NY Dem election official indicted for voter fraud

By: Soren Dayton (Diary)  |  January 29th at 12:31 PM  | 

The 2009 primary election in Troy, NY attracted much attention for election shenanigans from Democratic officials who are associated with the Working Families Party. Well, yesterday, a grand jury issued indictments on 116 charges against a Democratic City Councilmember Michael LaPorto and Democratic Election Commissioner Edward McDonough. The Albany Times-Union and the Troy Record have been all over this. Basically, those two Democratic officials have | Read More »

Absentee ballot fraud in Troy, NY

By: Soren Dayton (Diary)  |  September 29th at 09:30 AM  | 

Every once in a while Democrats and the media assert that there’s never any election fraud or that it rarely results in cast votes. This is false. My favorite example is the 2003 Democratic Mayoral primary in which 32 people were convicted of voter fraud, and the election was subsequently thrown out by the court. It turns out that the Troy, NY municipal elections are | Read More »

NY-20: Don’t forget the military. The state board of election did

By: Soren Dayton (Diary)  |  April 2nd at 08:27 PM  | 

It looks like Jim Tedisco may have pulled off the victory in NY-20 after all. And there is good reason to think that the remaining absentee ballots should favor Tedisco. That said, there was a serious problem. The state Board of Elections seesm to have deliberately disinfranchised military voters. Heritage’s Hans von Spakovsky describes how the Democrats on the Board of Election actually voted to | Read More »

Obama staffer registered in three states, voted in two

By: Soren Dayton (Diary)  |  November 3rd at 02:38 PM  | 

Cross-posted from Election Journal. Palestra.net finds that Barack Obama campaign staffer (described on an Obama site as a field organizer and at a Zoroastrian site as Obama staff) Minwalla Farah is registered to vote in 3 states. Meet Farah Minwalla, an Obama field organizer in North Carolina. She registered to vote in Mecklenburg County, NC on October 4. According to county auditor reports, the address | Read More »