Voter Fraud « OpenCdA

July 24, 2014

Guilty — Of the Crime That Doesn’t Exist…

Filed under: Probable Cause — Tags: Public Corruption, Voter Fraud — Bill @ 8:31 am

Former Los Angeles City Councilman Richard Alarcon and his wife were convicted of voter fraud and perjury in Los Angeles Superior Court Wednesday. Alarcon and his wife had lied about where he actually lived so he would be eligible to run for a particular Los Angeles City Council seat. He and his wife both lied under oath in furtherance of his illegal candidacy.

Alarcon is not the first California official to be convicted of voter fraud in recent history. In January 2014 State Senator Roderick Wright was convicted of voter fraud and perjury for lying about his residence so he could run for the state senate.

Fortunately for the citizens of Los Angeles County, they have a Prosecuting Attorney who takes public corruption seriously enough to have a Public Integrity Division in his office. Here is more but somewhat dated information about the Division and a sampling of cases it has prosecuted.

There are many people who deny the existence of voter fraud. It’s fair to say that many of the deniers are those who choose to engage in fraud as candidates or encourage it as lazy or incompetent county clerks and secretaries of state as well as politically-directed prosecutors and state attorneys general.

As the State of California and Los Angeles County in particular have shown, they pursue voter fraud rather than deny it exists.

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January 15, 2014

Politiqueras

Filed under: Probable Cause — Tags: Voter Fraud — Bill @ 11:34 am

“Politiqueras,” roughly translates into “politickers.”

The FBI has a slightly more detailed translation: “Politiquera: A person who works for a candidate to encourage people to vote, to bring voters to the polls, to ensure that voters select the appropriate candidate, and to pay voters for their votes.”

Wait. What? Pay voters for their votes? Pay them to vote for the appropriate candidate? Why, that would be illegal! That would be voter fraud! Yes, it was. (more…)

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November 17, 2012

2009 Election Contest Lawsuit Appeal Decision

Filed under: Probable Cause — Tags: Coeur d'Alene Election, Dan English, Mike Kennedy, Sandi Bloem, Voter Fraud — Bill @ 11:52 am

On Friday, November 16, 2012, the Idaho Supreme Court filed its decision affirming the trial court’s decision in the 2009 Coeur d’Alene election contest lawsuit. Here is a link to the Supreme Court’s decision.

In response to OpenCdA’s request, appellant Jim Brannon provided this prepared statement.

Thanks to the efforts, diligence, and integrity of Jim and Christine Brannon, Starr and Matt Kelso, and the many volunteers who donated time, money, and labor beginning November 6, 2009, many flaws in Idaho’s election laws and many failures of duty by city, county, and state public officials have been exposed for public scrutiny. To the extent those flaws either have been corrected by the election of new officials or legislative action, the election contest lawsuit served to benefit all legal voters in Idaho. (more…)

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July 30, 2012

2009 City Election Contest Lawsuit Update

Filed under: Probable Cause — Tags: Administrative Incompetence, Coeur d'Alene Election, Dan English, Mike Kennedy, Voter Fraud — Bill @ 3:42 pm

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The Idaho Supreme Court has notified the parties’ attorneys that oral arguments in the 2009 election contest lawsuit appeal (Brannon v. City of Coeur d’Alene, et al) will be heard Wednesday, September 19, 2012, at 11:10 a.m. at the Kootenai County Courthouse.

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February 5, 2012

Relaunch the Satellites?

Filed under: Probable Cause — Tags: Coeur d'Alene Election, Voter Fraud — Bill @ 9:38 am

OpenCdA’s August 22, 2011, post titled Pulling the Plug on Satellites explained that Kootenai County Clerk Cliff Hayes had decided to close all but one absent electors’ voting place in Kootenai County.

According to an Associated Press article on November 10, 2011, other county clerks in Idaho had made the same decision — limit absent electors’ polling places to one, and have it located in the county’s elections administration office. That same article observed that Idaho’s Secretary of State Ben Ysursa would likely support some changes to the election consolidation law which had taken effect only eleven months earlier. Whereas the county clerks were concerned about election integrity and ballot security, Ysursa was apparently primarily concerned about voter convenience.

Still, there may be a way county clerks could relaunch satellite voting locations in municipalities without sacrificing election integrity and ballot security.

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January 31, 2012

Dangerous Legislation, Part 3

Filed under: Probable Cause — Tags: Coeur d'Alene Election, Voter Fraud — Bill @ 9:37 am

Rep. Susan Chew

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Representative Susan Chew is sponsoring House Bill 428. This bill “Amends existing law to provide that an elector may elect to have an absentee ballot sent to his or her residence on a permanent basis by signing a form supplied to the county clerk and to provide that if such election is made the elector shall receive an absentee ballot for all elections conducted by the county clerk and shall be ineligible to vote at the polls in such election.”

This is another very dangerous piece of legislation which will essentially make it very difficult for Idaho’s county clerks to enforce residency requirements for municipal elections. (more…)

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January 23, 2012

Voters Wanted: Dead or Alive

Filed under: Probable Cause — Tags: Voter Fraud — Bill @ 9:02 am

The South Carolina Attorney General sent data to the US Attorney for South Carolina suggesting potential voter fraud in South Carolina. Specifically, data reviewed by the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles suggests that 953 dead people voted in recent elections.

Here is the letter from South Carolina’s Attorney General to the US Attorney for the District of South Carolina.

And that’s why Idaho was right in passing legislation requiring positive photo identification for voters.

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November 12, 2011

What Are They Trying to Do?

Filed under: Probable Cause — Tags: Administrative Incompetence, Voter Fraud — Bill @ 1:09 pm

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It appears that Idaho Secretary of State Ben Ysursa and his Chief Deputy Tim Hurst are intent on making it more difficult for Idaho’s county clerks to achieve and maintain the integrity of Idaho’s municipal elections. (more…)

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September 27, 2011

On Appeal — The 2009 Coeur d’Alene City Election Contest

Filed under: Probable Cause — Tags: Administrative Incompetence, Coeur d'Alene Election, Dan English, Mike Kennedy, News Reporting, Voter Fraud — Bill @ 12:35 pm

Coeur d’Alene attorney Starr Kelso has filed his opening brief appealing the First District Court’s (court) decision in the November 2009 Coeur d’Alene City election contest lawsuit. The brief was filed with the Idaho Supreme Court (Court) on behalf of Appellant Jim Brannon. A link to the entire brief is provided near the end of this post.

Before going to the brief, however, readers should first understand that an appeal brief is not written as entertainment reading for the general public. It is a road map to guide the Idaho Supreme Court justices through the 2,676 pages of documents in the trial court record, 111 exhibits consisting of 563 pages, 876 pages of trial transcript, and transcripts of numerous other hearings held before and after the trial. Much of that information is available to the justices during their preparation and deliberation. Readers expecting the appeal brief to give them the complete picture of every detail will be disappointed. (For more detailed information about the case as it developed, see my February 2011 report titled The Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Election Contest Lawsuit – 2009-2011.)

This current post with the link to the appeal brief will identify the ten issues raised on appeal and then briefly try to explain each issue. (more…)

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August 22, 2011

Pulling the Plug on Satellites

Filed under: Probable Cause — Tags: Coeur d'Alene Election, Mike Kennedy, Voter Fraud — Bill @ 1:33 pm

Sunday’s Coeur d’Alene Press ran a story headlined Vote here, only. The story reported that newly-inaugurated Kootenai County Clerk Cliff Hayes had decided to not provide satellite polling places for absentee, in-person voting. For residents of Coeur d’Alene (and Canada), that means voters will no longer be able to cast an absentee in-person ballot at Coeur d’Alene City Hall. Rather, they will have to drive for about 6 minutes over the 1.9 miles to get to the County Elections Office at 3rd and Locust.

Predictably, the usual suspects were indignant! Councilman Mike Kennedy huffed and puffed at the August 16 Council meeting that the County Clerk was “depressing the [voter] turnout” and “removing a service that had served the citizens well for a long time. ” According to the news/views/skews paper article, Kennedy and Coeur d’Alene City Clerk Susan Weathers said this makes it harder for people to vote.

There’s more to the story within the Press story, however. (more…)

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