The New York Post wrote a compelling piece on mail-in voting fraud as described by a “top Democratic operative.” This Democratic operative knows firsthand about vote fraud because he himself has committed vote fraud for decades.
But the political insider, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he fears prosecution, said fraud is more the rule than the exception. His dirty work has taken him through the weeds of municipal and federal elections in Paterson, Atlantic City, Camden, Newark, Hoboken and Hudson County and his fingerprints can be found in local legislative, mayoral and congressional races across the Garden State. Some of the biggest names and highest office holders in New Jersey have benefited from his tricks, according to campaign records The Post reviewed.
“An election that is swayed by 500 votes, 1,000 votes — it can make a difference,” the tipster said. “It could be enough to flip states.”
The whistleblower — whose identity, rap sheet and long history working as a consultant to various campaigns were confirmed by The Post — says he not only changed ballots himself over the years, but led teams of fraudsters and mentored at least 20 operatives in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania — a critical 2020 swing state.
Why is this whistleblower coming forth (anonymously) now? He said, “This is a real thing. And there is going to be a f–king war coming November 3rd over this stuff … If they knew how the sausage was made, they could fix it.”
But for political pros, they’re a piece of cake. In New Jersey, for example, it begins with a blank mail-in ballot delivered to a registered voter in a large envelope. Inside the packet is a return envelope, a “certificate of mail in voter” which the voter must sign, and the ballot itself.
That’s when the election-rigger springs into action.
Phony ballots
The ballot has no specific security features — like a stamp or a watermark — so the insider said he would just make his own ballots.
“I just put [the ballot] through the copy machine and it comes out the same way,” the insider said.
But the return envelopes are “more secure than the ballot. You could never recreate the envelope,” he said. So they had to be collected from real voters.
He would have his operatives fan out, going house to house, convincing voters to let them mail completed ballots on their behalf as a public service. The fraudster and his minions would then take the sealed envelopes home and hold them over boiling water.
“You have to steam it to loosen the glue,” said the insider.
He then would remove the real ballot, place the counterfeit ballot inside the signed certificate, and reseal the envelope.
“Five minutes per ballot tops,” said the insider.
How disturbing is that? Republicans MUST NOT, under any circumstances, cave and allow mail-in voting. We need to confine voting to Election Day. Absentee ballots should be provided upon request to those who cannot vote on Election Day. Eliminate early voting, which just allows more time and opportunity for fraud, and make Election Day a national holiday.
It gets even more disturbing when the insider describes how postal employees are involved in vote fraud.
“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 95% are going to a Republican, he can just throw those in the garbage.”
In some cases, mail carriers were members of his “work crew,” and would sift ballots from the mail and hand them over to the operative.
This shouldn’t come as any surprise. There are bad apples everywhere and mail-in voting just makes it far too easy for these bad apples to conduct bad acts.
Cheaters are going to continue to cheat because, even when caught, those who commit vote fraud do not face severe punishment.
While federal law warns of prison sentences of up to five years, busted voter frauds have seen far less punishment. While in 2018 a Texas woman was sentenced to five years, an Arizona man busted for voting twice in the mail was given just three years’ probation. A study by the conservative Heritage Foundation found more than 1,000 instances of documented voter fraud in the United States, almost all of which occurred over the last 20 years.
“There is nothing new about these techniques,” said Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at Heritage who manages their election law reform initiative. “Everything he’s talking about is perfectly possible.“
Who really believes that there has been just 1,000 instances of fraud in twenty years? That number is certainly way below the levels of fraud that are actually taking place. This small number shows that we, as a country, do not take the investigation into the integrity of our elections very seriously.
All of this illustrates the need to stand firm on mail-in voting and also why Trump needs a decisive victory in November.
The mainstream media and liberal groups are doing their best to paint Donald Trump as dishonest and paranoid about the risks of mail-in voting.
.@JocelynBenson: “We actually have now conducted three elections this year alone with a full right to vote-by-mail with more citizens voting by mail than ever before and with zero reports or evidence of fraud:"https://t.co/0tWQ0QLL8f #votebymail #mailinvoting
— Center for Democracy & Technology (@CenDemTech) August 31, 2020
BREAKING: U.S. officials at multiple federal agencies say there are no signs of any coordinated effort to commit widespread fraud through the vote-by-mail process, despite numerous claims made by President Trump. https://t.co/FqmeftabOD
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 26, 2020
These headlines just do not comport with what we know about human nature. This is especially true when you combine TDS with the fact that not every American is an angel. These people are living in a fantasy land if they think that people do not try to cheat in elections.
Let’s pray it’s a landslide Trump victory. If the election is close, this country is in for more and worse pain than we’ve already experienced this summer.
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