Start your engines, Hans Von Spakovsky and John Fund…
Every election cycle, Republicans scream about Democratic voter fraud — without providing any evidence that fraudulent votes have actually been cast. Now, in an obscure local election in upstate New York, the GOP may finally have unearthed the holy grail — credible allegations of actual bogus voting. But the story appears to be a lot more intricate than partisans on both sides may want to admit.Court documents filed last week in Rensselaer County, and first reported by the Albany-Times Union, challenge a group of absentee ballots, submitted in the primary for the Working Families Party (WFP), a left-leaning, labor-backed third party in New York, in several county electoral contests. In the legal filing, several voters attest that they never filled out the absentee ballots that bear their signatures. The filing was made under the name of Christian Lambertsen, a candidate for county legislator who was running in the WFP primary, held September 15.
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