Election fraud and excuses

The Democratic Presidential campaign continues to get low marks. Only the most skewed samples produce favorable polling numbers for Vice-President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.). So certain officials, not wanting Donald Trump to become President again, are facilitating the most obvious means of election fraud. This applies to State and federal judges – and one governor who said he supports Trump.

Election fraud in Arkansas – relaxed signature requirement

The Arkansas legislature recently approved an emergency rule to stop some county clerks from accepting digital signatures for voter registration. Apparently different clerks were setting different standards for authentication. Some were enforcing a rule that any signature on a voter registration application be a wet signature. That is to say, they were requiring applicants to sign their names with pen and ink. Others were accepting digital or electronic signatures. Whether these signatures were free-hand “moused” signatures, or simple keystroke-only affirmations of identify, is not clear. (If the alternative is a free-hand mouse-drawn signature, the applicant might as well sign with pen and ink and FAX it in.)

Several advocacy groups sued the State in federal court, and moved for a preliminary injunction against the rule. On Thursday (August 29), Judge Timothy L. Brooks granted the motion – so the State may not enforce this rule. He found that a “wet signature” requirement was an immaterial requirement for voting, in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

CNAV foresees bedlam. Signatures other than “wet signatures” are easily forged. This goes to Methods One and Two of election fraud:

1. Registration of a voter not eligible to vote, and
2. Facilitating the impersonation of a voter, either at in-person check-in or when requesting – and casting – an absentee ballot.

Undated absentee ballots

Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court likewise ruled 4-1 that election clerks may not reject mail-in absentee ballots by reason of missing or inaccurate dates on return envelopes containing absentee ballots. The usual sorts of suspects sued the State over the dating requirement. The plaintiffs included Black Political Empowerment Project, League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania, and Common Cause Pennsylvania.

Said the majority opinion:

The date on the outer mail-in ballot envelopes is not used to determine the timeliness of a ballot, a voter’s qualifications/eligibility to vote, or fraud. Therefore, the dating provisions serve no compelling government interest.

The refusal to count undated or incorrectly dated but timely mail ballots submitted by otherwise eligible voters because of meaningless and inconsequential paperwork errors violates the fundamental right to vote recognized in the free and equal elections clause.

The Republican National Committee can, if it wishes, file a notice of appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. But it must act within three days for the court to act in time for this year’s election.

Good news – a new complaint relating to possible election fraud in the Election of 2020

Last week saw some good news – a fresh complaint, based on newly developed evidence, about an incident involving the irregular transportation of absentee ballots to a postal facility in Pennsylvania. On October 21, 2020, a Postal Service truck left an Express Mail and package-handling facility in Bethpage, New York. When it finally arrived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the trailer part of the rig mysteriously disappeared. That rig was carrying twenty Gaylord-style boxes, each holding mail-in ballots – capacity 50,000 to 100,000 each. Jesse Morgan, the driver, filed an affidavit detailing what happened and what he knew.

Larry Johnson posted the new information on Sonar 21 on Saturday, August 24. He concentrated on an investigation by two personal friends of his: John Moynihan and Larry Doyle. Johnson listed several problems with this shipment. Chief among them: the facility on Grumman Road in Bethpage handles packages and Express Mail only. Mail-in absentee ballots are first-class mail, which requires imaging of each piece. This did not happen, because the Bethpage warehouse didn’t have the equipment (an “Oregon Machine”) to do it. Worse: those mail-in ballots were already filled out and signed on the outside. When two Postal Service employees questioned the irregular procedures, their supervisors told them to shut up, load the boxes onto trucks, and forget about it.

A lawsuit against the whole notion

Brian R. Della Rocca, a lawyer and Maryland resident, has sued Maryland’s Secretary of State, Election Board Chairman, and the Postmaster General. He is using the evidence he has, to show that the Postal Service is not reliable for handling ballots. Accordingly he seeks to enjoin Maryland election officials from sending out no-excuse mail-in absentee ballots. He also seeks to enjoin the Postal Service from handling mail-in ballots ever again. Della Rocca v. Lee, 1:24-cv-02442, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. Read the complaint here.

The Maryland District Court has assigned the case to Magistrate Judge Charles D. Austin. The appointment of magistrate judges is vested in their respective district courts, per the Appointments Clause. Judge Austin had been a civil rights lawyer in the Justice Department before his appointment. What ideological perspective he is likely to bring to this case, remains to be seen.

Governor Kemp’s latest pose

In still other news, Gov. Brian Kemp (R-Ga.) is now suspected of cutting off funds to his State’s Election Board. That Board has lately made some serious rulings in support of election integrity. But they can’t move them forward without the funding. Joe Hoft posted this news yesterday on his own site. Hoft offered this as his best guess as to Kemp’s motives and plans:

It’s because everyone is being told to sit down and shut up by Governor Kemp’s minions working back channels to silence everyone, including me.

The powers that be in the state don’t want Donald Trump finding out about this after their recent public peace treaty.

Kemp working behind the scenes to undermine election integrity certainly sheds light on his true motives. It just doesn’t jive with Kemp’s public words of support to help Trump in the State of Georgia.

Brian Kemp has had a nasty reputation for running Georgia elections to “select” candidates of his own choosing. He has consistently refused to investigate allegations of serious irregularities in the Election of 2020. Among these were the smuggling of pre-filled ballots into the State Farm Arena in Atlanta. Apparently these ballots came into the arena in containers called “suitcases.” These are not travelers’ suitcases, but can serve as “portable offices” for senior officers of election. (They call them “poll managers” in Georgia, and “chief officers of election” in Virginia.) This suggests that the poll managers were directly complicit in delivering Fulton County, the State’s most populous, to Biden in 2020.

But certain influencers have suggested that Fulton County (which includes Atlanta) has a far lower proportion of Georgia’s voters than it once had. Furthermore, Boards of Supervisors in other Georgia counties have voted to switch to paper ballots, hand-counted at the precinct.

Kylie Jane Kremer, Executive Director of Women for America First, shared information on two long-form posts on X. She also set up a GiveSendGo account to crowd-fund the Board.

Summary

Donald Trump has adopted the slogan “too big to rig” for his campaign. By that he means to have so many voting for him that the Democrats would lack a “cheater’s baseline.” Part of that is to vote early and in person, thus making oneself ineligible to receive an absentee ballot. Many Republicans told of reporting to check in, only to have OOEs tell them they’d already voted!

So Democrats are seeking to pre-load voter registration, a fact that should surprise no one. Relaxed signature requirements are part of the election fraud operation; registering non-citizens to vote is another. (For that reason, Donald Trump urged Congressional Republicans to insist on including the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility or SAVE Act as part of any continuing resolution. That Act would require all States to ask for proof of citizenship when registering people to vote.)

The incidents CNAV has described here, illustrate the insurmountable security problems with mail-in absentee ballots. Better to insist that people vote in person, even if they must vote early (but not more than two weeks early) or by proxy, French style. The French could teach Americans something else: how to vote on paper, with OOEs counting their votes at precinct.