Voter Fraud

What's not to like about closing-out the year with further evidence of voter fraud.

There is a retirement community in Florida called The Villages.  It is populated with individuals my age (or thereabouts) with a sizeable number of them not at all happy with the outcome of the 2020 presidential election

Their guy (the Former Guy) lost. 

In any event I'm gonna share that there seems to be no shortage of election fraud occurring amongst my Baby Boomer Brethren.  Except it is on behalf of the Former Guy.  You know, the guy who lost the election.  The guy who also lost the Senate along with the White House.  But let's not pile-on. 

Court records reveal that so far three residents of the community have been arrested for felony voter fraud in an ongoing investigation.  Jay Ketcik, Joan Halstead and John Rider are each charged with casting more than one ballot in an election, a third-degree felony.  Which happens to be punishable by up to five years in prison.

Ketcik, 63, is accused of voting by mail in Florida in October 2020 while also casting an absentee ballot in his original home state of Michigan, court records show.

Halstead, 71, voted in-person in Florida but also cast an absentee ballot in New York, prosecutors allege.

Rider, 61, was arrested by Brevard County deputies at the Royal Caribbean cruise ship terminal at Port Canaveral on December 3rd.  Prosecutors have indicated he cast ballots both out-of-state and in Florida. 

Voter registration records reveal that all three of these felonious personalities are registered as Republicans in Florida.

Mind you, this is an example of the garden-variety fraud that goes on with every election. And none of it is of the scale that would likely impact the outcome of a national election.

Yet it happens.

On both sides.

And in my view if it is proven in a court (our judicial system DOES work) maybe some people should pay ginormous fines, lose their voting privileges (if convicted of a felony) or maybe even do some time in prison. Make an example of stooges and cheaters.

In closing, how many of you readers remember Rosemarie Hartle? The Former Guy couldn't  keep his trap shut over how she voted in Nevada three years following her death. Hartle was married to Las Vegas businessman Donald Hartle – also a registered Republican. Last year Hartle expressed disbelief when it was learned that a mail-in ballot had been cast in his late wife’s name.  He was aghast and stated he was sickened by this and that he couldn’t possibly know how it came to happen. The case has been solved. Hartle cast the ballot himself.   And earlier this month he plead guilty to the crime of voting more than once in the same election.

You're welcome.

So do like me - a guy who almost always supports intelligent and honest GOP candidates in an election.  Dishonest or crappy GOP candidate?  Don't vote for them.  Do not compromise your scruples.  And for the love of God and all that is holy - don't cheat.  Cheaters are gonna get caught.......