A Sampling of Election Fraud Cases From Across the Country

The United States has a long and unfortunate history of election fraud. The Heritage Foundation is providing a list of election fraud cases from across the country, broken down by state, where individuals were either convicted of vote fraud, or where a judge overturned the results of an election.

This is not an exhaustive list but simply a sampling that demonstrates the many different ways in which fraud is committed. Preventing, deterring, and prosecuting such fraud is essential to protecting the integrity of our voting process.

......................................................... 3 Florida cases: Maurice Childress, Kashawn John, Liltovia Rhodes, Carlos Torres, Evangeline Williams, Lilkevia Williams, and Richard Williams CONVICTED: 2010 False Registrations ACORN voter registration canvassers were convicted of false swearing in an election in Miami as part of a scheme to submit fraudulent voter registration applications. They received sentences ranging from 72 days to 10 months in prison.

Rafael Antonio Velasquez CONVICTED: 2003 Ineligible Voting Rafael Antonio Velasquez, a former candidate for the Florida House, was convicted in 2003 for having voted twice before he became a U.S. citizen.

Gilda Oliveros CONVICTED: 2000 Fraudulent Use of Absentee Ballots Hialeah Gardens Mayor Gilda Oliveros was convicted of six charges that ranged from voter fraud to asking two of her former employees

to murder her then-husband so she could cash in on a $45,000 life insurance policy. She was sentenced to 4.8 years in state prison, but was released on a $100,000 bond to appeal her sentence.

Just Wow! -- a combo voter fraud + murder for hire case all in one - by a Miami area mayor.

Many of these cases appear to be the result of political backlash against opponents. In other words, unless the stakes were high, no one is bothering to crack down on the ordinary fraudster alien voting in US elections. Several Hispanic Florida politicians have the gall to vote in US elections before they run for office. Their opponents inevitably catch them.

Other cases include ACORN false registrations and lots of absentee ballot manipulations of a broad nature. Some of these cases demonstrate that these operators are being paid to conduct large scale voter fraud.

DOI interviewed a former BOE employee who reported that the BOE maintains active voter registrations for people who are not eligible to vote, including deceased individuals, felons, and nonresidents of New York City, and duplicate registrations for some voters. The former employee also stated that people easily could vote as ineligible voters remaining on the rolls because those individuals would appear in the registration books23 on Election Day and poll workers do not scrutinize the signatures of voters to determine that they that are similar to the pre-printed digitized signatures in the poll book. In light of these statements, DOI sought to test whether ineligible individuals are present on the voter rolls.

Thus, using various database searches, DOI identified 176 individuals who at one time were registered voters in New York City: 86 deceased persons, 42 incarcerated felons, and 48 former City residents. During DOI’s Citywide 2013 Election Day investigative operations, DOI sought to determine whether any of them remained in BOE’s registration books and to test whether investigators using the names of those ineligible individuals would be permitted to vote. In sum, DOI investigators found that 63 out of 176 (36%) of the ineligible individuals were still listed as eligible voters in the registration books at poll sites. The majority of those 63 ineligible individuals remained on the rolls nearly two years, and some as long as four years, since a death, felony conviction, or move outside of New York City.

In total, DOI investigators were able to “cast a vote” as 61 of the 63 (97%) ineligible voters who were listed in the registration books – 39 deceased persons, 14 felons, and 8 nonresidents – although no vote was cast for any actual candidate.24 In lieu of voting for any actual candidate, investigators cast a vote for a fictitious candidate named “John Test.” During the September 2013 primary and October 2013 runoff elections using lever voting machines, investigators signed the registration book as the ineligible individuals, entered the lever voting machine, and cast a vote either by doing a write-in vote for “John Test” or gaining access to the lever machine without doing a write-in vote. During the November 2013 general election using electronic scanner machines, investigators signed the registration books as the ineligible individuals and then cast a vote by doing a write-in vote for “John Test” in the Mayor’s race and scanning the paper ballot through the scanner.

In the 61 out of 63 instances when the ineligible individuals were in the registration books, DOI investigators reported that poll workers did not meaningfully review the signatures provided by investigators for similarity with the pre-printed signatures in the registration books. DOI investigators also found that poll workers did not check the dates of birth listed in the registration books as they were required to do. See Election Law § 8-304(1). As discussed further below, DOI investigators were permitted to vote despite significant disparities between the ages of the investigators and the ages of the ineligible individuals apparent from the dates of birth recorded in the registration books. In five instances, DOI investigators in their twenties and thirties posed as individuals whose ages as recorded in the registration books, ranged from 82 to 92, and despite the obvious disparity, the investigators were given ballots or access to lever booths without question by the BOE poll workers.

New York City Department of Investigation Report on the New York City Board of Elections' Employment Practices, Operations, and Election Administration

Theres no fraud...you guys are just trying to keep minorities from voting! /s

Because of a consent decree that forbids Republicans from challenging vote fraud, it goes unchallenged.

In 1982 signs were placed near polling places in fraud-laden districts in New Jersey warning that fraud is a crime, and police and sheriff's officers were stationed outside the polls. The courts in their "wisdom" decided that the goal was to suppress minority voting (when in fact any honest voter had nothing to worry about, but it understandably kept those with outstanding warrants away) and the wimpy Republican party agreed not to challenge fraud.

It is way past time to say "eff" that agreement and go balls to the wall resisting it.

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