This Will Encourage Fraud and Decrease Faith in Our Elections
October 23, 2024
Once upon a time in Connecticut, we had Election Day. You went to your polling place and presented a pleasant lady with your ID. She looked at a list and confirmed you were registered and then crossed out your name, indicating that you had voted. You then walked into a booth and closed the curtain behind you. There was a large silver apparatus that listed the names of the candidates with levers you turned for your choices. When you were done, you pulled a handle, and this machine tabulated your vote.
When it was 8:00 PM, the polls closed. These pleasant people recorded the number of votes for each candidate, under the watchful eyes of representatives of both parties. The Secretary of the State’s office was called with the results. State employees added up the numbers and posted the results.
No computers. No one suspecting the computer changed their vote. No hanging chads. No dubious signature verification. No drop boxes. Unless the election was close, the good people of Connecticut knew the winner by 11:00 PM and they trusted the result.
How quaint.
Variations of this system are still used in most of the western democracies. Argentina, France and England recently had elections and voters knew who won the same day – with the results trusted by both sides.
But as Clinton advisor and former Chicago Democratic Mayor Rahm Emanuel stated, “Never let a crisis go to waste.”
America’s ruling class is no longer trusts the pesky voters to rubber stamp their agenda, especially after President Trump won in 2016. Thus, they used the COVID crisis to normalize mail-in ballots and ballot harvesting making unproveable fraud easier and decreasing voters’ trust in the system, especially when these ballots were dumped after the walk-in votes were tabulated.
Voters are skeptical when one candidate has a significant lead (almost always the Republican) on Election Day that evaporates once absentee and mail-in ballots are counted. When this happened to President Trump in 2020, it caused a riot on our Capitol.
Thus, Connecticut voters now have the following question on the ballot:
“Shall the Constitution of the State be amended to permit the General Assembly to allow each voter to vote by absentee ballot?”
Sounds innocent, doesn’t it?
It is not.
Presently, our state constitution requires that you can only request an absentee ballot in the following circumstances:
• An absence from your town on Election Day prevents you from appearing at your polling place,
• You are prevented from appearing at your assigned polling place on Election Day because of sickness or physical disability (not necessarily your sickness or disability),
• Active service in the military
• Religious tenets forbid secular activity on the day of the election
• Duties as an election official at a polling place other than your own during all of the hours of voting.
Amending our constitution will just encourage fraud. How do we know? Because it has already happened.
Democratic party operatives will use bogus addresses to request ballots. This is what happened in a Bridgeport Democratic primary in 2023. A Democratic operative Wanda Geter-Pataky was caught on videotape depositing illegally harvested absentee ballots, filling them out and placing hundreds of ballots into a drop box. Of course, no charges have been leveled against her. According to state authorities, this is part of an “ongoing investigation.”
But Bridgeport’s Chief-of-Police has already weighed in. He was upset the video of the fraud had been leaked!
Voting should be a community event as our Yankee forefathers realized that this encourages harmony and cooperation. We see our neighbor volunteering to give us our ballots and checking off our names. We see our friends – even ones we disagree with – holding a sign or passing out palm cards for their candidate. We often see the candidates themselves smiling and waving and asking for our votes. This encourages goodwill among people who disagree. And in these polarized times, nothing is worse than having this good will dissipated by faceless mail-in contests.
Remember when you vote on this issue, the question may be located in a different spot than the names of the candidates. It may even be on the back side of your ballot. But it is there. There is a considerable drop off in the number of people voting on ballot issues because the voter was unaware of the ballot issue, or did not bother to check the ballot carefully. Find this question on your ballot and vote “No.”
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