Posted on 03/31/2016 9:47:39 PM PDT by iowamark
With the 2016 election season well underway, millions of voters across the country have already cast their ballots in primaries and caucuses. Republican and Democratic candidates are locked in close races for the highest office in the land, and every vote cast makes a difference.
The Heritage Foundation’s voter fraud database catalogues over 400 cases of proven voter fraud throughout America. Whether it be vote-buying, ineligible voting, false registrations, or fraudulent use of absentee ballots, the database makes clear that voter fraud is a real issue and one that must be effectively addressed—not denied, as some voter reform critics have done—in order to preserve the integrity of the electoral system.
Here are some recent additions to the database:
Pennsylvania
Robin Trainor pleaded guilty to two charges of voter impersonation fraud at the polls in the 2014 primary. While serving as judge of a polling place, Trainor went inside a voting booth with her husband to “assist” him—that is, she told him whom to vote for. Trainor then stepped out, falsely signed the election register under her son’s name, reset the voting machine, and cast a vote in his name. Trainor was placed on one year of probation and stripped of her right to vote for the next four years.
Alabama
Daniel W. Reynolds was recently sentenced to two years of probation for falsifying absentee ballots in a 2013 campaign for commissioner. Reynolds, the chief campaign volunteer for the re-election campaign of Commissioner Amos Newsome, pleaded guilty to three counts of absentee ballot fraud. Newsome won re-election by a mere 14 votes, after winning 119 of the 126 absentee ballots cast.
New Hampshire
Derek Castonguay, a resident of Manchester, N.H., pleaded guilty to a charge of duplicate voting. Castonguay voted in the towns of Salem and Windham in the 2014 general election. Following his guilty plea, he was ordered to pay a $1,000 fine and received a 12-month suspended sentence. In addition to the fine and sentence, Castonguay was stripped of his right to vote.
Minnesota is an example of a state that had rampant voter fraud between 2008 and 2011. In that time frame, there were over 100 convictions for various voter fraud offenses throughout the state, including ineligible voting, false registrations, and fraudulent use of absentee ballots.
For those who deny the impact voter fraud may have on elections, consider that the 2008 Minnesota election unseated incumbent Republican Sen. Norm Coleman. Although it is impossible to know whether this rampant fraud changed the outcome of the election, it is worth remembering that the declared victor, Democrat Al Franken, became the sixtieth Democratic senator, creating a temporary filibuster-proof majority that paved the way for the ultimate passage of the Affordable Care Act.
These are just a few of the hundreds of documented examples of voter fraud that have occurred and continue to occur throughout the country due to lax laws and a lack of vigilance. For every case of voter fraud that is successfully discovered and prosecuted, there are undoubtedly many more that go undetected.
In a report entitled “Does Your Vote Count?,” the Heritage Foundation examines the problem of voter fraud, as well as potential steps and solutions that can be taken by government at all levels in order to ensure the integrity of the electoral process.
The report tackles the persistent myths about voter fraud and voter ID laws and makes clear that election fraud is an issue that must be acknowledged and confronted. There is nothing more central to American democracy than free, fair elections. Without them, the entire system is in jeopardy.
Personally, I think if you get caught in voter-fraud....on the first time around, you need to lose your right to vote, for the rest of your life. On the second occasion, require the guy or gal for a year to show up every Saturday to fill three-hundred sand-bags.
I’d give them 20 years hard labor. They knew when they decided to fraudulently vote that they were breaking the law to disenfranchise other citizens.
Upon conviction they should get no freedom for 20 and no more voting for life.
They do nothing about it even when they know. Nursing homes are a bonanza.
Yeah, I get your point. People are voting for the feeble minded and it sure isn’t republicans doing it. The dead are still voting in large numbers also not republicans doing that.
Truth is, we either strengthen our voting security or we face losing our democracy. We can’t survive having millions of non-citizens here who a certain percentage of will fraudulently vote in our elections. It will only grow exponentially worse until there is no genuine election process at all and our leaders will decide who is what at that point. I know some think we’re already there.
We either get control of our immigration and voting or we lose the country to communist leftists who plan to rule over us with an iron fist. A certain monster named Soros comes to mind here.
That’s it in a nutshell.
In Philly, the ward leaders would control the voting places as judges and watchers. Republicans would never ever show up in North or West Philly because it just was not safe there for them.
I believe the ward leaders would pull the lever for every registered voter in that ward.
As you noticed during Obama’s elections sometimes they f’ed up and voted 108% of the registered voters in there wards.
Other shenanigans they played were this: they’d go into Republican wards to register folks to vote and when you told them you were already registered republican, they’d fill a new voter registration form for you and change your address so when you went to vote you would not be listed at your regular voting spot and would have to drive around to find out where you could vote.
I like your idea. I’d waterboard them until they begged to have their fingers amputated. Then throw ‘em in jail for life. You only have to do this a few times, then the fraud will stop when people realize actions have consequences.
voter fraud would stop almost instantly once some of these a-holes are carted off to prison. That, and ID required makes our elections genuine again.
First offense should be last offense. Mark permanent, chip and no more voting privileges. Hangings too good for a horse thief.
I will go farther than that. Voter fraud is an act of treason against this country. The constitution allows the death penalty for treason.
Was there any breakdown of party lines? Was this primarily Democrat or Republican?
This article failed to mention people illegally registered and voting in two states. Florida and New York appear to be the states most favored by criminals who indulge in undermining our freedom.
The problem with this country today ........THERE IS NO DETERANT OR PUNISHMENT THAT HOLDS FOR THE ENTIRE SENTENSE. EX. you can kill someone and get off in 5 to 7 years
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