https://nypost.com/2020/08/29/politi...il-in-ballots/
Going to start a thread instead of stepping on others.
Here's a few highlights. Note none of these would be caught on any audit of which I am aware:
1. Phony Ballots.
He would fake the ballots, but had to collect the security envelopes from real voters.
He would have his operatives fan out, going house to house, convincing voters to let them mail completed ballots on their behalf as a public service. The fraudster and his minions would then take the sealed envelopes home and hold them over boiling water.
“You have to steam it to loosen the glue,” said the insider.
He then would remove the real ballot, place the counterfeit ballot inside the signed certificate, and reseal the envelope.
“Five minutes per ballot tops,” said the insider.
2. Dump the ballots
The tipster said sometimes postal employees are in on the scam.
“You have a postman who is a rabid anti-Trump guy and he’s working in Bedminster or some Republican stronghold … He can take those [filled-out] ballots, and knowing 95% are going to a Republican, he can just throw those in the garbage.”
In 2017, more than 500 mail-in ballots in New York City never arrived to the Board of Elections for races that November — leaving hundreds disenfranchised. They eventually were discovered in April 2018. “For some undetermined reason, some baskets of mail that were bound to the New York City Board of Elections were put off to the side at the Brooklyn processing facility,” city elections boss Michael Ryan said at the time of discovery.
3. Nursing homes (one I think is so completely obvious)
Hitting up assisted-living facilities and “helping” the elderly fill out their absentee ballots was a gold mine of votes, the insider said.
“There are nursing homes where the nurse is actually a paid operative. And they go room by room by room to these old people who still want to feel like they’re relevant,” said the whistleblower. “[They] literally fill it out for them.”
FWIW, as someone who comes in behind a lot of home health services for the elderly, who have been robbed blind of jewelry and valuables by the staff, I'm quite sure it would be easy enough to get a nursing home worker to help out in such an enterprise.
4. Voter impersonation
When all else failed, the insider would send operatives to vote live in polling stations, particularly in states like New Jersey and New York that do not require voter ID. Pennsylvania, also for the most part, does not.
The best targets were registered voters who routinely skip presidential or municipal elections — information which is publicly available.
5. Old school - paying for votes
This one is obvious enough, round up the homeless and pay them to vote for you. Not reliable, but very old school.
6. Hiding your tracks
IN this article the guy says when he used mail in fraud he would bend an edge of the ballots so the Democratic operatives at the polling place knew not to object to tossing a ballot, so the fraud wouldn't be discovered.
The insider said any ballots offered up by him or his operation would come with a bent corner along the voter certificate — which contains the voter signature — so Democratic Board of Election counters would know the fix was in and not to object.
“It doesn’t stay bent, but you can tell it’s been bent,” the tipster said. “Until the [certificate] is approved, the ballot doesn’t matter. They don’t get to see the ballot unless they approve the [certificate.]”
“I invented bending corners,” the insider boasted, saying once the fixed ballots were mixed in with the normal ones, the bed was made. “Once a ballot is opened, it’s an anonymous ballot.”
Catch that last part. Once the ballot passes the test of the opening, it's an anonymous ballot.
What does that mean? It means it cannot be audited. You can't go back and randomly select 1,000 of them and call the people and check IF they voted, HOW they voted, etc.
So when you get told "the audit will find any fraud", think about it in light of this man's claims and the fact that, rightfully, our votes are not recorded in some database that links us to them.
If they can get the fake vote past that first wall it's really really hard to find the fraud.
And even if they find it you'd have a hard time proving it was widespread. For example say you used voter impersonation above, and you impersonated 500 people, and in an audit you find that 1-2 of those looked like they voted twice b/c the real person did vote and so did the fake. OK, how do you find the other 498? You don't, b/c that shows only one vote. Unless you call them all and ask them if they voted.
Does any state actually do that? Is so great, but I doubt it.
This system has deep flaws. Enough to make up 10% or 20% of the votes? No, but enough to throw it by 2 or 3%? That seems far more possible.
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