The New York Post‘s Saturday-only writer Jon Levine posted 11 stories at the paper’s website yesterday. That’s about par for the course. The one that stuck out, though, was the one titled “Confessions of a voter fraud: I was a master at fixing mail-in ballots.” It’s a real stem-winder.
A top Democratic operative says voter fraud, especially with mail-in ballots, is no myth. And he knows this because he’s been doing it, on a grand scale, for decades.
Mail-in ballots have become the latest flashpoint in the 2020 elections. While President Trump and the GOP warn of widespread manipulation of the absentee vote that will swell with COVID polling restrictions, many Democrats and their media allies have dismissed such concerns as unfounded.
But the political insider, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he fears prosecution, said fraud is more the rule than the exception. His dirty work has taken him through the weeds of municipal and federal elections in Paterson, Atlantic City, Camden, Newark, Hoboken and Hudson County and his fingerprints can be found in local legislative, mayoral and congressional races across the Garden State. Some of the biggest names and highest office holders in New Jersey have benefited from his tricks, according to campaign records The Post reviewed.
“An election that is swayed by 500 votes, 1,000 votes — it can make a difference,” the tipster said. “It could be enough to flip states.”
The whisteblower — whose identity, rap sheet and long history working as a consultant to various campaigns were confirmed by The Post — says he not only changed ballots himself over the years, but led teams of fraudsters and mentored at least 20 operatives in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania — a critical 2020 swing state.
“There is no race in New Jersey — from City Council to United States Senate — that we haven’t worked on,” the tipster said. “I worked on a fire commissioner’s race in Burlington County. The smaller the race the easier it is to do.”
A Bernie Sanders die-hard with no horse in the presidential race, he said he felt compelled to come forward in the hope that states would act now to fix the glaring security problems present in mail-in ballots.
“This is a real thing,” he said. “And there is going to be a f-king war coming November 3rd over this stuff … If they knew how the sausage was made, they could fix it.”
Do you believe any of this? Because I don’t.
There are teams of fraudsters! At least 20 of them, anyway. And they’re fraudstering all our elections! And this guy, a Sanders supporter, is suddenly worried about it. Because it would help defeat Donald Trump? Really?
If he has a “rap sheet,” you think we’d have heard about it before now? After all, Trump and others have been pointing without evidence to voter fraud for years.
And this just doesn’t make any sense:
The ballot has no specific security features — like a stamp or a watermark — so the insider said he would just make his own ballots.
“I just put [the ballot] through the copy machine and it comes out the same way,” the insider said.
But the return envelopes are “more secure than the ballot. You could never recreate the envelope,” he said. So they had to be collected from real voters.
Doesn’t that strike you as backwards? If the ballot is just a piece of ordinary copy paper that can be replicated, that’s a problem, indeed. But the same folks who send out ridiculously-easy-to-fraudster ballots are also using some sort of stealthy, impossible-to-fraudster envelopes? That makes no sense whatsoever.
He would have his operatives fan out, going house-to-house, convincing voters to let them mail completed ballots on their behalf as a public service. The fraudster and his minions would then take the sealed envelopes home and hold them over boiling water.
“You have to steam it to loosen the glue,” said the insider.
He then would remove the real ballot, place the counterfeit ballot inside the signed certificate, and reseal the envelope.
“Five minutes per ballot tops,” said the insider.
These fraudsters apparently learned their tradecraft by watching Lucille Ball reruns.
So . . . to get envelopes, they’re going to random strangers and convincing them to let them have their sealed ballots. To mail them. As a public service. Nobody has called the police or anything like that.
But some 180,000 readers are being peddled this bullshit.
