I am sick and tired of members of the press trying to make it sound like vote fraud does not exist.

To be fair the “press” has changed their message a little and are now saying things like “there is no evidence if wide-spread vote fraud.”

The fact is there are many instances of vote fraud that have been covered in the nation’s newspapers. Because these instances have made the news I can’t understand why members of the press insist it doesn’t happen.

Vote fraud, or elections fraud happens in many ways. I still remember way back in 2000 when I was a candidate for Congress (the old PA CD1) in Philly having to go to court on Election Day morning to stop an illegal turkey for votes giveaway in the city’s 7th ward. The judge agreed.

Fraud happens, and in the interest of being fair, I will admit it happens both ways. Only two years ago a political operative working for North Carolina Republican congressional candidate Mark Harris managed to get himself indicted on charges related to collecting absentee ballots in the 2018 primary and 2016 election. The whole ordeal led to a new election in which a different Republican candidate, Dan Bishop, stepped up to win the House seat in NC-09.

New Jersey has plenty of vote fraud problems. Anyone remember the time when then Roselle Council President Jamel Holley was charged with absentee ballot fraud for filling out and submitting more than 20 ballots in the 2006 election? In one of those “only in New Jersey” stories Holley paid a $125 fine and was granted pre-trial intervention to avoid jail time and have criminal charges of ballot-tampering dismissed within a year. Even former Governor Jon Corzine wanted Holley out, but typical Democrat politicos like Ray Lesniak and Joe Cryan supported Holley. Eventually, Holley was rewarded with the Assembly seat he occupies today.

Also in New Jersey is the story of John Fernandez, the former Essex County Department of Economic Development employee who received a five-year prison sentence for conspiracy, election fraud, absentee ballot fraud, tampering with public records or information and forgery. According to NJ.com:

In September, a Mercer County jury found Fernandez was guilty of submitting ballots on behalf of voters in the Nov. 6, 2007, general election without their knowledge. He helped collect ballots on behalf of Teresa Ruiz, who won the election and still serves in the Senate.

The jury convicted him of conspiracy, election fraud, absentee ballot fraud, tampering with public records or information and forgery.

And, since the article quoted is from 2012, for those who don’t pay attention Ruiz is still a state Senator.

New Jersey has a long history of vote fraud. The Heritage Foundation lists 16 cases going back to 2003.

More recently Gloucester County Republicans challenged 157 mail-in ballots of voters who voted in Gloucester County even though they filled out a change of address form with the post office because they moved out of the county.

Last time I checked it was illegal to vote where you don’t live. Apparently, no one bothered to tell the judge.

The bottom line here is that vote fraud exists. We know it exists and we have to work to stop it – and not just during election season. The fight for 2021 begins now. We have to out the folks who are committing vote fraud. If they know we’re watching them it might be enough to stop them. Some of those folks who voted in Gloucester County who don’t live in the county I have tracked down on social media, I have the screenshots that show they live elsewhere, I might just have to publish them soon.

To the press: Please stop saying vote fraud doesn’t exist, you’ve written about it, so you know it does.