Title: A Brief History of Mail-In Vote Fraud | News/Talk 1130 WISN | Dan O'Donnell
Headings: A Brief History of Mail-In Vote Fraud
A Brief History of Mail-In Vote Fraud
Content: Prosecutors found that they had bought votes, registered illegal immigrants and imaginary voters, and even had voting precinct captains physically change their vote counts. But by far their most common trick was casting fraudulent absentee ballots. The corrupt precinct captains who were in on the fraud had their workers "encourage voters to apply for absentee ballots whether or not they had a valid reason to do so and to turn the blank ballots over" to the election workers, who would then vote for them. The investigation found that "although the [vote] canvass disclosed that a number of persons who were registered to vote in the precinct had died, moved away, or for some other reason had become ineligible to vote, these persons were not struck from the list of eligible voters. Finally on election day the defendants, either personally or by acting through others, caused numerous false ballots to be cast for the straight Democratic ticket." The conspirators preyed on the elderly and infirm, because they "would be the most unlikely to challenge the theft of their franchise." 12 years later, in Greene County, Alabama, eleven people were convicted of widespread vote fraud through the use of phony absentee ballots. "The defendants included Greene County commissioners, officials, and employees; a racing commissioner; a member of the board of education;