

"Results were clear. Our attempts to contact IVAOs failed about 50% of the time," the inspector general reported. "We concluded the Services had not established all the IVAOs as intended by the MOVE Act because, among other issues, the funding was not available."

The estimated cost of establishing functioning IVAOs at all overseas military bases not in combat zones is estimated at between $15 million and $20 million a year. We wasted $530 million on Solyndra but can't afford a relative pittance to ensure our soldiers are not disenfranchised. (Source)

September 10, 2012: Voter Fraud in Maryland

[Wendy Rosen], a Maryland Democrat has dropped out of a Congressional race after the state party said she cast ballots there and in Florida in the 2006 and 2008 elections. In a letter to the state’s attorney general and the state prosecutor, the chair of the Maryland Democratic Party wrote that Rosen voted in the 2006 general election in both Florida and Maryland. The Maryland Democratic Party has discovered that Ms. Rosen has been registered to vote in both Florida and Maryland since at least 2006; that she in fact voted in the 2006 general election both in Florida and Maryland; and that she voted in the presidential preference primaries held in both Florida and Maryland in 2008. (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

September 11, 2012: Voter Fraud and Voter-Registration Fraud in Hawaii

The Hawaii County Clerk's Office said in July that an audit of the county’s voter rolls showed four people voted twice in 2010 elections and that between 50 and 60 people were registered more than once. (Source)

September 11, 2012: Voter Fraud in Rhode Island

Anyone who attempts to impersonate another voter in today’s [Rhode Island] Democratic primary, and in upcoming elections, will find that they need to present some form of identification.

For this reason alone, it will not be as “blatantly easy” to commit voter fraud as it has been in the past, State Senator Harold Metts said when asked to comment on the allegations that beset Rep. David Cicilline’s re-election effort. Metts, a Providence Democrat, was the lead sponsor of the voter ID bill in the state Senate.

In an August press conference, Cicilline’s primary opponent, Anthony Gemma, told reporters that a private investigation agency he retrained uncovered evidence that demonstrates how Cicilline’s Mayoral and Congressional campaigns have benefitted from voter fraud since 2002. That was the year of Cicilline’s landslide victory to claim the office of Mayor in Providence. He now occupies the Congressional seat previously held by Rep. Patrick Kennedy. (Source) and (Source)

September 12, 2012: Non-Citizens on voter Rolls in Florida

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements Program (SAVE) database as well as personal admissions from illegally registered voters have confirmed 207 non-citizens have been on Florida’s voter rolls. The confirmed names will be provided to county supervisors of elections shortly after supervisors complete their federal training on how to use the SAVE database, which they are expected to do this week. (Source)

September 13, 2012: Voter Fraud in Indiana

A former New Albany [Indiana] mayoral candidate and another man have been arrested on charges of voter fraud. Paul Etheridge, who was running for mayor, and Joshua Clemons are accused of forging, soliciting, and delivering four absentee ballots in the 2011 mayoral election.

Floyd County Prosecutor Keith Henderson says he began investigating after the County Clerk and the Election Commission reported that there may have been issues with the absentee ballots during the primary elections that year. Each man faces three felony counts. If convicted they face up to nine years behind bars and fines. (Source)

September 20, 2012: Voter Fraud in New York

New Kings Democrats, a progressive group in Brooklyn [New York], is going public with accusations of voter fraud they say they documented during the primaries in New York last week. Those accusations center on one heavily populated polling location in Williamsburg, where more than 3,300 votes were cast among eight election districts, all located in one school auditorium. The vote here is important, since it could determine the winner of a closely fought district-leader race between New Kings member Lincoln Restler and Chris Olechowski, a Vito Lopez ally who got most of his 6,000 votes from that part of the district.

Accusations include disseminating voter material inside the restricted area and, more seriously, not barring voters from looking directly in voter registration books, rather than giving their name and date of birth to poll workers. By looking directly into the voter registration books, a person could, potentially, see the name of a voter who has not signed in, and claim to be that person, the New Kings Democrats argued. (Source)

September 20, 2012: Voter Fraud in Iowa

The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation says three Council Bluffs [Iowa] residents have been charged with election misconduct. Two Canadian nationals and a Mexican national were booked into the Pottawattamie County jail. The felony charges allege they registered to vote in Iowa and voted in at least one election. A criminal complaint says Albert Harte-Maxwell voted in the 2010 general election and 2011 city election and Linda Harte-Maxwell voted in the 2011 city election. Maria Ayon-Fernandez voted in the 2010 general election. (Source)

September 21, 2012: Voter Fraud in indiana

For years we have been hearing the news of the rampant voter fraud that has been changing the course of this country. It seems that the citizens of New Albany [Indiana] are not immune from the shenanigans that have previously only plagued other parts of the country. Last week the Floyd County prosecutor held a press conference to announce the findings of an investigation and ultimate grand jury indictment of two individuals in one of the largest voter fraud cases that this county has ever seen.

Paul Etheridge, a candidate for New Albany Mayor in last year’s primary and another man, Joshua Clemons, are charged with solicitation for a fraudulent absentee ballot, forgery of official ballot endorsement and fraudulent delivery of a ballot. These charges are considered felonies and carry a penalty of up to six months to three years in jail if convicted.

The charges involve up to four actual ballots and according to the prosecutor had no affect on the outcome in the primary. It may be true that these four votes would not have changed the outcome of the mayor’s race due to the margin of victory for Mayor Gahan, but just a handful of votes would have changed the outcome of the election in at least two districts in the election of New Albany City Council members.

In the first district only 17 votes separated the three candidates with councilman Dan Coffey narrowly defeating his nearest opponent by only 12 votes. In the fifth district primary council president Diane McCartin-Benedetti defeated Randy Smith by 26 votes. While the four confirmed cases of alleged voter fraud might not have changed the outcome of these elections either, it’s possible that other unconfirmed voter fraud may have easily occurred that could have swayed these two council seats. (Source) and (Source)

September 22, 2012: Voter Fraud in Iowa

Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz’s hunt for documented immigrants voting illegally found three suspects in Council Bluffs this week. Next up, it appears, will be Scott and Muscatine counties, where Schultz said that Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation agents have followed up on data finding documented immigrants on voter registration rolls.

Scott County Auditor Roxanna Moritz tells us DCI agents visited the county to investigate immigrants legally holding Iowa driver’s licenses, whose names have turned up on voter rolls. Moritz on Friday said DCI investigators are following up on “no more than 20 percent” of the 180 Scott County registered voters identified by Schultz. The next step for DCI agents is to verify if the suspects are indeed, the same people, then research voting forms to determine if the registration is fraud or a clerical error. (Source)

September 25, 2012: Voter Fraud in Arkansas

Five Crittenden County [Arkansas] residents were charged Tuesday with using absentee ballots to defraud an election official during three special elections in 2011. Special Prosecuting Attorney H.G. Foster of Conway filed the charges Tuesday after a nearly year-long investigation that has already resulted in four others, including former state lawmaker Hudson Hallum, pleading guilty in federal court to felony charges.

Those who were charged Tuesday are: Eric Fontain Cox, Amos Sanders, Lisa Burns, Deshay Lorenzo Parker III and Leroy Grant. Hallum, D-Marion, along with his father, Kent Hallum, West Memphis City Councilman Phillip Wayne Carter and West Memphis police officer Sam Malone entered guilty pleas Sept. 5 to charges they plotted to bribe absentee voters to cast ballots for Hallum. (Source)

September 25, 2012: Voter Fraud in Arizona

[Arizona] Secretary of State Ken Bennett announced Tuesday that nine new cases of suspected voter fraud from the 2008 election are under investigation by the Arizona Attorney General. Bennett said the Cross-State Match program helps states exchange voter-registration history to keep people from voting more than once in any given election.

Bennett said nine cases may not seem like a lot but Arizona has a history of close elections. "We have had 12 elections in the past 30 years where a candidate won by a single vote," he said. Voting twice in the same election is a felony, which can bring up to two years in prison and a $150,000 fine. (Source) and (Source)

September 28, 2012: Election Fraud in New Jersey

An Essex County [New Jersey] campaign worker was convicted today of absentee ballot fraud that occurred during the 2007 election of state Sen. Teresa Ruiz. John Fernandez, 61, of Belleville, was found guilty of election fraud following a two-week trial. The jury found Fernandez guilty of charges of conspiracy (2^nd degree), election fraud (2^nd degree), absentee ballot fraud (3^rd degree), tampering with public records or information (3^rd degree), and forgery (4^th degree).

The Mercer County jury found that Fernandez, who works for the Essex County Department of Economic Development, fraudulently tampered with documentation for absentee ballots in Ruiz's Nov. 6, 2007 general election, submitting ballots on behalf of voters who never received the ballots or had an opportunity to cast their votes. (Source)

September 30, 2012: Voter Fraud and Voter-Registration Fraud in Maryland

At least two dead voters showed up to vote at least once in a Maryland general election between 2004 and 2008, according to a voter registration watchdog group that has reviewed thousands of voter records this year…

The group – Election Integrity Maryland (EIM) – filed a complaint with the State Board of Elections Aug. 30. The group said it found several potential dead voters, voters who registered after they had died and a living Maryland resident who has been voting twice in elections for years.

According to their research, voter registration numbers for Montgomery County resident Rufus Harris of Silver Spring, who died in 2002, was used to cast an absentee ballot in the 2008 general election. Prince George’s County resident George T. Zell of Hyattsville, who died in July 2004, cast a vote in the 2004 general election. Records also indicated that Harris became registered as a voter on Sept. 4, 2008, six years after his death.

The group also identified two deceased people who were registered to vote after their deaths. James Proctor of Laurel died in 1988 and became registered in 1992, and Virginia Ann Given of Upper Marlboro, who died in 1991, also became registered in 1992. Both names remain on the Maryland rolls today as “inactive” voters, although neither have cast a vote under their new voter registration numbers, according to data provided by EIM.

Mary Dowling, 67, who currently resides in a nursing home in Timonium, has two voter registration numbers. The latest voting records that are available show Dowling has been voting twice in almost every even-year election since 2002, in both the general and the primary. Ten out of 16 times Dowling voted by absentee ballot. (Source)

October 1, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Florida

Illustrating that voter registration fraud is a bipartisan problem, a politically-connected vendor hired by the Republican Party to sign up new voters is under investigation for turning in suspicious forms with questionable information.

The scandal broke several weeks ago in south Florida’s Palm Beach County where the supervisor of elections set off a statewide probe after discovering questionable forms coming from Strategic Allied Consulting, an Arizona-based firm. The Republican National Committee (RNC) has paid Strategic Allied Consulting $3 million to register new voters in several states, according to news reports, and Florida’s GOP has doled out an additional $1.3 million.

Now the number of counties in Florida, a key battleground state, that have reported questionable voter registration forms connected to the consulting firm has grown to 10. The tainted forms include discrepancies in addresses, signatures and other identifying information. The scandal has led the RNC and several of its state chapters to fire Strategic Allied Consulting, which is under investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. (Source) and (Source)

October 2, 2012: Ballot Fraud in North Dakota

Ten North Dakota State University football players have pleaded guilty to misdemeanor election fraud and sentenced to community service for faking signatures on proposed ballot measure petitions that they were hired to collect. (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

October 4, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in California

A Los Angeles [California] judge has ruled that there is enough probable cause to put Los Angeles City Councilman Richard Alarcon, 7th District, and his wife on trial for fraud and perjury charges. The two are scheduled to return to court on Oct. 18 for the charges, which are related to an investigation that the councilman was allegedly living at a residence outside his district. Alarcon faces one felony count of filing a false declaration of candidacy, seven counts of voter fraud and nine felony counts of perjury. His wife, Flora, has been charged with perjury for falsifying a provisional voting ballot.

Prosecutors allege that Alarcon and his wife illegally claimed to have lived at 14451 Nordhoff St. in Panorama City during his run for City Council in 2007 and his bid for re-election in 2009. During the summer of 2007, Alarcon unsuccessfully tried to have the 7th District boundaries redrawn to include his wife’s Sun Valley home, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.

In using the Nordhoff Street address, he allegedly falsified his voter registration form, declaration of intent to receive campaign contributions, declaration of candidacy and an application for a California driver’s license. Alarcon has also been charged for fraudulently voting in an election. (Source)

October 5, 2012: Voter Fraud in Massachusetts

A Middlesex Superior Court judge on Thursday continued without a finding for a year the case of a former Marlborough City [Massachusetts] Council candidate accused of forging the signature of a dead woman on a voting form. Mark Evangelous, who lost his bid for a City Councilor at large seat in the 2011 municipal election, will be on probation for a year and will have to complete 200 hours of community service. If he does not get into any trouble, the forgery and uttering charges against him will be dismissed.

Evangelous was accused of submitting an absentee ballot application to the City Clerk’s office on Oct. 28, 2011, days before the election. The ballot, police said, was filled out and signed in the name of Anita Kasaras. A City Clerk employee checked the name against the city voter rolls and found out that not only was Kasaras not on the list, but that she had died in February 2011. The employee notified police, who conducted a preliminary investigation before passing the matter along to the Middlesex District Attorney’s office. (Source)

October 5, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Iowa

Jason Rawlin, 37, of Indianola [Iowa], and Stacy Brown, 37, of Kanawha [Iowa], were charged with election fraud and fraudulent practices. According to criminal complaints, Rawlin and Brown are previously convicted felons who registered to vote while obtaining state issued driver’s licenses. Under Iowa law, those convicted of a felony are ineligible to vote while incarcerated, on parole or on probation. After their sentence is complete ex-offenders must also pay all outstanding monetary obligations to the court before applying to have their voting rights restored.

Investigators said Rawlin was convicted in Wapello County [Iowa] and registered to vote in Warren County. Brown was convicted in Hancock County and registered to vote in Hancock County through the Wright County Issuance Station. Rawlin was arrested and charged. He was released on bail. Brown turned herself in to law enforcement Thursday and was released on her own recognizance. (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

October 8, 2012: Voter Fraud in Wisconsin

In a battleground state where voter fraud has been an issue in previous presidential elections, one leading county sheriff is saying his office won’t stop ineligible felon voters from casting a ballot. An internal memo from the Dane County [Wisconsin] Sheriff’s Office instructed deputies and other staff assigned to the county jail to facilitate the absentee ballot requests of inmates. Sent from Lt. Mark Twombly, the memo specifically instructed law enforcement officials to not check on the felony status of inmates and to help everyone vote regardless of their criminal record. In Wisconsin an individual serving jail time for a felony or under parole or supervision for a felony may not cast a ballot.

Checking on whether or not an inmate is a felon would require a quick and simple check of the county law enforcement’s computer system. “It is going to be up to their polling location to research whether they are allowed to vote based on their criminal record, not the DCSO [Dane County Sheriff's Office],” Twombly wrote in a memo distributed to staff.

The decision by the sheriff’s office to ignore felon status for inmate voters means that law enforcement officials will not be working to prevent further legal violations on the part of those in their custody. (Source)

October 9, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Nursing Homes

A Virginia election-watch organization has sent letters to some 2,000 nursing homes warning that aggressive voter-registration groups may be “harvesting votes” of vulnerable seniors. But in the absence of formal complaints to the State Board of Elections, skeptics say the Virginia Voters Alliance is merely grandstanding or, worse, trampling First Amendment rights. “Facilities such as yours are often targeted under the guise of ‘helping’ senior citizens, while really having the intention of stealing the vote,” wrote VVA president Reagan George.

George, a tea party activist based in Chantilly, said a “representative sampling of techniques” includes:

• Registering patients without their knowledge or against their will.
  
• Registrations resulting in the person being registered multiple times with the state, or possibly two different states.
  
• Registering patients who have been judged incompetent.
  
• Applying for an absentee ballot either without the person’s knowledge or against the person’s will and inserting their organization as a “voting assistant.”
  
• Submitting a prepared ballot to a patient for signature, forging the person’s signature or signing for recently deceased patients. (Source)

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October 10, 2012: Voter Fraud in Texas

A Republican precinct chairman running for a seat on the Fort Bend County [Texas] Commissioner's Court has cast ballots in both Texas and Pennsylvania in the last three federal elections, official records in both states show.

Bruce J. Fleming, a Sugar Land resident running for Precinct 1 commissioner, voted in person in Sugar Land in 2006, 2008 and 2010 and by mail in each of those years in Yardley, Pa., according to election records in both states.

Fleming, who owns a home in Yardley, voted for Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 2008 presidential primary in Texas. His wife, Nancy Fleming, who is listed as a resident of Yardley, voted by mail in both places in the 2010 general election, records show. (Source)

October 10, 2012: Election Fraud in Michigan

Oakland County [Michigan] prosecutors are expected to issue a misdemeanor election fraud warrant today against John Scott, an independent candidate for Oakland County commissioner.

Don't confuse that John Scott with incumbent Oakland County Commissioner John Scott, who said he grew suspicious during the summer when a friend said he had just signed a petition to get Scott on the ballot.

"I said, 'What petition?' " said Scott, a Waterford Republican and incumbent who paid a $100 filing fee by May 15 to get on the ballot and didn't solicit signatures.

Turns out, another John Scott – a 22-year-old Eastern Michigan University student from West Bloomfield – was gathering signatures to get on the ballot as an independent candidate.

It was no coincidence, Commissioner Scott charges, saying the other Scott intended to confuse people and split the vote. The tale turned potentially illegal after the incumbent commissioner got copies of rival John Scott's petitions and found irregularities. (Source)

October 11, 2012: Voter Fraud in Florida and Texas

Undercover footage from conservative activist James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas showed Stephanie Caballero, regional field director of Organizing for America in Houston [Texas], assisting someone who said she intended to vote in both Florida and Texas. In response to the investigator’s request for help voting twice, Caballero says, “Oh my god this is so funny. It’s cool though!” Then, when discussing the possibility of getting caught, Caballero says, “If anyone checks, say ‘I don’t know.’” (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

October 12, 2012: Voter Fraud in Iowa: The Iowa State Police have arrested three non-citizens for voting [illegally in the 2010 general election and 2011 city election]….Two Canadians and one Mexican national. (Source)

October 12, 2012: Voter Fraud in Maryland: Last week….the Democratic Congressional candidate had to resign because she had voted in both Florida and Maryland in four separate elections at the same time. (Source)

October 12, 2012: Voter Fraud in Detroit: [Kwame Kilpatrick]…. won reelection a few years ago on the basis of voter fraud—fraud that was so rampant and so extensive the City Clerk of Detroit [Michigan], Jackie Currie, had to be physically removed from her office, and forced to leave it, because of the voter fraud she had either allowed, or encouraged, as the election official in charge of voting. (Source)

October 12, 2012: Voter Fraud in Washington, DC: [In] Northwest Washington, Eric Holder’s neighborhood, he’s been a resident there for 32 years. You’d think they’d know him. You’d think they’d suspect something when a 22-year-old punk with a beard and a goatee, who worked for James O’Keefe, the filmmaker, shows up and all he says is—and, of course he’s white—and all he says is, “Do you have an Eric Holder at Such-and-Such Terrace?” “Oh, yes. Here’s your ballot.” (Source)

October 12, 2012: Voter Fraud in Florida

A felon with a long record of convictions was arrested Friday on three counts of submitting false information to the Polk County [Florida] Supervisor of Elections Office that allowed him to vote in August. Troy Demon Ray, 44, of 2409 Cheshire Place in Lakeland, turned himself over to authorities at the State Attorney's Office. Ray has 19 felony convictions including his most recent in 2007 on seven burglary charges, according to a State Attorney's Office report. He received a four-year prison sentence, but was released in June 2010. Ray lost his right to vote, but completed a voter registration form in May 2011, the report said. He omitted his birth date and driver's license number and checked a box indicating he wasn't a felon. (Source)

October 12, 2012: Voter Fraud in Florida

Five out of nine people arrested in a voter fraud investigation last year appeared in court Friday morning. Known as the Madison 9, they all asked a judge to completely dismiss their case, claiming they did nothing wrong. Their lawyers will file a motion to do so within ten days and the state will have 20 days to respond. The arrests stem from a school board race last year in Madison [Florida]. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement launched its investigation after the state elections division noted an "extraordinarily disproportionate amount of absentee votes" in the district one school board race. (Source)

October 12, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Florida

Representatives with three left-leaning voter groups suddenly facing allegations of voter registration wrongdoing say Florida elections officials are diverting attention from a criminal investigation into suspicious applications filed on behalf of the Republican Party of Florida by trumping up accusations against them.

Florida Division of Elections spokesman Chris Cate told reporters last week that forms filed by the state Democratic Party, the Florida New Majority Education Fund and the National Council of La Raza involved "potential irregular voter registration activities" that "constituted a legally sufficient complaint of voter registration fraud."

The allegations were announced two days after the FDLE launched a criminal investigation into voter applications filed by Strategic Allied Consulting, a private firm hired by the RPOF to register voters. Hundreds of questionable registration forms have been found in a dozen counties, spanning from South Florida to the Panhandle. Republicans, who had made voter fraud a top campaign issue, reacted swiftly by firing the firm and filing an elections complaint against it. (Source)

October 15, 2012: Election Fraud in Florida

A Florida woman [who used to live in Oshkosh, Wisconsin], pleaded no contest Monday to charges she committed election fraud in Milwaukee in 2009 and was sentenced to probation and the time she's already been in jail. Yadira Colón, 45, was arrested in Florida this year on a warrant first issued in November 2009. She was charged with forging signatures on nomination papers for Pedro Colón, then a Democratic member of the Wisconsin Assembly from Milwaukee, and now a circuit judge. The two are not related.

Yadira Colón was also charged with registering to vote in Milwaukee in 2008, by listing an address in the city when she in fact resided in Oshkosh at the time. She then cast an absentee ballot in Milwaukee, according to prosecutors. She had been scheduled for trial Monday when she entered the plea bargain. Prosecutors agreed to drop two charges, and Colón pleaded no contest to two others. Circuit Judge Dennis Moroney sentenced Colón to the 16 days she already spend in jail for one count, and to six months – suspended – on the second, with the condition of a year's probation, which he allowed to be transferred to Florida. (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

October 15, 2012: Voter Fraud in California

Hearing officer Debra Yang concluded Monday that voter fraud occurred during the June City Council election in Vernon [California], the Los Angeles Times reports. If the City Council approves the decision, it would tilt the race from Reno Bellamy to Luz Martinez, who had been trailing 34 votes to 30. Yang threw out seven of the 64 ballots that were cast and declared a new winner. That's out of Vernon's total population of 112. Five of the voters weren't residents of the city, according to Yang, while two others didn't properly mail in their ballots. (Source) and (Source)

October 16, 2012: Election Fraud in Florida

The self-described “Queen of Absentee Ballots,” has gone missing in the middle of a civil trial that could determine the ultimate victor in a race for District 107 in the Florida House.

On Tuesday, a Leon County judge approved an order calling on police to track down Noucelie Josna and haul her into court. “This is a pickup order,” said J.C. Planas, an attorney for Rep. John Patrick Julien, D-North Miami. Julien is challenging the results of the August primary against Rep. Barbara Watson, D-Miami Gardens, who won the razor-thin election by 13 votes in a district that is dominated by Haitian-Americans.

Josna — and the business card listing her as royalty in the realm of absentee ballots — have become central figures in the case between Julien and Watson.

In his lawsuit, Julien alleges that Josna and a woman named Carline Paul gathered several fraudulent absentee ballots from nursing homes and apartments. Josna has not responded to a court-ordered subpoena and a private investigator hired by Julien has not been able to track her down.

On Tuesday, Judge Charles Francis reviewed more than 150 absentee ballots from two contested precincts in the race and found six of them to be invalid. (Source) and (Source)

October 17, 2012: Ballot-Tampering in Massachusetts

A judge set a $10,000 cash bail for Enrico "Jack" Villamaino, after the former East Longmeadow [Massachusetts] Selectman pleaded innocent to a 12-count election fraud indictment.... [D]istrict attorney Mark Mastroianni outlined a complex ballot-tampering scheme that also involved Villamaino's new wife and co-defendant, Courtney Llewellyn. (Source) and (Source)

October 17, 2012: Voter Fraud in Ohio

Three Franklin County [Ohio] residents face felony charges of voter fraud after the Board of Elections reported that they had voted more than once in a past election. Each was indicted yesterday by a Franklin County grand jury on one count of illegal voting. They are accused of voting twice by casting absentee ballots under slightly different names.... In each case, the voter requested, received and returned absentee ballots in both names, an official in the board’s petitions and filings department said. (Source)

October 19, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Virginia

A campaign worker linked to a controversial Republican consulting firm has been arrested in Virginia and charged with throwing voter registration forms into a dumpster. The suspect, Colin Small, 31, was described by a local law enforcement official as a "supervisor" in a Republican Party financed operation to register voters in Rockingham County in rural Virginia, a key swing state in the Nov. 6 election. He was arrested after a local business owner in the same Harrisonburg, Va., shopping center where the local GOP campaign headquarters is located spotted Small tossing a bag into the trash, according to a statement Thursday by the Rockingham County Sheriff’s office. The bag was later found to contain eight voter registration forms, it said. (Source) (Source)

October 19, 2012: Voter Fraud in Florida

St Augustine Beach [Florida] is attracting more attention today, and not because of the sun and fun we’ve come to enjoy — former Mayor Frank Charles tells Historic City News that he is bringing in the Florida Division of Elections to investigate what he alleges is voter fraud in the November election for City Commissioner.

In documents filed with the Secretary of State, Charles claims that the father of City Commissioner Undine Pawlowski, 68-year-old Michel S Pawlowski, has fraudulently misrepresented his place of residence at the beach, presumably so that her gentleman friend, Edward Stephen George, can pick up another critical vote. (Source)

October 22, 2012: Election Fraud in Colorado

The Colorado Republican Party is set to file a formal letter of complaint to the Larimer County clerk’s office after apparently catching Obama supporters offering free t-shirts and pizza to students who voted early at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. (Source)

October 22, 2012: Election Fraud in Arkansas

The plan: offering cheap vodka ... for votes. It was part of a scheme to steal an election in eastern Arkansas that included absentee ballot fraud and buying votes with money, food and even alcohol. "I guess I always knew all along it was wrong, but I really didn't think it was that big a deal," explained former Democratic state Rep. Hudson Hallum. "I always heard ... that's what everybody did."

Hallum and three others have pleaded guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to commit election fraud during the special election that put him in the Arkansas House of Representatives in 2011. A total of nine people have been charged by federal and state authorities in connection with the plan.

According to the indictment filed by the U.S. attorney's office in Little Rock, Hallum told co-defendant Phillip Wayne Cater, a West Memphis, Arkansas City Councilman, "We need to use that black limo and buy a couple of cases of some cheap vodka and whiskey to get people to vote." (Source) and (Source)

October 22, 2012: Election Fraud in Florida

The Florida Division of elections and state law enforcement officials are investigating "multiple" bogus letters sent to Florida voters to inform them that they have been flagged as suspected illegal, non-citizen voters.

"I sat there and actually had to read it a couple times because I didn't understand what it said at first," Republican Charles Callaghan of Ponte Vedra recounted to Buzz about the letter he opened Saturday. It claimed to be from the St. Johns County elections supervisor, informing him that elections officials had been informed he may be ineligible to vote and "registering to vote under fraudulent conditions or swearing a false oath are both third degree felonies in Florida."

"We've received multiple reports of a fraudulent letter that impersonates supervisors of elections and indicates that eligible voters might be ineligible," said Chris Cate, spokesman for the Division of Elections. "We're working with the state's supervisors of elections as well law enforcement to identify the source of the letters and put a stop to them."

The postmark was from Seattle, Washington, as were other similar letters received across Florida. The letters appear to be going mostly or entirely to Republicans in Florida.

The FBI and U.S. Postal Service inspectors are investigating bogus official-looking letters sent to voters in at least 28 Florida counties questioning their citizenship and their eligibility to vote, NBC News has learned.

David Couvertier, a spokesman for the FBI in Tampa, said his office opened up an investigation into the possible attempt at voter intimidation on Wednesday after receiving reports that eligible voters throughout the state have received the letters. (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

October 23, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Louisiana

A DeSoto Parish [Louisiana] School Board member already facing federal drug charges has been arrested for voter registration fraud. Sheriff's deputies picked up 30-year-old Barthlomew Claiborne in Mansfield on Tuesday and booked him into the DeSoto Parish Detention Center. The [Shreveport] Times reports the arrest warrant was based on a complaint by the Louisiana Secretary of State's Election and Compliance Unit. It accuses Claiborne of "procuring falsified voter registration applications." Additional details were not immediately available. (Source) and (Source)

October 23, 2012: Malfunctioning Voting Machines in North Carolina

Guilford County [North Carolina] voters tried to vote for Romney but the name automatically defaulted to Obama. It was supposedly caused by a ”glitch” in one of their voting machines and has since been fixed, but how many people voted before they realized it?

According to MyFox8.com, voter Sher Coromalis says she cast her ballot for Governor Mitt Romney, but every time she entered her vote the machine defaulted to President Obama. “I was so upset that this could happen,” said Coromalis.

Now, some voters are concerned about polling locations in Jamestown and Pleasant Garden. Faurest Stum says she voted at the Pleasant Garden Town Hall location. Her vote was for Mitt Romney, but the machine cast the vote for Barack Obama.... Guilford County Board of Elections Director George Gilbert says the problem arises every election. It can be resolved after the machine is re-calibrated by poll workers. “It’s not a conspiracy it’s just a machine that needs to be corrected,” Gilbert said. After the third try, Coromalis says she was able to get her vote counted for Gov. Romney but was still annoyed. “I should have just mailed it in,” Coromalis said. (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

October 24, 2012: Voter Fraud in Virginia

A new undercover video from James O’Keefe and Project Veritas shows Pat Moran, son of longtime incumbent Congressman Jim Moran (D-VA) and field director for his father’s re-election campaign, instructing a supporter in how to use fraudulent documents to cast a hundred illegal votes:

There’s not much question about what happens here. An undercover operative posing as a very enthusiastic supporter says he’s got a hundred names of people who probably aren’t going to vote, and he wants to cast their ballots for them.

Moran is “initially lukewarm about the idea of voting on others’ behalf,” as narrator O’Keefe puts it, suggesting that a legitimate “get out the vote” effort would be a better investment of effort… but he’s quite willing to give some helpful advice for evading the flimsy existing voter identification procedures. He’s even got tips for making sure that the prospective targets for ballot theft are truly “inactive” voters, rather than people who already voted early. It’s obviously a subject he’s given some thought to. And by the end of the conversation, he’s a lot less “lukewarm” about the idea. In fact, he thinks it’s pretty funny. (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

October 26, 2012: Voter Fraud in Virginia

A high-ranking official with Congressman Jim Moran’s (D-Va) re-election campaign was recently caught on video encouraging an undercover reporter to forge documents in order to cast phony ballots in the upcoming Virginia election. Moran had been previously caught on film demanding that constituents show their IDs at a local town hall meeting.

Patrick Moran, son of Democratic Virginia Congressman Jim Moran and field director of the Congressman’s reelection campaign, was forced to resign after the video was made public. Moran’s transgression was captured in a conversation he had on video with an undercover investigative reporter with Project Veritas, a conservative nonprofit group investigating election fraud in the United States.

The undercover reporter had approached Moran, asking him how he could cast votes on behalf of nearly 100 Virginia residents he knew were registered but who weren’t planning to vote in the upcoming election.

Virginia voter ID law, which does not require photo identification, instead allows voters to cast ballots by providing substitute documents, such as paychecks, library cards, utility bills, and bank statements. Yet, despite the fraudulent request, Moran counseled the reporter that while there would be “a lot of voter protection” at the polling places to enforce the ID laws, the plan would work if he produced a “utility bill or bank statement…Bank statement would obviously be tough…but faking a utility bill would be easy enough,” adding, “You’d have to forge it.”

Moreover, Moran was also quick to advise that if a problem arose at a polling place, the reporter needn’t worry because his back would be covered by “an Obama for America lawyer, or another Democrat lawyer…on hand to provide help…You’ll have somebody in house, that if they feel that what you have is legitimate, they’ll argue for you.” (Source)

October 29, 2012: Election Fraud in West Virginia

With early and absentee voting already underway, West Virginia and federal officials are hoping to prevent any fraud before it happens as Election Day approaches. Authorities have reason to be wary. As recently as 2010, conspiracies have plotted to sway balloting in the state. The since-resigned sheriff and clerk of Lincoln County, along with one of its commissioners, pleaded guilty earlier this year to federal charges arising from a scheme to influence the 2010 Democratic primary with absentee ballots. (Source)

October 30, 2012: Voter Fraud in Arizona

[In Pima County, Arizona] F. Ann Rodriguez said, while verifying signatures, her operators came across a signature that did not match that of two voters, a husband and wife. Her office then contacted the couple, who confirmed they had not even received their ballots in the mail, "and then what we ultimately did was send a team of representatives from our office to their actual house with replacement ballots so they could vote their ballot, so they could actually see what we had received, and they acknowledged that that was not them." Rodriguez said the investigation is on-going, including the possibility the ballots may have been stolen.

According to Rodriguez, the phony signatures are a first, however, operators have come across hundreds of questionable ballots. The most common occurrence involves husbands and wives who sign for each other, parents who vote for their children who may be off to college, and signatures from a power of attorney, none of which are acceptable. (Source)

October 30, 2012: Voter Fraud in North Carolina

Former [North Carolina] Town Councilwoman Linda Lyons faces voter fraud-related charges after allegedly trying to vote twice during last year’s election, according to a Wake County prosecutor. Lyons is scheduled to appear in court Nov. 19 on the misdemeanor charge, said Wake County Assistant District Attorney Steven Saad. If convicted, Lyons could be sentenced to up to 120 days in jail, he said.

Lyons, who had served 12 years on the Morrisville Town Council, was running for re-election last year when she faced allegations that she violated state election laws by mishandling absentee ballots, improperly witnessing absentee ballots and trying to vote twice. She lost her seat by three votes after an appeal to the state elections board dragged on for several months.

Lyons filed an early-voting ballot Oct. 24, 2011, and then attempted to vote again on Election Day at her precinct, officials at the county board of elections said at the time. “I forgot I had voted earlier,” Lyons had said. “Do you know how much I have going on? I’ve been campaigning, taking care of my father, and I’m a single parent. I forgot.” (Source)

October 31, 2012: Voter Fraud in Massachusetts

Two years ago I committed voter fraud. It was completely unintentional, but despite my best efforts my vote was counted as someone else’s, and this was all because of the way in which the system in Massachusetts is set up.

Like many college students, I mailed in my absentee ballot in 2010. What made my case different was that in Massachusetts, you don’t have to be a registered voter to vote absentee. So long as you are eligible to be a registered voter and are a resident of Massachusetts but absent from the state, overseas, or in jail for anything but a felony conviction, you can vote absentee in Massachusetts.

I thought this was strange, but it allowed me to vote so I didn’t mind much. I filled out the application, with my full name, my address, date of birth, and everything else. My social security number wasn’t needed. I got my ballot in the mail a few weeks later, voted, and sent it back.

I didn’t think anything of it again until I got a call from my father on Election Day, and he told me that my absentee vote had been counted as his vote. Because we had the same first and last name, same address, and he was registered and I was not – whoever counted the votes counted my vote as his. To do this, our middle names would have had to be ignored, as well as our birth dates. (Source)

October 31, 2012: Malfunctioning Voting Machine in Ohio

Joan Stevens was one of several early voters at the polls on Monday. But when Stevens tried to cast her ballot for president, she noticed a problem. Upon selecting "Mitt Romney" on the electronic touch screen, Barack Obama's name lit up. It took Stevens three tries before her selection was accurately recorded.

Fox News has received several complaints from voters who say they voted on touch-screen voting machines – only when they tried to select Mitt Romney, the machine indicated they had chosen President Obama. The voters in question realized the error and were able to cast ballots for their actual choice.

"I don't know if it happened to anybody else or not, but this is the first time in all the years that we voted that this has ever happened to me," said Marion, Ohio, voter Joan Stevens. Stevens said that when she voted, it took her three tries before the machine accepted her choice to vote for Romney. "I went to vote and I got right in the middle of Romney's name," Stevens toldFox News, saying that she was certain to put her finger directly on her choice for the White House. She said that the first time she pushed "Romney," the machine marked "Obama." So she pushed Romney again. Obama came up again. Then it happened a third time. "Maybe you make a mistake once, but not three times," she told Fox News. (Source) and (Source)

October 31, 2012: Malfunctioning Voting Machine in Kansas

Nancy from Topeka, Kansas, who asked that her last name not be used for reasons pertaining to her husband’s work, toldTheBlaze she fears if voters aren’t double checking their selections, they’ll be “robbed of their vote.” Nancy explained that while her husband was casting a vote for Romney, the touchscreen highlighted Obama.

“He played around with the field a little and realized that in order to vote for Romney, his finger had to be exactly on the mark,” Nancy wrote in an email. She said “the invisible Obama field came down about 1/4 [of an inch]” into what should technically have been the Romney area. In a phone interview with TheBlaze, she explained further that her husband said he felt the area on the touchscreen that could be pushed to vote for Obama was larger than that for Romney.

Nancy and her husband called the Kansas Secretary of State to report the problem and were informed that it was most likely a calibration issue. (Source)

November 1, 2012: Voter Fraud in Maryland

A Democratic nominee for Congress had to resign in Maryland last month because she had voted in two states at the same time. (Source)

November 1, 2012: Voter Fraud in Arkansas

An Arkansas state legislator resigned from office after pleading guilty along with a City Councilman and police officer to committing voter fraud. (Source)

November 1, 2012: Voter Fraud in Iowa

In Iowa, a Canadian couple and a Mexican citizen were charged with illegally voting in U.S. elections. (Source)

November 1, 2012: [25-Part Series by Watchdog.org on “Voter Fraud”] (Main Page Source)

* CO: Cheaper, cleaner voter rolls! Now available in 7 states!
Part 25 of 25 in the series Voter Fraud (Source)

* FL: The all-out battle to fix the Florida elections
Part 24 of 25 in the series Voter Fraud (Source)

* VA: Latest voter-fraud sting nabs son of long-serving Dem Congressman
Part 23 of 25 in the series Voter Fraud (Source)

* FL: Bloated voter rolls show capacity for fraud, say analysts
Part 22 of 25 in the series Voter Fraud (Source)

* TX: DNC fires staffer in voter registration video flap
Part 21 of 25 in the series Voter Fraud (Source)

* VA: Group warns of ‘vote harvesting’ at nursing homes
Part 20 of 25 in the series Voter Fraud (Source)

* CO: Dirty voter rolls plague crucial swing state
Part 19 of 25 in the series Voter Fraud (Source)

* MT: McCulloch denies voter fraud’s existence, but absentees could be exploited
Part 18 of 25 in the series Voter Fraud (Source)

* VA: Video: Obama workers enable double-voting across state lines
Part 17 of 25 in the series Voter Fraud (Source)

* OH: Obama voter fraud in TX would be felony in Ohio
Part 16 of 25 in the series Voter Fraud (Source)

* CO: County clerks wage war with Secretary of State over voting issues
Part 15 of 25 in the series Voter Fraud (Source)

* Video: Undercover investigation finds voter fraud
Part 14 of 25 in the series Voter Fraud (Source)

* FL: Obama campaign workers silent in face of voter fraud
Part 13 of 25 in the series Voter Fraud (Source)

* Various States: Obama voter fraud would be crime here, too
Part 12 of 25 in the series Voter Fraud (Source)

* FL: Swing-state magnet for fraudulent double voting
Part 11 of 25 in the series Voter Fraud (Source)

* IA: Convicted felons charged with election misconduct
Part 10 of 25 in the series Voter Fraud (Source)

* IA: Lawmaker wants investigation into Secretary of State’s spending
Part 9 of 25 in the series Voter Fraud (Source)

* FL: Multistate voters emerge amid absentee ballot flurry
Part 8 of 25 in the series Voter Fraud (Source)

* FL: Vote fraud denier Ted Deutch calls for investigation into voter fraud
Part 7 of 25 in the series Voter Fraud (Source)

* IA: Suspicious ballots bring out criminal investigators
Part 6 of 25 in the series Voter Fraud (Source)

* FL: ACLU acknowledges absentee voter fraud in Sunshine State elections
Part 5 of 25 in the series Voter Fraud (Source)

* WI: Legal questions remain over GAB’s approval of electronic proof of residency
Part 4 of 25 in the series Voter Fraud (Source)

* FL: Julien says absentee vote ‘fraudsters’ are ‘trial run to presidential election’
Part 3 of 25 in the series Voter Fraud (Source)

* FL. Video: State lawmaker: we must stop ‘absentee ballot fraudsters’
Part 2 of 25 in the series Voter Fraud (Source)

* FL: Lopez-Cantera: opponent claiming fraud because he’s ‘unhappy because he lost’
Part 1 of 25 in the series Voter Fraud (Source)

November 2, 2012: Malfunctioning Voting Machines in NV, NC, CO, TX, OH, & KS

Imagine going to vote for your presidential candidate and pushing the button on a touch-screen voting machine – but the "X" marks his opponent instead. That is what some voters in Nevada, North Carolina, Colorado, Texas and Ohio have reported.

Last week, TheBlaze brought you a story from a North Carolina voting precinct using electronic voting machines that was already experiencing issues where votes for GOP candidate Mitt Romney were being changed to Democratic candidate Barack Obama. Now, it’s allegedly happening again, this time in both Kansas and Ohio — and we talked to a vendor supporting the machines about the issue. (Source)

November 2, 2012: Possible Voter Fraud in Nevada

Investigators today arrested a Southern Nevada woman suspected of trying to vote twice this week at two different polling locations. [Roxanne] Rubin allegedly cast a vote Monday at the Anthem Community Center in Henderson. Later that day, she tried to vote a second time at an early voting location on Eastern Avenue, investigators said.

When Rubin arrived at the second location, a poll worker conducted a routine database check and found Rubin had already voted. When confronted by the poll worker, Rubin denied having voted and claimed the database used by the poll worker was wrong. (Source) and (Source)

November 2, 2012: Election Fraud in California

It's a discovery that's got Bernice and Wardell Chavis outraged. For the second time this month the couple has found remnants of mail-in-ballots tossed in the gutter near their Vallejo [California] home. Two weeks ago while out for a walk, the couple found three soggy ballots in the gutter. Then last week, in the very same spot, they discovered a voter's envelope with the ballot missing. (Source)

November 2, 2012: Voter Fraud in North Carolina

A double killer who was judged mentally insane at his trial has registered and voted from the mental hospital where he is confined. The voting activity of Wendell Justin Williamson, a patient at Central Regional Hospital in Butner, North Carolina, resulted from increased voter registration efforts at state mental hospitals for the developmentally disabled, Carolina Journal reports.

Williamson was registered on Sept. 13 at Central Regional as an unaffiliated voter. He cast an absentee ballot that was accepted Oct. 15 by the Granville County Board of Elections, Carolina Journal reports. In January 1995, Williamson, a law student, killed two strangers with an M-1 rifle in a street shootout near the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the Journal says. He was judged not guilty by reason of insanity. (Source) and (Source)

November 2, 2012: Election Fraud in Oregon

A temporary elections employee allegedly tampered with ballots to cast additional votes for Republican candidates in Clackamas County [Oregon], where several hotly contested races could tilt the balance of power in cities, the county and even the state legislature. (Source)

November 2, 2012: Election Fraud in Texas

The Texas Secretary of State has asked the state Attorney General to look into a complaint of "vote-harvesting" centered around a San Antonio cemetery. (Source)

November 2, 2012: Election Fraud in South Dakota

The South Dakota GOP accused Democrats on Thursday of trying to buy votes by serving food at a series of get-out-the-vote rallies, but event organizers insisted their chili was legit. State GOP Chairman Tony Post said in a news release that the recent rallies were "eerily similar" to the events that sparked the 2010 investigations. That year, Democratic volunteers offered people at some rallies rides to polling places so they could vote early. Republicans accused Democrats of violating state and federal laws by offering people food in exchange for their votes. (Source)


November 3, 2012: Voter-Regstration Fraud in Several States (ACORN)

Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys, including Quarterback Tony Romo, were names that ACORN workers attempted to register to vote during the 2008 presidential election. The ensuing outrage sparked a voter registration fraud scandal that helped lead to the activist group's demise, and put new focus on the integrity of third-party voter registration efforts during Presidential elections.

Now, four years later, the name: John Adolf Hitler, was one of those turned in on a voter registration form collected by another group in Cincinnati [Ohio], according to the Hamilton County Board of Elections. "It's certainly not a joke. In Ohio, that kind of activity is a felony," says Alex Triantafilou, an Elections Board member who also serves as the Chairman of the county's Republican party. (Source)

November 4, 2012: Voter Fraud in Nevada

Voter registration fraud is not a groundless conspiracy. It is not a hypothetical threat to election integrity. In Nevada, a battleground state that could decide the presidency and control of the U.S. Senate, it is real.

Last week, I met with two immigrant noncitizens who are not eligible to vote, but who nonetheless are active registered voters for Tuesday's election. They said they were signed up by Culinary Local 226. They speak and understand enough English to get by. But they don't read English especially well. They say the Culinary official who registered them to vote didn't tell them what they were signing and didn't ask whether they were citizens. The immigrants said they trusted that the union official's request was routine, thought nothing of it and went about their work.

Then the election drew closer. Then the Culinary canvassers started seeking them out and ordering them to go vote. One of the immigrants was visited at home by a Culinary representative and said the operative made threats of deportation if no ballot was cast. (Source)

November 4, 2012: Election Fraud in Iowa

Muscatine [Iowa] resident Craig White says a Democratic campaign worker somehow gave his 75-year-old mother the impression that it was OK for her to sign his name on an absentee ballot request form when he wasn’t home. It’s a felony under Iowa’s voting laws to falsify a signature.

“It shocked me, and it really almost made me change my vote,” said White, a Democrat. “As far as I’m concerned, my civil rights were violated.” (Source)

November 5, 2012: Election Fraud in Florida

Anamary Pedrosa, involved in Hialeah’s absentee-ballot bundling scandal, swore to authorities that she was not aware of the Miami-Dade County [Florida] ordinance that prohibits the collection of absentee ballots — even though her own boss, County Commissioner Esteban Bovo, cosponsored the measure.

The 25-year-old did admit, however, that she did everything she could to conceal the ballots she systematically collected from well-known ballot-brokers, or boleteros, in Bovo’s Hialeah office – even carrying the ballots in grocery bags and wrapped in newspapers from the office to the trunk of her car.

Under oath, Pedrosa explained to Miami-Dade public-corruption prosecutor Tim VanderGiesen and detective Joaquín García, from the Miami-Dade Police Department’s Public Corruption Unit, her role in the amassing of 164 absentee ballots in Hialeah. Her statement, obtained by The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald, shows that authorities did not interrogate the young woman as a suspect in the absentee ballot fraud investigation.

In exchange for her testimony, Pedrosa received immunity from prosecution. But on Aug. 10, the day after she was questioned, authorities arrested one of Hialeah’s most prolific boleteros: Sergio Robaina, the uncle of former Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina.

“I don’t know why Anamary snitched on me,” said Robaina, 74, after reading Pedrosa’s testimony last week. “I was stunned. It’s sad and painful.”

Pedrosa’s statement was released week as part of the discovery in the criminal case against Robaina, charged with two felony counts of manipulating absentee ballots and two misdemeanor counts of violating the county ordinance. Pedrosa has not responded to repeated requests for comment. (Source)

November 5, 2012: Voter Fraud in North Carolina

The father of a mentally handicapped woman claims his daughter and others were “carted off” to a North Carolina polling site last week and “coaxed” into voting for President Obama by workers of the group home where she stays – a claim the owner of the home disputes and that apparently has not yet triggered an investigation by election officials.

The father, Cecil Pearson, said his daughter – who is 40 but has the “mentality ... of a 7-year-old” – was “brainwashed the night before” and then taken to a Roanoke Rapids polling site on Friday to vote. He said his daughter told him what happened when he picked her up on Sunday.

“They brought her a piece of paper and they indicated which block to check,” Pearson told FoxNews.com. “She voted for Barack Obama and was coaxed into doing that.” He claimed “more than four” people were brought to the site. (Source)

November 5, 2012: Voter Fraud in Virginia

The daughter of an Alzheimer’s patient is fighting mad that a Henrico County [Virginia] rehabilitation facility cast her mother’s vote in the face of warnings that the elderly woman “doesn’t know what she is doing.”

Janet Benedict, of Louisa, told Watchdog.org she was stunned when the activities director at Lexington Court informed her that 81-year-old Dorene Hagen had voted via absentee ballot. “(Lexington) had called me on Oct. 12 and asked about my mother’s county of residence and whether she had voted in the last election,” Benedict related. “I told them, ‘You know she has Alzheimer’s, right?’ I’m not worried about her voting; I’m worried about her rehabilitation. I thought that was the end of the conversation.”

But at a care meeting Oct. 24, Benedict was informed by Lexington staffers that her mother had, in fact, voted. When an argument ensued, Hagen chimed in: “I don’t need to vote.” “She didn’t even know she had voted. She hasn’t voted since 1998,” said Benedict, who has full power of attorney for her mother.
Benedict says that neither she nor her mother knows who Hagen voted for. (Source)

November 5, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Massachusetts

When police arrested Joel Santiago-Vazquez last year, they found a stash of powder and crack cocaine hidden in a false bottom of a Pringles potato chip can. Police also found, according to their report, that federal immigration authorities had "no record of (his) entering the country". A detainer was issued, and Santiago-Vazquez became one more illegal immigrant caught in the crosshairs of the federal government. But FOX Undercover found out something else about Santiago-Vazquez. He's been registered to vote from his home address in Lawrence [Massachusetts] since 2010.

Our investigation shows he's not the only registered voter in Lawrence who is not a citizen. By cross-checking Lawrence voter records with criminal records that included records indicating lack of citizenship, we found three others. (Source)

November 6, 2012: Election Fraud in Various States

At this very moment, Project Veritas investigators are all over the country capturing some extremely disturbing Election Day footage. For instance, at MULTIPLE voting locations we caught poll supervisors ON CAMERA telling people not to vote for Romney! Some were even openly mocking his Mormon beliefs. (Source)

November 6, 2012: Election Fraud in Pennsylvania

Republican Party of Pennsylvania Chairman Rob Gleason released the following statement regarding the first court order issued by the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas to seat Republican Minority Inspectors in Philadelphia Polling places: “This was a shameless attempt from the Obama campaign to suppress our legally appointed Republican poll watchers in Philadelphia and they got caught,” Chairman Rob Gleason said.

“We’ve seen these shenanigans before and it’s clear that Democratic operatives and the Obama campaign are desperate; trying to shield Republican Minority Inspectors who are employees of the City of Philadelphia today from monitoring election activities. It certainly raises the question, what are Democrats doing in the polls that they are working so hard to shield folks from monitoring this election?”

So far this morning, Democratic operatives prohibited 75 legally credentialed Republican election workers from accessing polling places in heavily Democratic areas in Philadelphia. Incidents ranged from judges of elections refusing to seat Republican Minority Inspectors and Clerks, to reports of Democratic election operatives announcing that “No Republicans will be allowed in the polling place.” (Source)

November 6, 2012: Voter Fraud in IA, MD, FL, PA, & AR

In Iowa, they just jailed three people for voting illegally. They were non-citizens: two Canadians and a Mexican. In Maryland, the Democratic Congressional nominee in the Annapolis District had to resign. Why? Because she had been voting in Florida and Maryland in the same elections for years – very civically minded! A couple of years before that, a former Democratic Congressman in Pennsylvania was convicted of voter fraud. His crime was going into nursing homes filled with Alzheimer's Disease patients and, shall we say, assisting them unnecessarily with their ballots....

[In Arkansas] a jury convicted a Democratic state legislator, a city Councilman in West Memphis, and a police official at West Memphis, on 45 counts of [voter fraud]. (Source)

November 6, 2012: Voter Fraud in North Carolina

In North Carolina, PJ Media reports that one “Andrew Gail Holmes voted early in Sampson County, North Carolina, and then appeared at their precinct today to vote again, according to the staff director of the Sampson County Board of Elections, Donna Mashburn.” “We have a gentleman who had early voted,” Mashburn said, “and went to his precinct to vote. (Source)

November 6, 2012: Election Fraud in New York

Not even a Senate candidate is immune from strange goings on at the polling sites. Wendy Long, the Republican candidate for Senate in New York, said she went to cast her vote Tuesday morning and got the runaround from a poll worker. Voting in the very blue New York borough of Manhattan, where voters fill out paper ballots, slip them into a “privacy sleeve” and then insert them into a scanner, Long said she had hers ripped away by a poll worker.

"A poll worker who was at the scanner studied my private ballot and proceeded to tell me that it was rejected because I did not 'fill in every space,’” Long said. “She then proceeded to indicate that I should mark the Democratic line all the way down.”

Long, a seasoned attorney who was a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and has served as an adviser to Mitt Romney for several years, said she knew better. She had elected not to mark the boxes next to Democrats who were running unopposed in local races, but that should not have made her ballot invalid.

“I said, I'm sorry, but that just can't be the case ... that would force me to vote for people I don't want to vote for,” Long, 52, recounted. Long, who is running against incumbent Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillebrand and came to the polls with her family, said she demanded to be allowed to manually feed her own ballot into the scanner – which worked. (Source)

November 6, 2012: Election Misconduct in Pennsylvania

Is Pennsylvania leaning more towards Mitt Romney than the polls and Obama think? There are some shocking reports coming out of the swing-state of Pennsylvania today, raising the question that voter fraud could take place.

In Philadelphia, the Black Panthers are currently standing outside polling booths, intimidating voters just like they did in 2008. You’ll recall that in 2008, one member of the Black Panthers group was seen outside a Pennsylvania polling center, holding a billy club during the election four years ago. The group was later criminally prosecuted for voter intimidation, but the charges were later dropped by the Department of Justice.

Clearly for this election cycle, those criminal charges didn’t stop them from practicing the same activities. Fortunately, to help counter the Black Panther’s intimidation tactics, a group of former Navy Seals are set to also stand guard outside these polling centers, to make sure the Panthers don’t bother anyone on their way to vote.

In addition to the Black Panthers’ presence, nearly 70 Republican polling inspectors were blocked from numerous polling booths in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania today. According to one GOP official, “just under 70″ Republican election officials had been prevented from entering the Philly polling sites this morning by Democrats. One had reportedly been “shoved out of the polling place.” A judge issued an order earlier today that Republican election officials across Philadelphia who had been ejected or refused entry by on-site Democratic voting chief judges had to be reinstated.

These inspectors are court appointed officials that have a main goal of monitoring the electoral process and making sure every ballot is counted and that voter fraud isn’t taking place.

Officials from both political parties are supposed to be present, but the Republicans in Pennsylvania have since been blocked from monitoring. (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

November 6, 2012: Election Misconduct in Michigan

The Michigan GOP is complaining that one of its poll watchers was threatened with a gun. The poll watcher, a lawyer, was confronted by a voter who demanded that he show his credentials. The poll watcher complied with the request – but the voter objected and allegedly brandished a gun and badge and ordered him to leave the precinct. The GOP observer was reportedly chased away by the unidentified gun-wielding individual. (Source) and (Source)

November 6, 2012: Election fraud in North Carolina

Ken Sharpe, of High Point, North Carolina, told Fox News that he was waiting in line to vote when he noticed a poll worker approach a woman who needed help. The incident occurred at the Springfield Friends Church polling station in the city’s third ward. Sharpe said he watched as the worker showed the woman where the Obama button was – along with all the other Democrats on the ticket. “She was pushing the buttons he told her to push,” Sharpe said. “This is pretty shady.” (Source) and (Source)

November 6, 2012: Election Misconduct in Ohio

True the Vote, a national organization dedicated to free and fair elections, was just reported to have been barred from several Ohio polling places. (Source) and (Source)

November 6, 2012: Election Fraud in Florida

A robocall from a Florida elections office told thousands of voters they have until Wednesday evening to vote. (Source) and (Source)

November 6, 2012: Election Fraud in Chicago

In Obama’s home turf of Chicago, a voter at the Ward 4, Precinct 37 polling place (1212 South Plymouth Court, Chicago, Illinois), photographed “an election judge checking in voters while wearing an Obama hat.” According to the Weekly Standardposting, “The voter who took the photo says: ‘Woman in front of me also given an extra ballot.’” (Source) and (Source)

November 6, 2012: Election Misconduct in Philadelphia

A giant mural of President Obama adorned the wall inside a Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] polling place. And although a judge subsequently ordered the Obama mural be covered up “in its entirety,” poll workers instead “slapped up a few pieces of paper that only partially covered his image,” Fox reported, “while leaving the Obama campaign logo and a quote from the current president in full view for voters.”

Likewise, a poster featuring President Obama – with the message “Change the Atmosphere” – was reported to be hanging on a wall inside a polling station at the Jack L. McLean Community Center in Tallahassee, Fla., as depicted in this photo reportedly taken by a voter there. (Source)
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November 6, 2012: Voter Fraud in Virginia

The former Digital Director of the National Republican Congressional Committee tells Townhall he fears he's been victimized by voter fraud in the key swing state of Virginia. His early morning ordeal played out in the House district of Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA), whose 23-year-old son abruptly resigned from the campaign in late October, after being caught on film conspiring to count illegal votes. When the NRCC alumnus arrived to vote at his polling place in Alexandria this morning, his attempt to cast a ballot was rebuffed by election officials: "I got inside, they set me up, I gave the woman my ID, and I told her my address. She said, 'it seems you've voted absentee.' Then she realized she'd read the sheet wrong. 'No, it says here that you've already voted,' she told me. I hadn't even applied for an absentee ballot, nor did I vote early. As hokey as it sounds, I was excited to vote in person. I had absolutely not voted earlier that day. I arrived four minutes after they opened. Basically, I was told I'd already voted, but I hadn't."

The former GOP official says that prior to this year, he'd voted absentee in three consecutive elections, due to the nature of his position within the party. "I haven't voted in-person since 2004; I'd had to do absentee ballots because of my work – so I was really excited today. I got up at 5:45 am to get there early and I stood in line, in the cold, for an hour. I remember my mother taking me to register to for the draft and to vote on the morning of my 18th birthday, so this process has always been an extremely important thing to me. The idea that my vote may not be counted is a very big concern, and I don't know how to confirm if my [provisional] vote will even count." (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

November 7, 2012: Voter Fraud in Ohio

A couple from Forest Park [Ohio] showed up yesterday at the polls to vote just like they have ever since they turned 18. When it was their turn, they were both told that they had already voted via absentee ballot. The couple said that they have never voted absentee and wanted to know how this could happen. (Source)

November 8, 2012: Election Fraud in indiana

When South Bend, Indiana prosecutors charged local Democratic officials with faking 22 petitions to get President Obama,Hillary Clinton, and John Edwards on the 2008 Indiana ballot, [Ari] Berman [of The Nation] dismissed the incident as insignificant. (Source)

November 8, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Nevada

After the names of several Dallas Cowboys showed up on voter rolls in Nevada in 2008, Jesse Jackson Jr. said, “Obviously it's not right for a fake ‘Tony Romo’ to be registered in Las Vegas ... but remember the basic point[:] it's not voter fraud unless someone shows up at the voting booth on Election Day and tries to pass himself off as ‘Tony Romo.’” Four Democratic officials and political operatives in New York State pleaded guilty a year ago to voter fraud-related felony charges. The prosecution said that signatures were forged on absentee ballots which were then cast. "The phrase they use is: 'making sure they vote the right way,'" a source close to the case told reporters. (Source)

November 8, 2012: Voter Fraud in Mississippi

A Tunica, Mississippi jury sent Mississippi NAACP official Lessadolla Sowers to prison for five years in 2011. She was convicted of voting 10 times using the names of other people, some of whom were dead. (Source)

November 8, 2012: Possible Voter Fraud in New York

Allegations of voter fraud, intimidation and disenfranchisement cast a shadow over Tuesday's elections in Dutchess County [New York]. In Northern Dutchess, a number of voters from Bard College were denied the right to vote on machines because they had been deemed inactive by the county Board of Elections. Those voters instead cast their votes on affidavit ballots, which are counted only after being subjected to potential challenges. (Source)

November 8, 2012: Election Fraud in New York

A case of election fraud occurred in Flushing [New York] when a Korean-American translator helping voters at PS 20 was caught directing them to vote for Democratic candidates. A volunteer poll watcher confirmed the incident.

The translator, Sang Soo Park, was expelled from the polling place for breaking the law by telling at least three voters to choose the Democratic slate, according to the observer, attorney Daniel Baek. Baek is a certified poll watcher appointed by the Dan Halloran campaign who was charged with overseeing nine polling places including PS 20. He was called to the school after a Board of Elections site monitor overheard Park telling a voter whom to choose for the second time. Baek then observed Park doing the same thing with another voter. (Source)

November 9, 2012: Possible Voter Fraud in Ohio

Vote fraud expert Bev Harris told the Alex Jones Show that a substantial number of votes for Mitt Romney in the key battleground states of Florida and Ohio, both of which went to Obama, were not even counted before the result was announced. (Source)

November 11, 2012: Possible Election Fraud in Ohio

Barack Obama received more than 99% of the vote in more than 100 precincts in Cuyahoga County, Ohio on Election Day. In fact, there were a substantial number of precincts where Mitt Romney got exactly zero votes. So how in the world did this happen? Third world dictators don’t even get 99% of the vote. Overall, Mitt Romney received 30.12% of the vote in Cuyahoga County. There were even a bunch of precincts in Cuyahoga County that Romney actually won. But everyone certainly expected that Cuyahoga County would be Obama territory. And in most of the precincts that is exactly what we saw – large numbers of votes for both candidates but a definite edge for Obama. However, there are more than 100 precincts in Cuyahoga County where the voting results can only be described as truly bizarre.

Yes, we always knew that urban areas would lean very heavily toward Obama, but are we actually expected to believe that Obama got over 99% of the votes in those areas? In more than 50 different precincts, Romney received 2 votes or less. Considering how important the swing state of Ohio was to the national election, one would think that such improbable results would get the attention of somebody out there. Could we be looking at evidence of election fraud hidden in plain sight?

Perhaps if there were just one or two precincts where Obama got more than 99% of the vote we could dismiss the results as “statistical anomalies” and ignore them. But there were more than 100 precincts where this happened in the most important swing state in the nation. Maybe there is some rational explanation for the numbers that you are about to see. If there is, I would really love to hear it.

What makes all of this even more alarming is that there were reports of voting machine problems during early voting in Ohio. It was being reported that some voters were claiming that they tried to vote for Romney but that the voting machines kept recording their votes as votes for Obama. (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

November 11, 2012: Voter Fraud in Florida

Late Saturday Florida officials agreed to a full recount of early ballots then on Sunday abruptly excluded over half of them without clear reason.

Republican Congressman Allen West’s campaign is ready to “go to war” to get a recount in the Florida 18th Congressional District race. The latest twist to emerge from the ongoing vote count – in some precincts there are more ballots than voters.

Preliminary, unofficial vote totals were filed today in the neck and neck race between Mr. West and Democratic challenger Patrick Murphy. The Murphy campaign has already declared victory, but the numbers have not been officially certified and the count goes on. The West campaign believes that they are close to the .5% vote margin that will trigger an automatic recount under Florida election law.

The vote count has been marked by controversy. Poll watchers accuse local election officials of incompetence, intimidation and possible fraud. The latest twist is that in some precincts of St. Lucie County there appear to be dozens more ballots being counted than the number of voters. The West campaign is demanding St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections Gertrude Walker release the voter poll books that show how many voters actually showed up on Election Day to validate the count. “What we are saying is, open your books!” a source close to the West campaign told The Washington Times. (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

November 12, 2012: Voter Fraud in New York

Tomorrow, [New York] Board of Elections Commissioner Ed McDonough is slated to be back in front of a jury as his second voter fraud trial starts more than three years after the scandal first broke. His first trial, as I'm sure you know, ended in a hung jury for he and his co-defendant former Councilman Michael LoPorto.

More than three years after the scandal broke – shortly after the 2009 Working Families Party primary – we are still at it with McDonough's verdict still out there, obviously, and former Council President Clement Campana and Councilman Gary Galuski still under indictment for their alleged roles in the scam. (Source)

November 12, 2012: Election Fraud in Pennsylvania

Up to 10 percent of the ballots cast at a polling station in Pennsylvania reverted to a default, which gave Barack Obama a vote no matter who the voter had selected, according to a poll watcher who was a witness to the proceedings.

The incident took place in the state where officials claimed Obama got a total of 19,605 votes in 59 voting divisions to zero for Mitt Romney and not far from the 100 precincts in Ohio where Obama got 99 percent of the vote, a feat not even achieved by Third-World dictators, according to Market Daily News.

It was in Upper Macungie Township, near Allentown, Pa., where an auditor, Robert Ashcroft, was dispatched by Republicans to monitor the vote on Election Day. He said the software he observed would “change the selection back to default – to Obama.”

He said that happened in about 5 percent to 10 percent of the votes. He said the changes appeared to have been made by a software program. Ashcroft said the format for computer programming has a default status, and in this case it appeared to be designating a vote for Obama each time it went to default.

He found it suspicious that Romney and Obama were in a virtual tie in most polls, but Obama then suddenly surged ahead by a number of points on election night. (Source)

November 13, 2012: Possible Election Fraud in Several States

The outcome of the Nov. 6 presidential election shocked almost everyone, with very few analysts expecting Barack Obama to win so decisively and to take so many of the “battleground” states that seemed to be pulling toward Romney. But then the reports of voting irregularities started leaking out, then gushing out – like the 59 different Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] voting divisions in which Mitt Romney received zero votes compared to Obama’s 19,605. And the Cleveland precinct in which Obama beat Romney 542 to 0. (In fact, Romney received zero votes in nine Cleveland [Ohio] precincts.) And that’s just the beginning.

According to Philly.com, 59 voting divisions in Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] produced a “head-spinning figure,” not one vote for Romney. “The unanimous support for Obama in these Philadelphia neighborhoods – clustered in almost exclusively black sections of West and North Philadelphia – fertilizes fears of fraud, despite little hard evidence,” the newspaper said.

Chicago [Illinois] elections worker Steve Pickrum told WND as an equipment manager for the elections system, he was called when a voting machine malfunctioned. “On early voting when I did work on the floor when voters needed help using the equipment, I was able to see the preference of the voter, and every time that I saw [a] voter voted for Romney a ‘voter save failure’ message came up on the screen,’” he reported. Then when he went on Election Day to vote himself, he picked Romney and experienced the same error message. He reported he never experienced the error message when the voter was choosing Barack Obama.

Another poll worker, this one assigned at the University of Michigan, reported to WND a list of irregularities, including that the precinct captain told her at one point, “You go sit down, you are bothering me,” when she was trying to observe the proceedings. “I was only standing there and looking at voter documents,” she told WND. “It was clear that what bothered him was my very presence.” She said a short time later a young man arrived and identified himself as a Democrat poll challenger. “The first time he said anything was to object to my challenge of a voter. He tried to anger the voter by telling her ‘She does not believe you are who you say you are.’ He was trying to create a scene. It then happened again and I told him ‘You are not here to challenge me!’ His reply was a very loud ‘Yes I am! You are a Republican and you are here to prevent people from voting. You are holding up the line and creating obstructions,’” she reported. She told WND in fact no one waited more than about 15 minutes to vote the entire day, and there were no obstructions.

On YouTube was the testimony of a computer programmer, telling the Ohio Legislature that he was able to write a program that would rig elections by flipping the total vote from the real winner to a pre-selected candidate. (Source)

November 21, 2012: Voter Fraud in Ohio

The Lorain County [Ohio] Board of Elections is investigating a Henrietta Township man who cast two ballots during the presidential election.

The man, who could potentially face criminal charges for voter fraud, requested an absentee ballot on Oct. 23, and the ballot was returned to the elections board Nov. 3, according to board records. The man then voted at his polling place Nov. 6. (Source)

November 21, 2012: Voter Fraud in Indiana

A former sheriff’s office supervisor was charged after an investigation into whether multiple police department employees had committed voter fraud. Bryan E. Wolfe, 35, who resigned this month as the Johnson County [Indiana] Sheriff’s Office director of communications, was charged with voting outside his precinct of residence, a Class D felony.

Wolfe was the only person charged by special prosecutor Sonia Leerkamp, who was asked to look into the claims of voter fraud after a letter was sent to multiple local officials. Wolfe had moved to Marion County but still voted in Johnson County in 2010 after he had moved, according to charging documents. (Source)

November 23, 2012: Voter-Registration Fraud in Iowa

A citizen of Bosnia and two Canadian citizens have been charged with election fraud and fraudulent practices for allegedly registering and voting in Iowa without U.S. citizenship. The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation said it issued a citation to appear in court for 28-year-old Tehvedin Murgic, of Clive. The DCI said he is a citizen of Bosnia and registered and voted on Nov. 2, 2010. (Source) and (Source)

November 26, 2012: Malfunctioning Voting Machines in Maryland

A state lawmaker in Maryland has asked the FBI to impound two voting machines used in the 2012 election to determine whether there was a malfunction or something nefarious going on. She said a number of people contacted her after the Nov. 6 election to report that they pressed a touch-screen button for GOP candidate Mitt Romney, but the vote registered for Barack Obama. Also, suspiciously, a number of precincts reported a 100-percent vote for Obama, and some even reported beyond 100 percent. (Source)

November 29, 2012: Voter Fraud in New York

Fox News is one of the few media outlets following the voter fraud that's been rampant in Troy, New York, a suburb of Albany. Here's the last video report documenting how absentee ballots were faked, and eight Democrats are under indictment. Of course, the Democrats deny any wrongdoing. One of the guests said it's easy for elections to be stolen in this way, and the only way for it to be uncovered is from the inside. (Source)

November 29, 2012: Voter Fraud in Minnesota

A Cottage Grove [Minnesota] man told police Nov. 6 that someone had committed voter fraud by signing his name at a polling place, making it impossible for him to vote. (Source)

November 29, 2012: Election Fraud in Oregon

A grand jury has indicted a Clackamas County [Oregon] woman, for alleged ballot tampering. Deanna Swenson was a temp working for Clackamas County Elections. Questions about her work came up as ballots were being prepared for counting in the last week of October.

Oregon Justice Department spokesman Jeff Manning [said,] “This follows nearly a month of investigation by the Department of Justice at the request of the Secretary of State. There was an allegation by an eyewitness – one of the fellow election workers – that Ms. Swenson was tampering with a ballot.”

Now a grand jury has indicted Swenson on six counts: two counts of altering a cast ballot, two more of voting more than once. Those are felonies. She’s also charged with two counts of official misconduct – a misdemeanor. (Source)

December 3, 2012: Voter Fraud in Minnesota

Two of three Austin [Minnesota] residents who allegedly voted illegally at Ellis Middle School on Election Day have each been charged as an ineligible voter who knowingly voted, a felony.

Brothers William and Braulio Manzano were each charged Friday, Nov. 30, in Mower County Court. According to the court complaints, the brothers each checked the boxes on their voter applications that indicate they are not U.S. citizens. However, both men continued to fill out their applications and signed the portion that indicates they are citizens who can vote and that providing false information is a felony offense punishable by up to five years in jail and a $10,000 fine.

An officer and interpreter spoke with the brothers, who both admitted they are not naturalized citizens but have permanent resident status with Minnesota identification cards. Braulio admitted to voting, according to the court complaint, because he didn’t understand the application and didn’t know he had to be a naturalized citizen to vote. (Source) and (Source)

December 10, 2012: Voter Fraud in Arizona

A man who briefly challenged Mohave County [Arizona] Sheriff Tom Sheahan before dropping out of the race has pleaded guilty to voter fraud. Under terms of a plea agreement, Mike Hays is guaranteed probation after pleading guilty to false voter registration and tampering with a public record.

Court documents indicate that Hays was registered to vote in both Mohave County and Coconino County. He used a campaign worker’s address in Kingman along with that of a shooting range, also in Kingman, when he filled out paperwork to run for sheriff. But prosecutors say he was actually living in Flagstaff and working for the Arizona Department of Corrections in Winslow. (Source)

December 14, 2012: Voter Fraud in Ohio

Auglaize County [Celina, Ohio] officials are looking into possible voter fraud after discovering one resident may have voted twice in the Nov. 6 election.

Board of elections director Carolyn Campbell this morning said staff members go from precinct to precinct after each election to count every ballot and verify every signature. During that process after the general election, they discovered one person may have voted in two different precincts.

Because of the ongoing investigation, Campbell could not release the name of the voter or the precincts. The voter will face felony charges if officials determine there is enough evidence for fraud, she said. (Source)

December 14, 2012: Voter Fraud in Wisconsin

Prosecutors believe a Service Employees International Union (SEIU) organizer fraudulently voted in a 2011 election in Wisconsin, according to documents provided to the Daily Caller by the Wisconsin-based government watchdog group Media Trackers.

An investigation by the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office has led to a subpoena of SEIU’s Washington, D.C. headquarters and has implicated the prominent labor union in a voter fraud case that threatens to lead to criminal prosecution.

Then-SEIU Senior Organizer-in-Training Clarence S. Haynes, who is no longer affiliated with the union and whose whereabouts are currently unknown, voted in the hotly contested April 2011 election for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat despite not being a resident of Wisconsin and leaving the state shortly after voting, according to an October 19, 2012 affidavit prepared by Bruce J. Landgraf, the assistant district attorney for Milwaukee County.

Haynes, who maintained an official permanent residence in Clearwater, Florida, allegedly voted along with two other SEIU organizers in Glendale, Wisconsin on April 5, 2011 — using a Residence Inn as their official address. (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

December 19, 2012: Voter Fraud in California

Clouding Orange Cove's [California] election are complaints of voter fraud. Guerra Silva said there was no unlawfulness in the voting, while Orange Cove Police Chief Frank Steenport said he forwarded complaints to the Secretary of State about inconsistencies in the voting.

Steenport said, "There were a large volume of complaints, or concerns about it. I've always tried to make sure that the process is protected contrary to certain feelings of certain people ... there was everything from buying of votes to intimidation of voters. The names were all referred to the Secretary of State. There were names being manipulated in absentee and provisional ballots, which appear to be where the last-minute landslide came in."

López and Guerra Silva said it was the police department that was intimidating the voters, following the candidates and showing up at homes and asking people what they were told. López, Guerra Silva and Pardo asked Fresno County Elections chief Brandi Orth that a police officer, even plain-clothes or off-duty, should not work at the polling station in Orange Cove on Election Night for fear of intimidation of the voters.

"I think it's been very well documented, especially in the local paper, that Mr. López made it very clear that he wants to replace me. I guess that's his choice, his prerogative. The police department is effective. It's made a tremendous difference in Orange Cove," said Steenport. (Source)

December 20, 2012: Voter Fraud in Tennessee

DeSoto County [Tennessee] Election Commission chairman Paul Beale said several voting irregularities in the Nov. 6 general election and Nov. 27 runoff "are in the process of being turned over to the proper authorities, including the FBI.

District 4 Election Commissioner Carl Payne reported an incident in which "a father cast an absentee ballot, the son voted in person and then the son changes clothes and returned to vote as his father. We learned of this from a written statement from the poll manager."

A voter came to cast a ballot, gave a name that was on the poll book, signed the receipt book and was allowed to vote. Another person using the same name came to vote later that day, "and was informed he'd already voted. The second person provided proof of identity," Payne reported. Also, a voter cast a ballot in person at the proper precinct — and then prepared a provisional ballot, including a sworn affidavit, at another precinct. (Source)

December 21, 2012: Voter Fraud in New Jersey

A 61-year-old Belleville [New Jersey] man was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison for submitting phony absentee ballots while he was working on the 2007 election campaign of state Sen. Teresa Ruiz (D-29).

John Fernandez had been found guilty of fraud, forgery, records tampering and conspiracy in September, State Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa said in a statement. Fernandez had also been forced to surrender his job with the Essex County Office of Economic Development.

Fernandez took part in a scheme involving “messenger ballots,” which are used by voters homebound by illness or a disability. Fernandez fraudulently obtained the ballots, then filled them out on behalf of voters who had never received them. (Source) and (Source)

January 2, 2013: Voter Fraud in Massachusetts

An Everett [Massachusetts] state representative who reportedly agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor charges of voter fraud has officially vacated his seat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Representative Stephen “Stat” Smith, a Democrat first elected in 2006, submitted a letter Monday to Secretary of State William F. Galvin, saying that he was vacating his seat, effective Jan. 1.

Federal prosecutors allege that Smith submitted fraudulent absentee ballots in advance of municipal and state elections in 2009 and 2010. According to a Dec. 20 statement from the US attorney’s office, Smith allegedly submitted fraudulent requests for absentee ballots, then cast those ballots on behalf of voters without their knowledge. Prosecutors say Smith also knowingly delivered absentee ballots to ineligible voters, knowing that their votes in his favor would be fraudulent. (Source) (Source)

January 10, 2013: Voter Fraud in North Carolina

The Scotland County [North Carolina] Board of Elections is pursuing a voter fraud case after a convicted felon cast a vote in the 2012 elections. The information will be turned over to prosecutors by Friday, said Dell Parker, board director. Anyone convicted of a felony in North Carolina loses the right to vote, Parker said.

"A person convicted of a felony cannot vote until their rights are restored, they've pulled their time, paid their fines and are off of probation," she said.

The allegedly fraudulent vote was cast during the one-stop early voting period that was held prior to the November elections, Parker said. "A gentleman, who was convicted of a felony in the past, registered and voted on the same day," she said. Workers discovered, while researching the man's information, that he was still on probation, Parker said. "We sent a letter requesting him to appear for a hearing and he did not (appear)," she said. (Source)

January 15, 2013: Voter Fraud in Ohio

Hamilton County [Ohio] officials are prepared to refer five cases of potential vote fraud in November's election to prosecutors and have ordered further investigation into about two dozen other voters' actions that also could result in criminal charges.

The five cases include one in which an individual who lives in Florida tried to use her old Greater Cincinnati address to vote in Hamilton County. That was discovered when the voter's request for an absentee ballot was handled by a temporary board of elections worker who bought the woman's local house when she moved to Florida. (Source)

January 17, 2013: Voter Fraud in Minnesota

A convicted felon who pleaded guilty in 2010 to writing a bad check had allegedly not waited until her civil rights had been restored before voting in the 2012 general elections.

Lindsey Anne Heitman, 31, of Albertville [Minnesota], was arrested Friday and charged with allegedly voting while knowing she is ineligible, and registering as an ineligible voter, both "crimes against the government," according to a criminal complaint filed by Wright County Attorney's Office.

Heitman was on a five-year probation after the felony bad check conviction, and would not be eligible to vote until 2015. On Nov. 6, Election Day, Heitman checked in with her probation officer, Department of Corrections Probation Officer Truda Boler, and reported that she voted at Albertville City Hall. Boler reported to the Wright County Sheriff's Office that a felon had voted in Albertville. (Source)

January 18, 2013: Voter Fraud in Wisconsin

Karl Reinelt, A 51-year-old felon, was charged in Waukesha County [Wisconsin] Circuit Court with one count of election fraud after voting in the Nov. 6, 2012 election.

The alleged illegal vote was first reported the day after the election by Clerk-Treasurer Nancy Zastrow. She said she first noticed the mistake when comparing the new registrants’ sheets with the Government Accountability Board’s list of convicted felons.

She said the mistake should have been caught when Reinelt tried to vote, but the poll workers were busy and must not have cross-checked his registration. The vote could be thrown out, if it were challenged, but Zastrow said that would be difficult to do because of the anonymity of the voting process. (Source)

January 23, 2013: Voter Fraud in Wisconsin

Milwaukee [Wisconsin] prosecutors are investigating at least two instances of suspected voter fraud from the presidential election in November, court records reveal. In one matter, investigators seek records that might prove Leonard K. Brown voted twice in the November election, once in Milwaukee and again in West Milwaukee. The other suggests a Mukwonago man voted there and in West Allis. (Source)

January 31, 2013: Voter Fraud in Ohio

A Northeast Side [Columbus, Ohio] woman was fined $500 today for voting twice in the 2010 general election. Dominique Atkins, 38, of Barnes Drive E., pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of attempted illegal voting. The charge was reduced from a felony count of illegal voting as part of a plea deal.

Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Richard A. Frye sentenced Atkins to 30 days in jail but suspended the jail time if she pays the fine and court costs by Nov. 1. Atkins requested and received two absentee ballots from the Franklin County Board of Elections, completed both and returned them on Oct. 25, 2010, Assistant County Prosecutor Brian Simms said. One of the ballots used a slightly different spelling of Atkins’ first name — Dominque — he said. (Source)

February 5, 2013: Voter Fraud in Ohio

Hamilton County [Ohio] election officials will issue more than two dozen subpoenas concerning possible vote fraud during November’s election, including cases in which a poll worker may have falsified votes and where someone “voted” via an absentee ballot sent to her several days after she died.

By a unanimous vote, the four-member county Board of Elections decided Tuesday to issue 28 subpoenas and scheduled two hearings later this month at which voters will be given a final opportunity to provide explanations before the cases are turned over to prosecutors for possible criminal charges. Pending further investigation, several other subpoenas may be issued later.

Some of the cases involve attempted double-voting in Walnut Hills, Westwood, Silverton and elsewhere. One deals with a Florida resident who attempted to use her old Greater Cincinnati address to vote in Hamilton County last November. And in another episode, someone who voted at an Avondale polling place on Election Day claimed to be a woman who already had cast an absentee ballot. (Source) and (Source)

February 5, 2013: Voter Fraud in New Jersey

My [Thomas Fleming] grandmother died there [New Jersey] in 1940. She voted Democratic for the next 10 years. (Source)

February 8, 2013: Voter Fraud in Ohio

Melowese Richardson, a Madisonville [Ohio] resident who has worked polls in Ohio since 1988, has been accused of voter fraud and admitted voting multiple times for Barack Obama.

Three other absentee ballots, all from Richardson's address and filled out in similar handwriting, were received by the election board the same day her absentee ballot was received. According to Richardson, one of the ballots belonged to her brother who, she said, stays at her house "from time-to-time." Another belonged to Markus Barron, who, according to Richardson, lives at her home.

Richardson admitted voting for Montez Richardson, claiming she had power-of-attorney to do so and believed that all of the votes she made were legal. (Source) and (Source)

February 13, 2013: Voter Fraud in Ohio

Having already incriminated herself in front of a TV news camera, [Melowese] Richardson said she’ll contest criminal voter fraud charges. “I’ll fight it for Mr. Obama and for Mr. Obama’s right to sit as president of the United States,” she said nonsensically.

Hamilton County, Ohio, records reportedly indicate that Richardson voted by absentee ballot on Nov. 1. Ten days later she told an official she also voted at a polling place out of fear that her absentee ballot would not count.

County records also accuse Richardson, who has registered thousands of people to vote, of being disruptive and hiding “things from other poll workers on Election Day after another female worker reported she was intimidated by Richardson.” An investigation revealed that the perpetrator’s granddaughter, India Richardson, also voted twice in November. (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

February 14, 2013: Voter Fraud in Indiana

A North Vernon [Indiana] man who worked on a former Jeffersonville mayor’s re-election campaign in 2011 has agreed to plead guilty to three counts of vote fraud in Jennings County Circuit Court on charges related to a campaign there. Michael L. Marshall, 60, will plead guilty to three offenses, all class D felonies. The charges stem from an investigation of voter fraud issues regarding absentee ballots and applications submitted in Jennings County in 2010. (Source) and (Source)

February 15, 2013: Voter Fraud in Wisconsin

A 53-year-old Hustisford [Wisconsin] man is being charged with election fraud after voting in the last election, despite being ineligible to vote due to a prior felony conviction. Richard O. Alverson, 103 Tweedy St., is charged with election fraud – providing false information to an election official. (Source)

February 18, 2013: Voter Fraud in Illinois

An opponent of Cicero Town [Illinois] President Larry Dominick is accusing the incumbent of trying to intimidate Latino voters. Juan Ochoa is running against Dominick in next week's election. Both candidates are accusing each other of voter fraud. (Source)

February 19, 2013: Voter-Registration Fraud in North Carolina

North Carolina's Civitas Institute has revealed that the North Carolina State Board of Elections and the Obama campaign conspired to register at least 11,000 people via the internet in violation of state law. This has been confirmed through records requests filed with all of North Carolina's 100 counties. The counting is not yet complete.

North Carolina does not allow online voting, but according to Civitas, SBE staff authorized an Obama campaign website, Gottaregister.com, to use a web-based registration program. The SBE's chief lawyer responded to the charge with a plainly disingenuous 1984-newspeak answer. (Source) and (Source)

February 22, 2013: Voter Fraud in Florida

A Pompano Beach [Florida] woman who is a convicted felon was accused of voting illegally in the November 2012 election. Onakia Lanet Griffin, 33, was charged by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement with submitting false voter registration information, false swearing and fraud in casting a vote.... The vote fraud probe began last year when Griffin met with her federal probation officer in Hollywood while wearing a sticker that said, "I voted early," an FDLE complaint affidavit states. She admitted to the probation officer that she voted in the 2012 presidential election, Broward County Judge John "Jay" Hurley said while reading from the affidavit. (Source)

March 6, 2013: Voter Fraud in Minnesota

Margaret Schneider will tell you life hasn’t been easy lately. She uses a walker to get around her small St. Peter [Minnesota] apartment, can’t stand for long periods of time and readily admits she’s a victim of senior moments. Schneider, 86, has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and dementia is one of her symptoms.

She’s also easily stressed, which became apparent while she discussed with The Free Press the letter she received recently from the Nicollet County Attorney’s Office. It told her she’s been charged with a felony for voting twice during the 2012 primary election.

Schneider doesn’t deny the allegation. She realizes now, after talking with St. Peter police detective Travis Sandland, that she did vote twice. She voted once with an absentee ballot on July 13 and again at her polling place Aug. 14. (Source) and (Source)

March 7, 2013: Voter Fraud in Iowa

The Linn County [Iowa] Auditor contacted law enforcement to investigate an alleged voter impersonation case that happened during Tuesday's casino election. Linn County Auditor Joel Miller says an unidentified individual voted in person at a polling place Tuesday. That person signed into the voting register and cast a ballot. Later in the day, the actual voter showed up to find someone had already voted under her name. (Source)

March 11, 2013: Voter Fraud in Ohio

Three people have been charged after a string of voter fraud allegations during the 2012 presidential election. Fox News’ Eric Shawn reports that Obama supporter Melowese Richardson has been indicted for voting six times in November’s election. She faces eight counts of voter fraud along with two others, including a nun.

The 58-year-old Cincinnati, Ohio poll worker had admitted to a local television station that she’d voted twice, claiming she was concerned her absentee ballot wouldn’t count. The Hamilton County prosecuting attorney Joseph Deters said Richardson voted for herself and five relatives....

Sister Marguerite Kloos is accused of submitting an absentee ballot in the name of another nun who died before the election. She plans on pleading guilty.

The third person, Russell Glassop, was charged with submitting an absentee ballot on behalf of his deceased wife. (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

March 18, 2013: Possible Voter Fraud in Illinois

Election officials are investigating a number of complaints stemming from Tuesday's primary, including the Illinois Attorney General's Office reviewing whether absentee ballots were counted too early in St. Clair County.

The state's Attorney General's Office received an inquiry concerning election officials tallying absentee ballots at the St. Clair County Building before the polls closed at 7 p.m., according to Attorney General's Office spokesman Scott Mulford. A team of attorneys with the Attorney General's Office is gathering more information concerning the inquiry, Mulford said.

St. Clair County State's Attorney Brendan Kelly said investigations continue into two complaints concerning voter problems. In addition, Kelly said about a dozen absentee votes were challenged and needed to be vetted for certification. (Source)

March 20, 2013: Voter-Registration Fraud in New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office in conjunction with the Secretary of State’s Office is investigating thousands of voter affidavit mailers sent to voters that did not offer proper identification while voting or registering to vote during the 2012 election cycle that were postmarked as returned as undeliverable or unanswered by the recipients.

Both Stephen LaBonte, the new elections investigator with the NH AG, and Deputy Secretary of State David Scanlan, confirmed that their offices were involved in the massive undertaking of checking more than 20,000 voters who were allowed to register to vote and cast ballots last year while not being able to prove where they lived or who they are, as part of the state’s new voter ID law. (Source)

March 21, 2013: Voter Fraud in Wisconsin

Milwaukee County [Wisconsin] prosecutors Thursday filed voter fraud charges against 10 people, including two accused of double voting in 2012 elections and two felons ineligible to vote. (Source) and (Source)

March 26, 2013: Voter Fraud in Iowa

Two more people face charges as Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz's crackdown on voter fraud continues. A Melbourne man is charged with election misconduct and fraudulent practice. The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation says 53-year-old Nickie Dean Perkins registered and voted in the November General Election though he's a convicted felon. He was charged March 5. A hearing is set for April 1. His attorney, Mark Olberding of Nevada, says Perkins thought his voting rights were restored. Olberding says Perkins cast a provisional ballot in November but it wasn't counted.

Authorities also have charged 64-year-old Jesus Castorena, of Hampton, with perjury for claiming on 2010 driver's license and voter registration applications he was U.S. citizen. He had been deported to Mexico in 2007. An arrest warrant has been issued. (Source)

March 26, 2013: Election Fraud in North Carolina

The State Board of Elections is investigating at least two claims of buying votes during the most recent Mt. Gilead [North Carolina] mayoral election. The complaints were filed at the time of the election, last November, but are just now being investigated.

One claim involves a former resident of Tillery Chase, Mary Dennis. Dennis’ son, Bobby Thompson, filed a complaint with the local board of elections office and Department of Social Services saying his mother had been exploited. In his complaint Thompson said, “I am a former resident of Mount Gilead and 1991 graduate of West Montgomery. I have spent the last 20 years in the Navy and currently reside in San Diego, California. This past weekend I found out from my mom Mary Dennis who resides at Tillery Chase Assisted Living Facility that a woman named Geri Dowd took my mom to Troy to register to vote on the condition that they support Patty Almond. For doing this she bought my mom a pack of cigarettes and lunch at McDonalds. My mother is physically disabled and has history of mental illness and has never voted in her life. She didn't have the ability to tell me the names of any candidates running for office or who she was voting for. My mom tells me that Geri Dowd is taking multiple residents almost on a daily basis. I must say that I am shocked at the tactics of local politics in Mount Gilead. (Source)

April 7, 2013: Voter Fraud in New York

Voter fraud was one of ex-Bronx [New York] Assemblyman Nelson Castro’s tricks for gaining power, court papers obtained byThe Post show. Castro schemed to illegally register dozens of voters in his district ahead of the election that sent him to Albany and forged signatures on petitions to earlier seek office as a district leader. Those revelations are spelled out in a deal Castro signed April 2 in which federal prosecutors agreed not to prosecute those crimes in return for wearing a wire in a probe of his political colleagues. It’s the same document in which Castro agreed to resign from the state Assembly, and in which Bronx prosecutors agreed to drop state perjury charges for lying about the number of people registered to vote from his one-bedroom apartment. (Source)

April 9, 2013: Voter Fraud in Massachusetts

Former Rep. Stephen “Stat” Smith has been sentenced to four months in federal prison for two misdemeanor counts of voter fraud. The Everett [Massachusetts] politician pled guilty earlier this year with an agreement from U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz that prosecutors would recommend a six-month sentence. In both municipal and state elections, Smith ran a scheme where he obtained absentee ballots for ineligible voters and in some cases cast ballots for voters without them knowing it. (Source)

May 1, 2013: Voter Fraud in Indiana

A former state representative and longtime Jennings County [Indiana] Democratic Party worker received an 18-month sentence Wednesday for three felony convictions of voter fraud. Michael R. Marshall, 61, was ordered by Jennings Circuit Judge Jon Webster to serve half of his sentence behind bars, but the remaining nine months were suspended. Marshall was indicted by a grand jury on Oct. 20, 2011, on 20 counts of voter fraud, 12 counts of forgery and 13 counts of perjury. Under a plea agreement, all charges were dropped in exchange for Marshall’s three guilty pleas, each a Class D felony. (Source)

May 3, 2013: Voter Fraud in Florida

Authorities today arrested a Longwood [Florida] man whom they accuse of casting an illegal ballot during early voting last fall. Allen Prudent, 21, was locked up today at the Seminole County Jail. According to the State Attorney's Office, Prudent was not a registered voter but signed an affidavit during early voting on Oct. 27, declaring that he was registered. (Source)

May 4, 2013: Voter Fraud in New York

In 2008, Derek Scott, of 315 S. Ninth Ave., died of colon cancer. In 2012, he voted in the Mount Vernon [New York] school board election. In that same election, Dyanan Jaikaran, a candidate, appears to have voted twice. And another voter used a city-owned tennis shed as his address. (Source) and (Source)

May 9, 2013: Voter Fraud in California

Prosecutors are investigating allegations of voter fraud in Little Armenia [California], part of a Los Angeles City Council district where two candidates are waging a bitter battle for an open seat. According to a spokeswoman for L.A. County Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey, prosecutors are trying to determine whether backers of one candidate illegally filled out mail-in ballots for dozens of voters in the Armenian enclave in East Hollywood.

In a complaint sent to Lacey's office, an attorney for candidate John Choi accused backers of Choi's opponent, Mitch O'Farrell, of "widespread voter fraud and illegal electioneering activities." The complaint alleges that O'Farrell campaign workers filled out voters' ballots for their candidate while telling them they were voting for Sam Kbushyan, a candidate of Armenian descent who ran and lost during the primary election. (Source)

May 10, 2013: Voter Fraud in Minnesota

Shawn Marie Kaarbo (aka Shawn Marie Melton and Shawn Marie Strandberg), 49, of Barnum pleaded guilty in Carlton County [Minnesota] Court last Wednesday to one count of voting while ineligible. The charge, which was originally filed as a felony, was sentenced as a gross misdemeanor according to the plea agreement.

Judge Wolf sentenced Kaarbo to one year of local confinement and stayed the sentence for two years. He also ordered her to complete 40 hours of community work service. Kaarbo cast a vote in the November 2012 general election in a polling place in Skelton Township. At that time, she completed a Minnesota voter registration application and signed a certification saying she was eligible to vote.

According to the complaint filed against Kaarbo, however, she was ineligible to vote because she had been convicted of felony first-degree assault on June 15, 2010, and her civil rights had not yet been restored at the time of last fall’s election. Part of the reason the inaccuracy was not detected at the time was due to the fact that Kaarbo had recently undergone a change of last name.

Another woman, Anna Nichole Nelson, was also charged with voter fraud in a case similar to Kaarbo’s. Election judge Shane Comozzi later brought his suspicions about the two women’s eligibility to Carlton County Auditor Paul Gassert. (Source)

May 13, 2013: Voter Fraud in Missouri

It now appears that the wrong candidate was declared winner of the 2010 Democratic primary in Missouri’s 19th District. But, asThe Star is reporting, Rizzo’s uncle has pleaded guilty in federal court to voting in Rizzo’s district when he in fact lived north of the river. (Source)

May 17, 2013: Voter Fraud in Missouri

On Monday, John C. Moretina pleaded guilty to a federal felony count of voter fraud in the August 2010 Democratic primary in Missouri’s 40th legislative district. Moretina falsely claimed he was living in the 40th district just so he could vote in the primary. This is a Democratic district where the winner of the primary, John J. Rizzo, was highly likely to become the district representative in the state house and, in fact, was elected. But Rizzo beat his Democratic opponent, Will Royster, by only one vote: 664 to 663.

Moretina did not inform the court whom he voted for, but since he is Rizzo’s uncle, it is not too much of a stretch to guess that he gave his nephew the winning margin of victory. Moreover, there were also allegations that Moretina’s wife fraudulently voted in this primary election as well, although she was not charged. (Source)

June 5, 2013: Voter Fraud in South Dakota

Police in Mitchell [South Dakota] say they arrested a 54-year-old resident suspected of voting twice in Tuesday's school board election. (Source)

June 14, 2013: Voter Fraud in Florida

A Federal Emergency Management Agency official has been arrested in connection with a voter fraud case in St. Johns County [Florida]. Michel Pawlowski, 68, was named in a complaint last fall alleging voter fraud. He lives in Maryland. His daughter ran for St. Augustine Beach [Florida] city commission and won.

According to the charging affidavit, Pawlowski signed a voter registration form in which he reported his legal address in St. Augustine Beach and voted by absentee ballot in the general election in November 2010, the presidential primary in January 2012, and the general election last November.

According to the affidavit, Pawlowski got a Florida driver's license this year and also bought a house with his daughter in St. Augustine Beach this year. When asked why he registered his name as a Florida voter, he couldn't explain, according to the affidavit. Pawlowski is charged with false swearing and submission of false voter registration information. (Source)

June 28, 2013: Voter Fraud in Missouri

John and Clara Moretina pleaded guilty Friday to a voter fraud charge in Jackson County [Missouri], according to a release from prosecutor Jean Peters Baker. The release says each admitted they attempted to cast an improper ballot in the Aug. 3, 2010, Missouri House primary in the 40th district.

“They willfully provided to Kansas City Board of Election officials false information as to their addresses and residences in order to vote,” the release says. Both will pay a fine and forfeit their voting rights. “These two will never vote again,” the prosecutor said in her statement.

State Rep. J.J. Rizzo, a Democrat, is a nephew to the Moretinas, who live in Gladstone. Rizzo won the Aug. 3, 2010, primary by one vote.

The Kansas City Police Department investigated the Moretinas’ votes after John Moretina, 60, pleaded guilty to voter fraud in federal court. Clara Moretina, 61, was not charged in that case. (Source)

July 15, 2013: Voter Fraud in Minnesota

Voter fraud charges have been filed against two Somali women who say they didn’t realize they voted twice in the general election last November. Farhiya Abdi Dool, 38, and Amina A Hassan, 31, each face one felony charge for voting once by absentee ballot and once at a polling place during the 2012 general election. The women, both naturalized U.S. citizens, were charged June 21 via complaint summons and will make their first appearances in Rice County [Minnesota] District Court next Monday. Each woman faces five years in prison and a $10,000 fine for the offense.

According to the criminal complaints, Dool and Hassan had registered to vote and completed voter registration applications at the Rice County Auditor’s Office on Nov. 5, 2012. The auditor’s office also has record of Dool and Hassan voting by absentee ballot that day.

Dool and Hassan each completed another voter registration application the next day, Election Day, at their polling location and signed the roster of new registrants, according to the complaint. They also voted at that time. (Source)

July 19, 2013: Voter Fraud in Ohio

She boasted that she voted twice in last November's presidential election. She was charged with repeatedly voting illegally over three elections using the names of others, including her sister who has been in a coma for a decade. Now 58-year-old Melowese Richardson, a veteran Cincinnati [Ohio] poll worker, will be spending the next five years in prison for voter fraud.

Richardson's sister has been in a coma since 2003, and authorities said that the votes Richardson cast using her name counted in both the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. She was also accused of illegally voting in November's election in the names of other people, including her granddaughter India Richardson, who told Fox News that "it wasn't a big deal." (Source)

August 1, 2013: Election Fraud in New York

Details began to emerge yesterday about the election fraud scandal in Poughkeepsie, New York that involves Democratic Elections Commissioner Frances Knapp. Commissioner Knapp was indicted and plead not guilty to 46 felony counts and 48 misdemeanor counts of official misconduct and other charges.

The charges against Knapp go back to 2008 when Knapp allegedly created a false document to fill a vacancy in a nomination for a Democratic candidate. Knapp was also charged with illegally signing and filing a campaign finance disclosure in 2010 for her husband, Fred Knapp, a former Democratic candidate for Mayor of Poughkeepsie. The most recent charges against Commissioner Knapp come from actions Knapp took during the 2012 Republican primary for New York State Senate. Knapp allegedly illegally signed a poll watcher certificate for supporters of insurgent Republican Tea Party candidate Neil DiCarlo.

The most disturbing charges against Knapp, however, involve Knapp's involvement in absentee ballot fraud. Knapp allegedly tampered with the computer system at the Dutchess County Board of Elections to have absentee ballots sent to Democratic operatives when voters never requested the ballots be sent. Most interestingly, many of these victimized voters were residents of Maplewood Apartments, a senior living complex in Poughkeepsie. Who is the manager of Maplewood Apartments? You guessed it... Frances Knapp. (Source)

August 7, 2013: Election Fraud in Massachusetts

After pleading guilty on Monday for his involvement in a voter fraud scandal, former East Longmeadow [Massachussets] Selectman Enrico ‘Jack’ Villamaino has learned his sentence. Wednesday morning, Judge Mary-Lou Rup sentenced Villamaino to one year in jail at the Hampden County House of Corrections, but he will only serve four of those twelve months behind bars.

Villamaino pleaded guilty Monday in Hampden County Superior Court to charges of larceny under $250, interfering with an election official, four counts of forgery of a document, four counts of perjury, and conspiracy to commit an unlawful act. He and his wife, Courtney Llewellyn, were charged in 2012 with changing the party affiliations for about 280 East Longmeadow voters. About a month after those changes were made, Mastroianni says that there was an almost “name-for-name match” for those people who had their enrollment changed from ‘Democrat’ to ‘Unenrolled.’ At that time, Villamaino was running for a seat in the Mass. House of Representatives against Marie Angelides. (Source)

August 20, 2013: Voter Fraud in Texas

Federal authorities have arrested a former Brownsville [Texas] woman for allegedly voting five times by absentee ballot under five different names in a Cameron County runoff election in 2012. Sonia Leticia Solis, 54, was taken into custody Tuesday in Fort Worth and made an initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffrey L. Cureton in Fort Worth. She is expected to be ordered to Brownsville soon, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Texas, said in a press release. Solis was listed on Cureton’s docket, which indicated that Solis was in the FBI’s custody. (Source)

August 21, 2013: Voter-Registration Fraud in California

Controversial immigrant-rights leader Nativo Lopez is stepping down from the two organizations he leads and will resign from public life after 44 years of activism. Lopez, a recalled former Santa Ana [California] school board member, indicated in a three-page announcement emailed Monday night that he was frustrated by not making more progress in his public efforts and would focus solely on his personal life.

"After so many years of experimenting with different forms and means to change this system, I have found myself doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result," wrote Lopez, 60.

His resignation as head of Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana and the Mexican American Political Association becomes effective today, he said. Lopez, who now lives in Los Angeles, has been the center of conflict repeatedly.

Last June, he pleaded guilty to a 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. Although he had terminated his Orange County registration and there was no allegation that he voted more than once in any election, a judge found that he was not living at his Boyle Heights office, where he had registered to vote. He was sentenced to probation and community service. (Source)

August 23, 2013: Voter Fraud in Ohio

Three cases of possible voter fraud are under investigation in Allen County [Ohio]. Ken Terry, director of the Allen County Board of Elections, announced the cases were passed on to the prosecutor's office after three people voted twice in the Nov. 6 election. He told the board during a special meeting at the Allen County Board of Elections on Monday. In one case, Terry said, the person voted on Election Day twice at two separate precincts. Officials saw the signatures completely differed from each other. In the other two cases, the people cast absentee ballots and also voted on Election Day at their respective precincts. (Source)

August 27, 2013: Voter Fraud in Minnesota

About 50 men and women packed a Rice County [Minnesota] courtroom Tuesday afternoon as two Somali women pleaded not guilty to charges of voter fraud stemming from the general election last November. Farhiya Abdi Dool, 38, and Amina A Hassan, 31, each face one felony charge of unlawful voting for voting once by absentee ballot and once at a polling place during the 2012 general election. Each woman faces five years in prison and a $10,000 fine for the offense.

According to the criminal complaints, Dool and Hassan had completed voter registration applications at the Rice County Auditor’s Office on Nov. 5, 2012. The auditor’s office also has record of Dool and Hassan voting by absentee ballot that day. Dool and Hassan each completed another voter registration application the next day, Election Day, at their polling location and signed the roster of new registrants, according to the complaint. They also voted at that time. Dool and Hassan’s incidents were two of about 25 cases of suspected voter fraud forwarded by the auditor’s office to the sheriff’s office for investigation on Jan. 31, according to Rice County Attorney Paul Beaumaster. (Source)

August 28, 2013: Election Fraud in Missouri

Three people have been accused of fraud related to the April 2 election for Mayor and Alderman in Flordell Hills [Missouri]. Charged on Tuesday with felony election offenses were Jerrell Sherod, 39, of the 2500 block of Burchard Drive, Rachelle Oliver, 53, of the 11900 block of Larimore Road, both of unincorporated St. Louis County, and Andrew Schafer, 31, of the 5700 block of Jennings Station Road in Flordell Hills.

Court documents say Schafer helped Oliver and Sherod file forms with the Flordell Hills City Clerk declaring themselves candidates for Mayor and Alderman using false addresses. Schafer is charged with two counts of election offenses and two charges of felony forgery. The others face one count each of making false statements. Oliver listed his occupation on his jail booking sheet as a police officer at St. Louis Community College at Forest Park. Neither he nor his chief could be reached Wednesday. (Source)

September 6, 2013: Voter Fraud in Alabama

Kelly Horwitz filed suit in the Tuscaloosa County [Alabama] Circuit Court today, officially contesting the results of the election for the District 4 seat on the City Board of Education. In a statement released alongside the suit filing, Horwitz says her complaint alleges that many of the votes cast in the election were from people who were not eligible to vote in the district.

Shortly following Cason Kirby's narrow victory over Horwitz, allegations began to arise that the University of Alabama's Greek community offered incentives such as free drinks in exchange for votes. At least one sorority and one fraternity offered identical incentives to their members in the same email advocating for support for former Greeks and current school board candidates Kirby and Lee Garrison. A fraternity leader encouraged members to go to the polls regardless of whether they were registered or not, advising them to cast provisional ballots. In addition, allegations of at least 10 students registering to vote in the same single-family home arose before the elections. (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

September 11, 2013: Voter Fraud in New York

What appears to be an orchestrated pattern of voter fraud is being reported at a pivotal precinct in South Williamsburg [New York]. According to a Board of Elections poll worker and another poll watcher, groups of young Hasidic men attempted to enter the polling station at IS 71 and vote under the names of other citizens who have yet to vote. "They're signing signatures, but the ID they show doesn't match the signature on the forms. Yes, there's been some illegal stuff going on," BOE poll worker Antoinette Reaves said.

An NYPD officer standing outside IS 71 told us he had witnessed four men attempting to vote under the wrong name in the two hours he had been posted there.

While some of the attempts were made by men who looked to be of voting age, others struck poll workers as obviously fraudulent. "They're fourteen, fifteen years old, walking in here with a crowd of people. We stopped them and asked for ID—we know they're too young to go in there. They've been trying it all day," Reaves said. "The same faces are appearing." (Source)

September 18, 2013: Voter Fraud in Michigan

A complaint by former Hamtramck [Michigan] Councilwoman Cathie Gordon may have helped expose election fraud in Hamtrmack's August primary. State Attorney General Bill Schuette on Wednesday charged three Hamtramck men with a total of 41 counts among them of improper possession or return of an absentee ballot.

Armani Asad, a City Council candidate himself who supported Gordon in her campaign and still has one of her signs on his front porch, is charged with 14 counts; Salim Ahmed, 50, with 21 counts; and Russell Mohammed, 32, with six counts. Each of the crimes is a felony that carries up to five years in prison.

Gordon, 66, said there were nearly 50 absentee ballots submitted and rejected by City Clerk Marie Kendzierski, who retired a month before the election. She filed her complaint after Kendzierski's replacement, August Gitschlag, reversed the decision and recorded the votes. (Source)

October 14, 2013: Voter Fraud in Wisconsin

A Milwaukee [Wisconsin] man pleaded guilty Monday to illegally voting five times last year in West Milwaukee, when in fact he did not have residency there.

Leonard K. Brown, 56, still faces a charge of voting twice in the November presidential election and making a false statement to an election official on Election Day. Those cases have been rescheduled for trial in January. His sentencing on the five convictions resulting from Monday's pleas will be scheduled sometime after that trial.

Brown was among 10 people charged in March with a variety of charges related to voter fraud. He is charged with voting twice in the Nov. 6 election — in person in Milwaukee on that date and by absentee ballot in West Milwaukee four days earlier.

The guilty pleas involved votes in West Milwaukee in five prior elections. Brown was convicted of five felonies and now is prohibited from voting until his civil rights are restored. (Source) and (Source)

November 2, 2013: Voter Fraud in Colorado

El Paso County [Colorado] Clerk and Recorder Wayne Williams has forwarded 18 cases of potential voter fraud from the September recall election of Sen. John Morse to the district attorney for investigation. The cases are a variety of possible fraudulent votes perpetrated by Democrats, Republicans and unaffiliated voters during the successful recall of Morse from his District 11 seat. Some of the cases were caught when signatures on absentee or mail-in ballots didn't match those on file, clerk's office spokesman Ryan Parsell said. (Source)

November 4, 2013: Voter Fraud in Texas

A 55-year-old woman in Texas plead guilty to voter fraud on Monday for forging ballots in the 2012 primary election. The case will certainly become fodder in the defense of the state's new, restrictive voter ID law.

According to an alert from the FBI (which we saw via Ryan Reilly), Sonia Leticia Solis faces up to five years in prison after her sentencing next February. She admitted that she obtained "multiple mail-in ballots by forging applications on behalf of individuals she represented to be disabled." How many votes she actually completed isn't clear, nor is the race which she was hoping to influence. (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

November 4, 2013: Election Fraud in Connecticut

A group of concerned citizens in the Wooster Square neighborhood in New Haven [Connecticut] are wondering if they’ve been duped into a case of voter fraud. “There was a complaint made to this office from a resident in Ward 8,” explains Deputy City Clerk Sally Brown.

After further investigation, the City Clerk’s office found several residents in the Winslow Celentano housing complex had similar stories, claiming a woman known in the neighborhood offered to help them fill out absentee ballots for the upcoming election.

Mary Bishop said, “I thought it was kind of strange that she was telling me who to vote for and that she was filling out the papers instead of me.” Other residents including Genia Pugh and Ed Beamon claimed a neighbor took their completed absentee ballots and mailed it in on their behalf. “Someone is not supposed to pick up your ballot and go put it in the mail for you,” says Deputy Clerk Brown. “It’s against the law.” (Source) and (Source)

November 5, 2013: Voter Fraud in Massachusetts

The city of Boston [Massachusetts] issued an online warning telling former residents they may not vote in today's mayoral election if they have moved out of the city even if they are still registered.

The warning comes on the heels of a FOX Undercover investigation that found several former residents had voted in the city's September preliminary election. And now FOX Undercover has found another example of questionable voting, this time involving a top city official who has lived in Westwood for years but who votes in Boston.

FOX Undercover watched on Monday as Elmo Baldassari, deputy commissioner at the Boston Public Works Department, left work at the end of the day and drove to a 2,208 square-foot home in Westwood he owns.

But the next morning, he voted shortly after 7 a.m. at St. George's church in West Roxbury – the polling location for the diminutive condominium he owns in West Roxbury.

"We're doing a story on voting, and we're wondering why you voted in Boston when you live in Westwood?" FOX Undercover reporter Mike Beaudet asked him today.

"I live in West Roxbury. Fourteen Heron Street," Baldassari replied.

"How often do you actually sleep there?" Beaudet asked him.

"Four nights a week," Baldassari replied.

Baldassari bought the Westwood home in 1981, property records show. It's where three other family members are still registered to vote.

Baldassari was a registered voter in Westwood until 2001, when he switched to Boston. That's when he got a job working for the city, which has its own residency requirement for employees.

Now Baldassari says he sleeps four nights a week at the West Roxbury condo, which at 872-square foot is just 40 percent of the size of his Westwood home.

"So is this a way just to get around the city residency laws?" Beaudet asked him.

"No it's not," he replied.

"When's the last time you actually slept in West Roxbury?" Beaudet asked.

"I was there last night, sir. Thank you," Baldassari replied.

The questions over Baldassari come just days after FOX Undercover asked the city about other people who voted in the preliminary election for Mayor in September, including two Boston firefighters, James Greatorex and Michael Leonard, both of whom own homes in Reading.

The two firefighters insisted they both actually live in Charlestown, which is where they voted from in September. However, they both signed homestead declarations for their homes in Reading, saying those homes north of Boston are their primary residence. Both men claimed they were separated from their wives, and that it was their wives who live in the Reading homes. (Source)

November 9, 2013: Voter Fraud in Florida

The man at the center of South Florida’s latest absentee-ballot fraud investigation is the go-to operative when local candidates need to sway Haitian-American voters. Nacivre Charles, better known as “Charlie,” works mostly out of North Miami and Little Haiti and is known for his passionate pitches on Creole-language radio on behalf of his politician clients and for his relentless attacks of their opponents. On the air, he touts his accessibility, giving out his cell phone number and offering rides to the polls.

Now, the man once relegated to the background as a fervent campaign worker is at the forefront of a fraud investigation that has touched one of his close friends, North Miami Mayor Lucie Tondreau. Charles was her campaign treasurer when she ran for office earlier this year.

The North Miami office Charles shares with Tondreau was raided a week ago by investigators working with the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office. That same day, Charles was arrested for driving with a suspended license, triggering an outpouring of support on Haitian radio. It’s unclear if that arrest was related to the search....

Prosecutors apparently traced fraudulent ballot requests to a computer at the North Miami office address. The unlawful absentee-ballot requests that Tondreau’s political campaign may have submitted online earlier this year were flagged before they could be mailed out to the unsuspecting voters. A search warrant for computers and other electronic equipment allowed law enforcement to seize any campaign, financial or address-book records related to Tondreau and Charles. (Source) and (Source)

November 9, 2013: Voter Fraud in Virginia

Merely hours after the close of a bitter and divisive Governor’s race in Virginia that saw Democrat Terry McAuliffe pull out a win over Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, irregularities in voting data have emerged. According to mainstream media outlets McAuliffe supposedly defeated Cuccinelli in a razor-thin 47-46 percent victory to become the next Governor of the great state of Virginia.

Immediately following the announcement, Cuccinelli’s office opened a full investigation into the legitimacy of the vote and quickly turned up surprising results. In 13 districts, multiple instances of intimidation at the polls were reported. Large black men wearing traditional Black Panther garb were reported lingering around polling places approaching older voters asking questions about who they intended on voting for. In Loudoun and Fairfax counties (traditional Democratic strongholds), election officials withheld submitting voter data in order to get an idea of whether to count absentee ballots or not. In an audit of the voter registration information, it quickly became apparent that MULTIPLE votes were cast by people who were either deceased or had long ago moved out of the district. (Source) and (Source)

November 14, 2013: Voter Fraud in California

In the midst of a potential $7 million budget shortfall, another problem was brought to the attention of the city of Desert Hot Springs [California]. Claims of voter fraud in the tightly-contested race for Mayor have surfaced and it's causing some to believe politics are taking precedent over real problems. "Why is it in Desert Hot Springs that we keep digging and digging and digging after the results have come in," said mayor-elect Adam Sanchez.

The digging is coming from former councilman Karl Baker. The self-proclaimed close friend to incumbent in last week's election, Yvonne Parks, is crying foul. Baker believes the twelve vote margin that gave Sanchez the mayoral win over Parks comes with a big asterisk. "I think the law is flawed," said Baker. "If somebody is registered in one county for example and you file for registration, how is he or she purged from the other county, or are they?"

Baker alleges several claims of voter fraud including voters registered in two counties, non-residents voting in the DHS election and even felons voting. Baker says he's shared his concerns with the candidates and plans to go to the police and county registrar next. "After every election, there's going to be people that are upset because their candidate did not win and that's the same case here," said Sanchez. "There's a lot of people who really haven't gotten over the fact that the election's over." (Source)

November 18, 2013: Possible Voter Fraud in New York

The Board of Elections in Plattsburgh [New York] has started counting hundreds of absentee ballots. It could decide the winners in several races for Plattsburgh City Council and the Clinton County Legislature that were too close to call on Election Night.

One contest already decided is the race for Mayor in the City of Plattsburgh. It turns out Republican Jim Calnon's lead on Election Night was bigger than the number of absentee ballots returned to the Board of Elections, so Calnon is the winner and the city's new Mayor-Elect.

But other races will be decided by absentee ballots counted over the next few days, and dozens – if not hundreds – are being challenged by some Republican candidates. They claim volunteers with the Working Families Party may have filled out ballots for voters who were fully capable of going to the polls themselves on Election Day. Police in Plattsburgh have launched an investigation in the voter-fraud allegations. (Source)

November 22, 2013: Voter Fraud in Massachusetts

A Massachusetts man has been indicted for voting in Manchester during the 2012 Presidential election. Late Friday afternoon Attorney General Joseph A. Foster announced in a release that Lorin C. Schneider, Jr., of Carver, Massachusetts had been indicted by a Hillsborough County grand jury for wrongful voting in violation of RSA 659:34, I (e). State officials claim that during the November 6, 2012 Presidential Election, Schneider voted at a Ward 9 polling place in Manchester, where he was a registered voter. The attorney general's office says at the time Schneider had lived in Carver, Mass., for over 20 years. (Source)

November 22, 2013: Voter-Registration Fraud in Colorado

The Arapahoe County [Colorado] district attorney's office has charged four people with misdemeanors after a voter-fraud investigation that tracked more than 40 people and election records dating back to 2008. Two of the people charged are immigrants — one from Africa who has donated to Democratic causes, the other from Poland — who have been deemed ineligible to vote in Colorado. The other two are Coloradans who worked for a liberal non-profit organization that registered people to vote. All four are charged with "procuring false registration," according to a news release Friday from Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler's office. The office investigated 41 "non-citizens." (Source)

November 23, 2013: Voter Fraud in Pennsylvania

The Lackawanna County [Pennsylvania] district attorney's office is investigating voter fraud in Taylor from the Nov. 8 election, District Attorney Andy Jarbola said Friday. Mr. Jarbola declined to detail the nature of the fraud, but a Taylor councilman and other sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it centers on absentee ballots. County Director of Elections Marion Medalis declined to comment on the investigation. She said the Bureau of Elections received 153 applications for absentee ballots from Taylor and 124 were returned. The Taylor election featured hotly contested races for Mayor and four borough council seats. (Source)

November 26, 2013: Voter Fraud in Rhode Island

Alberto Guzman is a Providence [Rhode Island] businessman. He's had his picture taken with the Governor and the Mayor of Providence. He served on the powerful loan committee for the city's Economic Development Partnership, deciding which businesses get taxpayer backed loans. And until Monday, according to the letter of the law, he was committing voter fraud.

The NBC 10 I-Team approached Guzman at his business, AG Services LLC.

Gavigan: "Why do you vote here in Providence when you don't live in Providence?"

Guzman: "Well, I've been in Providence ever since I came to the United States from the Dominican Republic. I work in Providence. I'm involved in civil matters, sports matters, everything that I do is in Providence, so I consider myself to be from Providence."

Town records confirm that Guzman's legal residence is in North Smithfield at a home on Douglas Pike. He's been there for more than 10 years.

According to his voting records, which were signed and filed with the Providence Board of Canvassers, he lives in Providence at 1214 Broad Street. The building is his insurance and accounting business. According to the records, he's voted from Precinct 2832 in 10 elections since 2000, including primaries.

Gavigan: "It's illegal."

Guzman: "Well, you tell me what's illegal. I'm going to vote for somebody in North Smithfield that I don't even know, when I know everybody in Providence." (Source)

November 30, 2013: Voter Fraud in Kentucky

There was a time when vote fraud was so pervasive in Clay County [Kentucky] that a lot of honest people saw no reason to vote, said Ken Bolin, pastor of Manchester Baptist Church. "They knew it was already bought and paid for," Bolin said of local races.

Vote-buying is deeply rooted in Eastern Kentucky's political culture, helping to make the region a hot spot for federal public-corruption cases.

From 2002 through 2011, there were 237 public-corruption convictions in the federal Eastern District of Kentucky, compared to 65 in the western district, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. It wasn't the first decade in which the eastern half of the state had one of the highest rates of corruption convictions per capita in the United States. (Source)

December 1, 2013: Voter Fraud in West Virginia

A former Mingo County [West Virginia] magistrate is scheduled to be in U.S. District Court in Charleston Monday to plead guilty to a federal voter fraud charge. Dallas Toler allegedly knowingly registered a convicted criminal to vote last year. (Source) and (Source)

December 3, 2013: Voter Fraud in Massachusetts

Two local men are facing charges of voter fraud from the Nov. 5 municipal election [in Worcester, Massachusetts]. Mark Atlas, 50, was accused of voting at the Ward 6, Precinct 5 polling station at 337 Greenwood St. under someone else's name. Richard Suchocki, 57, has been accused of assisting Mr. Atlas by providing him with the name and address of another registered voter. He was arraigned Monday.

When that registered voter went to the precinct to cast his ballot, he appeared to have already signed in, said Sgt. Kerry Hazelhurst. An officer working there overheard the conversation and looked into what happened. A poll worker remembered the name of one of the men and police investigated.

"Both individuals were brought in and questioned, and based on the information they received (police) were able to charge them," Sgt. Hazelhurst said. (Source)

December 4, 2013: Voter Fraud in Minnesota

An Austin [Minnesota] man serving prison time allegedly found a way to cast an absentee ballot in a primary election in St. Peter in January and is now facing a felony voter fraud charge.

Representatives from the Minnesota Secretary of State's Office contacted Bridgette Kennedy, Nicollet County auditor and treasurer, in February to report that Marieo Joneth Olivayes, 32, had cast an illegal vote in a Jan. 29 primary election. The report was turned over to a St. Peter police detective who confirmed that Olivayes was serving a prison sentence for first-degree assault and wasn't scheduled to finish his parole obligations until April 2017.

The detective also learned that Olivayes had faxed a request for an absentee ballot to the auditor's office on Jan. 16 and a ballot was mailed to him at the Minnesota Security Hospital in St. Peter on Jan. 18, according to a criminal complaint filed in Nicollet County District Court.

His application to register as a voter and his ballot were returned to the auditor sometime between Jan. 21-28. Olivayes had signed a portion of the application that said he was not a convicted felon or, if he was, his rights to vote had been restored, the complaint said. He had voted in a DFL primary election for District 19A, which was won by now state Rep. Clark Johnson of North Mankato. (Source)

December 9, 2013: Voter Fraud in Iowa

Election misconduct charges were recently filed by Muscatine County [Iowa] Attorney Alan R. Ostergren in two potential cases of voter fraud in Muscatine County.

Charges of election misconduct in the 1st degree were filed against Mayra Alejandra Lopez Morales of Muscatine and Sylvia Rada of Muscatine on December 4, 2013. Lopez Morales and Rada are accused of registering to vote and voting in the 2012 general election while being non-citizens. (Source)

December 27, 2013: Voter Fraud in North Carolina

Voters in the Robeson County [North Carolina] town of Pembroke will go to the polls a second time to elect town council members after the State Board of Elections found many “irregularities” in the November election and ordered a new vote.

In a written order released Friday, the state board found that problems “occurred to such an extent in this election that they tainted the results of all the Pembroke municipal elections and cast doubt upon their fairness.” A new election in 2014 was the only appropriate remedy because of the seriousness and number of irregularities, the board found after a lengthy hearing at its meeting last week. (Source)

December 31, 2013: Voter Fraud in Nevada

Nevada has unions committing voter fraud by registering and getting to vote illegal aliens—who are forced to pay bribes to get work—and continue to pay bribes so the union does not turn them into ICE. (Source)

January 5, 2014: Voter Fraud in Colorado

“The New Year starts us off with another huge victory,” announced an email to supporters from Jon Caldara, president of Colorado’s Independence Institute. “I’m not going to jail!” Adding, “Well . . . at least I’m not going to jail for voting.” Or, more specifically, for voter fraud. That’s the term Colorado Democrats hurled at the brash conservative think-tank leader, urging a probe by El Paso and Boulder Counties and the Attorney General’s office to potentially charge Mr. Caldara with a felony. That investigation concluded last week, when the Colorado Attorney General’s office informed Caldara that he would not be criminally charged, as such a prosecution was “not warranted or viable.”

Nonetheless, just three days prior to last year’s historic recall election in which voters tossed Senate President John Morse out of office over the gun control legislation Morse had pushed through the state legislature, Caldara did, indeed, move his official residence from the home he shares with his two kids in Boulder to an apartment in Colorado Springs, where he could and did cast a ballot in that recall election.

Soon afterwards, Caldara — apparently not sufficiently wowed by his newfound Colorado Springs community — moved his legal residence back to his Boulder home.

The whole purpose of Mr. Caldara’s very public vote was to show that the election legislation passed by the Democrat-controlled legislature and signed into law by Democrat Governor John Hickenlooper facilitated what would otherwise most certainly be considered fraudulent voting.

Note that the recall ballot he cast, legally, he also purposely left blank. As he told reporters at the time, “The point was not to be that last vote for Morse — as delicious as that might be — the purpose is to show how easy it is under the new law to move voters from district to district.” (Source)

January 12, 2014: Voter Fraud in New York

In 1984, Brooklyn’s [New York] Democratic district attorney, Elizabeth Holtzman, released a state grand-jury report on a successful 14-year conspiracy that cast thousands of fraudulent votes in local, state, and Congressional elections. Just like the DOI undercover operatives, the conspirators cast votes at precincts in the names of dead, moved, and bogus voters. The grand jury recommended voter ID, a basic election-integrity measure that New York has steadfastly refused to implement. (Source)

January 14, 2014: Election Fraud in Texas

In recent weeks, the suicide of the school board president here and accusations of vote buying against three politiqueras have rocked the system. The charges may threaten the existence of politiqueras in Donna [Texas], an impoverished community of 16,000, where politics and jobs are inseparable. The school system is the largest employer, and city government is the second largest; local politics rivals high school football as a favored pastime.

Three women working as politiqueras in the 2012 elections in Donna were arrested by FBI agents in December and accused of giving residents cash, drugs, beer and cigarettes in exchange for their votes. According to court documents, the typical payment to a voter was $10, a sign of the extreme poverty in the Rio Grande Valley, which is home to some of the poorest counties in America. Two of the three women — Rebecca Gonzalez and Guadalupe Escamilla — are accused of paying some voters as little as $3 for each of their votes. One voter was given a pack of cigarettes. Others were taken to buy drugs after they received cash for voting for a politiquera’s candidate.

Ms. Gonzalez, Ms. Escamilla and the third woman, Diana Castaneda, said the candidates and their campaign managers would give them the cash and instruct them to use it to pay voters in the 2012 primary and general elections, the FBI said in court documents. The three women worked for several candidates running for seats on the board of the Donna Independent School District, though court documents do not identify any candidates or campaign managers. (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

January 14, 2014: Voter Fraud in New Hampshire

A Milford [New Hampshire] man has agreed to pay a $1,000 penalty for voting twice in the 2012 general election. The New Hampshire Attorney General's Office said Adam Kumpu agreed to pay the penalty to resolve a matter involving wrongful voting violations. His mother, Janine Kumpu, also of Milford, agreed to pay an additional $250 penalty for helping her son obtain an absentee ballot. Under New Hampshire law, it is illegal for a person to vote more than once for any office or measure in any election and/or apply for a ballot in a name other than his or her own.

The Attorney General’s Office investigated Adam Kumpu for voting twice during the 2012 general election. The investigation revealed that during the election, he voted by absentee ballot in Milford, and then on Election Day registered and voted in Keene.

The investigation further revealed that the absentee ballot was obtained by Adam Kumpu’s mother, Janine Kumpu, who completed a New Hampshire absentee ballot application utilizing the personal identifying information of Adam Kumpu and then signed her son’s name on the signature line. Janine Kumpu then submitted the application to the Milford Town Clerk’s Office. The town clerk then forwarded the absentee ballot to Adam Kumpu, who was attending Keene State College. (Source)

January 24, 2014: Voter Fraud and Voter-Registration Fraud in Iowa

Charges have been filed in nine potential cases of voter fraud. A charge of perjury, a Class D felony, was filed against Kelli J. Griffin, 40, Montrose [Iowa]. Griffin is accused of registering to vote and voting in the 2013 city election while being a felon who has not had her voting rights restored.

Charges of first-degree election misconduct, a Class D felony, were filed against Robert Anthony, 56, Michelle Bruno, 39, Ricco Cooper, 39, Anthony Greer, 25, Harold Redd Jr., 48, Glen Tank, 42, Philip Thomas, 29, and Rosa Wilder, 49, all of Waterloo. Anthony, Bruno, Cooper, Greer, Redd Jr., Tank, Thomas and Wilder are accused of registering to vote and voting in the 2012 general election while being felons who have not had their voting rights restored. (Source) and (Source)

January 27, 2014: Voter Fraud in New Hampshire

The Keene Sentinel was one of the most strident opponents of New Hampshire’s voter ID law during the 2011-2012 legislative session. The paper mocked the very idea that voter fraud happens in New Hampshire. So it is amusing that the state Attorney General’s office announced this month that voter fraud was committed in Keene in 2012.

Adam Kumpu of Milford was fined $1,000 and his mother, Janine Kumpu of Milford, was fined $250 for the fraud. Janine Kumpu obtained an absentee ballot in her son’s name, and he used it to vote in Milford last November. He also voted in person in Keene.

That was proven fraud. Then there is the mystery of a vote recorded in Caitlin Legacki’s name in the 2012 general election. The bloggers at Granite Grok reported last week that someone voted in Manchester in 2012 under the name of former Jeanne Shaheen spokesperson Caitlin Legacki.

We confirmed with the City Clerk’s office that a vote under Legacki’s name and address was recorded. But Legacki moved out of New Hampshire shortly after the 2008 election (in which she voted) and was in St. Louis on Election Day 2012, working for U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill. “It certainly was news to me” that she was checked as having voted in Manchester in 2012, she told us last week.

No one has noted, though, that Legacki was one of many out-of-state campaign workers who moved to New Hampshire for a temporary campaign job in 2008, voted in the election, then quickly left. The state Attorney General has held that this is legal. It should not be. Fixing that loophole should make its way back onto the Legislature’s agenda. (Source)

January 27, 2014: Voter Fraud in Texas

The battle was heated in 2013 for the Weslaco [Texas] city commissioner's seat in District 5 between Letty Lopez and Lupe Rivera, and it continues to spark controversy even now.... Jerad Navjar is representing Lopez in a lawsuit filed against the incumbent Rivera after he won the race in November. The lawsuit outlines a slew of votes that Lopez claims were made by people who do not live in District 5. “All of these people cannot be living under the same roof.”

In one example listed in the lawsuit, 23 voters who cast a ballot in favor of Rivera were registered to a home on East 6th street in Weslaco. Lopez camp claims those votes were cast illegally since all of those people do not actually reside in the same house. (Source)

January 28, 2014: Voter Fraud in New Hampshire

Here is another guy who voted in your place – if you are a legitimate New Hampshire taxpayer: Our old friend from London, England, Europe – Parker Gilbert a Dartmouth student awaiting his rape trial.

A citizen of another country had no problem whatsoever voting in Hanover, New Hampshire. Not wanting to intimidate any potential voter is the claim NH liberals have used to legislatively undermine every election law that guarantees election purity. The blinders the Attorney General’s Election Law Division wears when faced with evidence of voter fraud help let non-citizens of the United States take your NH vote away. (Source)

January 28, 2014: Voter Fraud in California

A Los Angeles [California] jury on Tuesday convicted state Sen. Roderick D. Wright on all eight counts in his perjury and voter fraud trial. The Inglewood Democrat was indicted by a Los Angeles County grand jury in September 2010. He had pleaded not guilty and said he thought he had been following the law in 2007 when he took steps to run for the seat he has held since late 2008.

In a trial that began Jan. 8, prosecutors accused Wright of faking a move to a rental property he owned in Inglewood so he could run in what was then the 25th Senate District. They accused him of lying on voter registration and candidacy documents and of casting ballots in five elections he was not entitled to vote in from the Inglewood address. Prosecutors said Wright actually lived in a more spacious single-family home in upscale Baldwin Hills. He bought the house in 2000, but it was in another district. (Source)

February 4, 2014: Voter Fraud in Iowa

Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz is seeking state funding to continue a voter fraud investigation, but it is not clear lawmakers will back the request. Schultz says he will soon provide lawmakers with a report on the investigation. To date, five people have pleaded guilty to voter fraud. (Source)

February 4, 2014: Election Fraud in Texas

Four campaign workers have been arrested after a Democrat accused his Republican opponent of using forged signatures to get on the ballot in the Harris County [Texas] Justice of the Peace race.

Democrat George Risner, the Precinct 2 Justice of the Peace for the past 27 years, has filed a lawsuit to get a Republican challenger off the ballot.

Leonila Olivares-Salazar, a local TV host and realtor, is a candidate in the Republican Primary and like anyone else she needs 250 signatures to get on the ballot. But in a lawsuit filed against the Harris County Republican Party the judge alleges his opponent hired a company to get those signatures and that most of the signatures are fraudulent.

On Tuesday, four of those signature gatherers were indicted for organized criminal activity and admitted that they didn’t really gather all those signatures. (Source)

February 10, 2014: Voter Fraud in Michigan

A 25-year-old man who circulated petitions last summer in Ferndale [Michigan] to put a marijuana-legalization question on the ballot has been convicted of voter fraud. But the city ordinance he promoted and that voters approved in November will stay on the books, despite charges by critics that voters were misled, Ferndale City Clerk Cherilynn Brown said. Brown said he had no comment on a pledge by the city's police chief not to honor the new ordinance and instead to arrest anyone found possessing marijuana. (Source)

February 11, 2014: Voter Fraud in Ohio

A Hamilton County [Ohio] poll worker voted twice in the 2013 mayoral election, prompting the county elections board Tuesday to refer her to the prosecutor’s office. Casting two votes is a felony under Ohio law. Ellen Duncan, 54, who had been a poll worker for about 15 years, voted absentee and then in person while working at the Urban League on Reading Road, according to Board of Elections paperwork.
Both of her votes were counted. (Source)

February 13, 2014: Vote-Buying Scandal in Kentucky

Three people in one Eastern Kentucky county who were convicted in a vote-buying scandal are running for office again after having their civil rights restored by the Governor.

Former Bath County Attorney Donald "Champ" Maze; former sheriff Calvin Randall Armitage; and former firefighter Norman Crouch have all filed to run for various offices in the upcoming election, according to Secretary of State candidate filings uncovered by LEX 18 Investigates.

Maze is running for judge executive, Armitage is running for sheriff, and Crouch is running for jailer.
Their candidacy is causing a stir in the small county rocked by the federal investigation into vote-buying in 2006, county and city officials say. (Source)

February 19, 2014: Election Fraud in Texas

In an apparent violation of state law, Battleground Texas officials are exploiting legally protected information to turn voters out to the polls as part of the Democratic Party’s quest to paint the Lone Star State blue, a new undercover video from James O’Keefe reveals. The footage shows Battleground Texas volunteer Jennifer Longoria saying the group uses the phone numbers from voter registration forms in later efforts to boost turnout on Election Day.

Texas Election Code prohibits the use of, or even the copying of, phone numbers provided by individuals registering to vote. O’Keefe & Co. also captured a Battleground volunteer saying that the group forges signatures on voter-related documents. “It happens all the time,” she said. (Source) and (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

February 21, 2014: Election Fraud in Pennsylvania

A 65-year-old Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] Election Board worker [Dianah Gregory] was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly tampering with voting machines and electioneering inside the polls.

“Consider that in 2012 in Philadelphia, the Republican Party of PA, under my [Pennsylvania GOP’s Philadelphia area Executive Director Joe DeFelice] leadership, appointed 300 Minority Inspectors in divisions with few Republicans. Of the 300 Minority Inspectors, 100 were denied entry to polling places and subjected to racial intimidation despite having a Court Orders signed by President Judge Pam Dembe. (Source) and (Source) and (Source)

February 27, 2014: Voter Fraud in Florida

A drug raid on a house owned by Florida Rep. Linda Stewart (D-Orlando) may get the legislator in deeper trouble as it appears Stewart’s 35-year-old daughter may have been falsely claiming to live in the house so she could vote in Stewart’s district.

The Orlando Sentinel reported that the target of the raid, conducted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Orlando Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation, was a career criminal with dozens of prior arrests, prior drug convictions, suspected ties to prostitution, and a previous assault on a police deputy. Police reported they indeed found drugs and a firearm during the raid. As a convicted felon, Darrell Wayne Roby could not lawfully own a firearm. When police found the firearm, Roby told them he had purchased it from a prostitute.

Stewart’s daughter, Amanda Endress, claims for voting purposes that the house is her legal residence. However, as facts regarding the police raid have come to light, it appears Endress does not live at the house. (Source)

February 28, 2014: Election Fraud in New Jersey

A [New Jersey] borough councilman stepped down this week as he faces charges of election fraud. Ron Griffin, who on Thursday stepped down from the position that he had held for two months, also had applied for a two-year diversionary court program on Wednesday. Griffin’s hearing in Superior Court in Hackensack is on March 26. Griffin did not return messages for comment Friday. His brief resignation letter did not give a reason, but noted that he was “compelled to submit” the resignation. In December, Griffin and former borough attorney Scott Mooney were charged by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office with falsifying or tampering with records, fraudulently defacing a primary petition for nominating candidates, and conspiracy to deface a nominating petition. (Source)

March 4, 2014: Voter Fraud in Iowa

An Iowa voter fraud case involving a convicted felon is set to go to trial in Lee County. It's the first jury trial in Iowa for voter fraud since a statewide investigation took place.

An aide to Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad should not be allowed to testify as a prosecution witness at a voter fraud trial after she skipped a deposition last week, a defense lawyer said.

Rebecca Elming refused to be deposed in person or by phone on the advice of the Iowa Attorney General's Office, said Curtis Dial, the attorney for Kelli Jo Griffin. Dial argued in a court filing Friday that Elming’s testimony should be excluded from Griffin’s perjury trial, which is scheduled to begin Thursday.

Griffin, 40, is charged with falsely declaring on a voter registration form that she was not an ineligible felon before casting a ballot in a Nov. 5 municipal election in Montrose. Prosecutors say that she knew she had lost her voting rights after she was convicted of a felony cocaine charge in 2008. (Source) (Source)

March 4, 2014: Voter Fraud in New Jersey

A judge who resigned last week after allegations of improper voting has been charged with two counts of voter fraud, according to the Middlesex County [New Jersey] Prosecutor’s Office. Spencer Robbins, 62, of Chatham surrendered today at the Middlesex County Courthouse in New Brunswick, where he was served with the two-count complaint charging him with the third-degree offenses. Middlesex County Acting Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey said Robbins casted votes during two elections in Woodbridge, where he has a law office, rather than in Chatham, where he lived. (Source) and (Source)

March 6, 2014: Election Fraud in New Jersey

A Paterson [New Jersey] councilman and his wife were indicted today on charges they conspired during the 2010 City Council election to churn out fraudulent mail-in ballots from their campaign headquarters, sometimes assuming the identities of constituents and voting without their knowledge.

State authorities said Rigo Rodriguez, 41, of Paterson, a candidate for mayor, and his wife, Lissette, 34, who was the leader of his re-election campaign, had campaign workers illegally act as "messengers" and "bearers" for mail-in ballots despite not being designated by voters.

The pair also allegedly had ballots submitted as votes for people who never received the ballots, completed them or authorized that they be cast. Once the State Police caught on to the scheme, authorities said, the pair instructed campaign workers to lie. (Source)

March 6, 2014: Voter Fraud in Wisconsin

A [Wisconsin] state legislative aide pleaded guilty Tuesday to election fraud for allegedly voting in the wrong district in 2010 and was placed in a first-offenders program. Under a plea agreement, another count of election fraud against Marcie R. Malszycki, 33, involving a vote allegedly cast in the wrong district in 2008, was dismissed. (Source)

March 7, 2014: Election Fraud in Florida

A friend to a former South Florida Congressman is in FBI custody. Ana Alliegro, friend of former Congressman David Rivera was deported to Miami from Nicaragua, where she had been living since fleeing the country in 2012.

Alliegro is accused of campaign election fraud for allegedly bankrolling a bogus Democratic candidate whose sole job was to attack Rivera's likely challenger, Joe Garcia, in the 2012 Congressional primary. Garcia ultimately won Florida's 26th Congressional seat. Rivera has never been charged and denies any wrongdoing. (Source)

March 12, 2014: Voter Fraud in Wisconsin

In 2000, a Marquette University student called a Milwaukee [Wisconsin] morning radio show to brag he had voted 25 times for Al Gore. Wisconsin same-day registration allows someone producing a utility bill to vote, without producing an ID.

In the 2000 election, 30,000 people in Dane County (home of the University of Wisconsin — Madison) same-day registered and voted on Election Day. Gore won Wisconsin by fewer than 6,000 votes. How many out-of-state students cast votes for Gore with a local utility bill?

A December 2011 National Review article, humorously titled, “If a Fraudulent Vote Falls in the Woods,” references the Milwaukee Police Department report detailing vote fraud in the 2004 election. The task force issuing the study said they believed 16 workers from the John Kerry campaign and third-party groups “committed felony crimes” that went unprosecuted. That presidential race was decided in Wisconsin by 11,400 votes. The Milwaukee PD found one property where 128 people were registered to vote. One Milwaukee homeless shelter featured 162 registered voters, another boasted 136.

Check the astonishing Gateway Pundit article reporting a left-wing group’s extrapolation that “nearly 160,000 African-American voters in Milwaukee were no longer reachable at their last documented address — representing 41 percent of the city’s 2008 electorate.” Canvassing beginning in April 2012 by the League of Young Voters found that “during those eight weeks, canvassers were able to successfully find and interact with only 31 percent of their targets. Twice that number were confirmed to no longer live at the address on file — either because a structure was abandoned or condemned, or if a current resident reported that the targeted voter no longer lived there.” Do you suppose they cast Republican votes? (Source)

March 13: 2014: Voter Fraud in New York

County and state law enforcement and New York's Attorney General allegedly ignored strong evidence of voter fraud by developer Norman Lamm and Satmar Hassidim trying to illegally take over this tiny [the Village of Bloomingburg inside the Town of Mamakating] upstate New York village. (Source)

March 15, 2014: Voter Fraud in Wyoming

Six local residents [of Laramie County, Wyoming] are accused of illegally voting during the 2012 election.... Laramie County District Attorney Scott Homar said the six are suspected of breaking the state law that prohibits most convicted felons from voting. (Source)

March 15, 2014: Justice Department Efforts to Prevent States from Removing Non-Citizens fron Voter Rolls

The Holder Justice Department has been quick to interfere in states seeking to remove non-citizens from the rolls, as happened in Florida before the 2012 election and Georgia in 2009. (Source)

March 19, 2014: Voter Fraud in Rhode Island

Rhode Island has a rather shameful history of voter fraud. In the 1938 election, Rhode Island experienced it on a massive scale. A bipartisan legislative committee investigated the elections in Pawtucket and Central Falls. The committee unanimously determined that over 10 percent of the votes cast in these two communities were irregular and that hundreds of votes had been cast by floaters. In four Pawtucket precincts, there were more ballots cast than there were eligible voters. Voter fraud was also uncovered in North Providence and in the 13th Ward of Providence, which encompasses the Federal Hill neighborhood.

Under Atty. Gen. Louis V. Jackvony, a multitude of indictments were issued. A few pleaded no contest. Some were found guilty, including Thomas S. Luongo, the Democratic councilman for the 13th ward.

A bipartisan commission proposed sweeping reforms, including a voter identification system whereby a voter’s signature and a voter’s physical appearance would be compared to the signature and physical description of the voter on file prior to voting. Opponents complained about the cost of this identification system and suggested it could reduce voter turnout. As a result, while some election reforms were adopted, the voter identification proposal was abandoned.

Soon thereafter, efforts to bring to justice those who had committed fraud in the 1938 election were also abandoned. In 1940, Democrat John H. Nolan was elected attorney general. Previously, Nolan had been defense counsel for Councilman Luongo in an election fraud case. Now, as AG, Nolan requested that the Rhode Island Supreme Court determine whether grand jury indictments issued in the Pawtucket election fraud case were valid.

In 1941, the Rhode Island Supreme Court ruled that there was a technical flaw in these indictments. Attorney General Nolan then decided to drop all of the election fraud cases, including the case of Councilman Luongo, on the grounds that prosecuting these voter fraud cases would be too costly.

Undeterred, voter fraud continued. In 1955, a special election was conducted for a constitutional amendment to increase the pay of state legislators. The proposal was defeated by a landslide. However, in the 13th ward of Providence, the proposal passed by a landslide. It was soon determined that over half of the votes cast at one Federal Hill precinct were clearly fraudulent. Hundreds of voters’ names were checked off as voting when they had not.

This blatant fraud led to the creation of a bipartisan commission. At the urging of the League of Women Voters, this commission proposed requiring that a voter’s signature be compared to the one on file before the person would be allowed to vote.

Board of Elections Chairman Albert J. Lamarre, who had been indicted for election fraud in 1940, opposed signature identification as too costly. Democratic House Majority Leader James H. Kiernan, who had been defense counsel in an election fraud case in 1939, claimed that a signature identification requirement would act as “a deterrent among some groups of voters,” slow the process of voting at the polls and “discourage voter turnout.” In the end, the signature identification law was enacted in 1958 because of Republicans and pressure from Gov. Dennis J. Roberts.

Despite various safeguards, voter fraud seems to linger on. State Rep. Anastasia Williams noted that, in 2006, she had been of victim of voter fraud. In 2011, State Sen. Harold Metts discussed nearly two decades worth of complaints from constituents about voter fraud. (Source)

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