Community | February 01, 2012 | 9 comments

Gingrich Ballot Fraud: Virginia Election Officials Confirm Criminal Investigation

source: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9099

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Had the same thing been carried out by a worker for the now-defunct ACORN, Republicans --- and even Newt Gingrich --- would have called it massive "voter fraud." But the 1,500 acts of fraud, by Gingrich's own admission, were carried out by a worker hired by his campaign, so it seems the media have barely noticed it.

Nonetheless, The BRAD BLOG has received confirmation from two different state agencies that the 1,500 alleged cases of ballot petition fraud said to have been carried out on behalf of the Gingrich campaign, in their unsuccessful attempt to qualify for the Republican primary ballot in Virginia, are now being carried out by the state Attorney General's office.

In late December, after Gingrich had failed to turn in enough valid signatures to qualify for the Virginia primary ballot, he was caught on video tape telling a supporter in Iowa that the reason for the failure was due to a campaign worker who created 1,500 fraudulent signatures.

"We turned in 11,100 --- we needed 10,000 --- 1,500 of them were by one guy who, frankly, committed fraud," Gingrich is seen and heard saying in video originally aired by CNN.

The former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives downplayed the incident, by explaining to the woman that the entire affair was "just a mistake," after they had "hired somebody who turned in false signatures."

Neither he nor his campaign, however, has made the name of the alleged "one guy" public, to our knowledge, despite the extraordinary number of fraudulent signatures created and turned in by that "one guy" in what an official at the Virginia State Board of Elections (SBE) described to us as "definitely an illegal act."

News of the embarrassing criminal investigation is confirmed today, even as voters go to the polls for Florida's 2012 GOP Primary, where Gingrich is facing off against front-runner Mitt Romney who, ironically --- and uncomfortably enough for Republicans --- may also find himself the subject of a criminal voter fraud investigation in the not-too-distant future.

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9 comments // Gingrich Ballot Fraud: Virginia Election Officials Confirm Criminal Investigation

  • warman1138
  • Ambill94
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      Ambill94  

    • It's a freakin' carnival...the media is a joke...they only piss around on the surface of things...don't have the nerve to look under the carpet or behind the damn trees...these side show assholes are leading the media around by their...hmmm, well they don't have balls, even metaphorically...by their ears???

    • 4 months ago
  • Plue
  • chew_chew
    • +1
      chew_chew  

    • Talk about a double standard in the media. Whoa! Are they really going to be able to smother this? Especially while he is in an active campaign for President?.

    • 4 months ago
  • DEM46
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      DEM46  

    • We'll address this after we go to the moon, set up a biosphere for 13,000 AMERICANS, let them vote to make the moon colony the 51st state, oh...um, am I missing anything?

      Gees.

    • 4 months ago
  • circlesquared
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      circlesquared  

    • what did he say to Romney? Something like if you don't have control of your people now how can we trust you to have control of them as president? the pot and the kettle should be in jail.

    • 4 months ago
  • Abbynrml
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      Abbynrml  

    • Like the report stated....If it were A.C.O.R.N. all the republicans, pundits, WSJ, radioheads, and fox news would of been screaming this was an epidemic. So as the hypocrisy demands, they merely state it was "one guy" who on their own did this. If democrats are smart they will pounce on this on the media outlets, radio, newspapers, and on every news show. As they push their voter supression towards democratic party voters, I'm sure there is alot of this type of fraud in the works for the general election as they state they will do anything to beat President Obama and take back the Senate. To the republican party, all is fair in an election unless it is a democrat doing it then they cry foul and it most cases it is crying wolf.

    • 4 months ago
  • kennymotown
  • Tuppy54
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