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Dem official pleads guilty in NY election fraud investigation

By: Soren Dayton (Diary)  |  July 26th, 2011 at 01:23 PM  | 

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In Jaunary, I wrote about indictments in a New York State election fraud investigation. In a September 2009 Working Families Party primary in Troy, NY, there were allegations of voter fraud. Two Democratic members of the Troy City Council were indicted on 116 charges related to absentee voter fraud.

Now the (Democratic) City Clerk has resigned and plead guilty to a felony as part of the investigation. He is also singing. The Clerk, William McInerney is a Democratic Committeeman, and the police seem to have the goods on him going back to at least 2007, suggesting that this may be a way of life in Troy, NY.

The plea offer made to McInerney, a Democrat, is based, in part, on information compiled by State Police showing McInerney may have helped forge absentee ballots in previous campaigns dating to at least 2007.

McInerney, 47, is a former state Assembly worker who has been a Democratic committeeman in Troy for years. He was appointed to the clerk’s position by the City Council when Democrats took control of the Troy council in January 2008.

Just to emphasize the point: this guy was appointed by the Democrats to run elections in 2008. The cops have him for election fraud back to 2007. So the Democrats appointed someone who knew how to steal elections to run elections.

In January, I noted that there may be something systematic about this, as one of the indicted Democratic officials is also the son of a Democratic official who was convicted of voter fraud. From the Times Union:

For the McDonoughs, this is the second time in 20 years that a family member has been indicted. McDonough’s father, the late Rensselaer County Democratic Party Chairman Edward F. McDonough Jr., was indicted by a federal grand jury, convicted and sentenced to federal prison in 1994 for a municipal insurance kickback scheme that brought him $637,000.

It looks like this McDonough fellow will be a prime target of McInerney’s cooperation:

State Police, in court documents, have said they have evidence that McDonough delivered a bundle of forged WFP absentee ballots to McInerney on the eve of the 2009 primary election.

I would note that absentee voter fraud seems to be the easiest and most common form of voter fraud in our country these days. Today, Taegen Goddard, a Democratic operative, quoted from a book by former Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Tom Glaze entitled Waiting for the Cemetary Vote:

“If you want to steal an election, the absentee box is the place to begin, and if you want to calculate the likelihood of fraud in a county, first figure the percentage of its total vote that is cast in absentia.”

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  • usadying

    Who gives a rip about a few committeemen if you can steal an election? The indictments and convictions (if they ever happen) are always too late to change election results. Sounds like a good plan to me. My dad always talked about the JFK/Nixon election, where Chicago Mayor Daley came through with the dead people vote to squeak out a JFK victory. The fraud in 2008 must make that one look like child’s play.

  • mustango

    This will not keep the ACLU from reminding us that vote fraud does not exist.

  • http://www.FranBaker.com frankieb

    Go to a nursing home at election time! The Ds (more often than the Rs) sweep in with all these absentee ballots, pretending the residents have requested them, and then they vote for the party they represent. Doesn’t matter whether the person has senile dementia or is halfway unconscious, either. Oh, and there’s always a notary with them … just happened along, don’t you know. I told them I would take my aunt and my uncle to the poll as long as they were competent. They’re gone now, but they voted for the candidates of their choosing.

  • johnt

    clever dogs that they are, much back slapping, snickering, and effusions of personal brilliance. If anybody else does it, it is transformed to crime too horrible to contemplate, the rape of innocence, the inevitable march of the Nazi’s goosestep, the eclipse of democracy & with the Koch brothers thrown in for good measure.
    Psychiatrists have yet to include this in the canons of severe mental disorders, to give it it’s deserved place in the handbooks of psychiatric treatment.

  • charlesmartel

    Win some elections, one guy goes to jail for a year or two, max, gets a cushy job when he gets out. Seems like a pretty sound strategy.

  • toothpick

    Consider this: california has been moving people aggressively into the “permanent absentee” (called “vote-by-mail voters) category for years. Some precincts have so many such voters that the registrar shuts down the precinct voting location and forces everyone in the precinct to mail in their ballots.

    Add to this the fact that precinct workers are not permitted to ask voters (the in-person type) for ANY form of ID, and one might imagine that California has created ideal conditions for maximum vote fraud.

    By some odd coincidence, California’s legislature and governor’s mansion have been dominated by liberals in recent years. (I include Schwarzenegger among the liberals, despite the R after his name. I suppose marrying into the Kennedy family can do that to you.)