UH-OH: Massachusetts Sec. of State Has History of Playing Games With Absentee Ballots
Posted at Yid With LidThe latest polls show the race for Massachusetts Senator is too close to call. Looking at the history of the state's entrenched Democratic political machine, if Republican Scott Brown wins, he better win big, as the Massachusetts Secretary of State has been known to play fast and loose with absentee ballots. In 2008 was found to have violated the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act passed in 2002, in which he failed to report and collect the number sent and the number returned of absentee ballots from overseas Military personnel registered to vote in Massachusetts. After an investigation by the US Justice Department, a settlement was reached to force Galvin to comply with the law.
The Justice Department announced today that it has reached a settlement agreement with Massachusetts Secretary of State William Francis Galvin, to remedy violations of the Uniformed Overseas Citizen Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA). UOCAVA is designed to ensure that uniformed military members and overseas citizens can effectively participate in federal elections. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, through its Secretary of State, is responsible for collecting and reporting the number of military voters and overseas citizens who are sent ballots, who return ballots, and who have the ballots successfully cast in each federal general election. Massachusetts has failed to fulfill this important legal obligation since UOCAVA was enacted in 2002.As military absentee ballots tend to be more Republican than others, it is not to the advantage of Gavin's Democratic party to count the ballots of those who are overseas sacrificing themselves to protect his family.
"Accurate and complete information about whether our uniformed service members and overseas citizens are being given an effective opportunity to have their votes counted is essential to our democratic system of government," said Grace Chung Becker, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. "Without it, Congress and the public cannot determine whether states are fulfilling their obligations to let uniformed service members and overseas citizens fully participate in our elections.
Apparently Galvin has had a cynical change of heart. As Michael Graham reported in the Boston Herald:
In what must be a new low, even for Massachusetts, Secretary of State Bill Galvin told the Herald the election will not be considered complete by his office until Jan. 29, when 10 days have been allowed for absentee and military ballots to arrive. That’s 10 extra days for Senate liberals to shove ObamaCare down an unwilling electorate’s throat - and about eight days longer than it took Rep. Niki Tsongas to get sworn in after her special election victory.I would not be shocked if the Massachusetts Democratic party has some ACORN workers in an office right now filling out absentee ballots with different pen colors, or different hand writing.
What makes Galvin’s play so repugnant is that the U.S. Department of Justice had to threaten to sue him to get him to comply with federal laws protecting the voting rights of military members abroad. For years, Galvin ignored these ballots - and the soldiers, airmen and Marines who cast them - and now he’s prepared to use them to deny the will of the people if, by some miracle, Scott Brown wins.
Scott Brown should be very concerned, if he wins by a squeaker, a few
21 comments:
This is troublesome news. The democratic mafia will stop at nothing to keep their GDBs on the levers of power...
I hope there are conservative lawyer/observer groups all over this.
If you haven't already, and can afford to do so, I implore you to go to Brown's website and donate a few bucks to him. We are down to the wire folks, and these last few days of support may be enough to push him over the top. I am a former MA resident (for 48 years). What is happening in MA is historical, and if he wins it will be monumental. Can you imagine the momentum that will be generated if that happens? Conservatism, like a juggernaut, would sweep the nation! Don't sit on the sidelines with this one - it's the one that could change the face of the nation!
very worrisome indeed. not surprising though. what does it take to get a secretary of state fired? that seems like a pretty serious infraction.
The Democrats know that Brown won't win even if he gets the most votes.
Politics is a contact sport.
One can only hope the people of Massachusetts are vigilant.
Sounds like Chicago moved east
ACORN workers (extremely low IQ drug addicts) are fortunately inept enough to screw up the sham absentee votes that they're "counting"...
The seriously disturbing part of this whole process is the LENGTHS that the Democrats will go to in order to slam through horrible legislation that America simply doesn't want.
Silverfish... ballots disappear, ballots appear in the trunks of cars, ballots are disqualified, machines are fiddled with.
The Democrats have made it an art form.
Hoping... I'm with you. More than a few of my dollars have been sent. I encourage everyone to put at least a few bucks into play.
labcat, for years George Soros has funded the political campaigns of Democrat candidates for Secretaries of State throughout the country. There's a reason for that. Elections are in their hands. (Al Franken)
This afternoon, I'll post a story about this.
Zio, that's exactly my belief.
Opie, basketball is a contact sport. Politics is an "attempted murder" sport.
Odie, I agree. But we all had better be vigilant.
Dad... moving east on the Acorn Express.
LL, when you understand why they want it so badly, it's easier to understand those lengths.
I predict several thousand vehicles will arrive at various ballot headquarters with 'found' uncounted ballots in the trunk. Magically each ballot will have been cast for the ugly Coakley. I'm talking about her persona, which includes much more than the mirror rejects and sends back.
I hear the union thugs are going to be bussed in from out of state to intimidate folks ... because no one wants to be part of such shenanigans in Mass. It appears the voters there are just as pissed as they are in flyover country. The damn is breaking, Nickie ... and it's washing all the shit away.
The Florida Supreme Black Robes thought that that they could change the rules in the middle of the game(2,000).
The DemocRats said that the Diplomat Pouch was not good enough for the Military Vote; had better not try to do it again!
The Mass. Supreme Black Robes thought that they are ok because the Gay Marriage Decree to the State Legislature was easy to pull off.
The Black Robes of Mass. had better sit this one OUT!
The U.S Supreme Court takes the action to put an injunction against Health Care Bill Passage, until the Election is sorted out. Yes? No?
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