Posted on 11/19/2020 8:01:44 PM PST by 11th_VA
The price of one bona fide, registered American vote varies from place to place. But it is rarely more than a tank of gas...
“The first votes I ever bought, I paid a half a pint or a pint of liquor, whatever it was, for it. And then as time went on, $5 a vote, $10 a vote. I have paid as high as $800 a vote,” said Kenneth Day,...
“Election after election, day in and day out,” Day told the court. “Every election I ever worked, it went on.”...
In the majority of these six recent cases, the fraud relied on absentee ballots, which can be filled out away from the prying eyes of election officials. The News21 database found 250 cases in which someone was convicted or admitted guilt in a case involving absentee ballots. ...
In 2010, for instance, Jerry Bowman, the sheriff of Lincoln County, W.Va., simply showed up at people’s homes and told them whom to vote for in local Democratic primary races. In some cases, he just filled out the ballot, according to a “stipulation of facts” that Bowman signed.
“You can’t go into the voting booth with them, to see how they voted,” said Booth Goodwin, the U.S. attorney for southern West Virginia. “But in this one, you could sit right at their kitchen table” and be sure, he said.
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One recent case of alleged absentee-ballot fraud happened this past summer in Hialeah, Fla., outside Miami. Police say they were trailing a woman suspected of ballot fraud and saw her enter a nursing-home room.
The patient inside was too ill to write, speak or comprehend what was said to her. But somehow, police said, the worker left her room with a completed absentee ballot...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
There was a time when bars and the state-run liquor stores were closed in Pennsylvania on Primary and General Election Days.
Bet it stays up. They know better than to claim it was a straight-up squeaky clean election. They're already at spin level 2, which is "sure, there was cheating, there always is, but it's not enough to affect the outcome." They'll admit to a few thousand votes sold, stolen, or lost - it makes the story so much more believable. Nothing systematic though, and they of course would never condone it. Transparency, you know.
whoops. "Transparency" was his old boss's slogan wasn't it? Along with "the most ethical administration in history".
In the country I live in we use paper ballots. The way to buy votes is you provide a smartphone to the voter. They take a photo of the correctly filled out ballot. They return the phone, photo is verified and deleted. Voter receives payment.
It’s not very complicated.
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