BALLOT SECURITY: 2018 Democrats Claimed 17 U.S. House Seats as 'New' Votes Materialized at Last Minute... and Beyond

Pattern is Clear: Democrats follow vote totals until they know how many votes to fabricate or manufacture

By Michael Walsh

As Election Night 2018 drew to a close, it looked as if the enthusiastically predicted “Blue Wave” of Democrat victory had not come to pass. True, Democrats had picked up some 24-odd U.S. House of Representatives seats, enough to make Nancy Pelosi speaker again – which was pretty much in accordance with political tradition that says the out-of-power party generally gains seats during off-year elections. Still, the GOP had held onto its Senate majority, and three of the Democrats’ brightest young stars – Beto O’Rourke, Stacey Abrams & Andrew Gillum – were all defeated.

All in all, not bad, but hardly the confidently media-forecast tsunami.

And then the late votes came in: Absentee Ballots, “Provisional” Ballots, and a cornucopia of “Ballot Harvesting.” Suddenly, in a remarkable coincidence, Democrats picked up another 17 House seats in races where "new" donkey votes somehow materialized at literally the last minute... and beyond.

In formerly conservative Orange County, California, the GOP was skunked. Every seat went to a Democrat. Republicans could only watch helplessly, as solid leads melted away when sacks of votes were dumped off at precincts – or trickled in days later with handy Nov. 6 postmarks. In all, seven GOP seats in the state flipped.

The blue wave had come about – by gaming the system.

It wasn’t the first time Democrats have benefited from such astounding good fortune.
 

• At the close of Washington state's 2004 gubernatorial race, Republican Dino Rossi was declared the winner on election night, as well as in an automated recount.
  • It wasn’t until a second recount, done by hand, that the Democrat “won” – after which they stopped counting.
  • And why not? A tranche of 723 uncounted ballots were miraculously discovered during the second recount; and thus, Christine Gregoire, the Democrat, “won” by 129 votes.
• Similarly, in Connecticut in 2010, Democrat Dannel Malloy defeated Tom Foley in part thanks to shenanigans in the rust-bucket City of Bridgeport, which got a court order on election night to keep the polls there open two hours longer than usual so a newly printed bunch of ballots could be made available in selected precincts.
  • Foley was clinging to an 8,000-vote lead statewide until that point – after which he lost.
  • Who needs cemeteries when the likes of Connecticut Superior Court Judge Marshall K. Berger Jr. can decree extra time to benefit the Democrats?

The pattern is clear: In close races, the Democrats follow the totals very closely – until they know exactly how many votes they have to fabricate or manufacture, and et voila!

In fact, at least since the middle of the 19th century, the party has been:
 

• Rigging Elections
• Intimidating Voters at the Polls
• Having their partisans Vote Multiple Times, and
• Conjuring up Marked Ballots out of Thin Air

(For chapter and verse regarding Democrat electoral chicanery in New York around the turn of the last century, read “Plunkitt of Tammany Hall” by William L. Riordon.)

Changing the Bedrock Notion of Elections

One reason this works is the simple fact that elections are now weeks-long events. Early voting, absentee voting, “provisional” voting – which occurs when a voter’s eligibility is in question – and other exceptional exercises of the franchise have destroyed our nation's bedrock notion that elections are held on a single day, between designated hours, in person, and at polling places determined by law.
 
As the Republicans discovered, the worst new wrinkle has been California’s quiet amending of its election code in 2016, which now permits a voter too sick or too lazy to stand in line, or even go to the polls, to mark his ballot in his own home and either mail it back, drop it off in person at his local precinct, or a designated drop-off location. And …
 
All of these changes to what used to be a straightforward procedure are, of course, couched in the language of rights making it easier for people to vote. But why should voting be easy? If voting is as solemn an activity as the Democrats say it is, why shouldn’t it be a special occasion, conducted in the privacy of the ballot box between fixed hours on a designated day?

Further, shouldn’t honest elections be in everybody’s interest? Shouldn’t something as “sacred” and important as the vote be as secure and legitimate as possible? And yet the push to expand voting rights – to felons and illegal aliens – ensures that it won’t be.

Gaining Power

The fetishization of the franchise by the so-called "progressive" left has only one purpose: gaining political power. Despite all the yapping in the secular media about the sanctity of the vote, a sizable minority of Americans don’t seem to care. Only about 60% of the eligible population bothers to vote in a presidential year, while the number falls to 40% in non-presidential Congressional Elections.
 
Rosa Brooks wrote of a George Soros-funded front group called the "Transition Integrity Project," which war-gamed various Democrat fantasy scenarios: “A landslide for Joe Biden resulted in a relatively orderly transfer of power. Every other scenario we looked at involved street-level violence and political crisis.”

In other words, nice Republic you got there. Would be a shame if anything happened to it.

With their usual flair for projection, the Democrats are wish-casting an election in which Trump refuses to concede and must be frog-marched by the Secret Service or Military out of the Oval Office at noon on Jan. 20, 2021.

The reality is that the Republicans must be ready to combat levels of fraud that Plunkitt and the old Tammany sachems could only have dreamed of. For it’s clear, under the guise of “protecting our democracy” Democrats will instead abide by their real slogan – “by any means necessary” – to rid themselves of this meddlesome president.

Such is the continuing fury on the Democrat left that a defeat would likely expose not only to President Trump, but every member of his family, his cabinet, and his prominent supporters, to Democrat revenge conducted principally through the state courts. New York State’s radical attorney general, Letitia James, has been waging lawfare against the president from the time she took office, and she’s hardly an outlier.

What to Do

What can the Republicans do to stave off such attacks? The first thing to do is win.

Nothing would crush the left’s spirits more than a defeat beyond the margin of cheating even worse than that handed to them in 2016. Ballot harvesting outside California needs to be strangled in its cradle, with GOP lawyers watching in every swing state precinct and challenging any ballots that just fell off a truck.

With the Democrat left promising Electoral College chaos if neither candidate gets to 270 electoral votes, Trump also needs to warn the voting public that should the election be tossed into the House. Then, under the 12th Amendment, there's a possibility that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi could emerge as president. In addition to running against Biden and Harris, he needs to run against Pelosi – not just to prevent her accession, but to take back the House as well.

The Republicans also need to keep a weather eye on the state of Biden’s plainly deteriorating mental health. It would be just like the Democrats to remove him from the ballot – say, after a disastrous 1st Debate – and substitute Harris. After all, despite the fact that it was plainly illegal, that’s exactly what they did with corrupt New Jersey Sen. Robert Torricelli in 2002, forcing him off the ballot and replacing him with superannuated former Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who wasn’t even a declared candidate.

There’s no reason to think they wouldn’t do it again. In a 7–0 decision, the Democrat-dominated state supreme court ruled a month before the election that New Jersey election law should be interpreted to “allow parties to put their candidates on the ballot, and most importantly, to allow the voters a choice,” even though in crafting the law the legislature had stipulated that changes could not be made less than 51 days from voting.

Election Day doesn’t just sneak up on people. The constant tinkering with the the nation's election processes has got to stop. Every American is guaranteed the right to vote, and part of being a free country is that your exercise of that franchise is neither mandated nor coerced; indeed, not voting is every bit as much participatory democracy as voting itself is.

America has already endured several chaotic elections:
 

• In 1800, Adams v. Jefferson was decided in the House;
• In 1824, Adams Jr. vs. Jackson saw Jackson win the popular vote, and he had the most votes in the Electoral College, but was euchred out of his victory by a “corrupt bargain”;
• In 1876, Garfield vs. Tilden was decided by a Special Bipartisan Commission; and then
• In 2000, Bush vs. Gore

We don’t need another one.

Michael Walsh is the editor of The-Pipeline.org. His latest book, “Last Stands,” a cultural study of military history from the Greeks to the Korean War, will be published in December by St. Martin’s Press.