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| DATE | 2020-08-22 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Mail Order Election Fraud
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I could design a secure system for offsite voting using Linux...and
standard crytography...and no post office...
and so can you..
wsj.com
Opinion | A Mail-Voting Redo in New Jersey
The Editorial Board
4-5 minutes
A woman walks past a vote-by-mail drop box for the New Jersey primary
election outside the Camden, N.J., Administration Building, Wednesday,
July 1, 2020.
Photo: Matt Slocum/Associated Press
New Jersey’s judiciary is calling an electoral mulligan. The state’s
third-biggest city, Paterson, held a municipal election by mail in May,
but the results fell into doubt after a startling percentage of the
ballots were tossed out. Four men, including a city councilman and a
councilman-elect, were charged with vote fraud.
On Wednesday a state court found that the election in the city’s third
ward “was rife with mail in vote procedural violations,” and therefore
it “was not the fair, free and full expression of the intent of the
voters.” A redo will be held Nov. 3. “Of all ballots cast in the Third
Ward City Council election,” Judge Ernest Caposela wrote, “24.29% were
rejected.” By comparison, he said that in 31 municipal elections held
the same day across New Jersey, the overall ballot-rejection rate was
“only 9.6%.” For democratic legitimacy, that’s an alarming “only.”
At a Paterson apartment building, the U.S. Postal Service didn’t place
blank ballots into individual mailboxes, the judge wrote. Instead “a
substantial number” were “left in bulk in the foyer.” Court filings cite
people who said they didn’t vote, yet ballots were sent in under their
names. About 200 ballots were found in a mailbox in Haledon, N.J., an
adjacent town. Three voters, the local news said, strangely did not list
their addresses as any local cemetery, despite their being dead.
On the fraud claims, Judge Caposela deferred to prosecutors. But New
Jersey’s Attorney General has alleged that the indicted city councilmen
obtained at least one unvoted ballot, which was then “delivered to the
Board of Elections.”
Whenever Donald Trump brings up Paterson, Democrats say it’s proof that
fraud in mail voting can be detected and policed. “I view that as a
positive data point,” New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said last Sunday.
“Some guys tried to screw around with the system. They got caught by law
enforcement. They’ve been indicted. They’ll pay a price.”
That last bit might be true, thanks in part to New Jersey’s legal
restrictions on ballot harvesting. But Mr. Murphy is wrong to say that
bad actors merely “tried to screw around with the system.” Although they
were caught, they succeeded. An election has been invalidated, and
Paterson will hold another vote.
For a city council, this isn’t the end of the world. But at the top of
the Nov. 3 ballot, the stakes are higher. There aren’t do-overs for
presidential elections. The answer is for state and local officials to
stop blaming the post office and start implementing an election process
that voters can trust.
Wonder Land: Forget the sturdy Democratic donkey. Nancy Pelosi has
changed her party’s logo to a post office. Images: C-Span/Getty Images
Composite: Mark Kelly
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