The word ‘incredible’ does not mean ‘great’. It literally means ‘without credibility’. It refers to something that is unbelievable. The most incredible claim of the current US election cycle is that “there has been no fraud”, a bizarre phrase repeated by MSM without evidence because they have not waited for evidence to be presented.
Texas currently averages 57 convictions per election. Remember, these are only the people who were caught so the real numbers will be much higher, and most cases involved multiple votes. It would truly be incredible if there were no cases coming from this election.
Texas is not unusual. In response to the incredible claims being made, the Heritage Foundation has just published examples from every state in the last decade. Many involve election officials.
In Alabama, an absentee-ballot buying operation was uncovered in Winston County that led to the conviction of the sheriff, circuit clerk, and a district judge.
Officials in California took part in a widespread corruption scheme that included accepting cash bribes and throwing out absentee ballots that favoured election challengers. After a lengthy FBI Investigation, the former head of code enforcement, Angel Perales, admitted to tampering with mail-in ballots in city elections by opening them and then resealing and submitting votes for incumbent candidates while discarding votes for challengers.
In the same state in 2014, Senator (Democrat) Roderick Wright was convicted of eight felony counts of perjury and voter fraud, while in a separate case auditor-controller candidate Kathleen Knox – who during the campaign pledged to “fight waste and fraud” – was found guilty of voter fraud.
The most common types of fraud are exactly the one the Republicans were worried about, and which are made easier by mail-in ballots.
IMPERSONATION FRAUD AT THE POLLS: Voting in the name of other legitimate voters and voters who have died, moved away, or lost their right to vote because they are felons, but remain registered.
FALSE REGISTRATIONS: Voting under fraudulent voter registrations that either use a phony name and a real or fake address or claim residence in a particular jurisdiction where the registered voter does not actually live and is not entitled to vote.
DUPLICATE VOTING: Registering in multiple locations and voting in the same election in more than one jurisdiction or state.
FRAUDULENT USE OF ABSENTEE BALLOTS: Requesting absentee ballots and voting without the knowledge of the actual voter; or obtaining the absentee ballot from a voter and either filling it in directly and forging the voter’s signature or illegally telling the voter who to vote for.
BUYING VOTES: Paying voters to cast either an in-person or absentee ballot for a particular candidate.
ILLEGAL “ASSISTANCE” AT THE POLLS: Forcing or intimidating voters—particularly the elderly, disabled, illiterate, and those for whom English is a second language—to vote for particular candidates while supposedly providing them with “assistance.”
INELIGIBLE VOTING: Illegal registration and voting by individuals who are not US citizens, are convicted felons, or are otherwise not eligible to vote.
ALTERING THE VOTE COUNT: Changing the actual vote count either in a precinct or at the central location where votes are counted.
BALLOT PETITION FRAUD: Forging the signatures of registered voters on the ballot petitions that must be filed with election officials in some states for a candidate or issue to be listed on the official ballot.
Some more examples from the swing states that suddenly pitched Biden’s way:
Arizona
Larry Gray was charged with illegally casting more than 98 absentee ballots in other people’s names. According to the US Attorney’s Office, Gray was likely not the only one running this type of scheme.
Georgia
Carleton Vines and his accomplices ran an absentee ballot fraud operation designed to rig the 2016 election in which Vines won election as a state court judge.
Nevada
Amy Adele Busefink and Christopher Howell Edwards, two senior executives, were convicted of election fraud in connection with a voter registration scheme in which employees were paid a bonus to register voters in 2011.
Pennsylvania
Myron Cowher and Dmitry Kupershmidt were found guilty of attempting to rig a May 2014 election. State police surveilled a meeting, catching Cowher in the act of filling out the mail-in ballots. He was arrested and subsequently convicted on 217 counts. His accomplice, Kupershmidt, was found guilty on 190 counts.
Wisconsin
Frank Edmund Walton was convicted in 2010 for registering 70 voters with false information, including at least one deceased voter, while employed by the Community Voters Project.
I cannot say whether fraud affected the outcome, but I can say that it is statistically incredible to claim there was no fraud.
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