Claim: Mentally Disabled Patients Exploited in Voter Fraud Scheme
- Posted on November 2, 2010 at 5:17pm by
Meredith Jessup
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Minnesota mental health professionals are reportedly under investigation for cases of voter fraud involving their mentally disabled patients. According to local news accounts, one Brainerd resident, Montgomery Jensen, filed a complaint Monday alleging a large group of mentally handicapped patients had been told whom to vote for and ballots had been improperly filled out by staff without the patients’ input. Local KSAX reports:
Montgomery Jensen (Image: KSAX)
Jensen said he came to the Crow Wing County Auditor’s Office in Brainerd at approximately 4:40 p.m. Friday to fill out an absentee ballot, because he wouldn’t have time to vote there on Nov. 2. During that time, Jensen said he and his significant other noticed a “large and disorganized” crowd that “appeared to be mentally incapacitated.“ Jensen claimed that ”these individuals had no idea that they were at the court house, let alone they were there to vote.” He said staff members told the disabled to vote for Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidates.
Jensen said he then noticed “a staff member from a facility trying to coerce a mentally incapacitated individual back to the voting booth without success, so the staff member proceeded to fill out the ballot without the mentally incapacitated voter.” After filling out the ballot, Jensen said the staff member retrieved the handicapped voter and guided him to the county auditors counter to cast the vote.
Jensen further stated while he was in his voting booth, he overheard the same staff member telling another handicapped person which candidate to select as if she was “instructing a young child on how to stay between the lines when coloring.” Jensen said he then looked over and saw the staff member physically filling in the ballot.
Jensen also claimed that when an employee of the county auditor’s office went to take the ballot from the handicapped person, he refused and “thought it was his to keep. He had no idea where he was, let alone that he was voting for future elected offices.”
According to Minnesota law, there is no restriction on a person’s ability to vote based on mental capacity and assisting disabled voters is allowed. However, the law prohibits “an election judge or other individual assisting a voter” from attempting to persuade the voter to vote a certain way.
Some workers assisting voters at the polls denied Jensens’ claims, and some are even dismissing Jensen’s report as being “politically motivated.” Jensen denies being affiliated with any party, though he has been listed as a member of tea party-affiliated groups and is a member of a group working to prevent voter fraud.
County election officials and the sheriff‘s office were reportedly notified of Jensen’s concerns and Crow Wing County Attorney Donald Ryan told KSAX that he expects an “expeditious investigation.”
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Comments (53)
emertz8413
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 6:56pmHolding my breath to see what happens here in Ohio. Fraud was rampant in 08.
Report Post »pattyto
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 6:53pmI too worked for the state of NY and they told, pointed or pulled the levers for them. When I objected, they said I couldn’t prove it. and i would have to work with these employees. This was when Mario Cuomo was running.
Report Post »Anti-Demopublican
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 6:46pmHow is this shocking? The mentally challenged vote in every election, there the one’s who believe there is a difference between the (D) and the (R).
Report Post »SATX 19
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 6:39pmCan anyone direct me to voter fraud issues like these involving Republicans forcing/coercing/intimidaitng voters?…………….Anyone?…………….That’s what I thought.
Report Post »StMichelob
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 6:52pmYup. The black panters…no…ACORN!! no…not them…um the KKK? No, they were democrats too…maybe…YES! I saw a group of Keebler elves this morning outside a polling place with Mike Pence signs giving away free buckets-o-fudge for his votes!
Meh. That’s all I got…sorry.
Report Post »Awakenow
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 6:24pmWe need to get back to a time when public shame kept these idiots in check. Take their pictures and put them in every paper in sight/
Report Post »kilwil888
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 6:22pmPlease somebody tell me this isn’t true! That is the saddest most reprehensible voter fraud case. I personally have ever heard of.
Report Post »Mikee T
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 6:30pmKILWIL888……. I have to say that you are still NOT getting it. You don’t know what we are dealing with…these people are animals…….nihilists…….amoral……….they don’t care about right or wrong…this is a POWER GRAB plain and simple…….Click on the link below and it will make it clear for you to understand this mentality OF WHICH our president is a STAUNCH PROPONENT AND SUPPORTER….
Report Post »http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Rules%20for%20Revolution%20(2).pdf
Mikee T
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 6:22pmDavid Horowitz’s piece desribes and defines it to a T…….click on the link below and you will understand how and why progressives are so confounding to us NORMAL people…..it’s all there…
Report Post »http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Rules%20for%20Revolution%20(2).pdf
Mikee T
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 6:18pmI’ve been trying to alert people about the “Alinsky-macchiavelli-ites and their principles….lie lie lie, cheat cheat cheat, steal steal steal to get absolute power……This is standard operating policy for the left…….get it ??? Yet ???
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 6:09pmThis is the most clear cut case of voter fraud I have ever heard of. I’m sure that if they were left to chose on their own an overwhelming majority of he mentally disabled would vote for tea party candidates.
Report Post »StMichelob
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 6:20pm…More clear than ACORN signing up tens of thousands of “Supermen” and “Micky Mice” in Missouri in 2006? It’s ALL pretty clear to me, and I NEVER heard of such a thing on the republican side.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 6:09pmObama gave them a pardon …saying: after-all their heart was in the right place
Report Post »IVillageIdiot
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 6:09pmATM Voting!!!! Hello!
Report Post »SoCalWalt
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 6:03pmJust another day for the Wisconsin Dems working their natural base. Felons and the mentally challenged? Who else would vote for Al Franken?
Report Post »StMichelob
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 6:21pmYeah, um, and I already said that about the mentally challenged. Try to be more original next post…
Report Post »SoCalWalt
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 6:22pmDuh, you’re right! Geography is obviously not my long, strong suit. I do, however, stand by my observation.
Report Post »dadsrootbeer
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 6:03pmtea bagging patriot, looks like you might belong in this institution.
Report Post »Richlove1
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 5:50pmI’m from Minnesota, and for me all this votefixing is extremely embarrassing and depressing. During the Franken/Coleman recount, one election worker found stacks of ballots marked for Franken — in his car. I also can’t forget the “Felons for Franken” ballot program. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune’s polls regularly overinflate the amount of support the DFL (democrap) candidate has, and on and on. The party of Hubert Humphrey is long gone. Maybe our state should be renamed the “Land of 10,000 Dishonest Flakes.”
Report Post »axel@25
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 5:50pmThese “proffessionals” must be mentally marginal or organisationally disabled themselves. Most Union medical workers are instructed to fill out mailin ballots so this sort of thing has no witnesses.
This sort of thing happens in all kinds of assisted living and other “care” facilities all over the country.
It‘s one of the main reason’s Dems are always pushing for “all-mailin ” voting (like Oregon). That way they can fill out ballots at their liesure and there is almost no way to detect the massive fraud.
Voting is too important to make it easy…easy allows the dis-interested, lazy, dis-honest, stupid and non-citizen to vote (or be voted for). If early and absentee ballots were only allowed in genuine instances of need, vote fraud would be greatly reduced.
Report Post »Slevdog1
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 5:46pmJust one of the many claims of voter fraud that are most likely true……..
Report Post »moonpeace
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 5:40pmThis is absolutely nothing new, and it has been done for years. Only now have people had enough and they won’t put up with that behavior any longer. One guy down our way helped a middle-aged mentally disabled person by telling her who to select, while at the same time distracting her and removing her wallet from her purse. He was arrested later on but charges were never brought against the thief.
Report Post »john seven eighteen
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 5:36pmThere will be hell to pay (pun inetended) when these low-life scum have to answer for these dispicable actions.
Report Post »RAISINGCONSERVATIVES
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 5:35pmThat is so sad. They feel like they have to expolit special needs individuals in order to win. Pathetic.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 5:34pmUnfortunately there is no law against not having common sense. Too bad for Minnesota. It just to show that YOU CAN’T FIX STUPIDITY.
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 5:30pmDemocrats have always done this. They are not ashamed.
Report Post »just the facts
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 5:39pmThey are also not democrats, they are progressives.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 6:55pmThink Margret Sanger …
Report Post »OK3Wire
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 5:29pmI guess I’m confused. How could they tell “mentally disabled patients” from your garden variety Democrat?
(sorry … couldn’t resist)
Report Post »wingedwolf
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 5:38pmDrat! That is what I was going to say!
Report Post »KenInIL
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 5:40pmBut you are right. Many lead such a sheltered life. The Keynesian video is a good example. Not only do they not know what Keynesian economic (or any economic theory) is, they have no clue as to where Kenya is either.
The MSM or a close friend just tells them how to vote. My mom was/is one of those. She always voted a straight D because she couldn’t remember the details and that is what my dad told her to do. She has Alzheimer’s now and it is hard to tell the difference.
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 6:46pmNice!
Report Post »Seven
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 5:28pmYou can pass this fool and blog here.
Report Post »PeachyinGA
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 5:24pmBUCKLE UP! We may not have the nation’s mid-term votes counted before the 2012 election!!!!
Report Post »tea bagging patriot
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 5:19pmThese commies are creating an army of mentally disabled union kindergarten teachers to turn our children into homosexuals..
StMichelob
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 5:27pmYup. Figured the only ones who voted for Al Frankin in 2008 were the mentally challenged. Now we have proof.
Report Post »SnapTie
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 5:37pmSix arrested in Minneapolis last week for voter fraud. Forty six more indicted and ordered to appear in court. This is one corrupt state.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 5:57pmWell, commies say that their ends justifies their means, I guess this is it.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 6:22pmthat would include over 1/2 of America
Report Post »JustMel71
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 6:29pmGood vs Evil in the end. God is watching & waiting. I like to think they’ll get theirs in the end. Pitchfork up the wazoo would be a nice starting point for punishment.
Progressives have no shame and are gutless pri*ks that like to prey on the weak. They cannot handle someone within their own mental or physical strength, so they prey on the weaker. Judgment Day is coming. Speaking of Judgment Day, great article from big government.com
http://biggovernment.com/prahe/2010/11/02/judgment-day/
Report Post »GadsdenGurl
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 6:30pmTea Bagging Patriot is a Troll..
MODERATOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »tea bagging patriot
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 6:35pmGadsdenGurl
Beck warned us that you would try to discredit our movement my calling us names, and trying to silence us with moderators.
You are obviously a commie, liberal union member, and your opinions will be dismissed as propoganda.
Report Post »Anti-Demopublican
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 6:54pm@gadsdengirl
Report Post »Why are you trying to silence an apposing voice? Free speech is not to protect the speech you agree with it‘s to protect the speech you don’t. The Gadsden flag has become the symbol of the tea party, please stop representing yourself as one. You obviously are not!
MissCherryJones
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 7:25pmWhat does homosexuality have to do with voter fraud? Shame on you.
coffinman
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 8:11pmDooshbagging patriot, (Yes, I know the proper spelling,) is a troll and should go back to being the “teabaggEE, in his mommie’s basement. Why is this dooshbagger not kicked off of this forum for his/her/it’s use of a sexually explicite term?
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