{"id":15217,"date":"2024-10-31T18:50:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T01:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15217"},"modified":"2024-10-31T19:00:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T02:00:24","slug":"the-gop-voter-fraud-before-the-storm-bradcast-10312024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15217","title":{"rendered":"The GOP &#8216;Voter Fraud&#8217; Before the Storm: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 10\/31\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_AbsenteeBallotEnvelope_103124.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">On today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a> we&#8217;re hoping to help you get acclimated to the tsunami of &#8220;fraud&#8221; claims &#8212; both real and fake, and what they mean and don&#8217;t &#8212; that are most likely about to come our way over the next few days and weeks&#8230;at least if <b>Donald Trump<\/b> loses to <b>Kamala Harris<\/b> in 2024 as he did to <b>Joe Biden<\/b> in 2020. [<i>Audio link to full show follows this summary.<\/i>]\n<p>Pardon us, however, for beginning with a brief victory lap following our L.A. Dodgers&#8217; big World Series win last night, and a related sidebar as to what history tells us (or doesn&#8217;t) about who is going to win the Presidential election based on who won the World Series.<\/p>\n<p>Then, as to the coming &#8220;fraud&#8221; storm&#8230;among the many stories cited along the way today&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A <b>Minnesota<\/b> woman this week was <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/voter-fraud-mail-minnesota-dead-mother-07728368892dad330e1c5b058289c4f2\">charged<\/a> with three felony counts of voter fraud after forging her dead mother&#8217;s signature on an absentee ballot to vote for Donald Trump.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Six people were charged over the summer for submitting nearly two dozen fraudulent absentee ballots on behalf of a Republican City Council candidate in <b>New York<\/b>. How they got away with it and how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qchron.com\/editions\/queenswide\/six-charged-with-voter-fraud-in-flushing-race\/article_855fcd62-6b43-504c-97f1-01cdefcd1ceb.html\">they got caught<\/a>. The candidate&#8217;s 19-year old daughter was among those charged.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In the battleground state of <b>Michigan<\/b>, election officials in August <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgemi.com\/michigan-government\/how-election-officials-caught-4-alleged-double-votes-michigan-primary\">indicted<\/a> four voters who allegedly voted twice &#8212; first by absentee and then again at the polls &#8212; in the state&#8217;s Presidential primary earlier this year. Once again, as in all of these cases, they were caught and charged thanks to safe-guards built into the system. Of the more than 11.7 million votes cast in the state over the past several elections, according to Michigan&#8217;s State Auditor General, 99.99% of ballots cast were NOT from double voters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In Mesa County, <b>Colorado<\/b> this week, officials announced they <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/2024\/10\/24\/ballots-stolen-colorado-mesa-county\">blocked an effort<\/a> in the very Republican-leaning county to cast about a dozen absentee ballots, apparently stolen out of mailboxes in the Vote-by-Mail state. The state&#8217;s signature-matching procedures uncovered the fraud scheme, though three fraudulent ballots slipped through the system before the crime was discovered. Mesa is the same county where former County Clerk, <b>Tina Peters<\/b>, was earlier this month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2024\/10\/02\/former-colorado-county-clerk-tina-peters-sentenced-to-9-years-for-voting-data-scheme\/\">sentenced to 9 years in prison<\/a> on felony charges related to helping her MAGA friends break into the County&#8217;s voting systems in the middle of the night after the 2020 election to copy proprietary software and distribute it across the Internet to other Trump supporters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Last month we reported on the story out of <b>Arizona<\/b> where both the RNC and the state Republican Party went to court to argue <i>against<\/i> the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/arizona-voter-citizenship-proof-elections-court-15703fd0ee76359af0eb1b7539df1cc7\">removal<\/a> of some 98,000 voters from the state voting rolls who, due to a years-old glitch in Maricopa County&#8217;s voter database, had no record of presenting Proof of Citizenship with their registrations, as required by state law. In that case, Republicans <i>opposed<\/i> the systematic voter purge that the state&#8217;s Democratic Sec. of State didn&#8217;t want to do, but felt he had to under state law. The Republicans correctly argued to the AZ Supreme Court that such purges, within 90-days of an election, were in violation of federal law. They made that argument after the SoS revealed that the majority of the potentially &#8220;non-citizen&#8221; voters to be removed were registered Republicans.\n<p>Yet, this week, on Wednesday in <b>Virginia<\/b>, after a U.S. District Court Judge and federal Appeals Court last week blocked an attempt by the state&#8217;s Republican Governor to purge some 1,600 registered voters under the premise that some <i>might<\/i> be non-citizens, the corrupted Republican <b>U.S. Supreme Court<\/b> majority <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2024\/10\/us-presidential-election-supreme-court-virginia-voter-rolls-purge.html\">allowed the unlawful systematic purge<\/a>, ordered by Gov. Glenn Youngkin, to move forward. All three Democratic-appointed SCOTUS Justices dissented. One of the purged Virginians, a U.S. citizen who has lived there her entire life, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/supreme-court-virginia-voter-registration-purge-ba3d785d9d2d169d9c02207a42893757\">called it<\/a> &#8220;a very bad October surprise.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of these stories today help us understand the difference between real and fake fraud claims; the difference between voter fraud and election fraud; how easily most such penny-ante fraud is caught and often prevented before it happens; and how Republicans this year, from Donald Trump on down through his minions and back up through his corrupted SCOTUS, are hoping to use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-noncitizen-voter-fraud-fact-check\/\">phony or exaggerated fraud claims<\/a> to help sow the seeds to <i>steal<\/i> the election, <i>if necessary<\/i>, as of Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Get ready! Because that <i>is<\/i> coming &#8212; <i>if<\/i> Harris is declared the winner.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15215\">our latest <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a>, with horrific <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WeatherProf\/status\/1851453760226086997\">&#8220;welcome to the future&#8221;<\/a> news out of <b>Spain<\/b> this week, where extreme drought was followed up with a year&#8217;s worth of rain and deadly flash flooding this week that swept through one town in a matter of hours, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/czxrnlld95zo\">killing more than 150<\/a> so far; and some words of warning about Tuesday&#8217;s election from Sen. <b>Bernie Sanders<\/b> regarding our climate changed future in the event that Trump is allowed back into the White House in January&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; 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