10/23/21: If you haven’t been paying rapt attention, Donald J. Trump’s battle to prove the last election was stolen from his deserving grip has hit a few potholes. Or, you could say, he’s swerved off the highway and ended up at the bottom of a rocky ravine of delusion.
But, Trump fans, you need not be trapped in the wreck with him! You don’t have to fall for his claims. You don’t have to be ill-informed.
You can read this blog!
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A shocking case of voter fraud. |
The Dallas Morning News reports that, almost a year after the election was stolen from Donald J. Trump, a promise made by Lt. Governor of Texas Dan Patrick has come to sweet fruition.
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At last, massive voter fraud exposed!
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Patrick announced on November 10, 2020, just three days after the last election was called for Joe Biden, that he would pay $25,000 to tipsters who could provide proof of certified voter fraud. You’d think Rudy Giuliani would have already vacuumed up the $1,000,000 Patrick said he had available from donors. Takers, however, were sparse until last week, when Patrick finally paid out the first reward to Erik Frank, a Democratic poll worker in Pennsylvania.
Frank was able to prove that Ralph Holloway Thurman, a 72-year-old registered Republican, voted in his own and his son’s names in that state. When Frank, who was working the polls on Election Day, told Thurman that he could only vote once, as per the usual system, the determined gentleman left the polling place, only to return later wearing a hat and sunglasses. This time, the poorly disguised father voted in the name of his son Kyle, a registered Democrat.
The elder Thurman’s lawyers claimed he was tricked into casting a second ballot, but the court didn’t buy his argument, and he stands convicted.
Nevertheless, on September 20 the Philadelphia Inquirer was able to report that there had been tidal waves of illegal voters in Pennsylvania, who tipped the scales badly in…Donald Trump’s favor!
Actually, there has been no tidal wave uncovered. Four other Pennsylvania’s have been charged with casting two ballots. Bruce Bartman plead guilty to voting for Trump in the name of his dead mother. Robert Richard Lynn, 68, also copped a plea and admitted voting twice for Donald, once as himself, once as his deceased mother, who died in 2015, before Trump announced he wanted to become president and destroy the entire apparatus of a functioning democracy.
Two other cases in Pennsylvania are still pending, but as of now, we need to subtract three votes from Loser Donald’s total.
“In moments like this truth really matters more than ever.”
There’s even worse news for Trump fans (assuming they actually follow actual news) and don’t just spend their time clicking on stories from internet sites like Bumble and trying to figure out who “Q” really is. And when is Joe Biden going to spontaneously combust, as Pastor Rick Wiles has been promising! Okay, I admit, I’m kind of joking a little.
In reality, however, just days after the election in November, Trump fans were told there was a big story of election fraud coming out of Nevada. Right-wing shouters jumped on the tale like wolves dragging down Bambi’s mother. The tall tale involved Rosemary Hartle, dead of cancer in 2017, but able to vote in 2020. No doubt, a ghostly hand filled out a ballot for Mr. Biden.
Mrs. Hartle’s husband, Donald Kirk Hartle, called the revelation “sickening.” Then, you had to imagine, he staggered away to vomit.
Tucker Carlson latched onto the story. He accused other “fake news” media outlets of “hiding” the story.
“So was there voter fraud last week? That’s a question we’ve been working on since election night. We have tried to be careful and precise as we report this out,” he assured viewers. “In moments like this truth really matters more than ever. False allegations of fraud can cause as much damage as the fraud itself. ... So we want to be accurate. What we’re about to tell you is accurate. It is not a theory. It happened and we can prove it.”
Carlson was right.
In moments like this, truth really matters. But he and others on the right botched the story, including the Nevada Republican Party.
Some “sickening” person did in fact cast a ballot in the name of Mrs. Hartle; and now we know who that person (allegedly) is. Prosecutors have charged Mr. Donald Kirk Hartle, purportedly made ill by his own dastardly deed.
So, yes, “voter fraud” exists.
And, no, it’s not all on one side of the political divide. More importantly, the few cases of individual crookery never changed the last presidential election. Even Fox News had to admit that Mr. Hartle, a Las Vegas businessman, is a registered Republican.
“Our office has prosecuted like 20 cases of voter fraud.”
Even as a blogger, I try to get my facts straight. When I attempt to hunt down examples of rampant voter fraud, I don’t find anything substantial. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative organization, lists only one conviction for duplicate voting in Arizona in 2020, where Team Trump has claimed that they have proof of bazillions of illegal voters. There were eight cases in 2016, in the state, so a few more might be coming. I decide to check out Randy Allen Jumper, the lone violator in the last election. Or so I assume. It turns out to be a dead end, since Jumper was only recently convicted of voting twice in 2016, once in Arizona, and once in Nevada. Jumper got nailed with a fine for $5,000 and has now been barred from voting in Arizona.
Meanwhile, Katie Conner, the spokesperson for the Arizona Attorney General explained to reporters, “Since 2010, our office has prosecuted like 20 cases of voter fraud and the majority of the voter fraud cases in Arizona are related to what this one was about, double voting essentially.” We might note that the Attorney General of Arizona is Mark Brnovich, a Republican.
Meanwhile, Texas is really cleaning up all the voter fraud they can find, and that includes Hervis Rogers, who voted Democratic in 2020, while still on parole, which is illegal in the state.
According to the office of the Attorney General in Texas (the same office that once claimed in laughably bad fashion, that 58,000 illegal voters had cast ballots in 2016) the state prosecuted 130 cases of voter fraud between 2005 and 2018. Voter fraud just isn’t that huge an issue.
In Wisconsin, another state where Team Trump claimed massive fraud, I found a story that said, as of May 21, the state had identified 27 cases of possible voter fraud out of 3.3 million votes cast in 2020. None, at that point, had led to charges. So, I went back to the Heritage Foundation’s database. As of today, Chad Armstrong is the lone individual listed as convicted in Wisconsin for “ineligible voting” in 2020. When I check out details, he voted illegally in the 2018 election. Given a choice of five days in jail or 40 hours of community service, Chad chose five days, which gives you some idea of what kind of criminal mastermind we’re talking about. Then again, when I searched the internet for “Wisconsin woman convicted of voter fraud,” I did get a hit for Christine Daikawa, who allegedly cast a ballot for her deceased “life partner” in the 2020 election. Her case is pending, bail set at $2,500. I keep checking – and find a story from September 21, noting that four persons have, in fact, now been charged with voting illegally in Wisconsin, in the last election.
If Daikawa counts as a fifth, we have enough for a prison basketball team. But not in the wildest right-wing fever dreams enough to change an election. Then again, if you really count illegal votes, we’re back to four, because one of the cases being prosecuted involves a Florida man who tried to claim he was resident of the village of Radisson, Wisconsin. He tried to get his hands on an absentee ballot, only to be denied by alert election officials.
So, there you have it. I promise, I’ll keep checking. And if I get lucky, maybe Lt. Governor Patrick will have to cut me a check for a cool $25,000.
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