Voting
shenanigans in almost all swing states, 'Fraud in few key counties could affect presidential race', by
Garth Kant, 10/27/16
WASHINGTON
– With early voting proceeding at a pace the Associated Press calls “far quicker
than 2012” – and with more than 12 million voters having already cast ballots –
reports of potential voter fraud also appear to be on the rise. But it
may not be the amount of voter fraud that matters. It could be how
well-targeted any real fraud is that makes all the difference in who will
become the next president. And, as
it happens, voting problems have been reported in almost all of the key swing
states.
In fact,
most of the problems reported are in swing states. Sharyl
Attkisson, perhaps the nation’s top investigative journalist, told WND, “Some
experts tell us it would be possible to commit fraud in relatively few key
counties to affect the outcome of the presidential race.”
As WND reported, cyber security expert
Tyler Cohen Wood told the journalist on her program, “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson, ”the threat to voting
systems by computer hackers is real.” “I would
be going after the central polling system, and I would also go after the
third-party administrators of the people who are taking in the votes, which is
what happened in Arizona and Illinois and possibly Florida,” he told Attkisson. “I’m no
expert in voter fraud, but the concept is very real,” Attkisson told WND on
Thursday. “We would be naive to believe that there aren’t political forces
inside and outside the U.S. that would like to affect our elections and that
have the technical ability to do so.”
She may
not be an expert, but the information she has gleaned from experts led her to a
chilling observation. “The main
questions are: How pervasive is it, and is it enough to make a difference in an
election outcome? If it’s done properly, we would never know it – or at least
be able to prove it.” Adding
resonance to Attkisson’s point that fraud wouldn’t have to be widespread, just
carefully targeted, is that reports of irregularities are coming from key swing
states.
Politico lists the swing states in the 2016
presidential race as: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire,
North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. Coincidence
or not, problems have been reported in virtually all swing states.
Colorado
CBS4 in
Denver reported this week of a dozen cases of Coloradans suspected of voting twice, after already
discovering in September “multiple cases of dead men and women
voting
in Colorado.” The station reported six new cases of voting records showing the
same people voting twice in Colorado elections, and, in another six cases,
people suspected of voting in another state during the same election. One of
those states is Kansas. “You’d be surprised how often people double vote,”
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach told CBS4. “Two of the cases are serial
double voters. I think people discover they can get away with it and keep doing
it.” Kobach told the station he believes a whopping 10,000 people are still
registered to vote in both Colorado and Kansas. CBS4 said its ongoing
investigation “has triggered criminal investigations in El Paso and Jefferson
counties along with a broad investigation by the Colorado Secretary of State’s
office.” “We do believe there were several instances of potential vote fraud
that occurred,” Colorado Secretary of State Wayne told the station.
Florida
Last
week, an 83-year-old lifelong Republican received a new voter ID card that told
her she was now a registered Democrat, according to TV station WFLA. The Hillsborough
County Supervisor of Elections office merely told an irate Marina Agosto, “You
must have forgotten.” Agosto discovered a group called Mi Familia Vota had
submitted a new voter registration application in her name, and the application
was riddled with incorrect information, including the wrong birthdate. The
executive director of Mi Familia Vota claims it is investigating the 200 other
applications submitted by the person who filled out Agosto’s application.
Michigan
Undercover journalist James O’Keefe obtained a ballot by
telling poll workers he was Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan. He got another ballot
using the real name of rapper Eminem, Marshall Bruce Mathers III. O’Keefe went
to a number of poll sites in August and easily obtained ballots using a variety
of names that were not his own, including those of prominent Michiganders
opposed to vote-ID laws. Michigan allows people without ID to vote if they
merely fill out an affidavit claiming they are who they say they are.
Nevada
NPR said there were “scattered” reports of
machines flipping votes in the Silver State, but did not give further details.
New
Hampshire
Earlier
this year, O’Keefe’s Project Veritas workers were allowed the opportunity to
vote by election officials in Nashua, Durham and Manchester and without proper
identification. Election officials did not require proof of New Hampshire residency.
“I don’t know the legality of it. Perhaps it’s voter fraud,” a Bernie Sanders
campaign staffer was caught admitting.
North
Carolina
NPR reported accounts of machines
flipping votes in the Tar Heel State in five counties. The state’s board of
elections advised voters to double-check their ballots. Previously, the North Carolina State Board of
Elections
found more than 35,000 people may have double-voted during the 2012 election. The
Joint Legislative Elections Oversight Committee discovered 35,750 voters with
the same first and last name and date of birth were registered in both North
Carolina and another state, and voted in both states in 2012.
Ohio
WCPO reported this week that at
least three dead people have been registered to vote in Hamilton County this
year. That’s
according to the Hamilton County Board of Elections.
Cincinnati
is in Hamilton County.
Pennsylvania
“In
Philadelphia, there’s constant Republican disenfranchisement going on. It’s
happening all the time,” recently charged Joe DeFelice,
chairman of the Philadelphia Republican City Committee. Philadelphia became
ground zero for suspicions of voter fraud in the 2012 presidential election
when some inner-city precincts reported a statistically improbable 100 percent
vote for President Obama. Given the prior controversy, there’s now a battle
under way between Republicans and Democrats to assemble armies of poll watchers
to look for signs of voter fraud on Nov. 8. Republicans are losing that race,
badly. Out of 66 wards, Democrats have submitted lists on monitor for 33 of
them, Republicans, only eight. As WND reported, in 2012 Obama
received between 98 and 100 percent of the vote in precincts in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania and Cleveland, Ohio. Local officials called for federal
investigations, but not one was launched.
Virginia
The FBI is investigating possible voter
registration fraud
after as many as 20 voter applications were submitted with the names of dead
people. All the applications were turned in by a voter registration group
called Harrisonburg VOTES. Its officials had no comment. Republican lawmakers
held a news conference last month to say the incident proved voter fraud is
real, as is the need for voter ID laws. “Often times we hear our Democrat
colleagues suggest that voter fraud doesn’t exist in Virginia or is a myth,” said
House Speaker William H. Howell, R-Stafford. “Well, it does indisputably
exist.” That might be confirmed by the 2014 video clip (above) which
appears to be shot inside a Virginia voting booth, showing a person repeatedly
trying to vote for the Republican candidate for Congress, and the machine
repeatedly switching it the Democrat. In that election, incumbent Rep. E. Scott
Rigel, R-Va., did beat Democrat challenger Suzanne D. Patrick for the 2nd
district seat in the House of Representatives. WND’s Jerome Corsi reported at the time that the
video was provided by Rigel’s campaign, and it was recorded in Virginia Beach.
Voting machine problems were reported in 43 precincts across Virginia during
the 2014 election. “Every error is going against my campaign and in favor of my
challenger,” Rigell said at the time.Incidents of possible voter fraud have
been reported recently in non-swing states.
Texas
Election
officials in Chambers County, Texas, ditched electronic
voting machines and switched back to paper ballots this week after a deluge of
complaints. The Texas Secretary of State’s office told the country clerk to use
emergency paper ballots until the problem was fixed. WND reported the possibility of
electronic election fraud in Texas on Tuesday after people on Facebook began
reporting machines switching votes for Republicans to
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Amarillo, Texas, described how every time she tried to vote a straight
Republican ticket, the machine kept checking the Clinton/ Kaine box. In
Arlington, Shandy Clark said a relative had the same experience and was told by
poll workers, “It had been happening.” Since Tuesday, more voter complaints
from the Lone Star state have appeared on social media sites. A post on Reddit
warned, “Multiple reports on my Facebook, Periscope, Snapchat, and Twitter from
my friends in Texas, and all of them had their vote switched to Clinton
automatically.”
Indiana
The head
of Indiana’s state police said last week an investigation of a voter
registration project turned up evidence of fraud by a group
affiliated with Democrats. Indiana
State Police Supt. Douglas Carter did not give details or say how many
instances of fraud they were investigating. But the group under investigation,
the Indiana Voter Registration Project, has submitted 45,000 voter registration
applications this year. According to the Los Angeles Times, those
applicants are racial minorities.
Georgia
It’s not
only Trump supporters complaining of voting machine irregularities. A voting
machine in suburban Atlanta was removed by authorities after reports it was
flipping votes from Clinton to Trump. One voter said it took three attempts
to properly record his vote. The Georgia Secretary of State’s Office has opened
an investigation. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “27,000 voting
machines in Georgia are at least 13 years old, and aging machines are an issue
for states across the country.”
Trump
tweet - Republican
presidential nominee Donald Trump, who has warned the election could be rigged,
tweeted on Thursday, “A lot of call-ins about vote flipping at the voting
booths in Texas. People are not happy. BIG lines. What is going on?” Many
Americans appear to have lost faith in the system and agree with Trump’s
assertion the election is “rigged.”
The PRRI 2016 American Values Survey, released Tuesday by
the left-leaning Brookings Institution, found fewer than half of Americans
trust the election system. The
survey found only 43 percent “of the public say they have a great deal of
confidence that their vote will be counted accurately.” Furthermore,
“Roughly four in ten (38 percent) Americans report having only some confidence,
while close to one in five (17 percent) say they have hardly any confidence
their vote will be accurately counted.”
Democrats
trust the system more than Republicans. The survey found, “70 percent of
Clinton supporters but only 41 percent of Trump supporters, reporting a great
deal of confidence their votes will be counted accurately.”
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