Dem Conn. State Rep Arrested For Allegedly Voting 19 Times
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By: Thomas Lifson (The American Thinker)
Democrats and the dominant media assure us that vote fraud doesnt exist, so we certainly dont need voter ID, and in fact it would be racist to demand as much proof of identity as is necessary to board an airplane or buy a drink. Nevertheless, a Democrat state representative in Connecticut was arrested for allegedly voting 19 times.
The New Haven Register (hat tip: Weasel Zippers) reports:
State Rep. Christina Tita Ayala, D-Bridgeport, was arrested Friday on 19 voting fraud charges.
Ayala, 31, is accused of voting in local and state elections in districts she did not live, the Chief States Attorneys Office said in a press release.
According to the Connecticut Post, Ayalas mother, Santa, was also investigated by the Elections Enforcement Commission. The commission also recommended criminal charges be filed against Santa Ayala, the Democratic registrar of voters in Bridgeport, but none have been filed as of Friday.
Democrats and the dominant media assure us that vote fraud doesnt exist, so we certainly dont need voter ID, and in fact it would be racist to demand as much proof of identity as is necessary to board an airplane or buy a drink. Nevertheless, a Democrat state representative in Connecticut was arrested for allegedly voting 19 times.
The New Haven Register (hat tip: Weasel Zippers) reports:
State Rep. Christina Tita Ayala, D-Bridgeport, was arrested Friday on 19 voting fraud charges.
Ayala, 31, is accused of voting in local and state elections in districts she did not live, the Chief States Attorneys Office said in a press release.
According to the Connecticut Post, Ayalas mother, Santa, was also investigated by the Elections Enforcement Commission. The commission also recommended criminal charges be filed against Santa Ayala, the Democratic registrar of voters in Bridgeport, but none have been filed as of Friday.
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True. Although she may have been inspired by Robert Monroe, a 50-year-old white Republican health executive in Wisconsin accused of voting a dozen times in 2011 and 2012, including seven times against the the recalls of Republicans Scott Walker and ally Alberta Darling.
Or, she might have been inspired by Republican Adam Ward of Virginia, guilty of 36 counts of voter fraud when he faked signatures to try to get Newt Gingrich on the 2012 presidential primary bid ballot.
Or, she might have been inspired by Charlie White, Indianas former Republican secretary of state, found guilty on six counts of voter fraud, theft, and perjury in 2012.
Or, the staff of Congressman Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) who were indicted in 2012 for submitting more than 1,500 forged and falsified signatures.
Yep, the solution to all these white people committing voter fraud is simple--create draconian voter ID rules that disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of minorities and poor people.
Of course, if these people still register, you can do what Florida Republicans did and illegally toss ten of thousands of African Americans and Hispanics off the voting rolls in 2000 in their successful effort to throw the election to George W. Bush.
Let's face it--today's electoral fraud cases are a pale shadow of what they were when mayors like Richard Daley were able to resurrect dead voters to throw Illinois to Kennedy in 1960.
I can think of so many reasons to produce an ID, and proving you are a legal, law abiding American citizen in order to participate in our most important right should be No. 1. The argument that it is somehow racist is spurious at best, and in fact makes no sense at all. There were so many illegal immigrants with fake drivers licensees and library cards the whole process is becoming a joke. In TN at least I Have to show a voter registration card.
How do we make the leap from no ID to poor and minority anyway? I'd think the citizen with the greatest challenge to securing an ID would be elderly in nursing homes.
I mean, do you ever stop to think how absurd is this party line before parroting it? It's an ID. It's not a poll tax. It's not the twe;ve labors of Hercules. You want to vote as a citizen, show you're a citizen. The hell is wrong with that?
Again: Are you afraid you can't win election without voter fraud?
sometimes... sheesh
People would find it difficult to survive in today's age without an ID. You would almost have to be completely "off the grid" to go IDless. It would not be an infringement on the poor or any minority to show an ID to vote.
Will it stop voter fraud????? Prolly not, but it is a step in the right direction
This is just the new red scare perpetuated by folks who lack any real solutions to problems so they make up new enemies to frighten their political bases. Most of these restrictions are simply transparent efforts to harm the "enemy" party. The requirement for ID can be burdensome, hell, the last time I had to renew my DL it took 2 hours on the phone and 45 bucks to get my birth certificate (which I used my old DL as proof of who I am) to prove who I am and it was only that quick because I know the system and who to call, most people don't; then it took another 4 hours of form filling and waiting and 55 bucks to get my new DL. So if I lived in one of those states with the ID requirements I'd have effectively paid a poll tax of 100 bucks and if I was in an hourly or commissioned job I'd have lost a full day of work just to qualify to exercise a RIGHT. That's the objection, it disenfranchises the poor because they often cannot afford the fees, or more often the time to sit in a government office to get an ID. And frankly, there are enough voters in this country to make the scale of fraud need to be HUGE to have any effect on national races. It's utter nonsense.
This is also the circular stupidity of these regulations: my old DL was required to prove who I am to get my birth cert to prove who I am to get my new DL, for which my old DL was not adequate proof of who I am.
Because, Webmost, voter fraud isn't a problem in the U.S. A group of journalism students conducted a study and found that were around 2,000 ALLEDGED (not proven) cases of voter fraud ACROSS THE COUNTRY over the past decade. Two thousand votes out of several hundred million is hardly going to tip any election other than your local dog catcher one way or the other.
The GOP is trying to create an illusion that voter fraud is a huge problem. It isn't. What the problem for them is that the people who don't photo IDs to vote are more likely to vote against them.
Also, the Republican make it very difficult for the poor to get such IDs. Many states require two or more forms of ID:
Passport. How many poor people travel outside the U.S. and can pay $150 for a passport?
Driver's license. Many poor people don't drive, and many can't afford the money to apply for a license even if they could.
State IDs. Many states require"non copied"l birth certificates, original social security cards and other hard-to-get documentation. Ever tried to get an original birth certificate from the state where you were born? I did. Would've taken about three hours of paperwork and over $100. I said to hell with it.
Work photo IDs: Many companies don't offer them. Certainly smaller companies wouldn't.
Signed lease. Many of the poor live in public housing or live in non-leased housing and don't have such documentation.
Now, if all of these Republicans said that anyone without a driver's license or state ID could get a free photo Voter ID card at their local post office simply by presenting 1) a piece of mail addressed to them at their current location and 2) Some kind of "official such as a copy of a birth certificate, an original Social Security Card, last year's tax return, or a letter from an employer, parole officer, or local official testifying that they live at a certain address, then I'd be okay with requiring such a voter ID. But that's not what the GOP wants. They want to make it as hard as possible for the poor to get these IDs, and use the non-existent threat of voter fraud as their rationale.
This whole GOP "voter fraud" issue was nowhere on the GOP radar until Obama won both of his elections--by pluralities of which few incidental cases of voter fraud had any effect--in large part by winning the votes of minorities and the poor. Believe me, if these same poor minorities started voting Republican, the GOP would remove all these photo ID laws in a second and drive these people to the polls themselves.
Unless you are afraid you cannot win an election without fraud. I disagree. Let this pass and show you can.
As each state reported their final election details, the evidence of voter fraud is astounding. Massive voter fraud has been reported in areas of OH and FL, with PA, WI and VA, all are deploying personnel to investigate election results.
Here are just a few examples of what has surfaced with much more to come.
* In 59 voting districts in the Philadelphia region, Obama received 100% of the votes with not even a single vote recorded for Romney. (A mathematical and statistical impossibility).
* In 21 districts in Wood County Ohio, Obama received 100% of the votes where GOP inspectors were illegally removed from their polling locations - and not one single vote was recorded for Romney. (Another statistical impossibility).
* In Wood County Ohio, 106,258 voted in a county with only 98,213 eligible voters.
* In St. Lucie County, FL, there were 175,574 registered eligible voters but 247,713 votes were cast.
* The National SEAL Museum, a polling location in St. Lucie County, FL had a 158% voter turnout.
* Palm Beach County, FL had a 141% voter turnout.
* In Ohio County, Obama won by 108% of the total number of eligible voters.
What no one seems to realize is that it doesn't matter who benefits from voter fraud, it is real and it is wrong. The argument the voter ID is some how directed at minorities is false and a very sorry attempt to bring race into the mix. There are poor whites and poor of every background. There is also a huge number of illegal immigrants that get away with voter fraud.