Posted on 05/27/2020 4:10:36 PM PDT by Jacvin
The ease with which two Democrat politicians in Palm Beach County, Florida, may have managed to manipulate and encourage voters to support them in 2017 thanks to gaping holes in the states mail-in balloting lend credence to President Donald Trumps growing concerns about implementing a similar system nationwide.
In recent weeks, congressional Democrats have been pushing a national vote-by-mail scheme as part of any new coronavirus relief bill, arguing that because of the pandemic its too unsafe to require Americans to vote in person.
But Republicans and the president counter that the Democrats real motivation behind the push is to usher in a mail-in ballot system that can be systematically exploited in ways that allow their party to win key races and wrestle back complete control of Congress and the White House.
What happened in Palm Beach County, though, is a strong argument not only against mail-in balloting but requiring all voters to cast ballots in person and with proof of identification.
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The GOP can keep tap dancing around this and November 5 will be a massacre.
Jacquet, who, like Powell, once worked as a legislative aide for Bernard, lost at the polls to opponent Edwin Ferguson by 132 votes, but topped Ferguson in mail-in ballots by 1,167.
The two candidates, working together, both received almost half of their votes from mail-in ballots.
Jerry Nadler in 2004: Paper ballots are extremely susceptible to fraud
Send "Orange Man Bad" federal and state government Democrats and RINOs home in November!
Supporting PDJT with new patriot federal and state government leaders that will promise to fully support his already excellent work for MAGA and stopping SARS-CoV-2 will effectively give fast-working Trump a "third term" in office imo.
Gee....I guess all of the bots, on tweeter, have missed this.
My Niece worked for the Palam Beach government 10 or so years ago. They asked her to do things that were not legal, and she refused. Lost her job. Nothing to see here, move on!
It seems likely that ballots were requested without the knowledge of voters. Paul Beach County Elections Supervisor Susan Bucher identified at least 300 ballot request forms that were possibly fraudulent, but she said she didnt have any choice but to send ballots to voters.
Barnard and Jacquet utilized daily updates sent by the elections office saying when ballots had been sent to voters. That allowed them to direct their campaign workers to those homes when ballots were hitting mailboxes. This, despite the fact that a Miami-Dade grand jury found in 2012 that campaigns ought not to be given that information because of the potential for fraud.
After mail-in ballots were signed and sealed, voters told the Post they gave them to candidates or their campaign workers to take to the elections office (think California-style ballot harvesting), which disrupted the chain of custody.
It should be noted, according to the Post, that campaigns have sought out absentee voters and collected their ballots for years, but election lawyers, prosecutors, campaign strategists, and even a former Florida Supreme Court chief justice have all roundly condemned the practice of helping voters fill out ballots.
Thats just a stupid thing for a candidate to do, Gerald Kogan, who served on the Sunshine Statess high court for more than a decade. Why on Earth would a candidate have to go into somebodys house and watch them fill out a ballot?
In both cases involving Bernard and Jacquet, in-person vote counts went to their opponents but mail-in balloting heavily favored them:
Bernards chief county commission opponent, incumbent Priscilla Taylor, had 768 more votes among people who went to the polls, but Bernards 1,287 absentee-vote edge put him over the top.
Jacquet, who, like Powell, once worked as a legislative aide for Bernard, lost at the polls to opponent Edwin Ferguson by 132 votes, but topped Ferguson in mail-in ballots by 1,167.
The two candidates, working together, both received almost half of their votes from mail-in ballots.
Thanks RACPE.
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