Posted on 12/05/2022 9:33:08 AM PST by PBRCat
Ald. Brian Hopkins (2nd) abandoned plans to try and knock Mayor Lori Lightfoot off the ballot — even after uncovering a “pattern of fraud” that suggested she may not have the 12,500 valid signatures required by law.
After a “cursory review” of all of the 40,000 signatures that Lightfoot filed and getting “into a secondary” review to see if those signatures match the signatures of those voters, Hopkins said he “got it down to about 17,500 signatures” when he “ran out of time.”
“Had we had a couple more weeks, there is a clear pattern of fraud. We might have been able to get her under 12,500. But the only way to do that is an individual line-by-line signature comparison. And to have voters step forward, sign affidavits and say, `That’s not my signature.’ We just don’t have time to do that. So we’re not gonna file a challenge."
Hopkins described the “pattern of fraud” in Lightfoot’s nominating petitions as “classic round-tabling” made famous in Chicago.
“You get four to five people sitting at a table passing clipboards around so that fraudulent signatures do not match the one on the line above and below. … It’s three or four, or possibly five lines away, and you have to look for that pattern. … It starts to become apparent that it’s the same small group signing voters’ names and just guessing what the signatures might look like,” Hopkins said.
For an incumbent mayor to have to resort to deceptive, fraudulent tactics to get on the ballot is a further indictment of her performance in this office. She does not have a strong base of support. She had to resort to trickery, including having people asked to sign a petition when they didn’t know it was Mayor Lightfoot’s petition they were signing.”
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Just like taking on Pelosi, Schumer, or any other powerful Democrat.
He decided his life was more important.
How do total idiots like Lightfoot get elected in the 1st place? Is it all rigged?
I’d bet $100 she gets reeelcted
“Hold ‘muh beer”
He heard Hillary is in town.
As much as I hate Lightfoot, these petition cancellers are also a disgrace. 99.997% of ballot signatures are accepted, if they’re even looked at as the law requires, but the old rule of thumb with petitions is that if you legally need 100,000, you’d better get 300,000.
If it’s a case of someone saying, “what’s good for the goose is good for the goose-stepper,” fine, but I doubt that.
I have no sympathy for the voters of Chicongo. They’re getting what they vote for, time after time, and have for decades.
“She” is eminently qualified for that position according to this:
I am object to this statement because it assumes that the voters in Chicago have an actual choice during elections. The Democrats control the elections to such an extreme degree that there are probably freer elections in Communist China or Putin’s Russia.
Good point!
I do not think that Beetlejuice can make proper change for a dollar.
Too busy allowing the murders of her own people
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