Is the SEIU Connected to Voter Fraud in Harris County, Texas?
- Posted on September 27, 2010 at 7:47am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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In a story on Saturday, Fox News introduced us to possible voter fraud in Harris County Texas (Houston). It all started so innocently: a group of citizens decided that they should not just talk about politics and government, but actually get involved. So they did, by volunteering at the polls. But a civic duty turned into a nightmare.
“What we saw shocked us,” Catherine Engelbrecht, the group’s leader, said. “There was no one checking IDs, judges would vote for people that asked for help. It was fraud, and we watched like deer in the headlights.”
She lead the charge to create “True the Vote,” a citizen-based grassroots organization that began collecting publicly available voting data to prove and root out voter fraud wherever they could find it.
What ensued is almost like a John Grisham novel: a tragic fire, a possible SEIU connection, and a county left scrambling before the November election. RedState lays out the story [emphasis added by RS]:
1. In 2008, a group of citizens in Harris County, Texas saw what appeared to be a massive attack on the integrity of the election process.
2. Last month, a mysterious fire broke out that destroyed most of the voting machines for Harris County, Texas. [Houston is in Harris County.]
3. The fire occurred three days after Harris County voter registrar Leo Vasquez issued a press release stating:
“The integrity of the voting rolls in Harris County, Texas, appears to be under an organized and systematic attack by the group operating under the name Houston Votes,” Vasquez said at a 2 p.m. press conference at his office, where he also released copies of applications in some of the most egregious cases.
Houston Votes is the get-out-the-vote arm of the Texans Together Education Fund.
Evidence shows that the Houston Votes and Texans Together organization are conspiring on a pattern of falsification of government documents, supporting perjury in a deliberate effort to overburden our processing system, he said.
4. As arson investigators continue looking into the blaze, their focus seems to be less centered on arson than on what may have been the building’s electrical system:
The Houston Fire Department has not yet ruled out arson as the cause of a massive fire last month that destroyed most of the county’s voting machines. But arson investigators are working on the theory that it was accidentally fire that started in the building’s electrical system.
[snip]
The fire destroyed almost 10,000 voting machines — the county’s entire stock.
Immediately, there were questions about the cause and about the possibility that it was deliberately set to disrupt the Nov. 2 election.
For the last month, fire investigators have been combing the debris.
On Thursday, Arson Chief Gabe Cortez said they have found no evidence an accelerant, such as gasoline, was used in the fire.
5. On September 2nd, the Texas Democratic Party sued Harris County registrar for “what it says are violations of voter registration laws, political favoritism and violations of voter privacy.”
6. When the aforementioned concerned citizens (who later formed a group called True the Vote) found questionable registrations, it appeared to be concentrated to one group:
Most of the findings focused on a group called Houston Votes, a voter registration group headed by Steve [Sean] Caddle, who also works for the Service Employees International Union. Among the findings were that only 1,793 of the 25,000 registrations the group submitted appeared to be valid. The other registrations included one of a woman who registered six times in the same day; registrations of non-citizens; so many applications from one Houston Voters collector in one day that it was deemed to be beyond human capability; and 1,597 registrations that named the same person multiple times, often with different signatures.
[snip]
“The integrity of the voting rolls in Harris County, Texas, appears to be under an organized and systematic attack by the group operating under the name Houston Votes,” the Harris voter registrar, Leo Vasquez, charged as he passed on the documentation to the district attorney. A spokesman for the DA’s office declined to discuss the case. And a spokesman for Vasquez said that the DA has asked them to refrain from commenting on the case.
The Sean Caddle mentioned above appears to be the same Sean Caddle from New Jersey who settled in Colorado for a time and ran for the position of Finance Director of the Colorado Young Democrats. Info here.
7. One candidate running as a Democrat in District 133 in Harris County, is Kristi Thebaut, formerly affiliated with ACORN [h/t Anita MonCrief]
RS notes: “Of course, between the fire, the fraud, the SEIU and ACORN connections, they could be just mere coincidences…”
View the entire story on RedState.
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Comments (137)
chdorb
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 8:49amOh Yes. Do not do doubt voter fraud in Texas. Our system asks only that you sign a statement that says you are a citizen and eligible to vote in the election. Whew! What a relief. I know that works. I have personally stood behind people at the DMV who have an interpretor with them. Not only are they issued a drivers license when they can’t speak English, the state employee asks the interpretor if the person getting the license is registered to vote. The interpretor then asks the person getting the license who answers no and the state employee then sets about registering the individual to vote.
Report Post »Now honestly. If you must have an interpretor you have no business driving and you certainly should not be registered to vote. Why are our ballots in English and Spanish? Speaking and reading English should be a requirement for citizenship. I actually thought it was, but what would I know.
mutt
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 8:48amOBAMY, PELOSI, REID, SEIU, ACORN, DEMOCRATS, PROGRESSIVES – together make the corrupt government in Afghanistan look pretty damned righteous compared to these thieves. I am sickened that the thirst for power and control has led to this. Our Constitution and everyone who died trying to preserve it have been disrespected to the edge of the abyss. If Americans dont stand up and recognize what is at stake, the Republic is headed for the trash heap of history,like the ancient Romans.
Report Post »Will NV
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 8:35amWe all need to be poll watchers. Take a camera and video anything suspicious. We need to do the jobs our government does not want to do.
Report Post »jazman1960
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 4:37pmstand out side the polling place and count each voter that walks in see if the vote total matches the number of people walking in the door.
Report Post »Zoe
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 8:31amThe cash they pay lobbyists is unfathomable….
The machine is dangerous….
Report Post »faktchekr
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 8:29amah yes…the ever hard working unions trying to implement their version of “fairness.”
Report Post »Flagwaver
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 8:28amUnfortunately, this explains why Pelosi is so chipper and sure of a Democratic win in November. It sickens me that I was injured in Afghanistan for this.
Report Post »charliego
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:15amThank you for your service and sacrifice; do not give up. We were fighting here at home while you were fighting to protect freedom there, ‘We, the People’ will never give up or give in. George Washington flows in our national blood. If you have not, read ‘George Washington-an Indispensable Man’.
Report Post »Flannie
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 5:23pmFlagwaver, you are an American hero.and I am humbled by the sacrifice you have made for me, for my family and for all Americans. I deeply appreciate the service you have given to our country. Thank you.
All of us have to fight for this nation, and on many different fronts. Yours was a dangerous, volatile front. You did your job and honored your country My son is doing the same thing and I can only pray that he comes home safe and sound. Here on the home front we have different battles to fight. We aren’t in physical danger as you were. We are fighting an insidious evil. Exposing voter fraud like this is important. Evil exists. We cannot let this surprise us. We have to expect it so that we are ready to deal with it. It takes vigilance and commitment to keep up the good fight and we will do just that.I pray for your good health to return, Flagwaver.
Report Post »krixie61
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 8:21amI live in FLorida and I have to show my ID when I vote….I think it should be that way everywhere….Valid ID or no vote for you….
Report Post »wleeblake
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 9:30amI agree,I live in small town N.C. and all I have to do is walk in tell them my name and they hand me my ballot,thats not right. by the way in the last ten years illegal aliens have poured in by the thousands into a county of only a little over 20,000
Report Post »Awakened One
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 8:19amIs there any doubt that voters across the country should prepare for massive fraud this November? Get organized to watch your local elections. The warnings are obvious.
Report Post »readyforbattle
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 8:17amMany years ago “60 Minutes” would have done a story on this. Now there is no MSM coverage at all. Go figure.
Report Post »CHINABIKER
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 8:17amPerhaps ACORN could help eliminate fraud. The Messiah could also provide more community origanization training. Or were these actions the cause of the problem?
Report Post »Liberty_Inquisition....
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 8:15amSEIU will be exposed. Will it be too late is the queston.
Report Post »mtnclimberjim
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 8:15amMy biggest fear ir that no one will take out the traitors of my country.
Report Post »fedup
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 8:15amif you want to help go volunteer locally. I recommend it to everyone. If we leave it up to someone else to do it then this may be what happens anywhere and everywhere else. GET INVOLVED!!
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 8:14amThe SEIU and ACORN trying to steal elections for the Democrats. Why am I not surprised. Why aren’t these people in jail? Maybe it’s because there is a political party that protects them. I bet that Al Franken would be the first to make sure that nothing happens to them. If you can’t win on ideas then I guess you have to try something else. Democrat, the party of the common man and common criminal.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 9:24amif pro-democrat fraudulent “voters” like this are adding up, and this is in OTHER places, then we will know one thing: OBAMA NEVER TRUTHFULLY REALLY WON in 2008.
Report Post »Mr.Nick
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 2:03pmYou nailed it Rick.
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on September 29, 2010 at 3:54am@BURNTHILLS Obama didn’t really win in 2008? He won by nine and a half million votes, 7% of the total votes cast. With all due respect to the forces of corruption, do you really believe it’s possible to get away with casting that many fake votes in one election?
Report Post »NC
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 8:11amEarly in the story, it was mentioned that no identification was requested of the voters.
IIRC, you can not ask for any form of ID at the polling places.
This is wrong in my opinion, but that ‘s the law, to the best of my knowledge.
NC (a WASP who‘s opinion really doesn’t matter anyway)
Report Post »wingedwolf
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 8:47amLOL states differ in acceptable forms of ID, but fed law requires voters prove who they are in some fashion.
Report Post »http://www.ncsl.org/default.aspx?tabid=16602
OldVet
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:17amI am asked for my Voter Card or Drivers Lic. EVERY time I vote and I expect nothing else.
Report Post »If they are not looking at someones ID it is because they are “in” on the game.
historypaper
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 8:09amSEIU HAS CONTROL, ACORN HAS NEW NAMES, its the same agenda. Destroy the vote. Capture the power. Corrupt the media. Pay-off friends, voters, organizations. SEIU and ACORN are fueled by corruption. Cash pouring in from their members.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 8:08amSure, anytime you get those four points together it PROBABLY is fraud? Not likely, and they ought to bring in an arson investigative unit from out of the county, if not out of the state. Smells like a rat to me, unless the arson investigative unit isn’t unionized (birds of a feather). I guess we are back to “the ends justify the means”, and there will be no punishment. There ought to be a HUGE fine for voter fraud and maybe, if we can’t get rid of these people, we can at least boost the economy in Houston by hitting them in the pocketbook and serving jail time. The message needs to be swift and clear!
Report Post »Laura
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 8:06amThis is one of my biggest fears in November – voter fraud. It would be great if Glenn did a show on how we can help make sure this doesn’t happen in our communities. Is there a “how-to” out there on what we can do?
Report Post »donbcg
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 8:11amHere it is. The “How To”
Get your neighbors out on Nov. 2nd. We can beat them by increasing our numbers. The only way to defeat this fraud is by overwhelming them with valid voters.
That is the only way.
Report Post »tepartyblog.info
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 8:23amAs a resident of Harris county I was thinking the same thing. It seems to me the best way is to volunteer to help with the process in your county and keep an eye put for suspicious activity.
Report Post »Marcobob69
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 8:52amIf anyone can come up with an answer to that question it would surely be Beck! That may be the only card left for the progressives to play, election FRAUD!
Report Post »beekeeper
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:27amContact your supervisor of elections office and volunteer to be a worker.
Contact your local republican organization and volunteer to be an election observer/challenger.
Hope that helps.
Report Post »skywalker81
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 12:09pmThey can‘t cheat if it isn’t close. Make sure ALL your like minded friends and family go vote. The biggest place for voter fraud is the absentee ballot counts. I am not sure how you can force your county to release vote counts, separating voting day ballots from absentee ballots. If the information is released and the percentages of votes for one candidate versus the other varies by more than a percent or two, fraud is involved. It may even take lawsuits to force review of the counts and verification of the proper registration of each voter.
Report Post »tepartyblog.info
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 11:14pm@Jamestown
Report Post »I say we start(taking out the trash) with the bigots.
Rowgue
Posted on September 28, 2010 at 12:54pmVolenteer to be a poll watcher. And don’t do what the people in Harris county did and watch it like a deer in headlights. If you see suspicious activity, report it.
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 8:06amIs anything SEIU does legal? Just asking.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 9:21amobama’s stinking hands are all over this one.
Report Post »bigbud
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 4:48pmDoes sound kinda-like Chicago south.
Report Post »REMENBER in NOVEMBER!!!!!!!!
RKade
Posted on September 28, 2010 at 6:29pmNope nothing SEIU does is without some underhanded and deceitful stench attached to it.
Am guess WHO is SEIU! No less than Barack Hussein Obama Mmm, mmm, mm …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ1NJaCtIkM
Report Post »http://breitbart.tv/uncovered-video-obama-leads-seiu-chant-after-vowing-to/
lmartin826
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 8:05amThe connections are just coincidence? If you believe that one, I have some ocean front property in Arizona for you at a really good price!
Report Post »RobR
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 8:03amThey are everywhere else……why not Harris county Texas?
Report Post »fedup
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 8:01amnothing to see here just move along. Hey look over there something shiny.
Report Post »TruthDarts
Posted on September 28, 2010 at 3:10amDoes anyone remember how Lyndon Johnson got elected in Texas first time?
He won narrowly when a whole pile of absentee voting ballots were found like in a closet…and not only did all ballots vote for Johnson…but miracle of miracles…they all voted ALPHABETICALLY.
NOTHING inspires liberals/socialists to cheat as when they are cornered….their montra’s after all are:
Report Post »–“THE ENDS JUSTIFIES THE MEANS”
–“REPEAT A LIE OFTEN ENOUGH UNTIL IT BECOMES TRUE”
–”WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS…DO PERSONAL ATTACKS”
and
–”WHEN YOU CAN’T FIGHT THE TRUTH…CHANGE THE SUBJECT” or
again “…DO PERSONAL ATTACKS” or
“…COMPARE WHAT YOU DID TO SOMEONE WHO IS ACTUALLY LIKED HISTORICALLY.”
Deda1
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 7:59amThe seiu should banned and anyone belonging to it should be arrested and deported.
BurntHills
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 9:20amit would be easier to shoot them.
Report Post »Hellpig
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 2:26pmburned alive sounds better to me
Report Post »I am 'We the People
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 7:18pmIt’s cheaper to shoot.
Report Post »Deda1
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 7:58amarrest and hang the folks violating our voting process.
DanSt
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 9:08amThe lefties argued that the reason they didn’t want a voter ID process was because that it would have caused a “financial hardship” on the poor and infirm…I say we freeze any and all future disbursements from our Treasury until funds are made available to protect the election system which is the foundation of cradle of liberty…
Report Post »wodiej
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:55amDanst, Indiana passed a voter ID law and liberals here raised the same argument. Our solution-picture ID was free at our BMV. They also attempted the argument that it would disenfranchise the elderly and homeless. Uhm….if you cannot get to the BMV for ID, should you really be voting?
Report Post »NoMarxist
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 2:51pmWhy arrest them? Let’s just start with hanging all union bosses and work our way up to the criminally corrupt.
Report Post »IvanK
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 7:56amWhy even the playing field when you can simply level it? A lesson learned from our El Duce, by way of Alinsky.
Report Post »BehindBlueEyes
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 9:44amYes, this is just one example. I wonder how many other cities and towns across America have been polluted with voter fraud. It’s time to tighten up the voting process and require ID. Each voter should also have a method of verifying that their vote has been counted and recorded accurately.
Report Post »beekeeper
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 10:23amSo 10,000 voting machines were stored in a building with a faulty electrical system AND an inadequate fire suppression system that couldn’t save ANY of the voting machines?
If intentional or not, it was irresponsible, verging on criminal, behavior to not protect the millions of dollars worth of voting machines.
Now the vote will be paper-based (I assume), so there will be NO QUESTION about the results, that’s for sure.
Were they insured? If not, why not?
How many more years will the taxpayers be paying for the lost equipment?
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 3:22pmIn my county we have to feed our own cards into the computer after filling them out and we get a receipt that says our votes were alright however, that is ONLY good if the machine reading the cards have NOT been tampered with.. since we have A LOT of heated races we will have to be extra careful to WATCH.. although I live in a basically Republican area last election somehow a Democrat got in.. she voted with OBAMA on EVERY THING she WILL be out this year to many of OBAMA’S supporters left him..
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 3:38pmWhen we take back our government one of the top priorities should be to put a stop to all this nonsense.. you go to your COUNTY office and fill out a voters registration card.. NO WHERE ELSE.. and ANYONE found tampering with or giving false information will be given 5 years NO exceptions.. also make a reward for anyone who turns in someone they see committing such tampering and fraud.. If people are to LAZY to go register or don’t have enough intelligence than to bad.. You can’t vote.. Only exception would be for the HANDICAPPED and SENIORS who have MOVED than we will have to have a special way for them to register..
Report Post »glassbeadlady
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 6:08pmUtah reqires I.D. to vote and you better not show up without it or you don’t vote. If we can do it here in Utah why not country wide?
Report Post »Down2TheC
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 8:47pmINDEPENDANTVOTERIL sounds like you’re in my district! BOOT BEAN!!!! Crazy beeyatch portrays herself as a fiscal conservative and votes for anything Pelosi put in front of her. What a puppet.
Report Post »Joe Walsh for the 8th district!
Midwest Belle
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 8:49pmTo Glassbeadlady
Nebraska (at least in my county) requires ID to vote. There’s less than 400 people in town, everybody knows everybody and we STILL get asked for ID, for which I’m grateful.
Report Post »ILFarmer
Posted on September 27, 2010 at 11:09pmPoints to the “Chicago Machine”
It a wonder that Illinoisans have any say at all regardless of their stance.
Report Post »PostProgressiveAmerican
Posted on September 28, 2010 at 6:21amNote that “Most of the findings focused on a group called Houston Votes, a voter registration group headed by Steve [Sean] Caddle, who also works for the Service Employees International Union” – SEIU. Imagine that.
Amendment x
Report Post »1. Congress shall pass no laws requiring a Federal or national identification (ID) card for US citizens.
2. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) or other technologies for accessing information at a distance shall not be allowed on any State issued Identification card.
3. The several States shall include citizenship status on all State-issued identification cards. Federal funding shall be provided to implement this mandate.
4. In order to cast a ballot in any local, State of Federal election, all US citizens eligible to vote in a specific State shall present a valid identification issued by that State.