Democrats claim election fraud is a myth. But videos don’t lie.
Roll the tapes:
On Nov. 1, Connecticut Judge William Clark overturned the results of the Bridgeport mayoral primary, calling video evidence of potential fraud “shocking.” Wanda Geter-Pataky, the vice chair of the Bridgeport Democratic Town Committee, appears to have been caught on video stuffing handfuls of ballots into a drop box outside City Hall.
On Oct. 25, in Paterson, New Jersey, the sitting president of the City Council, Alex Mendez, was charged with personally collecting large numbers of mail-in ballots in his district, destroying ballots that did not favor him and replacing them with ballots that falsely chose him. New Jersey’s Attorney General Matthew Platkin states that Mendez “personally observed from his wife’s vehicle as a large, heavy bag, completely filled with ballots, was emptied into the Haledon postal box prior to the election.”
On Nov. 2, in Springfield, Massachusetts, mayoral candidate Justin Hurst was nailed by city election officials for allegedly buying votes during early voting. Videotape shows individuals being dropped off in black Suburbans and Expeditions, and entering City Hall to vote. When they exited, a man “takes out what appears to be a large bundle of cash” and peels off a bill for each individual, according to an affidavit by election commissioner Gladys Oyola-Lopez.
In one week, election fraudsters were busted in three major Northeastern cities.
Leftist organizations such as the Brennan Center for Justice and the League of Women Voters claim voter fraud is a “phantom” and “extremely rare.” Don’t buy it. The evidence is all around us.
Cheating is a cakewalk because of accommodations pushed by Democrats, including universal mail-in voting and unmanned drop boxes.
Now is the time to scrutinize the 2023 races and plug the obvious gaps. Cheating should not determine the outcome in the highly consequential 2024 national election.
In Bridgeport’s 2023 mayoral primary, Democratic candidate John Gomes was ahead, until he got crushed late in the process when absentee votes favoring incumbent Mayor Joe Ganim were counted.
One Bridgeport pol described the use of absentee ballots there as “an art form.” That “art form” may partially explain how Ganim, who was Bridgeport’s mayor from 1991 to 2003 — before serving seven years in federal prison for racketeering, extortion, filing false tax returns, and other crimes — was able to stage a comeback upon his release from prison and win election in 2015 and 2019.
In Connecticut, Democrats are singing one song: Fraud is “unique to Bridgeport” and isn’t a problem elsewhere. Wrong.
Last year, John Mallozzi, then chairman of the Democratic Party in Stamford, was convicted of forgery and making false statements related to absentee ballots. His ruse was uncovered when a voter named on a fraudulent absentee ballot actually showed up at the polls.
Connecticut Republican legislators are pushing to improve voting security. Rep. Doug Dubitsky, a Republican, says “this exact same thing could be happening in every single municipality in this state.” But Democrats who control both houses of the state legislature and all statewide offices refuse to tighten voting procedures.
That’s not hard to explain. In statewide races, including for governor or president, Republicans historically have been ahead until the absentee ballots in the Democrat-controlled cities in Connecticut are tallied.
Across the nation, Republicans are pressing state legislatures to eliminate drop boxes and bar third parties from collecting huge numbers of completed ballots — a practice called “harvesting.” Republicans also want to use software to match the signature on the mail-in ballot to the signature on the voter registration form.
Democrats almost universally oppose these safeguards, calling them “voter suppression.” “Cheating suppression” is more like it.
Perceptions of unfairness are corrosive. At a House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing in June, polls were cited showing 37% of Democratic-leaning voters and 71% of Republican-leaning voters doubt the honesty of elections.
Most European countries require voters to show up in person, unless they are out of the country or disabled. These countries tried mail-in voting and eliminated it in the face of widespread fraud.
Americans need to get smart. Convenience shouldn’t take priority over security. Before you board a plane, you have to wait in line while your carry-ons are inspected. It’s inconvenient but worth it.
Same is true for voting. When you turn on the TV on election night to watch the returns, you want to know the results are honest, whether your candidate wins or not.
America has one year to get the job done.
—
Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York and chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths. Follow her on Twitter @Betsy_McCaughey. To find out more about Betsy McCaughey and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
COPYRIGHT 2023 CREATORS.COM
I’m beginning to believe that even on threat of receiving the punishment of the death penalty for ballot harvesting and ballot stuffing, or competitor vote destructions, will not diminish these secular socialist election destroying Jihadists fervor to take the very American power away from THE PEOPLE in local and national vote stealing, to win in theft, that which they could never earn in honest election competition. They are to American elections, what Hamas is to peace in the idle east. Not even wiring their illegal drop box doors with exploding IED’s would deter their passions to destroy the once efficient success creating American existence in honest fail elections, and Collective of real winners of fair competition, that just reflects their misguided, self-chosen, self-destructive acts that individually destroy themselves in drugs, illicit sex practices, and sexual self-mutilation. Ignore the polls showing Conservative gains against proven destruction displayed Biden crime family values. When pressed to the walls, and the halls of American power they always default to the self-serving socialist Obama/Biden inspired values of their youth,,,to win at all costs, even if like Hamas it costs them the lives of their and OUR children in debt and moral diminishment.
Because those “threats of punishment” are meaningless, UNLESS THEY ACTUALLY COME about.??
How many times, have we now heard of these things going on. BUT NAME ME ONE PERSON actually rotting in jail for voter fraud?
“Democrats almost universally oppose these safeguards, calling them “voter suppression.” “Cheating suppression” is more like it.”
“Most European countries require voters to show up in person, unless they are out of the country or disabled.
These countries tried mail-in voting and eliminated it in the face of widespread fraud.”
Most European countries are not stupid enough to allow uncontrolled, unaccountable, unverified mail in voting.
But the U.S. treasonous Democrats demand uncontrolled, unaccountable, unverified mail in voting.
WHY ARE THE DEMOCRATS GETTING AWAY WITH UNCONTROLLED, UNACCOUNTABLE, UNVERIFIED MAIL IN VOTING??
AND In some of those countries, they have had VOTER ID laws in place for years, and have NOT SEEN ‘infringing on minorities’ voting.
If what you say is real, present to DOJ so something can be done unless examples too small to make a difference. I agree we should have fair election system.
You mean the SAME DOJ who have for years, ONLY GONE AFTER CONSERVATIVES, while letting liberals riot and kill at will and nothing’s done? THAT DOJ?
Election fraud like foreign migration fraud (via no border wall & bogus asylum claims) is real & massive but Dem Party, with little to no pushback from feckless GOP) has succeeded in making it virtually impossible to do anything about either.
At least 20 million foreigners are living here illegally &/or without any vetting or meeting any requirements for legal migration.
US Govt has unlawfully & deliberately allowed them to overwhelm USA with force of numbers instead of aggressively taking measures needed to prevent their entry &/or speedily deport them.
Same situation with voting.
Mass / universal unsolicited mail in ballots, unsupervised drop boxes, unverifiable mail in signatures, unreliable voter registration lists, ballot harvesting, no photo ID requirement & lack of audits are all designed to corrupt & ensure that election fraud is easy & unprovable.
And to me the suckiest part of it, is EVEN WHEN the GOP has challenged it. THE COURTS Have ruled all too often, IN the dems favor.
You need to remember that 30 million illegals that were determined to be in the USA a few years back by studies taken by a couple of Universities. At the time the Dems every year were saying it was only 10 million. Now add the amount of illegal invaders that Biden and the puppet master have allowed entry and the unknown amount of got aways, it’s closer to 70 million and counting.
50 mil at the least.. The left’s been pandering the “ITs 11 mil” lie since the days of REAGAN, when they badgered him to grant amnesty.
GOP in disarray and problems might be on the horizon. The big lie, fear of retribution, fear what will happen this time if GOP doesn’t prevail in 2024. How bad will the next “Jan 6th be?”. You got to wonder, what’s going to happen. Being conservative is OK but, some of the O-kee-doke rhetoric being dished out is simply pure madness. Folks talking about voter fraud now. Just like in 2019. A year before the election. Just in case we lose. Where does it all end.
where does it all end?
on the ash heap of history.
“We have the most comprehensive voter fraud organization in history.” Those words, were uttered by candidate Joe Biden, prior to the 2020 election. Notice there were no qualifying words, such as “mitigation”, “prevention”, etc in that statement? Was this a Freudian slip, or was the Biden campaign telegraphing it’s true intentions?
Ballot harvesting, drop boxes, and mail-in voting should be made illegal, period!
If early voting is allowed, it should only be allowed within a week of the election.
Motor-voter laws should be repealed.
Absentee voting should be allowed under strict conditions – disability, being out of the country, etc, and should be done in person.
Photo ID should be required of all voters. No excuse for not having one, as civic organizations and political parties can use their donations to assist those who need help getting to their local DMV to acquire one.
Not a US citizen? No vote!
Exit-polling should be illegal, and election results should be broadcast only after polls close nationwide.
Finally, we live in the digital age, to whit, election results should be known on election day, if possible, but no more than 3 days after, taking into account technical glitches.
Election integrity benefits both candidates and voters in the long run.
BEFORE We had all this “electrical ballot machines’, WE HAD VOTES COUNTED BY hand, and results known the day of OR The next day at the latest.
YET since we went to those machines, we some times, don’t even find out results TILL WEEKS later?!?!?
SO to me, all that tech, has NOT MADE Voting better.. IT MADE IT WORSE>