Bag of Uncounted Ballots Found in Bridgeport

www.nbcconnecticut.com ^ | 11-05-10 | BY Bob Connors

[FrankR]

One of the first and most important investigations that Issa should tackle is voter fraud. It's out of hand and we'll never have another honest election or administration until a cheat-proof method is found to conduct these elections.

If the feds won't do it, then we need some brave "Jan Brewers" out there to take it on as a state issue.

Unions or other organizations or parties with vested interest in the outcome should not be allowed to be in charge of voting machines, ballots, bags, or anything else to do with the election.

The VOTE is all we have between us and tyranny...well, that and the 2nd Amendment.

[a fool in paradise]

First the Left has to manufacture ballots. Then they have to nick away to reject ballots that were previously counted.

Apply a different standard in ballot counting for Democrats and Republicans.

If this still does not generate a Democrat win, manufacture more ballots and repeat.

[ecomcon]

No common sense allowed, they all like it the way it is.

[a fool in paradise]

Was it the district that LBJ once stole?

[tsmith130]

Is this where the Reverse-911 system was used to contact voters...and in only some precincts?

Yep. Strange that, huh?

[dforest]

This is out and out fraud. Any person that believes this is legit is as guilty as the cheaters.

It would be nice to see people stand up and reject such a sham.

[NFHale]

“...I think I am going find a bunch of Dem women and tell them I have a bag of ballots in my pants....”

And they’ll say “Hey! Is That A Bag O’ Ballots in yer pocket, or are ya just happy to see me?”

Baddabing

[Fundamentally Fair]

Republican officials were approached by Democratic operatives and told about the surprise ballot bag, according to Bridgeport GOP Chairman Marc Delmonico.

What's the difference between an official and an operative?

[Brookhaven]

Notice they also never find this kind of stuff when the race is a landslide.

But let it be a tight race, and eventually a box of uncounted ballots always turns up in someone’s car.

There are easy checks and balances to prevent this.

(1) Each ballot should be printed with a unique number and barcode (with modern printing methods, this adds zero to the cost of the ballot).

(2) As the ballot is being handed to a voter, the poll-worker scans the barcode on the ballot into a database. This makes the ballot a “live” ballot, associates a voting timestamp with it, and also records the name/worker-id of the poll-worker that handed out the ballot.

(3) When the voter is done voting, the ballot number is scanned again. This markes the “live” ballot as “completed”, associates another timestamp with the ballot, and records the name/worker-id of the poll-worker that verified the voter placed the ballot into the ballot box.

The voter associated with the ballot would be secret, but there isn’t any rule that says the poll-workers that handed out the ballot, or the polling place the ballot was cast at, needs to be secret.

Simple steps like this would prevent traitors from stealing a bunch of ballots, filling them out in mass, and then “finding them” in the trunk of a car.

[ichabod1]

I would think that chain of custody rules would already be in place. I don’t see how a “bag of ballots” can EVER be admitted after the fact. I think any precinct that produces a bag of ballots should have all the workers disqualified permanently and police lock down for the next election. If every vote counting is so important, then how can they pretend it’s no big deal to “find” ballots. Somebody needs to go to jail. Want to count your fraudulent votes, mr rat pig? Let someone go to prison for it. See if they keep their mouth shut.

[pillut48]

"Frankening an election"

Occurs when, several hours or days after an election has ended and ballots have been tallied and votes have been counted and the probability is high that the liberal/Democrat candidate has lost his/her bid for election/re-election, a HUGH bag of 'uncounted' ballots/votes are found *suddenly* "in the back seat or trunk of a car", generally belonging to a liberal/Democrat polling place employee--the name of this election-stealing technique arises from the suspicious incident in the 2008 campaign between Al Franken and Norm Coleman in the state of Minnesota.

(from the Dictionary of Political Corruption, 2010 edition)

[Marty62]

It’s time for a “CHAIN OF EVIDENCE “ style handlig of ballots.

Interestily since the old padlocked ballot box has gone to the dustbin of Society, Fraud and corruption has increased. Maybe this illegal activity should be raised to Felony status?

[Red Badger]

Party officer vs party hack..........

[The Duke]

Obvious attempt at voter fraud. Notice how the ol' "bag-o-ballots" only shows up when the race is really close?

Folks involved in perpetrating this should be risking prison time.

[Never on my watch]

Any bag “found” later that is not on the Chain of Custody is simply not counted.

Absolutely! I would have said the ballots need to be destroyed before the lawyers showed up; but the more I think about it, these are evidence of a potential crime - at least criminal negligence. Somebody lost control of them or created them.

[Bobby_Taxpayer]

HEY! Found a bag of Connecticut ballots here in Michigan too, Let’s count them. BTW...We went Republican!

[ichabod1]

This is one GD thing I DEMAND that the new republican majority do — crack down on voter fraud. Send some people to prison. They’ll clean up their act, if they know they face severe consequences. And frankly, there are not many crimes more serious than this. Election fraud is akin to sedition and treason because it undermines the whole country.

[CriticalJ]

“Because of the shortage, many of the votes cast Tuesday were done so on photocopied ballots.”

There you go.

Complete and utter BS.

[ichabod1]

At the federal level, if the congress rejects certain winning candidates because of election irregularities, that will get their attention too.

[EBH]

If they are using a COC, then the person whose signature appears last is responsible.