There's been much in the news lately about a firm hired by the GOP to register voters in Florida. That firm has allegedly turned in false registrations. To hear the mainstream media narrative, the only perpetrators of voter fraud in 2012 are Republicans. That is not the case, and I know it first hand, because a representative of the President's re-election efforts attempted to disenfranchise my wife and me, simply because of our party affiliation.
On June 21, 2012, I was leaving a Walmart store on Military Trail in Delray Beach, FL. On my way out, a man with a tiny Obama button on his hat and a clipboard claimed he worked for the supervisor of elections office. He asked me if I am registered to vote. I told him I was. He then asked if I wanted to fill out an absentee ballot request for the primary and general. I did.
He then told me I could fill one out for my wife as well, as long as I signed her name "just like she signs it."
About a week later, I checked online to see if my absentee ballot request had been received. It hadn't. And that's why I believe that Organizing for America (an affiliate of the President's re-election campaign) is cross-referencing ballot requests, and tossing out the Republican ones.
The guy I met was friendly enough, and I'm not saying HE personally committed voter fraud (perhaps someone in the back office does the cross-referencing). I remember that he was a white male, about 55, with brownish blonde hair and glasses. He said he was a retired Chicago area optometry chain store owner, and that he had invented the concept of vision insurance. He also said his son had been on the show Survivor.
After doing some poking around on Organizing for America's Boca Raton Facebook page, I believe I've identified his photo.
I sent an email to the supervisor of elections office general inbox on July 27th, and was VERY IMPRESSED to get a phone call from Susan Bucher herself (she is Palm Beach County's elected supervisor of elections). Despite being in the middle of a very nasty re-election campaign herself, she spent 8+ minutes on the phone with me. I was so impressed with her prompt constituent service, and assurances that she would take action, that my wife and I both voted for her re-election on August 14th.
When news of the GOP voter fraud problem broke, I saw Bucher quoted extensively on MSNBC, bashing the Republicans for the story linked above. Why didn't Susan Bucher go to the press with MY report of voter fraud? Why the outrage over the GOP, but none for Team Obama?
So I post this for two reasons. The first is to warn voters to verify your registration or absentee ballot request status before it's too late. Second, for all the righteous indignation out there over the GOP's problems, both sides, unfortunately, are engaging in shady practices - reinforcing the need for uniform voter i.d. laws and elected officials who will publicly fight voter fraud, no matter its source.
Whatever else would you expect from Bucher? She is a bought and paid for demoRAT who will never have a good word for republicans.
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