Double trouble in voter inquiry [MILWAUKEE VOTE FRAUD UPDATE] 2/9/05

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ^ | 2/9/05 | GREG J. BOROWSKI and TOM KERTSCHER

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Borowski continues his excellent coverage of this story. Here's the nut of the article: ________________________________

Voters difficult to track

Using computer records provided under an earlier request, the newspaper has attempted to track down dozens of cases from the 6,500 in which people with identical names and initials are listed as voting from different addresses.

Some are clearly two different people or have very common names. For example, six people named James L. Smith voted in November.

The newspaper took a sample of 300 people from that list, focusing on duplicate individuals with uncommon names. In most cases, public records checks easily confirmed that two different people were included on the list.

Some other duplications have been explained by the city as computer "glitches" from the post-election data-entry process, in which people were incorrectly assigned two votes.

But most of those cases have involved people who moved and registered at a new address, or already-registered voters who - for whatever reason - reregistered at the same address.

In at least 40 cases, though, the Journal Sentinel could not confirm an existence of an individual through public records. Reporters were then sent to the addresses and, in at least 10 of them, a wide range of inconsistences emerged.

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40 out of a sample of 300...that's over 13%! The article gives specific names/addresses in example after example of double voters, voters who don't exist, etc.

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I never thought, in my lifetime, I would see a real investigation into the Rats' voter fraud tactics. I hope that joint local/federal task force is as serious about this as they should be... and that they'll expand it to other areas of the state. Heck, my dream is that it eventually expands into a federal RICO investigation. Farfetched? Based on what they're finding in Wisconsin, Washington state, St. Louis and Jacksonville...well, it's not impossible.

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It's going to be very interesting to see how the editorial page of the JS reacts to their own reporters' findings.

So far they've regurgitated every excuse the Rats put forth. How long can they ignore their own paper's reporting? Should be fun to watch.

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[blanknoone]

I never thought, in my lifetime, I would see a real investigation into the Rats' voter fraud tactics.

And you haven't yet. A real investigation would track down all the discrepancies, not a small sample. This is progress, but it is but a shadow compared to the real investigation that out to be done by honest election officials, or lacking that, prosecutors.

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[WL-law]

And there was Linda M. Chojnacki, who is listed as having voted from an address in the 1100 block of W. Montana St., where she says she has lived and voted for six years.

Records also list a Linda M. Chojnacki - one with the same birth date - as registering and voting from a house in the 2600 block of S. 7th St. Chojnacki, though, has never lived there and said she did not vote from that address.

This is the explanation behind the impossible-to-believe statistics claiming "100% voting turnout" in many dem urban districts, in many locations around the country.

The scam works as follows: the dem election officials document on election day who hasn't voted, and then they vote the 'empty' ballot. (This is why inner city precincts always report late, and last). The fraud is only detectable because in some cases voters have registered in 2 places, and having voted in one place, the election officials perpetrating the fraud don't realize that the vote is not truely "empty", and the duplicate vote leaves a evidentiary trail as to what's really going on.

I'm sure in some other cases, most notably student-activist types, that a dem voter is INTENTIONALLY voting twice, also a fraud.

So there are two discreet forms of fraud blended into the phenomena here.

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I said that because, for the first time I can ever remember, the U.S. Attorney's office and the FBI are conducting the Milwaukee investigation (with the District Atty). This may have all started because of the feds' involvement in the tire-slashing cases.

This whole began unravelling only a few weeks ago. Testing a sample, then asking for an explanation, is the first step in any fraud investigation. When the excuses don't hold up, you expand and repeat the process with a wider sample....and so on. As each excuse is knocked down, elections officials increase their danger of prosecution for lying to the FBI.

Might I be disappointed in the end? Yes. But at least this time there's SOME promise of results.

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Actually, I'd say at least THREE methods.

How did she get double-registered in the first place? Did the fraudsters do it for her? Did SHE do it?

Until the newspaper gets copies of the registration cards, it's impossible to compare signatures. Date stamps on the data entry system could also provide clues...did someone simply "create" her 2nd registration?

This has legs.

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We still don't know who's running the joint task force (which is looking at the illegality aspects). If it's the feds, expect criminal charges and convictions. If it's E. Michael McCan't, it will all be plea-bargained down to municipal tickets.

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After this little revalation from Greg Borowski...

The newspaper has identified many recordkeeping and computer flaws in the data. Those problems complicate any review of the election, since they translate into hundreds - even thousands - of incomplete or duplicate records. If those records are not corrected, they leave the door open for future fraud.

For instance, extra names and addresses are on the voter rolls and, since no ID is required at the polls, it would be easy for individuals to scam the system and vote from them in the future.

Sean Hackbarth at The American Mind has a nice little suggestion: "I vote they should replace Ricardo Pimentel (editorial page editor) with Greg Borowski." I second that to bring it to the floor :-)

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I still have a sneaky suspicion the feds are more involved than we've heard. I keep remembering that it was THEY, not the DA's office, who did the questioning in the tire-slashing cases.

I feel sure those out-of-state witnesses started out lying to the feds. But the charges didn't involve lying to federal investigators (think Martha Stewart). I have a glimmer of hope those "witnesses" are singing loud and often about what they observed working for the campaign.

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Let me try that link to TAM's take on this again (much better).

[steveegg]

Almost forgot; now indexed to WISTOLENELECTION, the growing evidence that the 2004 election was stolen.

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Cross linking to duplicate thread

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1339388/posts?page=20

[GretchenM]

Thanks for the ping.
I'd love to see them lift the covers blanketing Michigan, too.
And Pennsylvania.
Wonder what might emerge in MA, IL, NY ...

Can't help but wonder about how much of the states' problems with democrat voter fraud / corruption has been enabled by the dems controlling Congress for so many decades.

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bumping for night FReepers