Vote Fraud Revealed...

MIAMI (CBSMiami/The Miami Herald) — One of Congressman Joe Garcia’s former chief of staff is going to jail for orchestrating a fraudulent, online absentee-ballot request.

The crime took place during last year’s elections, according to CBS4 news partner, The Miami Herald.

Jeffrey Garcia, 41, no relation to Congressman Garcia, will spend 90 days in jail as part of a plea deal he reached with the Miami-Dade state attorney’s office, the paper reported.

The deal, which is expected to be inked Monday, will require Garcia to plead guilty to requesting absentee ballots on behalf of voters, which is a felony.

Prosecutors said phony ballot requests were submitted by Jeffrey Garcia on behalf of unsuspecting voters and without their permission.

In February, the Herald reported almost 500 of the August 2012 primary ballot requests in Garcia’s congressional district were able to be traced through Internet Protocol addresses in Miami.

Investigators reopened their probe after the Herald report.

Florida elections law prohibits anyone other than voters or their immediate family members from submitting online ballot requests.

Continuing the investigation, the Herald reported, in June, Jeffrey Garcia might have secretly funded bogus tea party candidate Jose Rolando “Roly” Arrojo in 2010 to siphon conservative votes from Republican David Rivera.

Rivera lost to him in 2012.

The FBI is now investigating Jeffrey Garcia and Arrojo, the paper reported.

Rivera is also under criminal investigation for his possible ties to another ringer candidate, Democrat Justin Lamar Sternad, who ran against Garcia in 2012 and has pleaded guilty to federal campaign-finance crimes.

Rivera and Garcia denied connection to the phony candidates.

Garcia has not been implicated in the absentee-ballot scheme. The congressman did not respond to the paper’s requests for comment Sunday.

In May, Jeffrey Garcia was fired as chief of staff. The firing came after investigators raided the homes of the cousin of Giancarlo Sopo, the congressman’s communications director, and the family of John Estes, the congressman’s 2012 campaign manager.

Garcia admitted he had directed the others to submit the online ballot requests, the paper reported. Sopo was placed on unpaid leave, then resigned in July.

After Garcia’s dismissal, investigators searched the home of a staffer for then-Miami mayoral candidate Francis Suarez in an unrelated case. That staffer, Juan Pablo Baggini, submitted ballot requests on behalf of 20 voters and it was determined the voters had given Suarez’s campaign permission to do so.

Baggini and Esteban “Steve” Suarez, the campaign’s manager, received probation in August. Francis Suarez, a sitting city commissioner, dropped out of the race a few days later.

In December, State Attorney Katherine Fernández Rundle convened a grand jury that managed to reveal the Miami-Dade elections department had flagged thousands of fraudulent online ballot requests, due to an apparent computer hacker during last year’s elections.

Another analysis by CBS4 news partner, The Miami Herald, found 2,552 requests had been made over a 2 ½-week period during the summer.

Origins of most of them were masked by foreign IP addresses.

However, 472 of them targeted many Democratic voters in Garcia’s congressional district and had come from IP addresses in Miami.

Prosecutors said they linked those addresses to Estes and Sopo. They had apparently recruited his friends, sister and cousin to plug in voters’ personal information into online request forms.

In September, the results of an internal review conducted by an attorney and political donor cleared the rest of Congressman Garcia’s staff of any involvement in the absentee-ballot requests.

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fshnski wrote:The Democrats should get their butts in gear. They have plenty of time to make sure all voters have a picture ID.

fshnski wrote:I think the Democrats will support the photo ID law. By doing that they will finally put to rest the accusations of voter fraud, plus they can use those IDs to document all their taxpayers.

" • In the 2012 presidential election, Barack Obama did lose in every state that required all voters to provide photo ID."

Why did Democrats applaud the loathsome community organizer Melowese Richardson, a freshly released, unrepentant voter fraud felon, at a recent "voting rights" rally in Ohio?

Because, like Richardson, they believe they are entitled to vote more than once against a system they see as unjust.  Some serial voters do what they do in order to exact revenge against a society they feel did them or their ancestors wrong.  Richardson is far from alone.  Double-voting is distressingly common.

Many leftists have contempt for the electoral process because they don’t believe in the electoral system as it is constituted in capitalist America.  To them, elections are already a fraud – an instrument of the rich, or as Saul Alinsky prefers to call them, the Haves.  If the electoral system doesn’t serve “the people,” but is only an instrument of the Haves..."
http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/04/voter_fraud_the_lefts_tool_for_social_justice.html

"Voter Fraud?

If they’re not catching the easy stuff, what else are they “missing”? Are some of Florida’s Supervisors of Elections skirting the law? Supervisors are tasked with maintaining an accurate voter roll. One of the requirements on the Supervisors is to ensure that voters provide a legal residence address. Yet a December 2013 analysis shows more than 3,000 voter registrations statewide listing their residence address at a UPS store, potentially illegally.

Florida Law is clear and, with minor exception, requires that voter registrations listing other than an address of legal residence should not be accepted, because they are “ineligible”..."

According to the report, of the 67 counties in Florida, 38 were clean. The majority of the “unclean” counties have said they’re working on it. But three counties have not responded at all or weakly: Broward, Orange and Hillsborough. Prentice says Broward county receives the “here’s your sign” award with fully 40 percent of the 3,000 potentially ineligible records, and simply responding “they’re in process.”

Note: Broward represents only about 10 percent of the total state population.

Hat tip to Gregg Prentice for doing this research. He truly deserves recognition as a “Guardian of the Republic.” And in order to preserve this Republic, we will need many more Guardians. I challenge others to do the same in their state as Gregg has done here for us in Florida. “In a universe of deceit, truth becomes a revolutionary act” — and this is just the tip of the iceberg.
—allenbwest.com

Evelyn E. Burwell’s family was surprised to learn she voted in the 2012 general and primary elections. They knew she was an avid voter, but she’s been dead since 1997.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/new-yorker-votes-14-times-after-death/