The latest data from Public Policy Polling (a Democratic firm) shows Republican Bob Turner is “poised to pull a huge upset“ in the race to replace Anthony Weiner. Turner led Democrat David Weprin 47 to 41 in PPP’s poll, putting the Republican candidate an astonishing six points ahead in a district that President Obama won by 55 percent in 2008.
Will this tempt some locals to resort to the kind of voter fraud that Kings County and Brooklyn are infamous for?
A source within the Turner camp tells me the campaign sent a letter and campaign literature to all the voters on the permanent list maintained by the Board of Elections who are automatically mailed absentee ballots. They have received hundreds of pieces of returned mail marked “address unknown” or “return to sender” and at least five marked “deceased.” They were contacted by another voter who received an absentee ballot he had not even requested.
As I described in a Heritage case study, Kings County was a hub of organized voter fraud that cast thousands of fraudulent ballots in elections. In 1984, former Democratic Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman, who had become the Brooklyn district attorney, released a state grand jury report that detailed a successful 14-year conspiracy to steal election. The grand jury found evidence of fraud by Democrats in “two primary elections for Congress held in 1976 and 1982, four primary elections for the Assembly in three different assembly districts, three primary elections for the State Senate in one senatorial district and two elections for state committee in two different districts.”
The fraud included “the forgery of voter registration cards with the names of fictitious persons, the filing of these cards with the Board of Elections, [and] the recruitment of people to cast multiple votes on behalf of specified candidates using these forged cards or the cards of deceased and other persons.” In fact, the conspirators cast multiple ballots on behalf of deceased voters who were still registered, as well as real voters who were impersonated at the polls. And all of this went on for 14 years without detection.
Worse, the Board of Elections relied on return mail from the Postal Service of new voter registration cards to notify election officials if there was a problem with the registration. Unfortunately, however, the grand jury found that “mail carriers did not return these cards,” so the one service election officials relied on to notify them if a new voter registration was fictitious or that a registered voter had died or moved away was ineffective. That, of course, gave the people who wanted to steal elections in Brooklyn a rich harvest of potential names to use to cast fraudulent ballots — which they did.
Let’s hope that the fear of losing control over a Democratic congressional district will not entice anyone to repeat this kind of illegal behavior in tomorrow’s election. But given the sordid history of this congressional district and what is at stake politically, election officials should be extremely vigilant for any signs of possible wrongdoing in the election.
“mail carriers did not return these cards,”
Hmm, aren't postal workers heavily unionized?
Imagine that, another union protecting the ability of the Democrats to commit election fraud.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAnd shouldn't NR readers who live in NYC/Westchester flood the precincts as poll-watchers? Esp those with legal credentials?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseVotes aren't stolen in the precincts where poll watchers can see them---they're stolen through absentee ballots, phony voter registrations, multiple voting under different names, and in pre-filled ballots in spare voting machines. Poll-watching won't catch any of it.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI also wondered about this phrase. It did seem to read the way Mark interpreted it although it seemed so outrageous and was stated so matter-of-factly that wondered if this was normal postal procedure in this particular set of circumstances. If large numbers of letter carriers routinely destroy mail for political reasons -- or whatever reasons -- this should be a H-U-G-E story.
Everyday I am more and more convinced that we are headed for a Weimar-style meltdown in this country. The conduct of the union thugs in Wisconsin and, more recently, in Seatle (blue-collar workers protecting the right to extort salaries well into six figures that are funded by every American who uses any imported product), voter fraud as a widespread, standard page of the urban Democrat playbook, and, of course, the lying media that wants to keep the people in the dark.
Rational politics cannot resolve differences under these kinds of conditions. Ultimately, angry mobs face off in the streets to work it out in these kinds of conditions.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYet more proof that the Democrats' single most loyal constituency is dead people.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseDemocrats have a history of vote fraud and other irregularities and most Americans accept this criminal activity as business as usual. Thus, they're not talking about Republicans when they say "vote early and vote often." Sad but true.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseBut in my state -- and lots of others -- we have been embroiled all year in a bitter struggle over voter ID. The whole ~~~compound expletive deleted~~~ Democrat party is criminally corrupt, complicit in voter fraud as a standard political practice. Anybody who opposes voter ID supports the stealing of elections. And yet ~all~ the Democrat (including my governor) shriek about all the people who have no photo IDs who would be disenfranchised. And -- suddenly -- all these Democrats see a government action (requirement of photo ID to vote) that they are worried to death about the cost of. And -- using other words -- they insist that such a law would not prevent most of their fraud. And they demand that Republicans show documentation for convicted fradulent voters and promise that they will insure that all convicted persons are punished. It sounds like something out of a Kurt Vonnegut novel, absurdist fiction. But these are the things that the lying, scum, Democrats use to oppose measure to assure the integrity of our democracy. I do not know of a single Democrat in my patch who has not been part of this farce.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIn Florida in 2000, postal workers were stealing absentee ballots. I can't imagine what would make them change.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThis can only mean that Hans von S is a racist. There is no such thing as voter fraud and any attempt to clean it up is a racist attempt by the evil GOP to disenfranchise minority voters who obviously would forego voting rather than show an ID.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThat Kings County grand jury must have been racist too. Proof of how systemic and pervasive it is!
If you win big they can't cheat.
There's a part of me that is relieved that the Democrats commit election fraud so often. I sometimes find myself thinking, "How can the majority of voters be stupid enough to elect these clowns?" Well in some places they aren't, but the voters don't actually get to decide the election.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseGeneral rule of thumb is that a Republican needs to win by at least two-percent to avoid having the election stolen or his victory margin litigated away. Cemeteries alone can usually make up a half-percent difference, and that's just old time, machine-politics corruption.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseA lot of people did not realize before Gore/Florida that the DNC had been perfecting the art of litigating losses into wins at the congressional level for several years. As Stalin noted, it's not how many votes you get; it's who counts them. Such is life if you are a Republican candidate in Democrat country.
I'm sure Michael Moore and moveon.org will be all over it making sure fraud doesn't happen.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse@Teflon93 has it generally right. I was a pollwatcher for Sheffield Nelson, the 94 Arkansas GOP gubernatorial candidate, and caught drivers for residents of a developmentally disabled shelter program voting for residents. The poll workers weren't comfortable with the contraversy, but were dedicated enough to stop it when I pointed it out. Unfortunately, motor voter went into effect right after that election and we never saw those voters in the polling places again.We also ran into other issues that year - ballots requested for voters who listed vacant lots as addresses, a staffer for the incumbent Democrat's campaign who was going through an Assisted Living facility helping people fill out an absentee application - and offering to do the same when the ballot came in, etc. Nursing homes are a terrible problem - they have almost a 100% voter turnout record, even for residents with dementia or worse. Since the administrators have a strong interest in Medicaid rates, you can guess what is happening.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseA finger dabbed with purple ink would end a lot of voting booth shenanigans.
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