Posted on 04/08/2010 6:38:48 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
MATHIS, Texas --- South Texas is rife with agents from local political camps who prosper by organizing mail-in ballot fraud, elections administrators and other observers in the region say, even after a state-level push to curb the wrongdoing.
The office of state Attorney General Greg Abbott has several open investigations into the practice of shepherding mail-in ballots, mostly in the name of elderly voters. But perpetrators leave a sparse paper trail, election officials say, and the potential five-figure earnings for local operatives far outweigh any punishment levied for committing fraud, typically a misdemeanor.
“It’s a racket,” said Nicole Perez, general manager of the Alice Echo-News Journal, a daily newspaper that has chronicled voting malfeasance in the region for years. A canvasser can earn as much as $30,000 during a political season, Perez said, by walking elderly and infirm voters through the mail-in ballot process, coaching their vote for the favored candidate and helping those voters sign, seal and deliver that ballot.
Perez led her newsroom in a 2008 investigation of checking each mail-in ballot in two counties, lining up the signature on file for each voter with the signatures on the request form and return form for the mail-in ballot.
The newspaper found numerous inconsistencies in the voting process for the March 2008 primary in Jim Wells County. Findings included unaccounted for mail-in ballots; duplicate, and in some cases, triplicate, mail-in ballot applications for one person; and some applications that cited disability as the reason for voting by mail when the voter had no disability.
The newspaper's stories coincided with a state AG's investigation, but despite the newspaper's interviews and documentation of seemingly blatant abuses of the voting process, only three minor charges have been filed so far.
(Excerpt) Read more at texaswatchdog.org ...
Remember folks, vote fraud is only possible because the government creates a voting system that allows for it. If government was really interested in keeping voting secure, then the system would be as secure as the state lottery.
That’s how the nation got LBJ. The Mexican citizens voting in South Texas would vote for Satan if he promised them free stuff.
ACORN or whatever and LaRaza are comnpeting in the fraud vote department.
Who is paying these “canvassers”??
Thanks for posting.
Seriously, we have lots of problems, but this will be the executioner’s bullet to the brain of our republic. It will prevent any cure for our march toward tyranny.
This is what we can expect when we import Mexico’s worst citizens we also get plenty of their corruption.
You could eliminate most of the voter fraud by a few simple measures.
1. Require ALL voters to show up in person once every 4 years to verify their residence and identity. The dead will automatically be purged this way.
2. Pass a law that prohibits the mentally incompetent or senile from voting.
3. Make it a felony punishable for no less than 2 years imprisonment for each voter fraud offense.
4. Require voters to show proof of identity at the polls.
The apparatus of vote fraud will continue to exist and be exploited until Republicans are seen as benefiting from it more than ‘rats. Until the ‘rats are hoist on their own petard there will be no change.
Politiquero ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
Oh sure. Why not just pass a law that says "Republican only"?
;)
When wasn't there voter fraud in South Texas?!
I’m shocked! Outraged even.
Of course we all know how concerned Holder is about this stuff.
There used to be a site collecting affidavits etc but it's gone now.
The helicopter would circle the waiting crowd as it approached and ‘Landslide’ would toss his hat out. Then he’d make the return of the hat to him a part of his onstage show, or so it has been written.
In his book “Texas” James Mitchner wrote of ongoing voter fraud from the very earliest days. As many Mexicans as were required were brought across the river to vote,fed and sent home.
there’s news reports in almost all the local papers about the mail-in fraud. they know it is happening, but no one has the nads to stop it for fear of being called a racist.
I have experience as an Election Judge, Alternate Judge, and Poll Watcher in Texas.
Texas has a fairly tight set of laws to govern elections and prevent fraud. The problem is that when the precinct has NO Republican election workers, the dims do whatever they please.
For example, in the 1998 election, I staked out a precinct in Port Arthur, TX that ALWAYS had over 100% turnout. How many voters showed up? ZERO!!! The all-dim crew simply waited until late in the day and cast a ballot for every voter who did not show up.
YOU GOTTA BE THERE. Why can’t Republicans get off their duff and volunteer to serve?
If any of you have not read my short booklet on vote fraud and what YOU can do to stop it, please peruse:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991953/posts
My recent experince as an Election Judge and some thoughts on new ways the dims are perpetrating vote fraud:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378786/posts
Please volunteer. If I can swing it financially, I may volunteer to go to South Texas as a Poll Watcher next Fall.
Thanks
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