A GOP county elections commissioner in New York will plead guilty to federal voting fraud charges, the Albany Times Union reported on Wednesday, December 28, 2022 (read story here). The FBI arrested Jason T. Schofield (photo, left), 42, in September for using “at least eight voters’ pers[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Voting Fraud’
Ex-felon GOP candidate busted for voting illegally
Brian K. Pritchard (photo below), 56, presently of Cherry Log, Georgia, pleaded guilty in 1996 to three Pennsylvania felony charges of forgery and theft. He was still on probation when he registered to vote in Georgia in 2008, which made him ineligible to vote. That didn’t stop him from voting[...]
GOP governor’s vote fraud persecutions unravel
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), who wants to be president, is a stuntman. He used taxpayer money to round up 48 Venezuelan asylum-seekers in the country legally and ship them from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard. That stunt won points with immigration-obsessed Republican voters. He created a special stat[...]
October 20th, 2022 - 12:06 pm § in Politics
Georgia fake ballot stunt backfires
In Georgia, where early voting has begun, state election officials are investigating a fake ballot recovered from a polling place in a heavily-Republican area near Atlanta. The elaborately-created counterfeit ballot was found “in a box where ballots drop after they are scanned into a scanner a[...]
September 14th, 2022 - 1:17 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Voting fraud unearthed!
Republicans insist there’s voting fraud, and even though our elections are generally secure, it’s hard to argue with them — because they keep committing it. Today’s story comes from Rensselaer County, New York (see map here), which includes the city of Troy, and politically l[...]
August 25th, 2022 - 6:46 pm § in Politics
Will Florida governor’s “voting fraud” cases blow up in his face?
Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis, who wants to be president, set up a special squad of election cops to hunt down voting fraud. They went after the low-hanging fruit first: Ex-convicts. In 2018, Florida voters voted overwhelmingly in favor of restoring ex-felons’ voting rights by passing a state [...]
August 21st, 2022 - 5:30 pm § in Politics
Kansas abortion foes got their recount and here’s what it shows
In the first ballot-box test of abortion rights after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the Kansas electorate kept abortion legal in their state, by a vote of 543,855 (59%) to 378,466 (41%), see details here. Anti-abortion activists requested a recount, raising $50,000 online, with another $[...]
Florida voting police nab 20 vote thieves!
Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis’s new “Office of Election Crimes and Security” has identified 20 cases of suspected voting fraud since going into business on July 1, The Hill reported on Wednesday, August 18, 2022 (read story here). All of the cases are from Palm Beach, Broward, and [...]
July 29th, 2022 - 12:53 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Rogue sheriff backs vote fraudsters, not election laws
At its heart, it’s a partisan stunt, but also a crime. Kinda like setting fire to a barn to “prove” an arsonist is on the loose. In Wisconsin, GOP activists fraudulently applied for absentee ballots using the names of prominent people, including the state assembly speaker, to ̶[...]
July 18th, 2022 - 7:18 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Drop boxes weren’t a problem
“The expanded use of drop boxes for mailed ballots during the 2020 election did not lead to any widespread problems,” KING 5 News reported on Monday, July 18, 2022 (see story here). Washington, which has 100% mail voting, uses drop boxes, but this report is based on a nationwide survey o[...]