Lake County Fiscal Rangers

Update on Voter Fraud in Florida - State finds 1251 Voters who are "Non-Citizens"

Tavares, FL - May 8, 2012 by Vance Jochim

Florida Voter Fraud Update:  Awhile back, on April 4th, we told you about an NBC investigation in Lee and Collier County where they found over 100 local voters who VOTED, but then were discovered not to be legal citizens.'

In Florida, at least, you are supposed to be a US citizen to vote.  But weaknesses in the voter registration system in Florida allow people to register to vote without confirmation they are actually a citizen.

The NBC investigation compared jury records, using a list of voters who got out of jury duty by saying they were not citizens.  Then they checked public voter records and found 100 of them who had voted, some for many years, while not being a citizen.  (This is not about illegal aliens, but about people that could be legally, or illegally here, but not a citizen).

NOW, the Division of Elections of the State of Florida, embarrassed by the investigation, expanded the investigation, and found non-citizens who had obtained drivers licenses.  They matched that list with people registered to vote in Florida, and found 1,250 of them.

A newly appointed Secretary of State, Ken Detzner, is researching more ways to remove non-citizens from voter rolls.

Did you know you can report Voter Fraud to the Florida Division of Elections on THIS WEBPAGE?

On a separate note, I was at a recent presentation by Lake County Elections Supervisor Emogene Stegall, and she said that after our first news item on the non-citizen voters, she investigated and found one such illegal voter, but their address was no longer valid, so her office dropped that person from the voting rolls.

Today I asked Emogene if she had been notified by the Division of Elections of any other non-citizen voters based upon the analysis they did above, and they had not sent her a list.  She will notify FiscalRangers.com when she hears from the Elections Division.

HERE is the May 8th, 2012 NBC update story about the Division of Elections investigation.

http://www.nbc-2.com/story/18165667/state-sweep-finds-1251-ineligible-voters

HERE is our prior story on the earlier Lee & Collier County investigation by NBC.

http://webworks.typepad.com/lakecountyfiscalrangers/2012/04/voter-fraud-method-disclosed-by-ft-myers-nbc-tv-investigation-may-exist-in-all-florida-counties.html    

And, Here is a fun website of photos taken during the 2008 Elections at Polling Places all over the US:

http://www.pollingplacephotoproject.org/  

HERE is the homepage for the Florida Divsion of Elections

http://election.dos.state.fl.us/

AND, here is the homepage for the Lake County Elections Dept:

http://elections.lakecountyfl.gov/

vj

 

 

 

 

 

Voter Fraud Method Disclosed by Ft. Myers NBC TV Investigation - May Exist in ALL Florida Counties

FiscalRangers.com Alert   -  Tavares, FL    April 4, 2012

Florida Voter Fraud Method Detected by Ft. Myers NBC TV station investigation, which finds County Elections Departments not preventing NON-US citizens from voting.   Problem could exist in ALL Florida counties.

Note:  We will post updates here on this page as we get them. vj

A TV investigator for NBC Channel 2 in the Ft. Myers area found that there was no prevention technique to prevent non-citizens from registering to vote, and he found over 100 who had told the courts they could not be on a jury because they were non-citizens, but they also VOTED.   Then he checked the voter roles and found over 100 who claimed non-citizenship to get out of jury duty who HAD voted, some for many years without detection by the Elections Supt.

 

The reporter asked the Elections Supt. If they did any cross checks with the courts to verify addresses, or to detect non-citizens, and apparently it is not done in Florida.  He discussed the issue with Election Superintendents of Collier and Lee Counties.

 

The TV report was dated Feb. 2, but we just discovered it.

 

The reporter did not investigate whether the people actually lied when registering to vote, or someone else registered them without their knowledge.  But some admitted to voting while being a non-citizen.

 

This is why I think a major investigation is needed of all County Elections departments because they are in the stone ages in using computers to detect voter fraud.  (More articles coming).   The days of basing voter registration and voting on "trust" need to end.  Apparently, according to part two, no one asked voters for proof of citizenship to get a driver's license until two years ago, and now they do, so NEW voters might have a harder time registering because it is harder to get a driver's license if you  are a non-citizen, but the prior registrations need to be verified.

 

The reporter said "While we only looked at Southwest Florida two largest counties, this absolutely affects other counties in the state."

 

Here is the original NBC 2 report with a full text and video version:

http://www.nbc-2.com/story/16662854/2012/02/02/nbc2-investigates-voter-fraud     

 

AND, here is PART TWO:

http://www.nbc-2.com/story/16666098/nbc2-investigates-voter-fraud-part-2  

 

And, here is a Feb. 8th follow up article saying that the illegal voters were referred to the Sherrif for investigations and possible prosecutions.  Fines could be $5000 for lying on voter registration forms.

http://www.abc-7.com/story/16772858/voter-fraud-investigation-update-law-enforcement-sec-of-state-taking-action 

 

HERE is a LIBERAL editorial from the News-Press, a local paper in the area, saying Voter ID scares voters away and shouldn't be used:

http://www.news-press.com/article/20120321/OPINION/303210021/0/BUSINESS/-Fighting-fraud-limits-voting?odyssey=nav|head    

 

"Our investigation revealed county supervisors of elections have no way to verify citizenship and are not required to ask for proof.

Our method got the attention of Florida's secretary of state. Its office sent us a letter saying, "...we will be exploring how many of the state's clerks of court and supervisors of elections could work together to verify that persons excused from jury duty, because they are non-citizens, are not illegally registered to vote."

The Collier county election's office expects to turn over more names to law enforcement. Voter fraud carries a $5,000 fine and up to five years in prison."

 

The issue is now appearing on national blogs related to illegal alien activities:

http://usopenborders.com/2012/04/video-illegal-alien-mass-voter-fraud-discovered-in-fl/ 

Vance Jochim

 

 

Did Aliens Scramble Voting Results in Palm Beach County - Read and Decide

Tavares, FL - March 20, 2012

This is a good article below to illustrate how amateur data management in local government agencies like the Palm Beach County Elections office can result in poor safeguards that then allow huge errors.  

 In this case, apparently, the order of the names on a recent local ballot in Palm Beach County. FL  did not match which fields were used to calculate candidate totals, so that people using the ballots saw a specific name, but their vote for that line item was added into totals for a different name for the election results.

The Palm Beach County Elections Supervisor, Susan Bucher, apparently

When a manager blames the mysterious computer for a glitch, rather than the people or process for programming it, then they need to go.  It also means they didn’t have good quality control procedures to test and ensure data was accurate.

The citizens cannot afford to have computer illiterate officials in charge of data focused operations.   According to this article, this is a pattern with the Palm Beach County Elections Supervisor.   However, the article does NOT say how the Elections Supervisor,  Susan Bucher, detected the problem AFTER all the votes were certified.   Was it due to a complaint, or did they actually have a after vote procedure that detected the problem? 

http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/story/how-many-more-susan-bucher-sci-fi-thrillers-can-palm-beach-county-tolerate#comment-790181    

Also read my comment on the SunshineStatenews.com website.    The ability to ensure accurate government data and validity of voters and votes in elections and other government agencies is more and more important with the use of computers.

I will write a future article on this, and the loopholes in the existing elections process that can allow voter fraud.  For instance, right now, I was told this week that the County Elections office or Florida State has no method to cross reference voter data with other states, thus a person (snow bird, Acorn member, student) can register to vote in several states and vote in each of them.  Of course, it depends on what checks are done to ensure they are valid voters in each state, so if they can claim residency, and find a way to meet other registration requirements, they get to vote.

And, if we do find voter loopholes in Florida, is it the fault of the State, or the local officials?

Vance Jochim

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Here is the more detailed comment I posted on the SunshineStateNews.com website:

In the corporate world, they use batch controls to track and validate group totals in computers. You also run a test batch through new software to ensure it works as expected. It sounds like they don't do that or they would have caught it. The article is not clear whether the software came from machine vendor, the State, or whether the elections dept. didn't configure it correctly. There is a concept called field matching, where you go through a process to visually match source fields with output data fields, and it seems they don't do that either, or it was done incorrectly.

I was a Corporate Internal Audit Director and a Certified Information Systems auditor, plus I write a blog ( FiscalRangers.com ) on local government fiscal fiascos in Lake County, FL.  The need for an advanced level of computer knowledge now seems to exceed the capability of many elected officials. You almost need to require a degree in database administration to get people who can cope with government records automation, and understand advanced procedures to ensure data accuracy.   Elected officials should be computer literate.

 

 

Lake County Veterans Confront Democrats Regarding Defaced American Flag in Tavares, FL

Updated March 17, 2012 - Tavares, FL - March 13, 2012 (original publication date) - Updated to add links to other press stories at 10:30pm (bottom of document)  More updates added 3/14, 15 & 17.  This has gone really viral.   We are almost the only free source for the pictures.

The Lake County, FL Democratic Headquarters in Tavares has been flying TWO American flags outside their office.  The first is an American Flag, the second is an American flag where the area with stars has been covered over with a picture of Barack Obama.  A veterans group from Leesburg and media arrived today at 4pm to demand the flag be pulled down.  The democratic Party Chair for Lake County, Nancy Hurlbert, initially refused to allow the veterans to pull the flag down, saying it was private property and she would review the issue.  The leader of the Veterans, Don Van Beck, had a copy of a law saying that such "defacement" of the American Flag was illegal.  Beck is the organizer of the Veteran's Memorial at Fountain Park, in nearby Leesburg, FL.

About 10 minutes later, Nancy Hurlbert came out and took down the flag.  About 20 people were present, two County Commissioners were seen watching from a distance, and photographers and reporters were there from Channel 9 Orlando TV,  the Orlando Sentinel and the Daily Commercial.  Some well known tire guy named Ralph Smith may have tipped them off as well as this writer.

This is one photo.   Many more are on our Facebook page HERE:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.379793598706586.94354.115680445117904&type=3 

vj - pictures here and on the FiscalRangers Facebook page were taken by Vance Jochim.  Permission is granted to copy them or details from the text, but please give credit to "Vance Jochim - FiscalRangers.com"

Other story links:

Orlando TV 9 video report - ABC affiliate - by Berndt Peterson

http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/vets-angry-over-american-flag-featuring-obama/nLR5Q/ 

Orlando Sentinel ( READ the comments )

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/lake/os-barack-obama-flag-face-20120313,0,7169871.story#tugs_story_display

 Going viral - this article was cited on the www.wethepeople.com blog:

http://www.wethepeoplenation.com/showthread.php?9295-Lake-County-Veterans-Confront-Democrats-Regarding-Defaced-American-Flag-in-Tavares-FL  

This blog used two of our pictures and some of the facts, and gave credit to us for the pics:

http://www.floridapoliticalpress.com/2012/03/13/florida-veterans-demand-democrat-party-remove-american-flag-altered-with-obamas-image/  

 Fox News Orlando Channel 35 had this short article citing the Orlando Sentinel as the source:

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/lake_news/031312-obama-flag-at-democratic-headquarters   

Fox News Network (National) posted this article (3/14/2012):

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/03/14/us-flag-depicting-president-obama-removed-from-floridas-lake-county-democratic/

Rush Limbaugh and Neil Boortz were both talking about the incident today, Mar. 14,  on the radio.

Fox New York was tracking down the head of the Lake County Republicans, Alan Winslow.

CNN emailed me to get permission to use the pictures here and on my Facebook album related to the incident, which I gave them.  (Mar. 14, 2012).

The Government Gone Wild Facebook page posted a picture of the flag and by 11:30 pm on Mar. 14, had over 7000 "likes" and over 1700 comments.

The ChristianPost.com Politics page used one of our pictures and gave us credit.

http://www.christianpost.com/news/veterans-call-obama-flag-disrespectful-demand-removal-from-democrat-hq-71440/ 

The Daily Commercial in Leesburg, FL ran two articles, one on Wed., and one today (Thursday, March 15)  The 2nd one talks about how they got over 11,000 hits on their website by Wed. afternoon. However, their website search and design is so screwed up I cannot ever find the actual articles.  But, if you search on the term "Obama Flag Campbell Tavares" in google, you may find her articles (Theresa Campbell, the reporter, has written at least three articles).

March 14 - the Christian Broadcasting Network asked permission to use some of my pictures which will be used tomorrow, Friday.

Fri., March 16 - This lists many hits on the Dems & their flag via a Google alert on the city of Tavares. FL:  (I didn't even search on Democrats or Obama) - The ABC News article clearly is downplaying the event by saying it was a "Democratic Club" when it was not a club, but the actual Lake County, FL headquarters of the Democratic party.

Florida Democratic Club Flying Obama American Flag Receives Death Threats

ABC News - ‎9 hours ago‎

It's been a difficult week for members of the Lake County Democratic Club in Florida after they received thousands of angry emails, phone calls, and even death threats for displaying an American Flag with President Obama's face on it.

American flag with President Obama's image sparks outrage at Florida DemocratsFox News

Obama flag at Florida Democratic Party office removed after veterans call it ...New York Daily News

From Florida:Attorney threatens to sue Lake DemsDaily Commercial

See all 36 sources »

 March 16 - Attorney threatens to sue Lake Democrats - Daily Commercial, Leesburg, FL

http://www.dailycommercial.com/News/LakeCounty/031612FlagAttorney 

 

 

 

 

 

Gov. Scott Removes Madison County, FL Elections Super due to Voter Fraud

Tavares, FL - Nov. 6, 2011 -  Some of our readers have been asking how secure the voting system is in Lake County, and whether voter fraud can occur like that in Houston two years ago.

Well, I don't know about Lake County, but here is a case where the Madison County, FL Elections Supervisor AND a School Board members were arrested along with several others in a documented voter fraud scandal.  We then found another article about absentee voter fraud in Daytona Beach, FL.

It appears they manipulated absentee ballots, and did a lot of work to order absentee ballots sent to third location addresses, had the ballots marked to favor the one candidate, then mailed them in.

The losing candidate filed a complaint due to the excess number of absentee ballots, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigated, and got a bunch of people.

I have no knowledge whether the same manipulation of absentee voters is possible in Lake County.

HERE is the link to the SunshineStateNews.com article about the Madison County voter fraud case.

And, HERE is a link about a 2010 Voter fraud case regarding absentee ballots and a Daytona City Councilman.

And, HERE is an older (about 1997) LONG article on Florida Voter Fraud from the Equal Justice Foundation.

Just search on "Florida Voter Fraud" on Google to read more...

VJ

Now, what is funny is that on that website, there was the following comment posted about Lake County - I have no evidence to know if it is correct, but it poses some questions...

Randy Morris

3:29PM NOV 4TH 2011

Really exciting news! This is a statewide thing. In Lake County the high tech rednecks not only manipulate the absentee ballots they also have the scanner's rigged with voter fixing chips they can manipulate, courtsey of Jeb Bush, NASA, the Yangs and Tom Feeney. In the August 28, 2008 primary election alone 17,000 absentee ballots were requested by voters. An amazing 9000 of them were never returned! Why? They had to go through the mailroom under the control of a county commissioners uncle for scanning that's why. The problem is Lake County officials are kinfolks with the Orlando FDLE agent in charge and nothing gets investigated in Lake County! Guess these poor old Madison County folks just ain't got connections! By the way you non believers can check these figures! You can also check out the scanner chips thing, it's no secret everyone around the supervisor of elections office was telling the stories because they know nothing will ever be done about it!