Posted on 07/24/2020 12:06:59 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
''Vote early and vote often'' was not just an election-year gag in Brooklyn last week as a grand jury disclosed that cemetery voting and other forms of stuffing the ballot box were not buried with Tammany Hall.
Only days before this Tuesday's state primary elections, the jury said it had uncovered systematic and widespread fraud in the primaries in two of the borough's Congressional Districts - or half of Brooklyn - between 1968 and 1982.
In one state legislative race, up to 2,000 bogus registrants were discovered; in another, there were 1,000. The results of at least one race were affected, the jury said, and very likely others, because the turnouts in primaries are generally low.
One person voted at least 10 times in 1970 and then in a subsequent election led a team of six to eight bogus voters that cast up to a total of 100 fraudulent ballots in a primary.
''The ease and boldness with which these fraudulent schemes were carried out shows the vulnerability of our entire electoral process to unscrupulous and fraudulent misrepresentation,'' the grand jury's report concluded.
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The jury, working with information from District Attorney Elizabeth Holtzman's investigators, said that the city Board of Elections, under pressure from politicians, distributed thousands of blank, unnumbered mail registration forms to any organization with a letterhead that purported to be interested in registering voters on street corners or elsewhere. The only check on the registrations is a post card that is sent to the registrant with instructions to the post office that it be returned if undeliverable. In that event, the name would be stricken from the registration rolls.
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Today’s Boss Tweed is Andrew Cuomo.
Well he is certainly trying hard to be like him.
Tweed’s crimes finally caught up with him. He died in jail in 1878.
Cuomo had better pray he doesn’t end up like him.
The “Tweed Ring” was nothing but the corrupt Democrat Party machine in NYC.
The only reason it’s identified by the name of Boss Tweed is so the history books don’t have to mention that it was entirely made up of Democrats.
Oh, and the Tweed Ring was broken up by a Republican of Italian descent: Fiorello La Guardia.
I had a working companion from Chicago, who also was a poll watcher back in the 1970s. He used to tell us all sorts of stories on how the Democrats would find ways to cheat on the votes. He was a Republican.
One was, when punch cards were used, to take a stack of punched ballots, line them up and drive a thin piece of metal through the Democrat punched holes this would leave the Dem ballots untouched, and the Republican ballots would then be double punched and thrown out.
Civil War General Francis Channing Barlow (Gettysburg - Barlow’s Knoll), who served as Attorney General of New York State, prosecuted the Tweed Ring. Barlow’s second wife was Ellen Shaw, sister of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (Movie “Glory”). Several years ago, I visited the Walnut Street Cemetery in Brookline, Massachusetts with a friend. We had to crawl over the fence to get into it. I came across General Barlow’s tomb. I hadn’t known he was buried there. The cemetery was in disrepair, and I wrote about it to historian Brian Pohanka (now deceased), who was a great fan of General Barlow’s. He made sure the cemetery, and General Barlow’s tomb was cleared of debris and cleaned up.
Cool. Thanks for the history lesson.
Didn’t realize you were such a hell raiser crawling over walls and what not. :)
Excellent!
LOL!! That was probably 20 years ago. I don't get to do those kind of adventurous things anymore.
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