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: As the Miami Herald noted, "numerous absentee ballots were cast in the primary by people who live outside of the City of Miami. Some voters were unaware they had voted at all. One ballot was cast by Manuel Yip, who has been dead for four years." When the fraud was discovered and the election was held again, a different candidate won. In 2003, a member of East Chicago Mayor Robert Pastrick's campaign was found guilty of casting fraudulent ballots by promising jobs to people in exchange for letting him vote for them in the primary. Because of this widespread fraud, the primary was re-run and Pastrick lost. Five years later, community activist group ACORN engaged in what Washington's Secretary of State called "the worst case of voter registration fraud in the history of the state" by submitting nearly 2,000 fake voter registration forms. According to CNN, the group "took addresses from homeless shelters, used fake birthdays and Social Security numbers and took names from baby books to create voters out of thin air." Clifton Mitchell, the ringleader of the scheme, spent three months in prison, and four of his co-conspirators were sentenced to jail time. ACORN itself was fined $25,000.