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"An amazing 2,374 civic-minded seniors between the ages of 94 and 100 have already voted in North Carolina. Apparently, some of them are so civic-minded that they voted more than once."
There are also at least 832 votes from people over 110 years old, including two submitted from overseas.
Quote:
"I overheard a nice lady about 70 telling her friend the following: “Yes, I voted today.”'
“Going back tomorrow too.”
“They took us to a place that don’t ask names and don’t write nothing down. They give $20 each time.”
She then handed her friend a card I couldn’t see and told her friend to call the number."
Now, if true, this is real voter fraud. Can't help thinking, though, that it sounds like an Onion story fed to a gullible reporter.
Anyway, how would voter ID laws have helped in these instances? These were ALL mail-in ballots.
I don't know if I buy it either, but it's out there. We'll see if it makes any other news.
I don't interpret it as all mail-in ballots. It seems like they're talking about two separate things, one all the mail-ins and the other where people are giving $20 for each appearance.
This reeks of complete and total BS. Somehow this blogger knows that 832 ballots from those 110+ have been returned and furthermore knows that 70% of them voted Democratic? What'd he do - open the ballots and look? Was he able to track down the vote fraudsters and get them to tell him for whom they voted?
I am in NC and will try to find out what truth, if any, is in that "report."
However, I have seen some awful things go on here in elections in years past, but that was over 30 years ago (no voting machines, no early voting). I used to regularly work at the polls and I was a newspaper reporter/editor in this state for some years.
There are shameful things people will do to bolster their candidate's vote talley.
I don't put this type of thing past certain groups in ANY state.
Since early voting started last week in North Carolina, data from the state Board of Elections shows 899 ballots cast by 112-year-old voters.
Either a surprising number of people who could have chosen between Calvin Coolidge, John Davis and Robert La Follette in 1924 remain alive and politically-engaged, or something else is going on.
A local conservative political blog was the first to suggest that “massive voter fraud” was taking place, and a bandwagon of similar claims have followed. The Examiner, a conservative website, posted a story that has been shared by several thousand people on Facebook and Twitter.
State elections director Gary Bartlett said the story spread quickly enough on social media that his phone started ringing during church Sunday and hasn't let up since – and a glance at the widely-circulated story shows why:
"Of these voters, over 70 percent were slated as Democrats, with a diminutive 25 percent counted as Republicans…Obviously there is a problem, one in which voter ID might clearly provide a solution. A thing that only the Democratic Party swears against."
Just one problem: "It's not voter fraud at all," Bartlett said.
Your source is a conservative propoganda rag. Find this story in an authentic newspaper.
See what I posted above.
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