9/24/12, "CBC Chairman: ‘We Cannot Even Find an Instance of Voter Fraud’," CNS News, Melanie Hunter
"Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Emmanuel Cleaver said
Thursday “we cannot even find an instance of voter fraud,” but a
Justice Department fact sheet tells a different story.
“We’ve had 176 restrictive bills regarding voting laws that have been proposed in 41 states. Now understand that we cannot even find an instance of voter fraud. In the last 20-something years, the Justice Department has investigated like two,” Cleaver said during a panel discussion on voter ID laws.
However, according to a Justice Department fact sheet dated July 2, 2008, over 140 individuals have been charged with election fraud offenses and over 100 people have been convicted of voter fraud since the Attorney General’s Ballot Access and Voting Integrity Initiative was launched in 2002.
Cleaver claimed that the voting public has been under attack since 2011. “We never would have predicted in the 1970s or in the 1980s that in the year 2011 that we would be fighting an attempt to suppress or discourage minority voting power,” he said.
Cleaver suggested there was a conspiracy to suppress minority votes because of the record high turnout of black and Latino voters in the 2008 presidential election, when the nation elected the first black president....
“So it’s been estimated that the block-the-vote efforts could cost about 5 million black votes across the country. And that could jeopardize the election, whichever way you choose to vote,” he said."...
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7/29/2011, "Mississippi NAACP leader sent to prison for 10 counts of voter fraud," Daily Caller, Matthew Vadum
"While NAACP President Benjamin Jealous lashed out at new state laws requiring photo ID for voting, an NAACP executive sits in prison, sentenced for carrying out a massive voter fraud scheme.
In a story ignored by the national media, in April a Tunica County, Miss., jury convicted NAACP official Lessadolla Sowers on 10 counts of fraudulently casting absentee ballots. Sowers is identified on an NAACP website as a member of the Tunica County NAACP Executive Committee.
Sowers received a five-year prison term for each of the 10 counts, but Circuit Court Judge Charles Webster permitted Sowers to serve those terms concurrently, according to the Tunica Times, the only media outlet to cover the sentencing.
“This crime cuts against the fabric of our free society,” Judge Webster said."...
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ACORN vote fraud was so severe in Ohio it was banned in 2010 from returning to the state. "At least 54 individuals employed by or associated with ACORN have been convicted of voter fraud....“The Colbert Report,” broadcast a segment this week (7/29/11) ridiculing Republicans for treating voter fraud as a serious problem."...
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Ed. note: How 'ridiculous' would it be to Colbert if all the vote fraud, double voting, etc. had gone in Republicans' favor?
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9/10/12, "Maryland Democrat quits congressional race amid vote fraud allegations," Washington Post, Ben Pershing
"A Maryland Democratic candidate quit her congressional race Monday after her own party told state officials that she had committed fraud by voting in both Maryland and Florida in recent elections.
Wendy Rosen, a small-business owner running against freshman Rep. Andy Harris (R) in the Eastern Shore-based 1st Congressional District, released a statement saying that “with great regret, and much sorrow” she was resigning from the contest. “Personal issues have made this the hardest decision that I have had to make,” Rosen said."...
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Florida woman in 2012 absentee voter fraud case also "visited them during the 2008 presidential election to help them with their absentee ballots."
“We’ve had 176 restrictive bills regarding voting laws that have been proposed in 41 states. Now understand that we cannot even find an instance of voter fraud. In the last 20-something years, the Justice Department has investigated like two,” Cleaver said during a panel discussion on voter ID laws.
However, according to a Justice Department fact sheet dated July 2, 2008, over 140 individuals have been charged with election fraud offenses and over 100 people have been convicted of voter fraud since the Attorney General’s Ballot Access and Voting Integrity Initiative was launched in 2002.
Cleaver claimed that the voting public has been under attack since 2011. “We never would have predicted in the 1970s or in the 1980s that in the year 2011 that we would be fighting an attempt to suppress or discourage minority voting power,” he said.
Cleaver suggested there was a conspiracy to suppress minority votes because of the record high turnout of black and Latino voters in the 2008 presidential election, when the nation elected the first black president....
“So it’s been estimated that the block-the-vote efforts could cost about 5 million black votes across the country. And that could jeopardize the election, whichever way you choose to vote,” he said."...
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7/29/2011, "Mississippi NAACP leader sent to prison for 10 counts of voter fraud," Daily Caller, Matthew Vadum
"While NAACP President Benjamin Jealous lashed out at new state laws requiring photo ID for voting, an NAACP executive sits in prison, sentenced for carrying out a massive voter fraud scheme.
In a story ignored by the national media, in April a Tunica County, Miss., jury convicted NAACP official Lessadolla Sowers on 10 counts of fraudulently casting absentee ballots. Sowers is identified on an NAACP website as a member of the Tunica County NAACP Executive Committee.
Sowers received a five-year prison term for each of the 10 counts, but Circuit Court Judge Charles Webster permitted Sowers to serve those terms concurrently, according to the Tunica Times, the only media outlet to cover the sentencing.
“This crime cuts against the fabric of our free society,” Judge Webster said."...
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ACORN vote fraud was so severe in Ohio it was banned in 2010 from returning to the state. "At least 54 individuals employed by or associated with ACORN have been convicted of voter fraud....“The Colbert Report,” broadcast a segment this week (7/29/11) ridiculing Republicans for treating voter fraud as a serious problem."...
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Ed. note: How 'ridiculous' would it be to Colbert if all the vote fraud, double voting, etc. had gone in Republicans' favor?
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9/10/12, "Maryland Democrat quits congressional race amid vote fraud allegations," Washington Post, Ben Pershing
"A Maryland Democratic candidate quit her congressional race Monday after her own party told state officials that she had committed fraud by voting in both Maryland and Florida in recent elections.
Wendy Rosen, a small-business owner running against freshman Rep. Andy Harris (R) in the Eastern Shore-based 1st Congressional District, released a statement saying that “with great regret, and much sorrow” she was resigning from the contest. “Personal issues have made this the hardest decision that I have had to make,” Rosen said."...
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Florida woman in 2012 absentee voter fraud case also "visited them during the 2008 presidential election to help them with their absentee ballots."
8/2/12, "Sister of absentee voter denies signing ballot collected in Hialeah," Miami Herald, by Melissa Sanchez, Enrique Flor and Alfonso Chardy
"Of the 31 absentee ballots that have become the focus of an investigation into possible election fraud in Hialeah, at least one appears to have a forged signature.The ballot belonged to Zulema Gómez, 81, who entered a nursing home five months ago suffering from Alzheimer’s and a brain tumor. On the ballot’s envelope someone wrote: “The lady is my sister. I sign like this because she has arthritis + she has difficult signing. Thank you.”
However, her sister, Olga Gómez, said Wednesday that she never wrote that message. Two weeks ago, she said, Daisy Cabrera took the blank absentee ballot and promised to go to the nursing home in Miami Springs and deliver it to Zulema. The sisters have known Cabrera for four years, when she visited them during the 2008 presidential election to help them with their absentee ballots....
"Of the 31 absentee ballots that have become the focus of an investigation into possible election fraud in Hialeah, at least one appears to have a forged signature.The ballot belonged to Zulema Gómez, 81, who entered a nursing home five months ago suffering from Alzheimer’s and a brain tumor. On the ballot’s envelope someone wrote: “The lady is my sister. I sign like this because she has arthritis + she has difficult signing. Thank you.”
However, her sister, Olga Gómez, said Wednesday that she never wrote that message. Two weeks ago, she said, Daisy Cabrera took the blank absentee ballot and promised to go to the nursing home in Miami Springs and deliver it to Zulema. The sisters have known Cabrera for four years, when she visited them during the 2008 presidential election to help them with their absentee ballots....
Cabrera could face serious charges if it is established that she forged the signature on the ballot.
Last week, Cabrera, a well-known “ballot woman,” or boletera, in Hialeah, was arrested while carrying a dozen ballots while she rode in a Toyota Camry driven by Matilde Martínez. A day before, she had taken 19 ballots to a post office in Hialeah."...
----------------------------------------------------"Several Hialeah residents have said Cabrera filled out their ballots for this election or earlier ones."8/2/12, "Woman Charged In Absentee Ballot Fraud," AP, via tampa.cbslocal.com
Last week, Cabrera, a well-known “ballot woman,” or boletera, in Hialeah, was arrested while carrying a dozen ballots while she rode in a Toyota Camry driven by Matilde Martínez. A day before, she had taken 19 ballots to a post office in Hialeah."...
----------------------------------------------------"Several Hialeah residents have said Cabrera filled out their ballots for this election or earlier ones."8/2/12, "Woman Charged In Absentee Ballot Fraud," AP, via tampa.cbslocal.com
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Double voting found in 2000 and 2004 elections:
Small samples found by two local newspapers found hundreds and possibly thousands of people voted twice in the 2000 presidential election. In mid 2004 the NY Daily News found between 400 and 1000 people voted twice in the 2000 national election, once in Florida and once in another state. 46,000 were actually registered to do so. Another newspaper, the Orlando Sentinel, found 1650 people voted twice in either 2000 or 2002. Many more were registered to do so. These reports only looked at 3 states v Fla.:
10/28/2004, "People Who Vote Twice," Slate, Bill Gifford
"The New York Daily News...found that...46,000...New Yorkers were registered to vote in both Florida and New York. Moschella also had the bad luck to answer the phone when the News reporter, Russ Buettner, called. So, his name appeared in the paper's Aug. 21 story revealing that in the 2000 election between 400 and 1,000 of these double-registrants voted in both states.
10/28/2004, "People Who Vote Twice," Slate, Bill Gifford
"The New York Daily News...found that...46,000...New Yorkers were registered to vote in both Florida and New York. Moschella also had the bad luck to answer the phone when the News reporter, Russ Buettner, called. So, his name appeared in the paper's Aug. 21 story revealing that in the 2000 election between 400 and 1,000 of these double-registrants voted in both states.
Other investigations revealed similar results elsewhere. The Orlando Sentinel found that 68,000 Florida voters are also registered in Georgia or North Carolina (the only two states it checked), 1,650 of whom voted twice in 2000 or 2002....
The Constitution gives states, not the federal government, the responsibility for running elections."...
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"Election experts say voter fraud is fairly common, but progressive activists typically insist that the crime is virtually nonexistent."...
The Constitution gives states, not the federal government, the responsibility for running elections."...
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"Election experts say voter fraud is fairly common, but progressive activists typically insist that the crime is virtually nonexistent."...
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