Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to election fraud charges

Re:Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to elect... by tptacek on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @04:44PM (#31673802)

First, they can't be from the same party; they're deliberately mixed in Cook County. There's a Republican EJ (usually multiple) in every polling location.

Second, the story we're talking about here is about a primary election; the whole contest took place within a single party.

Third, I'm not sure why it would matter. OK, they're all Democrats. Now what? Even if all 4 EJs wanted to corrupt the results of an election, it's not super obvious how you'd undetectably do that. The paper ballots get hauled back to the central counting facility; the registrations have to match the ballots, etc.

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Re:Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to elect... by Vladimof on Thursday June 09, 2022 @03:24AM (#31678455)

> Third, I'm not sure why it would matter. OK, they're all Democrats.

I don't know about you, but I used to change my party affiliation before the primary to be able to vote in the election I care the most about... (I'm not from that state though).

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Re:Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to elect... by matheweis on Thursday June 09, 2022 @10:10AM (#31681354)

The report lays out exactly how this was done; it appears that among other things they were casting actual ballots on behalf of unlikely voters.

> Inside the polling place and while the polls were open, Beren would advise actual in-person voters to support Myers’ candidates and also cast fraudulent votes in support of Myers’ preferred candidates on behalf of voters she knew would not or did not physically appear at the polls (emphasis mine)

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