John Fund fabricates evidence of voter fraud in NJ
Appearing on Fox News' Glenn Beck, John Fund claimed that Hispanic voters in Camden, New Jersey, are being told that there is "a new way for you to vote, la nueva forma de votar" -- an anecdote Fund suggested was evidence of voter fraud in the state's 2009 gubernatorial election. In fact -- as Fund himself wrote in a Wall Street Journal column published hours earlier -- that incident actually occurred in Philadelphia in 1993.
Fund on Fox: Hispanics in NJ currently being told of "la nueva forma de votar"
From the November 2 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck:
FUND: People are going door to door in parts of Camden with Hispanics that don't have very much knowledge of English, and they're saying, "We have a new way for you to vote, la nueva forma de votar; just fill out these papers."
Incident in question actually occurred in Philadelphia ... in 1993
In WSJ, Fund acknowledged that "la nueva forma de votar" scandal actually happened in Philadelphia in 1993. In a Wall Street Journal column published less than five hours before his appearance on Glenn Beck, Fund wrote that Hispanic voters were told of " 'la nueva forma de votar' -- the new way to vote" in Philadelphia in 1993, not in New Jersey in 2009.
From Fund's November 2 column:
There are additional reports from Camden that Hispanic voters have been misled into voting absentee ballots. So-called bearers who are allowed to collect and carry absentee ballots are said to have encouraged voters to fill out applications for absentee ballots. A few days later, the bearers reportedly return with the actual ballots, which they offer "assistance" in filling out.
Authorities in nearby Philadelphia know about such scams. In one infamous case, a key 1993 race that determined which party would control the Pennsylvania state senate was thrown out by a federal judge after massive evidence that hundreds of voters had been pressured into casting improper absentee ballots. Voters were told by "bearers" that it was all part of "la nueva forma de votar" -- the new way to vote. Local politicos tell me Philly operatives associated in the past with Acorn may now be advising their Jersey cousins on how to perform such vote harvesting.
Reporting from the time confirms event in question actually happened in Philadelphia in 1993. An April 28, 1994, Philadelphia Inquirer article reported (accessed from the Nexis database):
Many [Latino voters in North Philadelphia] are still seething over the way they were treated during last fall's Second Senate District election between Democrat William G. Stinson and Republican Bruce S. Marks.
Stinson campaign workers, knocking door to door in the Puerto Rican neighborhoods of North Philadelphia, misled many voters into thinking that the election law had been changed to allow them to vote from home using absentee ballots.
The campaign workers talked of la nueva forma de votar (the new way to vote). As many as 220 Latinos were duped into casting illegal absentee ballots, according to Inquirer findings, and the controversy eventually landed in federal court.
Earlier this year, U.S. District Judge Clarence C. Newcomer removed Stinson from office. On Tuesday, the same judge found enough evidence of electoral fraud to declare Marks the winner, a decision that is being argued in federal appeals court today.
Fund's column provides anonymously sourced speculation that similar incidents "may" occur in New Jersey. Whereas Fund stated as fact on Fox News that "people" are currently telling Hispanics in New Jersey that there is "a new way for you to vote, la nueva forma de votar; just fill out these papers," Fund's Wall Street Journal column makes clear that the possibility of such an event happening this year in New Jersey is pure speculation based on what anonymous "local politicos" purportedly claimed that unnamed "Philly operatives" "may" be doing. Fund wrote: "Local politicos tell me Philly operatives associated in the past with Acorn may now be advising their Jersey cousins on how to perform such vote harvesting."
Unlike in PA in 1993, anyone may vote by mail in 2009 NJ election
PA law at the time limited access to absentee ballots. The "nueva forma de votar" incident referenced by Fund was a scandal at the time in part because Pennsylvania law restricted access to absentee ballots to those unable to vote in person. In his February 18, 1994, ruling overturning Stinson's election, Judge Newcomer noted:
7. Pennsylvania permits a qualified elector to vote by absentee ballot in the event that the elector is, inter alia, absent from the Commonwealth or county of residence "because his duties, occupation or business require him to be elsewhere during the entire period the polls are open" or is physically unable to go to the polls. 25 P.S. § 3146.1(j)&(k).
8. An elector seeking to vote by absentee ballot must submit a proper absentee ballot application, including a statement that the elector expects to be out of the county on Election Day or that [*4] the elector is physically unable to go to the polls, with a declaration stating the nature of the disability and the name, address, and telephone number of the attending physician. 25 P.S. § 3146.2(e)(1)&(2).
According to a December 3, 1993, syndicated column by Mona Charen (accessed from the Nexis database):
As chronicled by the Inquirer, Stinson campaign workers had blanketed Hispanic neighborhoods in the district, telling voters of "la nueva forma de votar," the new way of voting. Vote from the comfort of your own home, they urged. Just sign here.
Pennsylvania law is quite clear. Absentee ballots are legal only for those physically unable to reach the polls because of illness or other disability or those away on business travel. The "new way of voting" was actually a very old way of committing fraud.
By contrast, New Jersey currently allows anyone to vote by mail for any reason. Unlike in Pennsylvania in 1993, it is currently legal for New Jersey voters who are able to vote in person to instead vote by mail. According to the New Jersey Division of Elections website, "In New Jersey, any voter can now vote by mail in any election. You do not need a reason to Vote by Mail. Don't feel like going to the polls? Simply vote by mail."
Mr. News
What's 16 years among right-wing liars and propagandists??
If the democrat wins, it will be because he stole the election, after all we have been telling everyone about the fraud since Monday.
That has to make him feel inadequate to the point of lying every day. Don't you think? What else drives him to lie?
Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy
Read a little of the introduction, Mr. Fund, and you seem to be opposed to the Motor Voter law. You say the rules also make it harder to purge voters who no longer live in a given jurisdiction, but that kind of ignores Flordia's propensity to purge Democrats wholesale because their names were similar to names of convicted felons. You probably don't want to address that, and I really can't blame you, but it's dishonest isn't it?
But, it's the Republican Party who has been intimidating voters at polling places and challenging votes cast by persons of color. Goes back to Goldwater and Rhenquist in the 1960s.
You know, it's funny, but FOX Propaganda, for all their whispering of conspiracy and voter fraud, hasn't said peep one about the only only case of fraud by a voter currently under investigation that I know of. Also kind of funny that they overlook the one time when voter fraud changed the outcome of an election, by a vote of 5 to 4.
no, but the ACORNIstas do seem willing to drum up the felons and gangbangers to work for them. What a shock
By the way, that video had all the veritas of the Pimp & Ho show. I was less than impressed with a reporting style that paints all felons, including those who had been released for serving their sentence, repeatedly as 'gangbangers', as though there thesaurus was broken and there were no alternatives. A word you've echoed here.
And anyone with any sense of fairness has GOT to agree the demoncrats is the party of voter fraud. I mean good grief, look at what Gore tried in 2000 to steal the election! In that one he even wanted our military votes disallowed just because they were stationed overseas.
Also anyone with an IQ higher then my horses has got to agree ACORN solicits 99.99999999999% democrats to register to vote. Facts don't lie. Doesn't anyone remember all the dead people, animals, and cartoon characters ACORN registered in 2007 and 2008 alone?
Mmmm, mmmm, mmmm.
A 5 year investigation by the Bush DoJ found scant evidence of voter fraud. Of course what you talk about in your post is "voter regitration fraud" - two different things.
Lastly, the RNC is under a decades long court ordered consent decree to refrain from their voter supression afforts, yet they continue.
Wasn't it Jeb Bush's SOS Katherine Harris who purged legitimate voters from the roles and invented new reasons to stop the voter count during the MANDATORY recount of the 2000 election?
Perhaps you need to take off your right wing shades and look at the whole picture.
Actually yes. Gore sent in the first lawyers because they knew they had a problem with the butterfly ballot (designed and approved by demorats BTW).
Here's an interesting segment:
The Supreme Court held that Vice President Gore had satisfied his burden of proof under §102.168(3)(c) with respect to his challenge to Miami-Dade County’s failure to tabulate, by manual count, 9,000 ballots on which the machines had failed to detect a vote for President (“undervotes”). ___ So. 2d., at ___ (slip. op., at 22—23). Noting the closeness of the election, the Court explained that “[o]n this record, there can be no question that there are legal votes within the 9,000 uncounted votes sufficient to place the results of this election in doubt.” Id., at ___ (slip. op., at 35). A “legal vote,” as determined by the Supreme Court, is “one in which there is a ‘clear indication of the intent of the voter. ’ ” Id., at ____ (slip op., at 25). The court therefore ordered a hand recount of the 9,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County. Observing that the contest provisions vest broad discretion in the circuit judge to “provide any relief appropriate under such circumstances,” Fla. Stat. §102.168(8) (2000), the Supreme Court further held that the Circuit Court could order “the Supervisor of Elections and the Canvassing Boards, as well as the necessary public officials, in all counties that have not conducted a manual recount or tabulation of the undervotes … to do so forthwith, said tabulation to take place in the individual counties where the ballots are located.” ____ So. 2d, at ____ (slip. op., at 38).
That would be the number of people ACORN would have to register to get that kind of percentage of voters to be Democrats over ONE republican.
So, my guess is that's NOT a true stat you cite and that it is YOU who lies. Or basic math is a little too tricky for you to figure out.
That would be the number of people ACORN would have to register to get that kind of percentage of voters to be Democrats over ONE republican.
So, my guess is that's NOT a true stat you cite and that it is YOU who lies. Or basic math is a little too tricky for you to figure out.
Randy
Besides, my percentage (kindly converted to 10,000,000,000,000 people by skats - thank you), was suppose to count those on Mars as well. You know, the place where an American flag was planted 40 years ago by a couple of our astronauts - according to Sheila Jackson-Lee, D. Texas, just a few days ago. And why no mention about Obama stating we have 58 states? Hummm?
Thank You, retired
Of course, now the order of the posts is mixed up, since these posts are following "retiredinsf" instead of my post. They had some server burp or something, apparently.
Considering ACORN usually registers voters in large cities, it is reasonable that they are going to register more Democrats. What is your point? Now if you have evidence that ACORN does NOT register people who claim to be Republican, then show your evidence. I won't be holding my breath. You have no point other than demonstrating most likely why Republicans hate ACORN.
Secondly, it doesn't really matter if dead people, animals and cartoon characters are registered to vote. What matters is if votes are cast in those names. Potential voters don't win elections, you know. I'd bet even your horse knows that.
You mean like J. Kenneth Blackwell tried to do when he ran for Governer of Ohio in 2006? In case you aren't aware, he was, in fact, SoS when he ran.
Again, here we are wrong. Need I remind you of the riots at the recount offices, many rioters of whom were Bush Campaign staffers and GOP PAC'ers? Or maybe the headline that stated that if the recount were to go on as Bush wanted, Gore would've won? Gee, that kind of makes it seem like it was the GOP, not the Democrats, who's the party of voter fraud, right?
OK, here, I give you partial props. It is true that ACORN does indeed register more Democratic voters than anyone else, but the facts are that lower-class citizens tend to be Democrats. When families are struck by poverty, they tend to vote democratic because that is th party that says "I will help you help yourself", while Republicans just say "Help YOURSELF."
Oh, and as to your assertion of dead people, cartoon characters, and animals, it wasn't them. It was people they thought were going to register, but instead pranked ACORN workers by filling out the registration cards with those names. This has been proven then, and remains true now. Besides, the Conservative version of ACORN, the Young poliical Majors, is being investigated in no less than six different states for doing FAR worse than ACORN is being accused of. And unlike ACORN, they have actually been CHARGED! ACORN has not.
So, who, then, is worse?
Riots? Like turning over police cars? Burning down buildings? Beating up innocent people? Exactly what type of riots are you referring to?
retiredinsf,
Thank you for proving a point that has been brought up by many people over the years about that exact thing in Florida 2000 (Katherine Harris - Republican, George Bush campaigner, and coincidentally SoS of that particular state at that time) and Ohio 2004 (Ken Blackwell - Republican, George Bush campaigner, and coincidentally SoS of that particular state at that time)
So... we have plenty of proof that Republicans did it... where's yours?
And exactly what is your "proof"?
WASHINGTON, April 11 — Five years after the Bush administration began a crackdown on voter fraud, the Justice Department has turned up virtually no evidence of any organized effort to skew federal elections, according to court records and interviews
Although Republican activists have repeatedly said fraud is so widespread that it has corrupted the political process and, possibly, cost the party election victories, about 120 people have been charged and 86 convicted as of last year.
They have faith that widespread voter fraud is occurring in the absence of any evidence.
Proof just doesn't get any more solid than that!