Massachusetts Senate race: Voter Fraud watch; Update: Coakley’s last gasp
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I’ll be keeping tabs on voter fraud reports in the Mass. Senate special election today. Flag any reports you’ve seen/heard in comments or send me an e-mail.
1) Election Journal, the website that exposed the New Black Panther Party thugs’ voter intimidation tactics in Philadelphia in November 2008, is on the ground in Massachusetts today.
They’ve just posted video of a woman in Lawrence, MA, carrying around blank absentee ballots in Spanish today. She explains how she’s telling people to mark Martha Coakley’s name. The woman handing out the ballots identifies herself as “Isabel Melendez” and says she has a talk show in which she promoted Coakley’s candidacy.
The deadline to apply for absentee ballots for the January 19, 2010 special election for US Senate was Friday, January 15.
More on Melendez: She’s a “community activist” in Lawrence who has run for public office before.
Here’s a piece from 2003 on her involvement in aggressive voter registration campaigns:
Melendez, who said her fire for community activism was fueled by her own frustrations trying to make a good life for herself in Lawrence after emigrating from Puerto Rico, has been personally registering local residents to vote for several years. Now she hopes to take that a step further with a volunteer program that will go beyond registrations. Although the plan is in its infancy, Melendez said that in a nutshell, she envisions a team of volunteers on election days combing voter lists and asking those who haven’t voted to please come out.
“It will benefit the community as a whole,” she said..” Since my arrival here, I’ve noticed that the voter-participation percentage has gone down. And it ‘s not just Latinos; it ‘s everyone in Lawrence. I want to motivate everyone to vote.”
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2) The Gouverneur Times reports on the Bay State’s “notoriously plagued” electronic voting system.
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3) Steven Ertelt at LifeNews.com reports that phony calls are telling Massachusetts voters that MA Citizens for Life opposes Brown. Not true.
Behind in the polls to Republican Senate candidate Scott brown, supporters of pro-abortion candidate Martha Coakley have evidentially reached into their bag of dirty tricks. A Washington, D.C. based company is making calls to Massachusetts residents pretending to represent a prominent pro-life group.
The calls, from 202-461-3441, a Washington number registered to a company called SOOH, claim to be from Massachusetts Citizens for Life.
The caller claims the pro-life group is opposing Scott brown because of his stance against the health care bill, but as MCFL president Anne Fox told LifeNews.com late Monday, the opposite is true.
“Pro-lifers are receiving phone calls from people claiming to be Massachusetts Citizens for Life. The callers say that MCFL is not supporting Scott Brown because of his position on health care,” she said. “The truth is that Massachusetts Citizens for Life is supporting Brown because of his position on health care.”
The same number is also making calls to other state residents with various messages all attacking Brown.
“Pro-lifers are not the only victims of this scam. Our MCFL sleuths have found that this same number is calling people across the state claiming to be different groups with different messages — all anti-Brown,” Fox added.
Fox is hoping to get the message out to voters today that MCFL supports Brown and wants Coakley defeated because she is an extreme pro-abortion candidate.
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4) Electioneering is not allowed at polling places. Can someone alert the Coakley campaign?
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5) GOP Rep. Steve King of Iowa is volunteering as an “election watcher.”
King is working with what he called a “band of constitutionalists” who have driven or flown into Massachusetts for the final push before tomorrow’s special election.
“There are about 12 different locations for the Brown campaign working across the state. There are phone-callers there; get-out-the-vote people; there are people who are poll watchers; there are people that are looking for something to do. A lot of Massachusetts people mobilized, too,” King said. “And I’m coming to the conclusion that there are more conservatives in Massachusetts than there are in Iowa.”
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6) Hearing from readers that voters in Malden were asked to identify who they were going to vote for before they were allowed to vote.
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7) Reader J. e-mails: “My mom, is an 82 year old election worker, at the Greenlodge School in Dedham, Ma..she came home for lunch today and told my dad of a large bundle of absentee ballots from the local nursing home (Care Matrix) that had been dropped off at her polling place…the poll workers were wondering how the ballots could be assured as authentic…I thought all absentee ballots were to be submtted to the town clerk’s office by last friday…hmmm…I sure would love to follow up on the nursing home vote…there are plenty of Alzheimer’s patients who can not possibly have the mental capacity to vote….who is it that ‘helps’ these people to vote?”
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8. MA Secretary of State William Galvin is investigating voter fraud reports in Cambridge and Brighton.
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9) Wonderful: A uniformed security guard waves a Coakley sign outside a polling place, via Election Journal:
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10) Coakley’s last gasp: She’s claiming voter fraud in lib-dominated precincts in Democrat machine-controlled Massachusetts.
Triple-snort-worthy.
Weirdly, her press release decrying claimed fraud is dated…yesterday. That was quick: They’ve already fixed the date…
Campaign Manager Kevin Conroy:
We’ve received several independent and disturbing reports of voters across the state being handed ballots that are already marked in favor of Scott Brown. This is obviously a serious violation, and our legal team is taking immediate steps to protect the integrity of this election.
We do not yet know why this is happening, but you and everyone you know needs to be aware of the situation so that you can carefully inspect your ballot. If a vote has already been marked, you must return the ballot to the elections official, demand a clean ballot, and call our Voter Protection Hotline at 617-351-6866.
Note how quickly the Coakley legal team acted…as opposed to the negligent behavior of AG Coakley in response to allegations of SEIU abuse of taxpayer-funded resources to campaign on her behalf.
Jim Geraghty shares a note from a media source:
Kevin Conroy, Coakley’s campaign manager, says “we have gotten several disturbing incidents from the polls calling the integrity of this election into question.”
Nobody’s taking this live; the word “desperation” is being tossed around this newsroom…
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11) Watchdog Group Raises Concern About Dead Voters on Massachusetts Rolls.
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Finally, something to good watch besides Manswers!
I held signs for Scott Brown outside my local polling place – well outside the boundary – and can report many, many thumbs up, honks, and waves from voters driving by.
People supporting Scott were excited, and almost giddy.
Coakley supporters glumly drove by, avoiding our eyes.
Horns all honked for Scott.
For Marcia, only the crickets…
So you should be.
Folks…I have been really really tied up today, but I have to tell you this…
I am reading through the Book of Psalms in one year. Today, January 19th, the passage is Psalm 11:1-7. Read it. I was thinking this a.m. that my praying is now over and I am sitting back and putting my trust in God. Then I read this passage for today. WOW. It is absolutely perfect and stunning. Part of the commentary that goes with these verses says: “What do you do when it seems that the foundations of law and order are collapsing? When you sense the nation drifting from its moorings…how do you respond? Do you ‘fly to the mountains’? David encourages us to put our trust in the Lord, for those who do what is right will see His face.” God bless all of you as we wait for the results. Whatever the outcome may be, God is in charge.
When Scott Brown pulls off this election, let’s all pay our respects to a tenacious and proud breed: Massachusetts conservatives.
Here are people who have been waiting literally decades for a single moment like this one.
/raising a glass: Here’s To You, my long-long-suffering conservative friends in the Bay State!
I’m sure someone else already mentioned it, but if this election is determined by only a few thousand votes the democrats WILL steal it.
Hmmm, I got a call on my cell earlier from that same DC number – 202-461-3441. They left a message saying “This is a public interest survey call…”. Yeah, right. Too late anyway, guys, already voted for Brown!
The Boston Globe is claiming voter intimidation by Brown supporters:
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/01/18/brown_supporters_trying_to_suppress_vote_by_bullying/
From the update to the post above:
This should be investigated now, and addressed nationally before the November elections. This isn’t a new issue…
When that was written, it was too late to change voting laws in time for the November 2004 elections, but there has been plenty of time since then to address the issue. It’s time to get serious about protecting the integrity of our elections.
P.S. I also remember reading about “helpers” who marked the ballot for Kerry when the patient emphatically wanted to vote for Bush. I don’t have a link handy, but I remember reading it in a printed newspaper.
OT: How stupid is David Brooks?
Yes, THAT stupid.
Massachusetts Sect of State to investigate voter fraud? Sounds like the fox investigating who broke into the chicken coop. The democrats are masters at voter fraud and fraud runs rampant in this country today.
Heh. They’re shooting their wounded over in Dimland. Via Hot Air:
Four hours before polls close, Coakley advisor blames White House; Update: DNC official goes nuclear on Coakley camp
I wondered if the Democrats would try this.
The idea here is to throw the whole election up in the air. The Senate will say “we can’t seat Brown while these matters are under investigation” for the next few months.
The Dems on the Mass court may even try to scrap this election entirely and reschedule another one for the summer.
Fasten your seatbelts, things are going to get bumpy.
So very, very, lame and predictable.
6:10pm (EST) Brown is 82.3, Coakly is 19.0 on InTrade.
I tried to get you people in on the action when it was 20/80.
If nothing else, Brown’s victory tonight has scored my wife the Kindle she has been wanting!
Was it on the Boston Globe web site?!
Now you’ve done it! Women get addicted to those things.
I wonder who will investigate this. Perhaps the AG of Massachusetts. What’s her name again?
I’m way ahead of you, Chap.
I’ve been buying into the Scott Brown LEAPS since 54 cents when he was elected to an assessor in Wrentham, MA back in 1992.
You day-traders make me ill. Long-term investing is where it’s at.
In your sanctimonious dishonest liberal face Coakley. DLTDHYITAOTWO
Without reading the thread (like that’s going to bother many of you haha), I’ve posted my thoughts on Brown’s campaign and why it matters to conservatives despite the fact that Brown isn’t one.
Love to have you stop by and read it.
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Assuming that Brown wins tonight, and the post-mortems begin on C(r)oakley’s campaign, I’d draw a comparison to Hillary’s failed primary campaign:
1. Both Hillary and C(r)oakley assumed at the beginning that theirs would be a coronation, not an election. So the president-in-waiting and the party-hack-who-would-be-senator both spent most of their time practicing The Royal Wave and the haughty countenance instead of preparing for a real campaign.
2. As a result, Hillary was totally unprepared to campaign past Super Tuesday, and C(r)oakley was totally unprepared to campaign at all. Neither was able to recover when “Plan A” disintegrated.
Or if political autopsies are too boring, consider how C(r)oakley’s approach to the election mirrored the Wehrmacht’s preparations for the Barbarossa campaign in 1941, or the Japanese notions of what war vs. the USA would entail: the Germans were so confident that they’d be done fighting before the Russian winter set in that the subject of cold-weather clothing and equipment never seems to have been considered, and the Japanese honestly believed that the Americans wouldn’t fight.
And just like Hillary and C(r)oakley, neither had any workable fall-back option when their fantasies-as-plans fell apart.
“I love the smell of donk panic and recrimination in the evening; smells like … schadenfreude.”
Where the f**k is Jimmy Carter?
Isn’t this his unofficial duty to monitor that elections are fair in all the third world locales like Massachusetts!
Thank you for that. It does feel like shoveling s@#t against the tide sometimes, but we do try.
A little late but I have never supported the use of absentee ballots. The only ballots allowed are those you can only certify were handed out in the polling station. It’s like check stock where the numbering system allows every single check to be accounted for.
If you can’t get to a poll, you don’t get to vote. Period.
It would eliminate the stupid lazy people who shouldn’t be voting in the first place.
I wonder if the voter polls (how they voted) will be listed as Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Illegals, and the Dead.
After further review, Conroy discovers that all the incidents involve voter fraud on the part of Democrats on behalf of Coakley.
Never mind. Move along. Nothing to see here.
Like you wouldn’t have bought her one anyway just to keep her busy so you can hang out here.
Polls are closed. Now, it’s on to the counting and the court suits.