{"id":29334,"date":"2016-09-30T22:06:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T02:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29334"},"modified":"2016-10-01T09:05:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T13:05:55","slug":"voter-fraud-is-a-felony-it-needs-to-be-prosecuted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29334","title":{"rendered":"Voter Fraud Is A Felony&#8211;It Needs To Be Prosecuted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/virginia-politics\/he-fought-in-world-war-ii-he-died-in-2014-and-he-just-registered-to-vote-in-va\/2016\/09\/29\/5e0bffee-8670-11e6-ac72-a29979381495_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post<\/a> posted an article about nineteen dead people who have recently registered to vote in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Virginia\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=37.5,-79.0&amp;spn=3.0,3.0&amp;q=37.5,-79.0 (Virginia)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Virginia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>One case came to light after relatives of a deceased man received a note congratulating him for registering, Rockingham County Commonwealth\u2019s Attorney Marsha Garst said Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cHis family members were very distraught,\u201d said Garst, who confirmed the existence of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Federal Bureau of Investigation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.895216,-77.025131&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.895216,-77.025131 (Federal%20Bureau%20of%20Investigation)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">FBI<\/a> and police investigation but said she could provide few details because the case is ongoing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;All of the forms had been submitted by a private group that was working to register voters on the campus of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"James Madison University\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.4384444444,-78.87375&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.4384444444,-78.87375 (James%20Madison%20University)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">James Madison University<\/a>, according to the Harrisonburg registrar\u2019s office. The group was not identified. No charges have been filed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Republicans in the state House of Delegates, who in recent years have supported tighter <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Voter ID laws in the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voter_ID_laws_in_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">voter ID laws<\/a>, held a conference call with reporters to call attention to the investigation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cOftentimes we hear our Democratic colleagues suggest that voter fraud doesn\u2019t exist in Virginia, or it\u2019s a myth,\u201d House Speaker <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"William J. Howell\" href=\"http:\/\/www.williamjhowell.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">William J. Howell<\/a> (R-Stafford) said. \u201cThis is proof that voter fraud not only exists but is ongoing and is a threat to the integrity of our elections.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately there are political candidates that think winning is more important than ethics.<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2808\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> in 2011:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cMost of the findings focused on a group called Houston Votes, a voter registration group headed by Sean Caddle, who formerly worked for the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"SEIU\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seiu.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Service Employees International Union<\/a>. Among the findings were that only 1,793 of the 25,000 registrations the group submitted appeared to be valid. The other registrations included one of a woman who registered six times in the same day; registrations of non-citizens; so many applications from one Houston Voters collector in one day that it was deemed to be beyond human capability; and 1,597 registrations that named the same person multiple times, often with different signatures.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A similar story appeared<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27793\" target=\"_blank\"> here<\/a> earlier this year about Ohio:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truethevote.org\/\">True the Vote<\/a>\u00a0(TTV), the nation\u2019s leading voters\u2019 rights and election integrity organization,\u00a0today announced details surrounding its effort to help Cuyahoga and Franklin County officials in Ohio remove more than a thousand duplicate <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Voter registration\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voter_registration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">voter registrations<\/a> ahead of voting in 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Upon receipt of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truethevote.org\/\">True the Vote\u2019s<\/a> research, 711 duplicate voter registrations were removed in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Cuyahoga County, Ohio\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=41.54,-81.66&amp;spn=1.0,1.0&amp;q=41.54,-81.66%20%28Cuyahoga%20County%2C%20Ohio%29&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Cuyahoga County<\/a>, while 465 sets were processed in Franklin County.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Voter fraud is a problem. We need to take a closer look at some of the groups engaged in registering dead or illegal voters. Voter fraud is a felony. We need to start sending people to jail when they engage in it.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>UPDATE<\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2016\/10\/young-virginia-democrat-registers-19-dead-people-vote-hillary\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Gateway Pundit<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Just yesterday we wrote about an FBI investigation into potential voter fraud in the critical swing state of Virginia after it was revealed that 19 dead people had recently been re-registered to vote (see \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-09-29\/fbi-investigating-more-dead-people-voting-virginia\">FBI Investigating More Dead People Voting In The Key Swing State Of Virginia<\/a>\u201c).\u00a0 While the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/virginia-politics\/he-fought-in-world-war-ii-he-died-in-2014-and-he-just-registered-to-vote-in-va\/2016\/09\/29\/5e0bffee-8670-11e6-ac72-a29979381495_story.html\">Washington Post<\/a> caught wind of the investigation, it was not known who was behind the operation\u2026until now.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Meet, <em>Andrew Spieles,<\/em> a student at James Madison University, and apparently \u201c<em>Lead Organizer\u201d for <a href=\"http:\/\/harrisonburgvotes.weebly.com\/\">HarrisonburgVOTES<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0 According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnronline.com\/news\/harrisonburg\/student-admits-to-fraud\/article_0e0cc872-7bbf-11e6-b192-0b7ae4f5b3fb.html\">Daily News-Record<\/a>, <em>Spieles confessed to re-registering 19 deceased Virginians to vote in the 2016 election cycle.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday The Washington Post posted an article about nineteen dead people who have recently registered to vote in Virginia. The article reports: One case came to light after relatives of a deceased man received a note congratulating him for registering, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29334\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[420,115,8367,489,488],"class_list":["post-29334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-federal-bureau-of-investigation","tag-service-employees-international-union","tag-the-washington-post","tag-true-the-vote","tag-voter-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29334"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29338,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29334\/revisions\/29338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}