Thursday, May 28, 2020

Fraud-by-Mail in Texas: Wigderson Is Wrong

While Wigderson thinks the scheme of mail-out-applications proposed by the Democrats is "a win," it's not.

I filed a request for public information covering the 1359 voters who voted by mail in Harold Dutton’s race. I requested electronic copies of the voters’:
  1. applications for ballots by mail and
  2. returned ballot carrier envelopes.
My first thought was to match each voter’s mailed ballot application with the voter’s ballot envelope and compare signatures to find those which may not match. But as I reviewed the documents, something else jumped off the page
32 hand written applications for mailed ballots – all from different voters – but all written in the exact same handwriting.
Gee.  How could that happen, Wiggy?  Could there be fraud-by-mail even with the system you approved?

...So I counted the stamps used by all the applications for ballot by mail returned by voters in this race. Could it be just a coincidence that only 7% of all voters used this stamp to return their ballot by mail applications but 100% of the 32 voters with this same handwriting on their applications used the same stamp?

 But then I printed out the envelopes which carried their returned ballots and the BIGGEST COINCIDENCE of ALL  jumped off the page…

ALL THESE VOTERS LIVED
 IN THE SAME PRECINCT!  
 Precinct #259
Seems that someone (a Democrat in this case) was paying forgers to get them elected, one way or the other--mostly the other.

That was Texas.  There's Florida, too.

Naivete doesn't win elections, nor does it do much good against determined, amoral, liars. 

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It is a win for representative democracy. Trump mailed in 11 ballots over the course of a decade. Now, the source alleges that Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s campaign paid two convicted forgers and that other Democrat campaigns also paid forgers to aid in the fraud. That allegation was never proven. Moreover, voting irregularities does not constitute voter fraud. Those ballots can be discounted. Simply put, oversight is needed here. But the fact remains is that Democrats and Republicans are requesting mail in voting ballots. They will follow the procedures accordingly.

Dad29 said...

No it is NOT "a win for.....democracy." Aside from the fact that this is a representative republic, NOT "a democracy," there is no compelling reason for this change.

WHether "proven" or not, the allegation exposes one of several ways in which fraud can be executed with this inane scheme.

You are correct: "oversight is needed." Point to the provisions in the WEC order which establish such oversight, please.

Finally, it is absolutely irrelevant that "democrats and republicans are requesting" ballots. They can early-vote in person; they can vote on election day. Convenience is not the end-all/be-all of elections, friend. You have your priorities ass-backwards.

Anonymous said...

Of course there is a compelling change which is completely relevant--citizens are making requests for a way to vote given the Covid19 outbreak. It's called another option besides early-vote in person, vote on election day, or mail-in ballot. And you only have accusations of fraud, not direct proof.