A recent indictment in one of the bluest parts of a blue state appears to debunk the Democrats’ claim that voter fraud does not exist.
In Los Angeles, California, nine people have been charged for allegedly bribing homeless people to forge signatures on voter registration forms and ballot initiatives.
Voter fraud arrests made
Investigators found nonexistent voters and hundreds of forged signatures on voter registration forms and ballot initiatives dating back to the 2016 elections. Three men included in the group had already been arrested and charged with misdemeanor violations in May.
Los Angeles County prosecutors, in their complaint, accuse the suspects of offering cash and cigarettes to the people on Skid Row — one of the largest homeless populations in the country — in exchange for forged signatures on voter registration forms and ballot initiatives.
For this, the suspects are now facing a number of felony charges. They include circulating a petition with fake names, voter fraud, registering a fictitious person, use of false names on a petition, and registering a nonexistent person.
Despite being filed three weeks ago, the charges were just made public last Tuesday. The suspects are scheduled to make their initial court appearance this upcoming Tuesday.
The Los Angeles Times reported the names of those charged:
[Kirkland Kauzava] Washington, Harold Bennett, 53, and Louis Thomas Wise, 36, face up to six years and four months in prison. The others charged — Richard Howard, 62, Rose Makeda Sweeney, 42, Christopher Joseph Williams, 59, Jakara Fati Mardis, 35, Norman Hall, 61, and Nickey Demelvin Huntley, 44 — face up to four years and eight months in prison.
Voter fraud: a real problem
For years, Democrats have maintained that voter fraud is nonexistent. Just take the words of Obama Administration attorney general Eric Holder.
“My colleagues and I are acting aggressively to ensure that every American… can exercise his or her right to participate in the democratic process, unencumbered by unnecessary restrictions that discourage and discriminate or that disenfranchise in the name of a problem that doesn’t exist,” he said back in 2014, shortly after resigning as Attorney General.
In the view of Holder, and all Democrats who maintain this viewpoint, the “problem that doesn’t exist” is voter fraud, and the “unnecessary restrictions” are any attempts to make elections more secure, such as by instituting voter identification laws.
But, as the facts show, voter fraud is a real issue. Deon Joseph, a senior lead officer on Los Angeles’ skid row, said, “They paid individuals to sign the names. That’s an assault on our democracy.”
Yet, Democrats, who are supposed to be for Democracy, continue to deny the problem. Why?
Can it be that they don’t want to destroy a mechanism that may be helping them to win elections?
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