Well Dowless seems to have perfected his mode of election fraud after successfully succeeding in two previous elections. I wonder who taught him this trick?
It seems everyone is missing a big part of the story. Some of those people never requested an absentee ballot. That anyway was what one said. That means fraud was used to request said ballots. Thatās really something.
Think about it. How did Dowless and company know who had an absentee ballot? What better way than to send them one, somehow. Now it is possible they simply got lists of names and addressees which in itself is pretty suspect leagally but is surely an ethical breech by the officials in charge of voting.
Still, sending ballots to people would be the very best way to pull this off because low information voters would be perhaps befuddled by getting it but not likely think something was amiss when someone came to collect it. Whereas experienced absentee voters might smell rat.
Additionally, and getting back to getting access to voter info and perhaps even directing the ballots be sent on the front end, this had to have an inside component.
Heās also Douche Bag of the Weekā¦
Likely incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has left open the possibility of not seating Harris.
The GOP will weaponize this concept of ānot seatingā someone, and seating their opponent instead.
The GOP majority will simply refuse to seat Dems if it means losing their majority in the Senate. Once they re-take the House (and they will), theyāll do the same thing there.
EDIT: btw, Iām not saying the GOP will do this if and only if Pelosi refuses to seat Harris. Iām saying they will do it, regardless, now that weāve drawn their attention to the option.
The voter registration records are public, but the available information varies from state to state. Apparently in NC, requests for absentee ballots become public information as soon as they are received.It is a simple matter to go in daily and harvest the requests for absentee ballots. Once you have the names, it isnāt difficult to get addresses even they arenāt provided in the request information.
Now, itās possible that Dowless and his merry band were making their own requests and intercepting the mail. If that can be proven, Dowless can be charged with mail tampering ā a Federal charge. Not smart, dude, not smart.
Theyāve known about this all along ā no oneās telling them anything they donāt already know. In a Parliamentary sense, itās a difficult weapon to deploy. Iām not saying that they wonāt make use of it in the future, but itās not just a matter of deciding not to seat the incoming Democrats.
Letās not these stupid voters off the hook either, would they give someone a signed check w/o the amount written in?
I wonder what actual rules constrain this stuff.
Since the last cycle, the GOP has evidently decided itās no longer necessary to conceal their bad faith, and they just cheat right out in the open. I believe there was a collective sense that they were within striking distance of a permanent lock on power, and a mad dash could succeed even if they had to drop the pretense of civility in the process.
I think they will only be stopped by hard-and-fast rules that explicitly forbid it. If itās just ānot done,ā well, McConnell is all about preemptive strikes and total political war.
Dowless also served 6-month prison term in 1992 for felony insurance fraud.
Yes, but it would probably bounce.
Maddow on MSNBC stated this same douche committed voter fraud in 2016. He fully admitted to same type of ballot harvesting 2016. A NC news correspondent recorded his admission on video in an interview. Time for some prison time for this douche.
The part that gets me is how anyone could have been persuaded to hand over their ballot to someone who looks like a botched hybrid between a used-car salesman and a tobacco institute scientist. But on further investigation, seems he hired some relatively more trustworthy-appearing hicks and rubes to do the actual deed.
As the seating takes place in the newly elected legislature, how are the ousted ones gonna manage that?
Here, here. GOP = Grifters on Parade.
The thing that gets me, and I hope isnāt overlooked, is that at that time the election board knew there was a problem, referred the matter to US Attorney (?), but nothing ever happened.
##Why Was This Not Looked Into Then?!?!
Heās like a blind prostitute.
Apparently NC law allows collection of absentee ballot requests, so itās quite plausible that some voters might think itās OK to collect the ballots. And the request forms have a lot of information on them. Probably enough to do identity theft.
According to earlier reports on this story, Dowlessās workers would knock on lots of doors, offering to help the occupants fill out applications for absentee ballots, then a few weeks later those workers would return to help people fill those ballots out, and collect them for the County Elections workers.
I know I know this is NUTS but I canāt figure out HOW they can permit Harris to run again. Iāll tell you how āIā feel: they should do a repeat BUT use the previous GOP Rep, who lost the primary to Harris under the EXACT same conditions (and HE complained to the State GOP and ātheyā could not be bothered to investigate). I say this EVEN THOUGH I want the Dem to win: the current REP, who is GOP, would probably win an untainted election, but I donāt really care. I want a CLEAN election even if the Democrat were to lose. This is so shameful I cannot bear to think about it.
Despair much?