Posted on 11/01/2016 1:16:28 AM PDT by BlessedBeGod
Officials stockpile a million provisional ballots in swing state governed by a close Clinton ally
Virginia has printed 1 million provisional ballots, an unprecedented number that could allow a large number of previously disqualified felons to cast ballots for president in the potentially crucial swing state.
So says Reagan George, the president of the Virginia Voters Alliance.
George, a conservative election watchdog, charged on Monday that the Virginia Department of Elections is overpreparing for worst-case scenarios and increasing the likelihood of illegal votes being cast. In reply to Republican complaints earlier this month, Virginia Department of Elections Commissioner Edgardo Cortés acknowledged officials are preparing for all contingencies, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
But George said the provisional ballot printing doesnt make sense even for contingencies. And it doesnt compare to demand in 2012.
The claim that it is for contingency planning is bogus, George said in an email. In 2012, Stafford County used less [sic] than 500 provisional ballots in 2016 they received 30,000. In 2012, Loudoun County used 700 provisional ballots. In 2016, they received 84,000. In 2012, Fairfax used 2,500 provisional ballots; in 2016, they received over 265,000. This is ridiculous.
But spokeswoman Dena Potter of the Virginia Department of Elections said the state is trying to accommodate a court order.
"As part of its emergency preparedness efforts and in response to the [December] 2015 consent decree related to mitigating long lines at the polls, the Department issued guidance to local registrars on August 29, 2016, that included having enough provisional ballot envelopes to equal at least 20 percent of the number of active voters as of September 1," Potter said in an email. "As of September 30, there were 5.5 million voters registered in Virginia. As with any contingency planning, we hope that we don't have to use these but they will be available in case we do."
The decision to print so many provisional ballots comes after an April announcement by Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat and a key ally of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. McAuliffe said he would allow more than 200,000 released felons to vote on Nov. 8.
The decision immediately brought a legal challenge from the Republicans, who won their suit in July. Virginia law says the governor must individually clear such cases, and cannot widely add so many released felons back to the voter rolls.
George believes the court loss is part of the thinking behind the surge in provisional ballots. The thousands of felons who signed up to vote after McAuliffe's order were initially welcomed to the voter rolls. George said left-wing voter groups were ready for the order, and signed up thousands of felons within hours.
If those felons now walk into a polling place and demand a ballot, they will be accommodated, George charged. George also said he is concerned other ineligible voters will be handed such provisional ballots simply if they demand them.
Provisional ballots are only counted by city and county election boards after Nov. 8, and Republicans should be prepared for things to go against them, George said. Each board has a Republican and a Democrat, and a McAuliffe appointee.
"Guess which way the vote is going to go," said George.
Virginia leaders have been dealing with election headaches for months. On Oct. 13, Virginia legislators questioned Cortés at a hearing. One Republican leader, citing election problems, called for Cortés to resign, according to the Times-Dispatch.
"I think it's incumbent upon the governor to replace you quickly with competent and nonpartisan leadership," said Delegate Timothy Hugo (R-Fairfax).
On the subject, always had voter fraud the last couple elections. I think Richmond had 12 precincts with over 100% votes for Obama in 2012. If you want to think positively, at least it's getting out in the open this election. How to stop it, is the question.
It must be hell knowing that the only way you can succeed in life is by cheating, stealing, and lying because you aren’t good enough to be able to do it the honest way. What a POS waste of human DNA the Dems / lefties have turned out to be eh? Losers who are too lazy to get up off their butts and earn anything on their own. How can you respect them and not look at them in revulsion?
Well said....and true
Guys, we had all better be focusing on potential vote fraud in all states - starting with the known battleground states — like a freaking laser beam.
The communists dont care what we think about them.
What channel do you watch?
I don’t have cable but do watch the morning local news at WAVY 10 . They play a variety of pro Trump ads and have been doing so religously for weeks.
That is the only local tv I’’ve watched outside of a couple innings of the World Series.
There are way more pro Trump ads than pro Hillary ads.
Might be Virginia gets away with massive voter fraud, they might win that state, but Trump will win the war.
It’s part of the govt “Paperwork Reduction Act” I keep finding on the last page of all those 30 page letters/forms that SS keeps sending Me and Millions or Tens of Millions of other Americans...
TTTT!
(hat tip triblive.com) McAuliffe is so entwined with the Clintons that he was nicknamed First Friend in Washington.
He helped to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for Bill Clinton’s 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns and inaugural celebrations; for Clinton’s legal defense trust; and for Hillary Clinton’s 2000 Senate campaign and 2008 presidential bid.
President Clinton has appeared at many of McAuliffe’s fundraisers and, in March, he gave his campaign $100,000, filings with the Virginia Public Access Project show.
It sounds like some judge picked an arbitrary number of 20% and required the registrars to keep that many provisional ballots. Completely studpid, It does scare me when Fairfax actually used 2500 in 2012. There has to be some shenanigans there.
Usually don’t get to watch any TV till nighttime. And then it’s the History channel or something similar, but they usually show local ads. Last night I saw two anti-trump ads during American pickers and no pro-trump ads. And that’s a popular show in my opinion:)
BY: Brent Scher / Free Beacon / May 25, 2016
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D.), who is under federal investigation for a $120,000 contribution his campaign took from a Chinese billionaire, has a two-decades-long history of controversial dealings with China. McAuliffe, who rolled his large network of wealthy businessmen and prolific fundraising ability into a political career for himself, has been criticized for doing inappropriate business with the Chinese since the early days of his career when he was fundraising for Bill Clintons presidential campaigns. McAuliffes work with China has even been investigated by the Department of Justice before.
The DOJ revealed in 1997 it had been investigating whether the Chinese Embassy was directing contributions to the Democratic Party in an effort to buy influence in the Clinton administration, according to a Washington Post report. McAuliffe was the man in charge of Clintons 1996 fundraising operation and was named in a federal corruption lawsuit, filed by Judicial Watch, that alleged that he was involved in the scheme.
There are indications that Chinese efforts in connection with the 1996 elections were undertaken or orchestrated, at least in part, by Peoples Republic of China intelligence agencies, wrote federal investigators in a statement to the Senate.
McAuliffe was the architect of the Clinton fundraising strategy that brought big campaign donors into the White House to get them energized for the 1996 reelection effort. He wrote the infamous Lincoln Bedroom memo, which outlined how donors could pay their way into the White House for events such as having coffee with the president.> One major donor brought in through McAuliffes plan was Charlie Trie, who brought along the head of a Chinese military-owned weapons company for his coffee meeting with Clinton.
Clinton later admitted that he shouldnt have had this meeting and returned the $640,000 Trie contributed to his legal defense fund due to questions about the source of the funds. Trie pleaded guilty to federal authorities in 1999 but won leniency for giving information to DOJ on how conduits like him were used to transfer foreign money to Clintons 1996 campaign.
Ten years later, the DOJ was investigating a McAuliffe fundraising operation again.
Eyebrows were raised in 2007 when Hillary Clintons presidential campaign, chaired by McAuliffe, raised $380,000 at a single dinner event in New York Citys Chinatown.
A Los Angeles Times investigation revealed that most of the attendees at the $1,000-a-plate dinner were not registered to vote and listed low-paying jobs such as dishwasher on campaign filings, leading to the conclusion that restaurant workers were being used as proxies by other big donors.
DOJ started contacting attendees to inquire whether they were coerced into giving money or did it on their own volition. Many said they were pressured to attend the event by Chinatown neighborhood associations controlled by powerful Chinese families associated with criminal enterprises such as gambling rings and human trafficking.
Shortly after the campaign, McAuliffe became involved in GreenTech Automotive, an electric car company that relied on Chinese investors that were using a government program to receive visas in return for their investment.
McAuliffe pressured government officials to overlook visa applications from Chinese investors that were denied due to national security fears, prompting an investigation by the Department of Homeland Security.
He quietly left the company as it came under focus during his gubernatorial campaign.
As Virginias governor, McAuliffe has maintained his close ties with China.-snip-
More at http://freebeacon.com/issues/terry-mcauliffe-involved-shady-deals-chinese-two-decades/
The Old Dominion has betrayed its ancestors who were instrumental in giving birth to the nation.
I’d be nice if McAullife came up a few times in Hillary’s ‘deleted’ emails.
And to top it off, it was Mc-Awful McAuliffe who bribed McCabe to block the FBI investigation — half a million dollars.
EXCLUSIVE: Clinton headlined fundraiser for campaign group which gave $500,000 to wife of FBI...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3485651/posts
” ... Common Good VA gave $500,000 to Jill McCabe ... “
We need to expose Governor Mc-Awful in a hurry.
I’m emphasizing your post 15 today at the Digging Deep archive:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2636478/posts?page=2707
Good move....McAuliffe is acting too much ..... like he’s a saint.
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