Lying About Voter Fraud

Every election year some candidates argue that voter fraud might have determined the outcome of close races.  The President has made the claim several times.  The mainstream media’s response has consistently been to label such claims as baseless, often quoting Secretaries of State saying that there is no evidence of fraud.  One recent example is Danielle Echeverria’s story in The San Francisco Chronicle “Trump recycles evidence-free charge of California voter fraud.”  She checked with Alex Padilla, the Democrat Secretary of State in one-party governed California, who made it clear, “Trump’s lies about voter fraud are patently untrue.”  Is it possible that Mr. Padilla has never really looked into it, because his party always wins?  This blanket denial squares poorly with a Monday story in MyNewsLA about two criminals who have plead guilty to submitting hundreds of ballots with forged signatures in Los Angeles.  Seven other co-defendants have either plead no-contest or guilty, while an eighth awaits trial.  No telling how many others in California were submitting fake ballots but have not yet been caught.

In the meantime, Jon Levine of the New York Post reports on a Democrat party operative who has admitted that voter fraud is epidemic, especially with mail in ballots.  How does he know?  He has been doing it on a grand scale for decades.   The operative, whose identity and history of working as a paid consultant to various Democrat campaigns was confirmed by the paper, says that he has lead teams of fraudsters in several states to submit fake ballots in races from Fire Commissioner to U.S. Senate.

The consultant described several methods he has used to get ballots from unsuspecting voters, steam open the envelope, take out the legitimate ballot. and replace it with a substitute ballot with a forged signature.  Sometimes he has simply gotten a postal worker to throw ballots away.  “You have a postman who is a rabid anti-trump guy, and he’s working in Bedminster or some Republican stronghold…He can take those (filled out) ballots, and knowing that 95% are going Republican, he can just throw those in the garbage.”

He characterized assisting living facilities and as a “gold mine” for his team members to “help” the elderly fill out their absentee ballots.  He also utilized paid operatives in nursing homes to go room to room and help patients fill out their ballots.  He noted that when he was working on a campaign in New Jersey, he found that homeless shelters offered a nearly inexhaustible pool of reliable-buyable voters.

It has been clear for decades that in close Congressional races, for example, a few hundred votes can make the difference in who goes to Washington.  In a state such as California, with 52 House seats, where almost all the county registrars of voters and the Secretary of State are Democrats, there is very little interest in verifying ballots at election time.