…fendants bolster their voter fraud justification with two exhibits: a 2012 Grand Jury Report from Miami-Dade County, Florida that identified vulnerabilities in Florida’s absentee by mail voting process and a 2019 Order from the North Carolina Board of Elections ordering a new election in North Carolina’s Ninth Congressional District because the 2018 general election there was so “corrupted by fraud, improprieties, and irregularities so pervasive t…
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…as detected. Nonetheless, look for this allegation to become the new “1984 grand jury report“–supposed evidence of a massive problem with impersonation voter fraud. I wrote in that second post: I wanted to get more information about the case, given how extremely rare voter impersonation fraud is. The Tarrant County prosecutor’s office was kind enough to share a copy of the indictment, It is pretty general, so I spoke by phone with the prosecutor i…
Continue reading…ami-Dade County elections website using a computer program, according to a grand jury report on problems in the Aug. 14 primary election. It is not clear whether the bogus requests were an attempt to influence a specific race, test the system or simply interfere with the voting. Because of the enormous number of requests – and the fact that most were sent from a small number of computer IP addresses in Ireland, England, India and other overseas lo…
Continue reading…Here, responding to the devastating New Yorker piece. There’s a brief mention in the response of the 1984 grand jury report (but not of von Spavovsky’s stonewalling about it). For the most comprehensive analysis of what that report showed and did not show, see this post from Lori Minnite….
Continue reading…s, but they collapsed like a house of cards. A few highlights: On the 1984 grand jury report: As I described in The Voting Wars, von Spakovsky wrote in a FOX News oped (following up on a Heritage Foundation report) that: “In 1984, a district attorney in Brooklyn, N.Y. (a Democrat), released the findings of a grand jury that reported extensive registration and impersonation fraud between 1968 and 1982.” Von Spakovsky stonewalled on providing the re…
Continue reading…fraud” in a Heritage report (and related FOX News oped) based upon a 1984 grand jury report from Brooklyn. He stonewalled on giving me the report and when UCI librarians tracked it down it did not support his claim: the crimes were almost all by election officials and party officials. (Note that crimes committed in the 1970s are particularly relevant to what is going on today in any case….). News21 did a recent comprehensive study of all reports…
Continue reading…and corrected. Incidentally, this is the first email I’ve received from von Spakovsky since he stonewalled me on the 1984 grand jury report….
Continue reading…not heard from Hans since I tried to get him to give me a copy of the 1984 grand jury report which he refused to do. (Before that he’d write me to pitch me items to link on ELB.) I can’t remember the last time I heard from Fund. I don’t mind a debate with people with whom I disagree. I’ve debated Brad Smith, Jim Bopp, and Floyd Abrams about campaign finance issues. We disagree strongly on the issues, but I can always trust them to tell the truth a…
Continue reading…akovsky’s veracity problems, see von Spakovsky stonewalling me on the 1984 grand jury report which supposedly proves voter fraud: http://electionlawblog.org/?p=19560 And here are more reasons to think he’s not credible: See here, here, here and here. More about him in the “Fraudulent Fraud Squad” chapter of my new book, The Voting Wars. http://www.amazon.com/Voting-Wars-Florida-Election-Meltdown/dp/0300182031/ref=sr_1_cc_2?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=132928…
Continue reading…e’s decision would be final. UPDATE: More from Weigel on Lori Minnite’s testimony about Hans von Spakovsky’s research. Here is the Minnite guest post she’s referring to in her tesimony: http://electionlawblog.org/?p=23572 And here’s the back story on von Spakovsky stonewalling me on the 1984 grand jury report: http://electionlawblog.org/?p=19560 And here are more reasons to think he’s not credible: See here, here, here and here. More about him in…
Continue reading…as detected. Nonetheless, look for this allegation to become the new “1984 grand jury report“–supposed evidence of a massive problem with impersonation voter fraud. UPDATE: That didn’t take long (and nice analogy of people accused of voter fraud to cockroaches!). So we have here an alleged single case. How does that stack up against other claims of voter fraud? Here’s a brief excerpt from the Fraudulent Fraud Squad chapter of The Voting Wars: Let’…
Continue reading…nnanCenter Hans von Spakovsky: Heritage Foundation, @HvonSpakovsky Jon Husted: State of Ohio, @OhioSOSHusted Jonathan Chait: New York magazine, @jonathanchait Hilary Shelton: NAACP, @HilaryOShelton Links: CalTech/MIT on voter registration and its effect on turnout 1984 NY Grand Jury report on voter fraud, Election Law blog on Von Spakovsky on voter fraud in New York Crawford et al. v. Marion County Election Board (Indiana voter ID case), US Suprem…
Continue reading…aders of this blog know the saga involving Hans von Spakovsky and the 1984 Grand Jury Report from Brooklyn. For a different context and angle on this, check out Wayne Barrett’s article at The Daily Beast, “Al Sharpton’s Past Ties to Vote Fraud Taint His Fulminating; Fulminating against GOP charges of vote fraud perpetrated by minorities, Sharpton conveniently ignores his own involvement in a case that forms the centerpiece of the right’s campaign….
Continue reading…s to obscure events in Brooklyn documented in an almost impossible to find grand jury report? Unknowing readers could think von Spakovsky is plucking the example out of a vast trove of evidence when he’s not. Selective Storytelling The 1984 Brooklyn grand jury report that is the source of von Spakovsky’s 2008 Heritage Foundation memo documents the results of an investigation by the Brooklyn D.A. into a pattern of corruption by a de-throned state s…
Continue readingFollowing up on these posts, read this new Jim Sleeper post: “Where serious journalism begins. I was tickled recently to notice that election law expert Rick Hasen, tracking Brooklyn voter fraud cases from the 1970s and ’80s, resurrected my reporting on it from that time, in the Village Voice. Rick was able to do it thanks to my preserving those stories in pdfs right here, in my “Scoops and Revelations” section. As I explain briefly in the introd…
Continue reading…See here. My posts from last night on what’s in the report, and what it means, are here and here….
Continue reading…Jim Sleeper’s recollections jibe with the grand jury report and the NY Times reporting at the time. Sleeper’s story from the Village Voice in that period notes some impersonation fraud and some convictions: The Brooklyn example is not looking like such a great one of impersonation voter fraud going on without notice of diligent elected officials. …
Continue reading…d the Heritage Foundation with no success. von Spakovsky had relied on the grand jury report in an effort to justify voter identification requirements. (He wrote: “One doesn’t have to look far to find instances of fraudulent ballots cast in actual elections by ‘voters’ who were the figments of active imaginations. In 1984, a district attorney in Brooklyn, N.Y. (a Democrat), released the findings of a grand jury that reported extensive registration…
Continue reading…: A Case Study in Voter Impersonation , Hans von Spakovsky cites to a 1984 grand jury report on voter fraud in Brooklyn New York: In the Matter of Confidential Investigation, No. R84-11 (N.Y. Supreme Court 1984) (first cited in footnote 6). In 2008, I also linked to a related oped by von Spakovsky for FOX News which also relied heavily on the report. I’ve written to von Spakovsky and to the President of the Heritage Foundation asking for a copy of…
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