Voter Fraud: The Continuing Saga Update

By Rich Kozlovich

Here's my original Voter Fraud: The Continuing Saga.  Below are the updates.   

 

Another appellate court backs away from the abyss  -  Last month, an Obama-appointed district court judge in Wisconsin ruled that any ballots that arrived in the six days after the election must still be counted as long as they were postmarked on Election Day. However, a three-judge panel on the Seventh Circuit reversed the ruling. This is yet another case in which appellate judges have stepped back from allowing an activist lower court judge to create chaos in the election's aftermath.

 Wisconsin has been roiled by an ongoing battle about counting absentee ballots. The Republicans, including the Republican-majority Legislature, believe that absentee ballots must be counted according to the laws on the books: all absentee ballots must arrive by 8 P.M. on Election Day if they're to be counted.

 Ohio’s Franklin County Says Nearly 50,000 Voters Got Wrong Absentee Ballots -  Officials in Ohio said that about 50,000 voters in Franklin County received incorrect absentee ballots in the mail. “We can now confirm that 49,669 voters received an incorrect ballot. Those voters will be contacted directly by the Franklin County Board of Elections and a replacement ballot will be mailed to them,” said the Franklin County Board of Elections.  

Planning something sinister? Twitter shuts down Ric Grenell for tweet demonstrating ballot fraud  -  Twitter shut down a big fish Thursday, censoring President Trump's popular former acting director of National Intelligence, Richard Grenell, for supposedly violating the company's terms of service.

Ballot Fraud, Felonies, and Theft – But Mail-In Voting is Safe? -  Democrats continue to insist that mail-in voting is not vulnerable to fraud. We continue to see evidence to the contrary.  As election day draws ever closer, the anxiety about mail-in ballots is only increasing. President Donald Trump has consistently warned about the dangers of voting by mail and the increased likelihood of errors and discrepancies – whether intentional or accidental. There have been a few published incidents, but they have been downplayed and listed as inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. A few ballots lost here or there is no big deal, right? What about when mayoral candidates get busted for fraud, or postal workers caught dumping ballots in the trash, or even thieves stealing them from mailboxes?

 Pennsylvania: Nearly 60,000 Mail Ballots Unaccounted for in Trump-Heavy County -  Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, a county that Trump won by over 30 points in 2016, has had a “snafu” in the distribution of ballots. The ballots, which were supposed to be sent out this week to voters, never arrived. County officials blamed the lost ballots on an independent contractor responsible for distributing the ballots, saying that the ballots were not lost — rather, they were never sent out.  The officials stated that the issue was resolved, and that ballots should begin being sent out Friday morning, but did not state when the process would be completed by or when they expected to be all caught up. They only said that they expected Mid-West Direct (the vendor) to be able to get through the backlog over the weekend, and for the process to run smoothly from that point forward.

More election mail winds up in a dumpster in Pennsylvania - In lieu of an exit question, let's kick this off with an entrance question. Has this sort of thing been going on all the time but nobody bothered .. 

Advocates Sue to Extend Virginia Voter Registration Deadline After Technical Snag Interrupts Service - A civil rights organization has filed a lawsuit against Virginia elections agencies and officials after an accidentally severed fiber optic cable shut down the state’s online voter registration system for several hours Tuesday, the last day to register before the November general election. The Virginia Department of Elections said in a statement on Twitter that a “fiber cut” impacted data circuits and connectivity for multiple agencies, including the department’s citizen portal and registrar’s offices. The cable was inadvertently cut during a Chesterfield County roadside utilities project, according to the state’s information technology agency. 

FBI, Homeland Security Say Hackers Have Gained Access to Election Systems - Federal officials said that hackers, who are possibly actors for foreign adversaries, have penetrated into U.S. government networks and accessed election systems. In a joint alert, the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said there was unauthorized access to election support systems—just weeks to go before the Nov. 3 election. CISA is part of the Department of Homeland Security. The agencies noted that “advanced persistent threat actors” are “chaining vulnerabilities,” which is a “commonly used tactic exploiting multiple vulnerabilities in the course of a single intrusion” to “compromise federal and state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) government networks, critical infrastructure, and elections organization.” 

Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County Says Nearly 29,000 Voters Got Incorrect Ballots - Officials in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, said Wednesday that a ballot mapping error resulted in nearly 29,000 incorrect ballots being sent out.  The county’s Elections Division said that Midwest Direct, the firm that was contracted to “handle the printing, collating, and mailing of ballots,” confirmed the error. It noted that the issues are being corrected and new, correct ballots will be sent to the post office starting Thursday, Oct. 15, to Saturday, Oct. 17. Most of the ballots are slated to be delivered to voters next week.