We all know about the well-documented cases of voter registration fraud involving ACORN and its employees over the past couple of years. The argument from ACORN’s supporters has always been that the forgeries have been so obvious that they never turned into actual votes or counted ballots.
It seems to me that in terms of scanning for voter fraud, if you’re looking for names like Tony Romo and Mickey Mouse, you’re not looking for the innocuous names like Kimberlee Truell or Michael Ward.
It’s long been my contention (I don’t believe I’ve ever blogged about it though so you’re just gonna have to take my word) that the Mickey Mouse-type registrations were a smokescreen, nothing more; that for every bogus, highly visible ‘Mickey Mouse” registration or ballot that was being discovered, there was a below-the-radar, extremely legitimate looking registration or ballot slipping through unnoticed.
If I were a fraudster, that’s how I’d do it.
In Troy, New York, that may be exactly how they did it.
From FOX:
‘They Tried to Steal an Election,’ N.Y. Voter Fraud Case Heats Up
Thirty-eight forged or fraudulent ballots have been thrown out, according to records at the Rensselaer County Board of Elections in Troy, N.Y. Enough votes, an election official admits, to likely have tipped the November election to the Democrats.
Brian Suozzo voted with an absentee ballot in the Working Families Party primary on Sept. 15 because, as his application stated, he was “at home recovering from medical procedure.”
Jessica Boomhower’s application said she would be attending a “work conference in Boston.”
Michael Ward couldn’t vote in person because he was “taking care of elderly parent.”
Kimberlee Truell was on a “Bus trip to casino,” as was Miguel Vazques.
The only problem with these absentee ballot records at the Rensselaer County Board of Elections in Troy, N.Y., is that they’re phony, voters and investigators say — and they’ve prompted what’s being called an unprecedented investigation of suspected voter fraud.
Thirty-eight forged or fraudulent ballots have been thrown out — enough votes, an election official admits, to likely have tipped the city council and county elections in November to the Democrats. Candidates would have been able to run both on the Democratic and Working Families Party lines in two weeks, and that could have given the Democrats the general election.
According to the FOX News article, the absentee ballots were the work of the Working Families Party, an ACORN front group that has been gaining strength in New York.
Hillary Clinton garnered 2.7 percent of her total votes from the WFP line when she first ran for Senate in 2000, which increased to 5 percent of her total vote in 2006. In September, Clinton’s former campaign manager for her 2000 Senate run, New York City Councilman Bill DeBlasio, who has been endorsed by the WFP, beat two long-established politicians in the Democratic primary. Critics also accuse the Working Families Party of having a long association with the troubled activist group, ACORN. Bertha Lewis, ACORN’s CEO, is one of the party’s co-founders. The New York Times reported this month that “Patrick Gaspard, the White House political director, worked with ACORN in New York to set up the Working Families political party and sat on the party’s board with Ms. Lewis.”
So basically what we have here is yet another ACORN voter fraud scandal. One that will, undoubtedly, go uninvestigated by Congress (John Conyers already backed away fron an ACORN investigation once before) or Eric Holder’s Justice Department (you know, the same Justice Department that let the New Black Panthers walk away from a clear cut case of voter intimidation in Pennsylvania, and who just forced a small North Carolina town to hold partisan electons so black voters would know who to vote for. Interestingly enough the DOJ official responsible for both of these cases that seem to have been decided primarily on race, is Assistant Attorney General Loretta King, a woman who is rapidly acquiring a well-earned reputation for placing blind justice second to a racial agenda, and who, in my opinion, is nothing more than a dolled-up racist in a position of authority..
Above all though, these are Barack Obama’s people; he’s one of them, he owes them, and he will continue to protect them.
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-Cnation
