by Sean Jobst
10 December 2020
Since my post-election article on Nov. 11th highlighted evidence of fraud, much more evidence has come out on all levels to prove a systemic problem. There are thousands of sworn affidavits and other eyewitness accounts testifying to serious improprieties at vote counting centers and with Dominion voting machines. There are strange inconsistencies with countless thousands of ballots - a highly-improbable number of voters over 90 and 100 years old; people who received ballots without requesting them or vice versa; apparently freshly-printed ballots with only Biden marked and no down-votes; overnight mass-deliveries of ballots that suddenly swayed states whereas Trump had a commanding lead on election night; ballots backdated to meet the deadline, etc..
Couple this with mainstream media and Big Tech firms making such a concerted effort to censor and editorialize to the extent they are (i.e. prefacing every claim of fraud as "baseless" or "unsubstantiated" without even considering the claims; and the AP disclaimers placed on tech platforms "calling" the election) - even though they assure us its so obvious that the election was completely "flawless" - and we can point to something concrete despite their dismissals. Sometimes when cornered, they even admit some fraud but deny it was "widespread" enough to change the results. Other issues are the strange mathematical absurdities (even impossibilities) and violations of both common sense and election norms - these will be discussed in another post.
The reality is that the same corporate Media dismissing it now, pointed to numerous examples of voter fraud earlier this year - hoping that those who remember may think the problems were suddenly "fixed" for the general election or, more likely than not, forgotten down the fifteen-minute Memory Hole. Common sense dictates that rushing through a massive mail-in ballot system just this year, with not much of a consistent system in place to truly verify and process them, is prone to serious errors. It was conflated with the absentee ballot system already existing (perhaps to create legal loopholes), but through a manipulation of even many state's own laws - and violating the Equal Protection Clause in the U.S. Constitution - was pushed through on a massive scale using COVID-19 fears as their excuse.
Fraud was uncovered in the May 12th city council race in Paterson, New Jersey. A city councilman and three others were caught in a mail-in ballot scheme that affected a fifth of all votes and overturned the results. Over 3,000 ballots were received but not counted. Even New York Times and CNN were calling this "voter fraud", although Legacy Media was quick to deny it signaled any "national trouble" for the general election. The Paterson NAACP leader said it was so flawed the results should be thrown out and called for a new election. Stacks of mail-ballots were suspiciously left at local apartment buildings, in a forecast of the strange ballot "dumps" nationwide in the months to follow. That September, local media in Wisconsin reported three trays of absentee ballots found in an Outagamie County ditch, as confirmed by the U.S. Postal Service.
Just in 2020, there have been 1,302 proven instances of voter fraud across the country, involving at least 1,125 criminal convictions. The guilty ones involved are usually political candidates and their cronies, not voters - pointing to a political/criminal network spanning various elections, so we can doubt that systemic fraud was magically fixed by November 3, 2020. In October, a fraudster was caught registering dead people as Democratic voters in Broward County, Florida. A Democratic mayoral candidate in Carrollton, Texas was caught forging 84 voter applications that same month. On November 6th, the Texas Attorney General announced charges against Kelly Reagan Brunner, a social worker at a state-supported assisted living center in Limestone County, with 134 election fraud felonies for having submitted 67 voter registrations without the signatures or consent of residents.
On May 21st, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the conviction of former Philadelphia Judge of Elections, Domenick J. Demuro, "for his role in accepting bribes to cast fraudulent ballots and certifying false voting results during the 2014, 2015, and 2016 primary elections in Philadelphia." He had taken bribes to stuff the ballot box for Democratic candidates. "During his guilty plea hearing, Demuro admitted that while serving as an elected municipal Judge of Elections, he accepted bribes in the form of money and other things of value in exchange for adding ballots to increase the vote totals for certain candidates on the voting machines in his jurisdiction and for certifying tallies of all the ballots, including the fraudulent ballots," according to the conviction.
"Demuro further admitted that a local political consultant gave him directions and paid him money to add votes for candidates supported by the consultant, including candidates for judicial office whose campaigns actually hired the consultant, and other candidates for various federal, state and local elective offices preferred by that consultant for a variety of reasons. Demuro also admitted that the votes he added in exchange for payments by the political consultant increased the number of votes fraudulently recorded and tallied for the consultant’s clients and preferred candidates, thereby diluting the ballots cast by actual voters."
On July 23rd, the Department of Justice charged former Philadelphia U.S. Congressman Michael Myers with bribing Demuro. Their official statement explained how the fraud worked: "According to the indictment, Myers would solicit payments from his clients in the form of cash or checks as 'consulting fees,' and then use portions of these funds to pay Demuro and others in return for tampering with election results. After receiving payments ranging from between $300 to $5,000 per election from the consultant, the court papers allege Demuro would add fraudulent votes on the voting machine – also known as “ringing up” votes – for Myers’ clients and preferred candidates, thereby diluting the value of ballots cast by actual voters. At Myers’ direction, Demuro would add these fraudulent votes to the totals during Election Day, and then would later falsely certify that the voting machine results were accurate. Myers is also accused of directing Demuro to lie about the circumstances of the bribes and the ballot-stuffing scheme to investigators."
On June 11th, the State of Michigan brought six felony counts against Democratic Southfield Clerk Sherikia Hawkins for having "used a computer to fraudulently alter or modify the Qualified Voter File after the 2018 General Election to falsely reflect that previously logged absentee ballots were void due to arriving in envelopes that were not signed by the voter." The allegations are that Hawkins altered 193 absentee voter records - called "Qualified Voter Files" - in the computer system. On July 21st, four Toledo City Council members and a local attorney were accused by the Justice Department of "a bribery and extortion scheme that encouraged soliciting and accepting cash, checks, money orders, or other things of value from local business owners in exchange for their votes on City Council." On November 17th, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced charges against Hawthorne mayoral candidate Carlos Antonio De Bourbon Montenegro, aka Mark Anthony Gonsalves. He had submitted more than 8,000 fraudulent voter registration applications between July and October, falsifying the names, addresses, and signatures of homeless people so he could get those votes.
Earlier this year, there were 349,773 dead people on voter rolls across the country, according to a September 2020 report by the Public Interest Legal Foundation. The report looked at various voter rolls to show other errors, such as duplicate registrations, and revealed that audits of the 2016 and 2018 elections uncovered 81,649 cases of people voting twice. In October 2020, a man in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, was arrested for applying for a mail-in ballot for his dead mother. A Las Vegas woman received an unsolicited ballot addressed to her partner, who had died in June 2019. Local media in Georgia confirmed at least four cases of deceased people who had ballots cast in their names. Legacy Media has been quick to seize upon the more outlandish and unsubstantiated claims, but as with many of these other aspects, there are enough consistent stories to reveal a pattern - and these are just the ones that were publicized.
In May 2020, thousands of ballots were sent out by the Clark County Election Department in Nevada to inactive voters - those who either moved or were deceased - with eyewitness accounts about how "the envelopes are piling up in post office trays, outside apartment complexes and on community bulletin boards in and around Las Vegas." This is similar to the sudden appearance of ballots across Paterson apartment buildings that same month in New Jersey. Nahshon Garrett, a freestyle college wrestler and Olympic athlete, confirmed in November that he never received an Arizona absentee ballot or mail-in application, having moved to Tennessee in July 2019, but that a vote was still cast in his name by someone else in Maricopa County. In May 2017, 700 suspicious ballots were sequestered after the Dallas District Attorney received an "off-the-charts" rate of complaints from voters who received ballots they didn't request and suspected others used their names to vote in the city council race. That July, a Dallas grand jury indicted a man who had forged a woman's name on a ballot.
In June 2019, Los Angeles County started "the process of removing from its registration rolls an estimated 1.5 million inactive voters who have moved, died or become ineligible to cast a ballot." According to data published by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, there were an estimated 5 million inactive registrations throughout the State of California as of November 2016. In October 2018, the California Department of Motor Vehicles confirmed that 1,500 noncitizens were registered to vote due to a "processing error". This was just one media-verified example of a pattern highlighted in a 2014 scientific study that concluded electoral participation by noncitizens was large enough to change certain congressional elections. The study was published by Electoral Studies, which is "an international bi-monthly peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the study of elections and voting" according to Wikipedia, a platform which has agreed with AP and other media outlets about the 2020 election. I don't know how much of this was at play with the 2020 election, but as with the various other aspects it establishes an existent pattern of electoral fraud.
Then there is the questionable practice of ballot harvesting where a third party gathers and collects someone else's ballot. In September, a whistleblower exposed ballot harvesting by an Ilhan Omar supporter in Minneapolis, during a 38-day period when the law allowing for an unlimited number was being challenged. This practice was being done in many of the fraud cases cited earlier. It often amounts to bribery - an exchange of gifts to entice people's votes - such as a ballot-harvesting event hosted by a leftist nonprofit called the Nevada Native Vote Project, exchanging shirts, gift cards and "Biden cookies" in exchange for ballots. In a forecast for the substantial Trump swing-state lead on election night evaporating by an alleged Biden super-performance in the pre-dawn hours, during the 2018 midterm elections in Orange County, California, an initial Republican lead was overwhelmed by 250,000 votes collected by Democratic ballot-harvesting, as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle.
The leftist website Propublica raised concerns of ballot harvesting in March 2020: "Ballot harvesting scandals, in which political operatives tamper with absentee ballots that voters have entrusted to them, have marred recent elections in North Carolina and Texas." In May, South Carolina considered cutting ties to a Minnesota printing company after twenty Charleston mail-in ballots were mysteriously found in Maryland, and voters in Greenville County received the wrong ballots. In July, Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project, cited problems with New Jersey's mail-in system - voters reported never receiving ballots despite being listed as having voted; a third of rejected ballots had something wrong with the ballot itself; many ballots arriving too late to be counted; and various mistakes to be disqualified - as a harbinger of things to come with November: "In other words, the aim of the vote-by-mail crowd is to create all the conditions that made the Paterson election ripe for fraud, but remove the tools that allowed that fraud to be detected, stopped and prosecuted. Do they really believe no one will take advantage of that free-for-all?"
The Propublica article made a compelling case against the massive mail-in voting system being rushed nationwide, detailing serious "logistical problems" and warning of "opportunities for voter fraud": "While mail-in ballots seem like an elegant solution as the United States grapples with containing COVID-19, experts say slow-moving state and county governments, inconsistent state rules and limited resources to buy essentials such as envelopes and scanners could make it difficult to ramp up nationally to reach more than 200 million registered voters in the November general election. Among the possible downsides of a quick transition are increased voter fraud, logistical snafus and reduced turnout among voters who move frequently or lack a mailing address. There is bipartisan consensus that mail-in ballots are the form of voting most vulnerable to fraud. A 2005 commission led by President Jimmy Carter and James A. Baker III — George W. Bush’s secretary of state — concluded that these ballots 'remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.'"
In that September 2005 report, "Building Confidence in U.S. Elections," which has been archived, Carter and Baker concluded: "Absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud." They called on increased security measures "to eliminate the practice of allowing candidates or party workers to pick up and deliver absentee ballots." Although the media has seized upon Carter's apparent reversal, the problems raised in that report still stand as the above examples attest. After his victory in the Mississippi Democratic Primary on March 11, 2008, Barack Obama raised similar concerns in an appearance on Chris Matthews' MSNBC show: "I think we would have to figure out if its fraud-proof. I mean, Oregon for example, has a terrific mail-in system but they've already scanned everybody's signatures who have registered to vote, so that they can check to make sure that in fact the right people are voting. And that's something that I think you'd have to figure out."
On Oct. 6, 2012, the New York Times affirmed those concerns in an article, "Error and Fraud at Issue as Absentee Ballot Rises", which acknowledged vote-by-mail fraud as "vastly more prevalent than the in-person voting fraud" although it stressed "innocent errors". Legacy Media reporting has conflated the established, limited system of absentee ballots with the mail-in system rushed through an unprecedented scale in 2020, and apparently it was those late-arriving votes that swayed the election towards Biden. They had no trouble entertaining notions of fraud in previous years - especially the "illegitimacy" of 2016 - but have been arrogantly dismissive of it this year. Yet when they have been forced to admit some cases, they spin them as "inconsequential, isolated in nature, and unlikely to alter the outcome of an election," in the words of New York Times gatekeepers. This post has cited innumerable improprieties with how the ballots were gathered or collected - the next post will examine the problems with the voting machines and their counting, including serious glitches as admitted by the Media.
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