Tuesday - October 20, 2009

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Brian Suozzo voted with an absentee ballot in the Working Families Party primary on Sept. 15 because, as his application stated, he was “at home recovering from medical procedure.”
Jessica Boomhower’s application said she would be attending a “work conference in Boston.” Michael Ward couldn’t vote in person because he was “taking care of elderly parent.” Kimberlee Truell was on a “Bus trip to casino,” as was Miguel Vazques.

The only problem with these absentee ballot records at the Rensselaer County Board of Elections in Troy, N.Y., is that they’re phony, voters and investigators say—and they’ve prompted what’s being called an unprecedented investigation of suspected voter fraud.

Thirty-eight forged or fraudulent ballots have been thrown out—enough votes, an election official admits, to likely have tipped the city council and county elections in November to the Democrats. Candidates would have been able to run both on the Democratic and Working Families Party lines in two weeks, and that could have given the Democrats in the general election.

A special prosecutor is investigating the case and criminal charges are possible. New York State Supreme Court Judge Michael Lynch ruled that there were “significant election law violations that have compromised the rights of numerous voters and the integrity of the election process.”

Among the reasons cited on the fraudulent forms for absentee voting: “traveling to Buffalo,” attending a “screen printing conference in Syracuse,” “working late shift,” “working construction,” and “home - ill.”

“Someone took my signature and voted with it and I felt extremely violated,” Suozzo told Fox News. He is a soft-spoken 28-year-old environmental engineer who says he never saw, let alone signed, the Working Families Party Absentee ballot application that carried his supposed signature. He was flabbergasted that someone would vote for him and submit it.

“The whole thing seems dirty to me,” Suzzo said. “You wonder how often this happens and people don’t get caught.”

“They tried to steal an election,” says Bob Mirch, the majority leader of the Rensselaer County legislature who suspected voter fraud and started the investigation after being alerted to a large number of absentee ballot application requests that were noticed by the Republican Board of Elections commissioner .

“Not only does it undermine the system, but if these people were allowed to do this, we could never have a fair election… I’ve been doing this for 35 years, when I saw this, it sends a chill through my body right now.”

Currently composed of some 30,000 members, the Working Families Party (WFP) is a front group for ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). WFP functions as a political party in New York State and Connecticut, promoting ACORN-friendly candidates. Unlike conventional political parties, WFP charges its members dues—about $60 per year—a policy characteristic of ACORN and its affiliates.

According to the party’s website, WFP is a coalition founded jointly by ACORN, the Communications Workers of America, and the United Automobile Workers. However, ACORN clearly dominates the coalition. New York ACORN leader Steven Kest was the moving force in forming the party, and WFP headquarters are located at the same address as ACORN’s national office, at 88 Third Avenue in Brooklyn, New York.

An outgrowth of the socialist New Party, WFP was created in 1998. According to a 2000 article by the Associated Press, its objective was (and still is) to “help push the Democratic Party toward the left.” In pursuit of this goal, WFP runs radical candidates in state and local elections. Generally, WFP candidates conceal their extremism beneath a veneer of populist rhetoric, promoting bread-and-butter issues designed to appeal to union workers and other blue-collar voters, Republican and Democrat alike.

The Working Families Party benefits from a quirk of New York State (and Connecticut) election law which allows parties to “cross-endorse” candidates of other parties. Thus when Hillary Clinton ran for the Senate in 2000, she ran both on the Democratic Party ticket and on the Working Families Party ticket. Of the 3.4 million popular votes Ms. Clinton received from New Yorkers, the Working Families Party delivered 103,000.

The Working Families Party, in short, is not a political party in any normal sense of the term. It’s a complex tool for well-funded special interests looking to raid the public treasury.  [ which translates as UNION CONTROLLED. And a big GUESS WHO is the main union that feeds them cash? You knew it! Got it in one: ]

Leading the donor pack was the potent health-care workers’ SEIU Local 1199, with more than $300,000—followed by the teachers unions, with $200,000.

And ACORN—itself a major recipient of union cash—has tremendous overlap with the WFP. The two share two Brooklyn office spaces, plus senior leadership: WFP Executive Committee Chairwoman Bertha Lewis also runs ACORN’s New York chapter.

So, rigged elections, fraudulent votes, big union money, shadowy behind the scenes groups, far left agenda ... all tied to Democrats. Par for the course. But this story is news because it looks like they’ve finally been caught red handed, and the ties go right back to the sources. Good. Jail the whole damn bunch.

other links:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/09/at_last_local_ny_race_turns_up_some_real_alleged_v.php
http://www.redstate.com/soren_dayton/2009/09/29/absentee-ballot-fraud-in-troy-ny/
http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S1173264.shtml?cat=300
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/09/acorn_voting_fraud_in_the_news.html

How long until somebody with balls and a badge is going to step up and prosecute ACORN under the RICO act? This shit goes on in state after state. It’s organized nationally. It’s been going on for years. Decades even. Shut them down and prosecute them already.

And in the mean time, throw out the voter registration data in every state and do the whole thing over. In person. With a photo ID and a fingerprint. And no absentee ballots by mail ever again. If you’re going to be away, you show up at the county seat and cast your ballot before you leave. After showing your voter ID and further proof that you are actually you. And lets put some serious teeth in the penalties for fraudulent voting already. This is bullshit. And it can be stopped overnight if people have the will.

Posted by Drew458     on 10/20/2009 at 01:32 PM   
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