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Voter Fraud
Citizens’ Group Helps Uncover Alleged Rampant Voter Fraud in Houston
When Catherine Engelbrecht and her friends sat down and started talking politics several years ago, they soon agreed that talking wasn’t enough. They wanted to do more. So when the 2008 election came around, “about 50” of her friends volunteered to work at Houston’s polling places.
“What we saw shocked us,” she said. “There was no one checking IDs, judges would vote for people that asked for help. It was fraud, and we watched like deer in the headlights.”
Since it’s obvious that the so called officials aren’t doing their job, I’m really glad to see every day, ordinary folks, step up to the plate! I applaud this group’s efforts!
“The first thing we started to do was look at houses with more than six voters in them” Engelbrecht said, because those houses were the most likely to have fraudulent registrations attached to them. “Most voting districts had 1,800 if they were Republican and 2,400 of these houses if they were Democratic . . .
“But we came across one with 24,000, and that was where we started looking.”
It was Houston’s poorest and predominantly black district, which has led some to accuse the group of targeting poor black areas. But Engelbrecht rejects that, saying, “It had nothing to do with politics. It was just the numbers.”
Numbers don’t have a color. Well, unless you use a crayon.
“Vacant lots had several voters registered on them. An eight-bed halfway house had more than 40 voters registered at its address,” Engelbrecht said. “We then decided to look at who was registering the voters.”
Unfortunately, Houston isn’t the only large city that has such fraud going on. Do you ever wonder what the outcome of an election would be if there weren’t such activities? If people were actually HONEST? What a concept! 
Most of the findings focused on a group called Houston Votes, a voter registration group headed by Steve Caddle, who also works for the Service Employees International Union. Among the findings were that only 1,793 of the 25,000 registrations the group submitted appeared to be valid. The other registrations included one of a woman who registered six times in the same day; registrations of non-citizens; so many applications from one Houston Voters collector in one day that it was deemed to be beyond human capability; and 1,597 registrations that named the same person multiple times, often with different signatures.
Hmmm…. Service Employees International Union. Where have I heard that same before? *tapping head…thinking* Oh yeah……SEIU! Obama’s favorite union! I wonder why I’m not shocked at this news?
The outcome of the efforts grew in importance the day after Vasquez made his announcement. On the morning of Aug. 27, a three-alarm fire destroyed almost all of Harris County’s voting machines, throwing the upcoming Nov. 2 election into turmoil. While the cause wasn’t determined, the $40 million blaze, according to press reports, means election officials will be focused on creating a whole new voting system in six weeks. Just how they do it will determine how vulnerable the process becomes.
Quite an interesting “coincidence”, don’t you think?
Sounds like a very Democratic fire to me! The timing is just beyond coincidence. Harris County is highly corrupt, with a huge black population that is out to get everything they can for themselves free of charge.
After living in Houston, when I was in serious need of aid, I found that I was the wrong color to get much consideration. And I’m talking MAJOR need….not want.
There was rampant voter descrepancies in Tennessee during the primaries! The Tennessee State GOP, the Secretary of State, the Tennessee State Coordinator of Elections, County Election Commissions all decided sticking their head in the sand was better than taking the high road and making it Right to the Voters! I have enough material to write a book!
Then I guess it’s up to ‘civilians’ to do THEIR JOB for them. More than just irritating. Down right criminal!