Posted on 10/29/2016 11:15:27 AM PDT by John Semmens
In Florida, Gladys Coego, a temporary worker for the Miami-Dade County Elections Department, was caught altering mailed in ballots by coloring in "bubbles" that the original voter had left blank. Coego justified her effort "to salvage votes that otherwise would've gone to waste. If a person doesn't fully exercise their right to vote where's the harm in me finishing the job they left undone?"
In a separate incident, Tomika Curgil was accused by the State Attorney's office of filing voter registration forms for five individuals without their consent, 17 additional forms for fictitious persons and several for persons recently deceased.
Juan Cuba, executive director of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party, urged that "we not overreact to these minor infractions that obviously stem from misplaced enthusiasm. Granted, they shouldn't have done what they did, but it was not for personal gain. It was out of a zealous concern for the good of the nation. At worst, it couldn't result in more than a few dozen unwarranted ballots being cast. The odds that it might change the outcome are incredibly small."
In Virginia, Vafalay Massaquoi is facing felony charges for using fake names to fill out voter registration forms. Massaquoi said he viewed his actions as "fair payback for the hundreds of years of oppression of blacks in this state and the country. I felt it was long past the time that we needed to balance out all the voices that were silenced by slavery and Jim Crow."
In Virginia's Fairfax County, voters requesting mail-in ballots received a letter from Governor Terry McAuliffe urging them to vote Democrat. Including partisan campaign material in the mailings is illegal. Nonetheless, McAuliffe labeled the incident "an honest mistake. Can we really expect county employees to know that it would be against the law to insert a letter signed by their state's governor into the mailing? I'm sure this isn't the first time such a thing has happened. So let's not make too much of it."
In North Carolina, Hillary supporter Robert Dougherty bragged on Facebook about how he voted for some of his Facebook friends using their identities and saving them the bother of "having to wait on line to vote the straight Democratic ticket we all support." Dougherty vowed to "continue voting everyday right up to November 8th using names and addresses I got from Google. I can't believe how easy it is."
Longtime Clinton campaign operative James Carville advised "everyone should chill out. Of course there will be some election fraud. Rather than crying about it the Republicans need to show some initiative to come up with their own schemes to offset what we Democrats are doing. That's what competition is all about."
Meanwhile, the Department of Justice warns that "private citizens challenging voters to prove their identity and videotaping or photographing alleged fraud is a violation of federal voting rights laws. Oversight of the election process must be left up to the authorized public officials."
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