This appears to be a severe corruption if a common campaign ‘best practice’.

The way we did it at the Colbert campaign (with advance clearance from the county clerk/registrar) was to mail the absentee ballot request attached to a campaign mailer, identified as such for the campaign. The absentee ballot request is pre-filled-in with the correct info from the voter’s original registration, so it won’t get bounced because of a middle name vs initial issue. It has a bar code on the form. All the voter has to do is sign it and drop it in the mail. It is addressed to the campaign offices.

When we get these in the mail, we scan the bar code and take the requests to the registrar at the court house the same day without fail.

This is a great GOTV move because it turns low propensity voters into high propensity voters – absentee ballot voters have a 75% turnout rate.

Once we have scanned the bar code certifying the voter applied for an absentee ballot before the request deadline, we can safely remove that voter from our database for precinct walk lists and phone bank lists. Now we can direct our GOTV efforts to those who really need it.

This saves a lot of time and effort for busy volunteers while converting a low propensity voter into a high propensity voter.

Needless to say, these requests are only sent to our party; never the other party, since the technique is so effective at raising the turnout rate.

This is genuinely a ‘best practice’ for campaigns with a good IT operation and a determination to preserve the integrity of the process.

It sounds as if the actual abuse that occurred here was:

1. Phony official-sounding agency as sender
2. Suggestion to voter that their vote is in jeopardy
3. Possible forgery of requests that were never mailed
4. Possible delay of requests getting to the county clerk

Show how just a few changes to ‘best practices’ can turn into a particularly vile form of fraud.

……this kind of deal is coming across more and more like standard operating procedure for Democrats across the nation.

Awesome job L.I.O. !

This should be a felony worth at least 5 years. Let some of them pound out license plates for a few years, and they might not be quite so enamored of the idea of cheating to get their pre-purchased congresscritter back into office.

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.

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…That leads me to believe that Harry Reid didn’t win in Nevada (or, at least not by 5%). Now, of course, there is no proof (with perfect murders, there isn’t any evidence, thus, they are “perfect”), but I still find it curious that all of the reputable polls were so wrong. This ballot-tampering scheme explains some of it, or at least the degree to which power-mad democrats will go to cheat.

Don’t forget how Lyndon Johnson won his first Senate seat: He and his buddies “found” votes in Box 13 in Jim Wells County, stuffed with an amazing 202 votes for LBJ, and (gasp!) only 1 for his opponent.

That democrats cheat is not news. That they are getting so adroit at it is.

I’m fine w/Fitzpatrick’s campaign dropping their request for impounding the ballots due to their MOV, but these are the kinds of actions that the GOP *must* pursue vigorously to their legal end.

The GOP swept into office in PA, most notably the governor’s office. This is the kind of stuff that too often we, then, just ‘move on’ from. Can’t do that anymore. The only way this stuff is going to stop is if people end up behind bars. We need to play hardball on this because the very core of our democracy is at stake here.

And I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if these kinds of fraudulent activities are at the core of Harry Reid’s ‘surprising’ win in NV. Been a long time since I’ve seen polls off that much in a general election race which had as much polling as the NV race.

And *no* one came even close to getting this right? Hmmmm…..

whether in PA or IL or anywhere ever thinks of attempting to steal an election ever again! This should not be ignored and the residents of that district should DEMAND an investigation by the Dept of Justice, a REAL investigation!

Just makes you wonder what else is going on behind that big curtain.

It is now clear to me that the office of Secretary of State is equally as important as state congressmen and senators. Since the majority of states elect their SOS, we need include recruiting conservatiave candidates for the SOS job.

It should have been clear how important this office is when George Soros headed up his SOS Project. If he thinks controlling the state SOS offices is critical to electing (illegally) chosen liberal candidates, it should have raised a big red flag to conservatives.

The attached article was an eye-opener for me. We need to be active in 2012 and make sure we take the election of SOS very seriously. There are numerous races over the last few years that really call into question the integrity of some states’ SOS officials.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailycaller/20101109/pl_dailycaller/sorossupportedsecretaryofstateprojectdealtblowinmidtermelections_1

Please leave a comment here indicated, state, city, congressional/state district.

Or if you’ve encountered a similar scheme with voter registrations.

I’m talking about schemes which (as Ron Robinson wrote above int he first comment) represents a corruptions of a legitimate partisan tactic, to wit, a scheme containing on or more of the following:

1. Phony official-sounding agency as sender
2. Suggestion to voter that their vote is in jeopardy
3. Possible forgery of requests that were never mailed
4. Possible delay of requests getting to the county clerk

We need to know if this PA-08 fraud is truly a single case or part of a larger scale fraud effort by the Democrats.

There is a growing stink around the country. Numerous states report problems with voting machines selecting Democratic candidates despite the wishes of the voter. Bags of Democrat votes mysteriously appear in tight races. A number of write-in ballots are being held in Alaska due to identical handwriting. Harry Reid wins in Nevada despite being down in the polls. Strange goings on in Bridgeport, CT.
The media is mostly silent. What have we come to?

best we keep an eye out on this as well. Just sayin’

I know personally several of the individuals involved in pursuing this matter. ladyimpactohio has given an excellent and coherent explanation of this complex ballot fraud scheme.

I have just a few points to add.

While attention has been focused on the absentee ballot return fraud controversy, this followed on the heels of an earlier operation which raised the prospect of another, earlier fraud operation by the Murphy campaign.

From NRO’s Thomas Shakely’s October 28th column

This comes on the heels of the county Board of Elections recording a unusual spike in Democratic absentee ballot application last week. Within a six day period from Oct. 14 to 19, Democrat absentee ballot applications to the county increased by 67 percent as compared to Republican applications, a spike that occurred nowhere else in the state.

Applications had been running essentially even between the parties up to that point. On Oct. 14, both parties’ ballot applications tallied roughly 3,000 each, but by Oct. 19, Democrats recorded 5,082 applications to Republicans’ 3,678.

I believe that the unprecedented impounding of all absentee ballots reflected this early activity as well, which raised an alert that a number of the requests were fraudulent as well.

The major lesson here for a national audience is that the key people behind the uncovering of the fraud and rushing to court were private citizen Republican activists who didn’t rely on a the officials of a somnolent county party to do the work for them.

This was a positive example of Tea Party empowerment to concerted local action rather than to unfocused anger.

And if you’d like to hear from Mike Fitzpatrick, who went ahead to win of this race despite all the goings on, I’ll refer you to this interview by Moe Lane a couple weeks before the election:

Meet Mike Fitzpatrick (R CAND, PA-08)

Heard on WLSam some of the station employees received “requests for absentee ballot forms” for which they had not asked to be mailed to them. The return address was also a democrat party address instead of the board of elections.

I did not hear anything further on what was going on there.

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2. Who paid for these bogus mailings? Where is it accounted on finance reports as the scheme appears to be initiated in August 2010.

Maybe USAction:

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=6729

and America Votes:

http://www.americavotes.org/

http://reporting.sunlightfoundation.com/independent-expenditures/race/PA-8

“Literature (door hangers) for PA Canvass”, “PA Canvass Supplies”, “Paid Calls”, etc.

Murphy spent $170,000 on “electioneering communications”. I imagine this fraud would fall under that category.

Being a resident of Minnesota, I unfortunately am used to this kind of scheme. Felons for Franken and votes “found” in cars in liberal precincts, after the polls had closed. This PA scheme though, is something else. It just proves how desperate the Dems were this election cycle: Winning was more important than either ethics or the true will of the people they are supposed to represent.