Not National News: Significant Non-Citizen Voting Found in Fla. Two Days After Tampa Editorial Says It's 'Nonexistent'
In what is apparently completely unimportant news to just about everyone except NBC2 in Southwest Florida and Andrew Breitbart, numerous instances of illegal voting by non-citizens have been uncovered. Projecting the problems across the state and into the rest of the nation would seem to indicate that many thousands of people who are registered to vote should never have been allowed to register and are routinely casting ballots illegally.
A Google News search on "Florida vote fraud" (not in quotes) at Google News at 11:00 PM ET indicated that there was a grand total of six stories on this disturbing development. Immediately below the reference to the non-citizen voting news is a link to a Tampa Bay Times editorial posted two days ago which claimed that voter fraud is "a nonexistent problem in this state." Uh huh. What follows are excerpts from each segment (Part 1; Part 2) of Andy Pierrotti's NBC2 report (also look at the TV reports at the links, which differ from the text below):
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NBC2 Investigates: Voter fraud
Two elections supervisors are taking action after an NBC2 investigation uncovers flawed record keeping and human error allowing people who are not citizens of the United States to vote.
No one knows how widespread this problem is, because county election supervisors have no way to track non-citizens who live here.
So NBC2 did something election officials never thought to do, and found them on our own.
"I vote every year," Hinako Dennett told NBC2.
The Cape Coral resident is not a US citizen, yet she's registered to vote.
NBC2 found Dennett after reviewing her jury excusal form. She told the Clerk of Court she couldn't serve as a juror because she wasn't a U.S. citizen.
We found her name, and nearly a hundred others like her, in the database of Florida registered voters.
... Based on our investigation, both election offices say they'll now request a copy of every jury excusal form where residents say they can't serve because they're not a citizen.
(From Part 2)
Poor record keeping is what's leading to potential fraud in the elections system. And election supervisors say registering non-citizens will continue until they get more help.
Officials we spoke to say non U.S. citizens are voting in Lee and Collier counties.
"If there is a change by one vote and somebody's voted that really has no right to be voting," said Lee County Supervisor of Elections Sharon Harrington.
Nearly 100 registered are now under investigation for possible voter fraud.
"It could change the whole complexion of an election," Harrington said.
We found those 100 people after reviewing jury excusal forms. We compared the names of those who said they couldn't serve because they were not U.S. citizens to those listed on Florida's voter registration rolls.
"I was surprised that there were quite that many," Harrington said.
It would have been nice if Pierrotti had told viewers what the error rate was, i.e., how many jury excusal forms did it take before they got to nearly 100 ineligible voters? 200? 500? 1,000? It would also be nice to know what percentage of registered voters are called for jury duty in any given year, because the chances that there are non-citizens voting who have never been called for jury duty would appear to be quite high, and might possibly be a multiple of the number who were caught through excusal forms.
Depending on the error rate found, projecting the problem across all of Florida could lead one to reasonably believe that there are thousands or perhaps tens of thousands of non-citizens who either registered themselves and are voting illegally, or that others who have posed as them, with or without their knowledge, have registered and are voting on their behalf. It's not a great leap to speculate that the number of illegally registered non-citizens is in the tens to hundreds of thousands nationwide.
But voter fraud "a nonexistent problem in this state." Just ask the Tampa Bay Tribune. What a crock.
Don't expect the rest of the establishment press to notice this disturbing and disconcerting story.
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.
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Gee, do you think this is a
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 02/04/2012 - 12:47am.
Gee, do you think this is a little glimpse into what may happen later on this year?? Naaaaaaaaaaaah!!! Isolated incident.
D'ya suppose this is the
Submitted by rickster0130 on Sat, 02/04/2012 - 1:04am.
D'ya suppose this is the reason why the DOJ is raising Cain about photo ID laws? Why, if every vote was cast by an honest-to God CITIZEN, Oooooooooooobama might lose, then the AG WOULD lose his... nevermind.
Wow, bizarre
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 02/04/2012 - 1:30am.
We have Voter ID laws here.
We have to REMOVE our ID's (drivers licenses) from the wallet, hand them over to the poll worker, who then SCANS it through a card reader.
No, I'm not kidding.
So why can't these fraudulent voters be tracked down in five minutes?
Inquiring minds want to know.
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Because the statists do not want ...
Submitted by NL207 on Sat, 02/04/2012 - 8:23am.
detect illegal balloting. If6 it is not detected, it does not exist. If it does not exist, then why would anyone need voter identification and registration systems designed to prevent fraud?
Ouch
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 02/04/2012 - 10:13am.
Thinking like a liberal hurts, doesn't it?
In a state like Florida, this one ought to be a no-brainer. Where is the RNC demanding action, eh?
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You know the worst part?
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sat, 02/04/2012 - 12:21pm.
When I was trying to cast the last of my three votes in the Primary, I had to stand in line forever because so many "illegals" were at the polls!
It is much easier in the General Election. Just register Democrat (you can still vote Republican), but nobody cares if you are a Democrat and cheating. If you are a Republican, they want to see all that bothersome "ID stuff."
Here in VA I've always had to
Submitted by ThatDude on Sat, 02/04/2012 - 10:52am.
Here in VA I've always had to show my driver's license to vote. If I have to show my ID to get a beer, a pack of smokes, a lighter (that one confuses me actually), use my credit card, cash a check, etc. then why wouldn't it also be required to show ID to prove I'm eligible to vote?
From what I understand, you can get a photo ID for cheap or free. If someone is unwilling to have government identification, then why should that person be entitled to participate in government affairs?
Exactly
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 02/04/2012 - 11:16am.
Oh, BTW, the answer is 42. :)
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What this is is a wake up call. It is time to clean the
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Sat, 02/04/2012 - 2:37am.
path to honest voting. Think of the Democrats not wanted voter ids and what comes to mind? As strong as our policies may be, if we're robbed of fair elections these beliefs will go nowhere.
This is less than a year to make sure that we minimize voter fraud. Acorn and SEIU are right now printing absentee ballet for illegals, dead people and cartoon characters waiting to make a deliver late on election night across the nation.
It's not national news
Submitted by HelloDare on Sat, 02/04/2012 - 2:49am.
It's not national news because the illegals are voting Democrat and not Republican.
It's not national news
Submitted by HelloDare on Sat, 02/04/2012 - 2:51am.
It's not national news because the illegals are voting Democrat and not Republican.
GMTA
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Sat, 02/04/2012 - 5:57am.
I was thinking the same thing. The article doesn't identify with which Party the illegals were registered, which means, if history serves, they were NOT registered as Republicans.
The only time
Submitted by Dave the mailman on Sat, 02/04/2012 - 9:33am.
..the demolibs want tough voting restrictions is on UNION voting.
Way to point out the obvious..
Submitted by helomech on Sat, 02/04/2012 - 11:19am.
"It could change the whole complexion of an election," Harrington said.
Well no sh1t... It does makes one wonder, just how many fraudulent votes WERE cast in '08...enough to get the Fraudulent One into office
If democRats can't steal elections
Submitted by ohio granny on Sat, 02/04/2012 - 11:41am.
If the Rats can't steal elections, how will they ever win again? They know they are lying when they claim that having to use identification to vote will disenfranchise voters. They only ones disenfranchised will be the democRats that won't get those votes.
The democRat party - corrupt from top to bottom. Pathetic and dispicable.
This is just
Submitted by nolefan2 on Sat, 02/04/2012 - 12:05pm.
a small window into what we can expect in November. We need to required voter ID at every voting precinct. So what if the Dems don't like it? Of course, they don't. It would go a long way in helping to prevent voter fraud and voter fraud is how they stay in power. I'm tired of hearing about it causing voters to be "disenfranchised." It is not a problem to get an ID made even if you don't drive. I would also be interested in what political party these illegals were registered. I won't hold my breath to think it was the Republican party. I dread the election in November. The chicanery and fraud that will go on will be mind-boggling, to say the least. And, nary a care will be given.
I wonder how long before the Dear Ruler's Minister of "Justice"
Submitted by Dave. on Sat, 02/04/2012 - 6:07pm.
...and No. 1 dog-washer (that would be one Herr Erich von Holderen), dispatches a couple of his goons to NBC2 and tells them to knock it off, or else.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Non citizens have driver's licenses too
Submitted by povertypimpin on Sat, 02/04/2012 - 11:49pm.
so requiring ID wouldn't necessarily stop non citizens from voting. It may stop more illegal aliens who are much less likely to have a state ID.
They need to research records and find out how these people ended up registered Was it an ACORN type group that facilitated registration or maybe the citizen box was checked on their driver's license application/renewal
These people need to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law otherwise there will be no deterrent for non-citizens to vote.
voter fraud
Submitted by angelann1 on Sun, 02/05/2012 - 2:00pm.
If it weren't for voter fraud democrats couldn't get elected !