Posted on 03/30/2022 9:30:11 PM PDT by jfd1776
Depending on who you ask, vote fraud is dismissed as something that never happened, or used to happen but doesn’t happen anymore, or happens, but not in numbers significant enough to change an election, so who cares?
I’ve always been particularly irritated by that last one, having had two good friends – members of a state legislature and a county board – win or lose elections by a single vote over the years (Penny Pullen was the Illinois State Rep, and the late Donald Conn was the Ogle County Board Member).
Personally, I’ve always known that vote fraud is real. One day, about 35 years ago now, a friend and I helped out in the city of Chicago, serving as Republican election judges in one of two polling places located in a north side nursing home. Our precinct was relatively clean, consisting of the professionals who lived in the neighboring apartment buildings. The precinct voting across the hall, however, constituted the almost uniformly incapacitated residents of the nursing home. Over the course of the day, seeing their election judges holding their hands for them and casting their votes without instruction or even awareness, it became evident that these poor residents had no idea where they were or for whom they were voting.
We learned on that day without a doubt what cynics have always suspected of the big city Democrat party machines: that the Party views interest groups as votes to be harvested twice a year, nothing more, nothing less. From welfare to business licenses, from garbage collection to snow removal, the singular focus of these local bureaucracies is on the election day that enables their corrupt world.
But even those who believe it of Chicago, doubt it elsewhere. People all over the country chuckle and say “Well, that’s not a problem here; we’re not in Chicago.”
That assumption is rapidly becoming downright laughable.
Take two recent examples that have received minimal attention outside of conservative media:
JOHN LOTT'S RESEARCH
John R. Lott is a highly respected scholar and author. His 1998 bestseller, “More Guns, Less Crime,” settled the question of whether gun control or gun ownership contribute to safer streets. He has recently turned his scientific mind toward the issue of vote fraud, studying it from a different point of view than most.
Mr. Lott’s peer-reviewed research, to be published in Public Choice, studies the 2020 General Election by statistically comparing neighboring precincts in neighboring counties, predominantly looking at the critical swing states of Pennsylvania and Georgia.
One might assume, with Republicans motivated and confident with President Trump’s successful presidency, and Democrats demoralized and uninspired with an elderly and likely senile sacrificial lamb at the top of their ticket, that Republican turnout would be strong and Democrat turnout would be sluggish.
Mr. Lott’s research of Republican-majority and Democrat-majority counties largely showed that very difference in voter enthusiasm and turnout, with an interesting exception: the vote totals indicate that Democrat turnout increased to match Republican enthusiasm only in the Democrat-majority counties where vote fraud has been reasonably alleged.
Mr. Lott points out that the precincts he studied – in six key swing states – are neighboring precincts along county lines, generally identical demographically except for that invisible county border down the middle of the street. The only significant difference between them is whether normal Republican city and county officials run their election apparatus, or if that apparatus is controlled by a suspect Democrat machine.
His research indicates some 255,000 extra votes in just the areas he studied.
And when you expand that to the entire country? This is a pattern of fraud worthy of all the attention that Republicans have always said it merits.
NURSING HOME FRAUD
As I learned some 35 years ago in Chicago, there is something irresistible to the machine politician about the very singular situation of nursing homes.
Such residents are usually dependent on a distant family or even more distant government for their bills, and are therefore vulnerable to the administration and staff for everything from getting fed and bathed to getting medical care. Worse yet, a high percentage (in some homes, approaching 100%) suffer greatly diminished mental acuity, and can easily be taken advantage of, financially or otherwise.
Worse yet, these homes are so highly regulated, a corrupt regulator has immense power over them. Readers of a certain age will remember the backstory around Juanita Broaddrick’s horrifying encounter with a certain Arkansas attorney general who went all the way to the White House. Mrs. Broaddrick was a nursing home administrator in 1978, and the state attorney general controlled licensing for such businesses, so he knew she wouldn’t dare to prosecute.
Local city and county governments often have even more power over nursing homes; they can not only deny or yank licenses, shutting them down, they could also deny garbage and snow removal services, cut a deal with the unions to stage a strike, even turn off water or power… just to make their point.
Nursing homes are not inclined to refuse a request by the powers that be, knowing how much could be jeopardized by saying No.
A bigger problem, painful though it is for those not yet jaded enough by a lifetime of watching the news, is the fact that many who work for these nursing homes may not need to be coerced to participate in vote fraud. For generations, children have been told by their politicians, their schoolteachers, their pastors, and their pop culture heroes, that Republicans are mean, or racist, or anti-woman, the party of the rich. Raised to believe such lies, it should be no surprise that some of them will grow up to believe they are doing the ethical thing by helping to steal votes in the noble effort of defeating such villains.
The one bright side in all this is that it has become so widespread and so blatant that it can no longer be hidden.
WISCONSIN: Beginning last fall with Racine County Sheriff’s detailed allegations in his own southeast Wisconsin county, the state’s special counsel on vote fraud, former state supreme court justice Michael Gableman, investigated ninety nursing homes across the state, and reported a shocking pattern of vote fraud by administrators ordering mail-in ballots on behalf of often-incompetent residents and completing them “on their behalf,” in complete violation of state law, and with the full complicity of the state’s corrupt Democrat-majority Wisconsin Election Commission.
TEXAS: Almost immediately after the election, in November of 2020, a Texas social worker named Kelly Reagan Brunner was charged with 134 felony counts of taking advantage of elderly and developmentally disabled people, ordering ballots on their behalf and allegedly forging signatures and casting their votes, despite many of them having been formally determined by courts as mentally incapacitated.
MICHIGAN: Just last month, Trenae Myesha Rainey and Nancy Williams, nursing home workers in suburban Detroit, were convicted for forging dozens of absentee voter applications for the unaware and mentally-incapacitated patients in their care.
Similar stories are surfacing in state after state, as people gradually awaken to this long-hidden crime.
Cognizant of this growing problem, the American Constitutional Rights Union (ACRU) has been pushing a Senior Citizens Voting Bill of Rights, in an information packet warning nursing home administrators not to enable or commit such crimes against the people in their care, and their hotlines have turned up countless tips all across the country, which are finally in the process of being investigated.
There are dozens of distinct types of vote fraud. Could any one of them be sufficient to change an election? Sure, but it’s doubtful. Taken together, however… counting the use of old registrations of real voters who have moved away or died, and counting the many corrupt political operatives who round-table mailed-in ballots in the basement, and counting the millions of non-citizens who vote, and counting this explosion of nursing home corruption… not to mention the dozens of other methods of fraud practiced all over the country… it is undeniable that even the highest vote fraud estimates, often dismissed by the press, must be considered possible after all.
It's extremely difficult to find all the vote fraud, and harder still to prosecute and convict for it all.
But it’s easy to prevent it. Just a few simple measures would stop the vast majority of vote fraud across the country.
It is telling, then, isn’t it, that the Democratic Party is so obstinate, insisting that vote fraud is minimal, but fighting tooth and nail against any of the simple measures that might prevent it.
This alone should tell us all we need to know, not only about how real it is, but also about how dependent the Democratic Party really is on these illegal votes to push them over the top and keep up the pretense of being a nationally popular party.
Copyright 2022 John F. Di Leo
John F. Di Leo is a Chicagoland-based trade compliance trainer and transportation manager, writer and actor. A one-time county chairman of the Milwaukee County Republican Party, he has been writing regularly for Illinois Review since 2009.
A collection of John’s Illinois Review articles about vote fraud, The Tales of Little Pavel, and his 2021 political satires about current events, Evening Soup with Basement Joe, Volumes One and Two, are available, in either paperback or eBook, only on Amazon.
Millions and millions of ballots being mailed out unsolicited and floating around without any tracking of the chain of custody is no way to get an accurate election people can have confidence in the outcome. It could 95% accurate, but that is more than enough to swing a close election even if *zero* organized fraud occurred. And we know with ballot harvesting, it was not zero.
This doesn’t even count fake scandals directed at Trump and real scandals covered up of Biden’s that were also more than enough to have swung the election. That’s another type of fraud.
Exactly right.
There are dozens and dozens of different kinds of vote fraud. (I wrote a book listing the most common ones)... Too many to even mention in a single article.
It just horrifies me that so many people get away with dismissing this issue... even on “our” side of the aisle.
With all the reports I’ve read of nursing home fraud, this strategy should be ripe for a sting operation. All one would need is some reasonably cogent codgers who are willing to pretend to be semi-comatose, and who would be willing to testify that they did not fill out their ballots and did not give permission to someone else to do so. Cell phone pictures of the perps would be a bonus, as would a recording of the whole episode in states where mutual consent is not a requirement.
Now in Cook County you could have Mother Theresa as a witness to vote fraud and the perp would probably walk (heck, they can’t even put Jussie Smollett in the clink), but in other locations the more of these slime one could burn, the less-convenient that ploy becomes.
I think Heritage.org has the right idea with their Election Integrity Scorecard. Although I think the scorecard needs to be improved a lot. They ranked Georgia as having the most secure elections??? And even gave them 3 out of 3 points for election observations, despite that they sent everyone home after the alleged water leak. There was an earlier thread on the scorecard.
Rank the states by the various categories of voter fraud and shame the worst ones. while showing all of them where they can improve.
Use the scorecard to try to drive corrective legislation through.
Heritage could improve their own election integrity by firing Mike Pence.
Sadly, no state is secure.
that’s not to say that some don’t try... many do try. But there are severe problems that are really hard to stop if you don’t prosecute as much as possible.
I’ll use my family as an example. my wife and I have three kids. Between dorm rooms, their home, and off campus apartments during their college careers, my three kids have had fourteen valid addresses between them. Some just for a semester, but it was long enough to register and vote on campus once....
Now, my kids are honest; I’m sure they’re only voting from one residence. But those other existing, unused registrations are there for someone crooked to utilize.
Mail in ballots come to a couple of the old addresses - and there’s no mailbox for them - so they’re set on the floor, for anyone to take.
Crooked precinct captains watch to see if they show up on election day, and then vote these unvoted registrations themselves when nobody’s looking, late in the day.
Party hacks note which registrations haven’t been used for a few years, and they send in ringers to vote these known unoccupied registrations on election day... going from precinct to precinct, with a list for each.
Now consider where these are. I live in Illinois, and my kids went to school in Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Even if one of the three states does a great job generally, there’s still a chance that some of the available methods will work there, even if others are watched more closely.
We need more awareness, more consciousness of the risk.
We need to mandate real ID, drastically restrict absentee voting, end early voting and end mail-in voting.
And have real prosecutions for violations. Vote fraud is participation in a coup d’etat; it needs to be prosecuted as such.
JFD
Everybody knows election fraud has been real in American politics for a long long time.
I can remember all the jokes about the dead voting in Chicago from when I was a kid.
I remember reading about how FDR joked to LBJ about how you had to “sit on the ballot box” after LBJ complained to him believing he had been cheated in an election.
Corrupt big city political machines have been known to stuff ballot boxes since at least the mid 19th century.
The whole idea that it doesn’t happen or doesn’t happen any more is intellectually dishonest. Of course it does. I remember the Democrats howling about the 2000 election claiming election fraud in Florida despite no evidence existing for it (Palm Beach and Broward county are heavily Democrat....why would they cheat to not count the ballots of their own voters?)
Speaking of those two counties, Ron DeSantis fired the two Democrat women who had been in charge of counting the votes there for decades. WOW! Magically, Republicans improved by about 15-20% in each in the last election. What an amazing coincidence!
It was RINO-controlled state legislatures that did nothing to stop the cheat-by-mail-in ballots and did nothing to enforce voter ID and chain of custody. All because of their petty hatred of Trump. They even allowed 3 Senate seats to be stolen (2 in GA 1 in MI) because any kind of fraud investigation would have uncovered the same cheating used with Trump.
RINOs are the reason for the woke clown world we must now endure. Vote every last one of them out who must face a primary this year. Rinse and repeat every 2 years until the traitors are gone.
Good work. Keep it up.
It’s not just mail-in, drop boxes, illegals...
Those RCV provisions were in HR1 for a reason.
Hi, Jon! Glad to see your contributions.
Can’t wait for another one about Kamala (hint).
I’ll repost this from late-2020.
How to vote (at least) three times in an election.
1. Fill out your mail-in ballot and place it in the public drop-box...on your way to the early voting location.
2. Vote at the early voting location.
3. On election day, present your self to vote in the election. If the official declares that you have already voted, claim that the vote is fraudulent and request a “provisional” ballot.
4. Wait for the results. If it is a close race, the Canvassers (and activists) will start the hue and cry of “Count every ballot!” thus guaranteeing all 3 of your votes.
Can’t say I’ve done this.
I learned this from 12 years of observation in Will county.
Vote fraud should be a capital offense. It’s a direct attack on the entire body politic and should be treated as such.
L
These are just claims, hoaxes, debunked, unproven, alleged, false narrative, unfounded, no credible evidence, circumstantial, conspiratorial, unsubstantiated, not substantiated, falsely claimed, unfounded,
baseless, false accusations of irregularities...
Did I miss any?
Given weeks to vote, one can say, “I forgot”.
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Bump
The problem is that it is enough to swing the election. One county had enough to swing the state. Same in GA and Wisconsin and Penn. How many states did he need to swing it. This proof will come out after the 2024 election. If there is no mail ins and people watch the machines then they can’t gather enough fraud votes to win.
Dominion voting machines can create ballots and can be hacked as well. There will be a thorough accounting hopefully early next year. It isn’t only paper and absentee ballots.
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