Three stories about either cheating or incompetence by Democrats in Houston
Bipartisan lawsuit filed against Harris County Elections Administrator Isabel Longoria over alleged violations of Harris County voters
In an 8 March 2022 article by Houston NBC affiliate KPRC, Isabel Longoria was reported to have found herself sued by both Republicans and Democrats due to her having not counted 10,000 ballots.
A bipartisan lawsuit was filed Monday against the Harris County Elections Administrator.
Judge George Risner, Democrat candidate for Harris County Commissioner Precinct 2; Richard Vega, Republican Candidate for Harris County Commissioner Precinct 2; and Bianca Gracia, Republican candidate for Senate District 11, have filed the lawsuit against Isabel Longoria.
The petition claims that Longoria committed unlawful acts by intentionally, willfully, and knowingly failing to adequately allocate equipment, paper ballots that are capable of preserving the voters’ intent, and failing to operate voting centers during the posted hours.
The lawsuit stated that the actions of Longoria have violated petitioners statutory right to a safe, accurate and efficient election, to produce records that will allow an accurate audit.
“This lawsuit is bipartisan,” said attorney Oliver Jason Brown. “It means that both sides agree that there’s a problem and it needs to be fixed. We have to end this divide over elections and the way that we’ll do it is through this lawsuit.”
(Read more at KPRC)
Great. This “news” article tells us both sides are suing
Still, it does not divulge the facts that 10,000 ballots were not counted in the primaries. Of that, 6,000 were Democrat ballots. Another 4,000 were Republican ballots.
One would think that these points would be central.
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Harris County GOP wants independent administrator to oversee next election instead of Isabel Longoria
Houston CBS affiliate KHOU shows in a 9 March 2022 article how the GOP has asked a judge to install an independent administrator.
The Harris County Republican Party will ask a judge to appointment an independent administrator to oversee the next county election in May.
At a news conference Wednesday, GOP party leaders said that an emergency hearing on the election issues was held today.
Elections Administrator Isabel Longoria announced Tuesday that she will resign effective July 1 after issues during the Texas primary last week.
“The buck stops with me to address issues for voters and I did not meet my own standard or the standard set by commissioners,” Longoria said.
But July isn’t soon enough for the GOP.
“We’re stuck with her for two more elections,” GOP Party Chairman Cindy Siegel said.
They say voter confidence in the election process is at stake.
“We have an election administrator that’s already proven to be inexperienced, incompetent and disingenuous, and yet that person’s gonna be in charge of two major elections for both political parties in the state of Texas,” said state Senator Paul Bettencourt. “And that can’t be tolerated.”
But Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo said there’s not enough time to appoint Longoria’s replacement before the May runoff.
“It would just not make sense from a logistical standpoint, I don’t think it would be responsible, for us to bring in someone new when we have an election here in a matter of a few weeks,” she said.
Harris County announced over the weekend that they’d identified about 10,000 mail-in ballots that were not added into the original Election Night count. Results were also delayed on election night after Longoria said some of the paper ballots got stuck in the new voting machines.
“Because of inexperience, incompetence and disingenuous behavior, we’ve had the worst election we’ve seen in 40 years of my lifetime in Harris County,” Bettencourt said.
(Read more drivel at KHOU)
Again, a main-stream media outlet stops short of the real questions
This article may have mentioned the 10,000 ballots not counted for the Election Night count.
However, they skip over the 175 ballots found after her “resignation” and the streaming video (that went dark) of the ballot counting room. It does not mention the five-hour-late processing of the counted votes (after an extension and so late it violated election law).
For information on the 175 ballots or the missing video (which is required by the new Texas vote integrity law and went dark for an hour starting at 2:30 a.m.), you have to listen to a Facebook video at Senator Paul Bettencourt’s site or check outside-of-main-stream media (below).
Additionally, articles (previously linked) criticizing this Democrat have been removed by CBS and NBC.
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Since Longoria’s “resignation” won’t happen until after the next two primary elections, Harris County GOP sues for an independent administrator
A 9 March 2022 article in The Texan.news shows how the Democrat Isabel Longoria has proven herself either supremely incompetent or completely corrupt.
Following a week of public outcry and multiple lawsuits over primary election issues in the state’s largest county, Harris County Elections Administrator Isabel Longoria submitted her resignation on Tuesday.
“Today I am submitting my resignation effective July 1. I think this date ensures that there’s a presiding officer during the major elections and allows the election commission the time they need to find a replacement,” Longoria said. “I remain committed to the office and its mission and hope to aid in defeating harmful radical rhetoric to ensure successful elections in the future.”
During a Wednesday morning press conference, however, Harris County Republican Party (HCRP) Chair Cindy Siegel announced that the party would continue to pursue its lawsuit over the election, noting that Longoria is slated to preside over the upcoming primary runoff and municipal elections in May.
HCRP attorney Steve Mitby said he would be going into an emergency hearing to request the court order an independent administrator to oversee the next Harris County election, and for the county to turn back on cameras live streaming the ballot counting process.
“We know there are 10,000 ballots that Harris County just found, that apparently had been lost, and they shut the cameras off when all this was going on,” said Mitby. “Under Texas law, Harris County is required to have a livestream and camera footage of all vote counting that’s going on.”
“The only reason why they would have been shut off is because somebody in Lina Hidalgo’s office had something to hide.”
Following an emergency hearing Wednesday morning, district court Judge Fredericka Phillips ruled that the court would supervise the counting of votes and ordered Longoria to report again to the court at 7:00 p.m.
Longoria said that cameras were not turned off but that the livestream was moved from the YouTube channel to another location on the Harris County website. Mitby told The Texan Longoria had not notified residents or observers of the change midway through the counting process.
(Read more at The Texan.news)
Finally, we get the whole story on the things that Longoria pulled.
We find that:
- During the night of the ballot counting, Longoria claimed to have moved (illegally) a streaming video camera that Texas vote-integrity law requires to display the vote count area
- Longoria went beyond the allowed time while counting the ballots she did disclose
- She “overlooked” 6,000 Democrat ballots that were discovered on Saturday (5 March 2022), but did not contact Democrat party officials
- She “found” 4,000 Republican ballots that were discovered on Saturday (5 March 2022), but did not contact Republican party officials
- As of 7 March 2022, another 175 ballots were located.
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The new Texas vote-integrity law says to sign and put your drivers license number (or last four of your social) on the ballot. Twenty-seven thousand did not do that out of the several million ballots cast.
The press tries to make non-compliance with the law seem like the government’s fault
The left-leaning Associated Press tries to paint a law into a metaphorical corner.
More than 27,000 mail ballots in Texas were flagged for rejection in the first test of new voting restrictions enacted across the U.S., jeopardizing votes cast by Democrats and Republicans alike and in counties big and small, according to an analysis by The Associated Press.
It puts the rate of rejected mail ballots in Texas on track to significantly surpass previous elections. The preliminary figures — reported by Texas counties after votes were counted in the state’s March 1 primary — is the fullest picture to date of how new election rules rushed into place by Republicans following the 2020 election made it harder for thousands of voters in both parties. Some will wind up not having their ballots count at all.
Rejected mail ballots are relatively uncommon in a typical election. But the initial rejection rate among mail voters in the Texas primary was roughly 17% across 120 counties, according to county-by-county figures obtained by AP. Those counties accounted for the vast majority of the nearly 3 million voters in Texas’ first-in-the-nation primary.
(Read more drivel at the Associated Press)
So, like Democrats, the press blames the law for breaking the law
This might explain the increase in murders, thefts, burglaries, shoplifting, and other crime in Democrat cities.
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Even in Arizona, elections matter
Guilty plea entered in Yuma ballot harvesting case
The Arizona Daily Independent reports through a 3 March 2022 article that Alma Juarez pled guilty to ballot harvesting.
One of two Yuma County women accused of taking part in ballot harvesting during the 2020 Primary Election has pleaded guilty to her role in the scheme which was exposed by two concerned citizens who set up a video camera near a polling station.
Alma Yadira Juarez admitted to committing one count of ballot abuse by knowingly collecting early ballots which had been filled out by other people. The offense has been designated as a Class 1 misdemeanor for which Juarez is promised a term of probation with no jail time when sentenced March 16.
Juarez, 42, was indicted by a state grand jury in December 2020 for a single Class 6 felony of ballot abuse. Her co-defendant, Guillermina Fuentes, would eventually be indicted for two Class 4 felonies of Forgery and Conspiracy, a Class 5 felony of Ballot Abuse, and a Class 6 felony of Ballot Abuse.
The charges against the women came about after two Yuma men -Gary Snyder and David Lara- set up a hidden camera to in hopes of uncovering ballot abuse long suspected to be occurring in their county. Video evidence Snyder and Lara turned over to the Yuma County Sheriff’s Office was forwarded by local officials to the Arizona Attorney General’s Office.
During Juarez’s change of plea hearing, Judge Roger Nelson of the Yuma County Superior Court was presented with a factual basis for the offense. It included Juarez’s admission that she was given the ballots by Fuentes, 65.
(Read more at the Arizona Daily Independent)
It is nice to hear that election law gets enforced
It is even better to hear when someone of consequence gets caught and prosecuted.
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Georgia opens investigation into possible illegal ballot harvesting in 2020 election
John Solomon of Just the News opens up a can of worms through a 4 January 2022 article that exposes how ballot harvesters were caught on video stuffing thousands of ballots during the 2020 election.
Georgia authorities have launched an investigation into an allegation of systematic ballot harvesting during the state’s 2020 general election and subsequent U.S. Senate runoff and may soon issue subpoenas to secure evidence, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger confirmed to Just the News.
Georgia law strictly prohibits third-party activists from picking up and delivering ballots on behalf of voters, a tactic called “harvesting” that liberal organizers have tried to get legalized in many battleground states without success. The U.S. Supreme Court this summer rejected Democrat efforts to overturn an Arizona law that outlawed harvesting in the battleground state.
Raffensperger, who is seeking reelection in 2022, led a successful effort in 2019 to strengthen Georgia’s prohibition against harvesting ahead of the 2020 presidential election, and defeated an effort by prominent Democrat lawyer Marc Elias to overturn the harvesting ban. Raffensperger also reviewed and rejected claims by former President Donald Trump of widespread fraud during the 2020 election in a series of contacts under investigation by a local district attorney in Atlanta and the Jan. 6 select committee in Congress.
According to interviews and documents reviewed by Just the News, Raffensperger’s office received a detailed complaint from conservative voter integrity group True the Vote on Nov. 30 saying it had assembled evidence that scores of activists worked with nonprofit groups to collect and deliver thousands of absentee ballots, often during wee-hour operations, to temporary voting drop boxes distributed around the state during the pandemic.
The group informed the secretary its evidence included video footage from surveillance cameras placed by counties outside the drop boxes as well as geolocation data for the cell phones of more than 200 activists seen on the tapes purportedly showing the dates and times of ballot drop-offs, according to documents reviewed by Just the News.
The group also said it interviewed a Georgia man who admitted he was paid thousands of dollars to harvest ballots in the Atlanta metropolitan area during the November election and the lead-up to Jan. 5, 2021 runoff for Georgia’s two U.S. Senate seats, which were both captured by Democrats and ended GOP control of Congress. The group has yet to identify the cooperating witness to state authorities, referring to him in the complaint simply as John Doe.
The group does not allege the ballots delivered by couriers were fraudulent. Nonetheless, lawful ballots delivered by third-parties to drop boxes would run afoul of Georgia’s law.
Raffensperger confirmed in an interview aired Tuesday on the John Solomon Reports podcast that his office has deemed the allegations credible enough to open an investigation and possibly seek subpoenas from the State Election Board to secure evidence.
“We do have some information,” Raffensperger said. “And we are going to investigate that. We did deploy drop boxes that were under 24/7 surveillance, and because they were then that really, you know, can indicate who dropped that information off, and we’re really just going through that.”
(Read more at Just the News)
For those who would rather see the video, there is a new movie of this ballot harvesting coming out
Dinesh D’Souza has produced a movie (2,000 Mules) that will be showing soon. Here is the trailer:
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