In the home of one of the leading vote fraud deniers, the
Brennan Center, a week ago a massive
vote fraud scheme was brought to trial.
The Brennan Center spent months wailing about massive mythical
disenfranchisement of voters by voter ID in Texas, yet remains silent about actual disenfranchisement
in their own neighborhood.
Hector Ramirez was arrested
Tuesday on massive voter fraud charges in his failed 2014 Assembly bid.
Ramirez and his allies went
door-to-door in his west Bronx district duping voters into letting the veteran
pol’s campaign staff vote on their behalf, a prosecutor charged as the
242-count indictment was unsealed.
“Victim after victim after
victim testified to the grand jury that members of the Ramirez campaign knocked
on their door, including Hector Ramirez himself, and said ‘Hey, you don’t have
to go to the polls for this election, just sign here,” Assistant District
Attorney Pishoy Yacoub said in Bronx Supreme Court.
The Brennan Center and other vote fraud deniers will no
doubt argue that Mr. Ramirez sill lost the election so what does it matter? However, that argument fails for two
reasons. The lesser of the two reasons
is the fact the election was just two votes away from an alleged criminal
being elected is hardly comforting. If
he was just a slightly better cheat, he would have won.
However, the bigger reason is that it disenfranchised
voters and entire ballots.
Those
voters never got their ballots back, Yacoub said.
Unlike the mythical claims
of voter ID disenfranchising people, this really did happen. They lost their votes. The Brennan Center is silent. Is it because they don’t care about disenfranchisement? It seems likely. The Brennan Center and other vote fraud deniers focus on issues such as voter ID to scare and fundraise off rather than issues such
as vote fraud that actually disenfranchise voters.
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