Accountability via USPS Tracking Number 2. H.R. 8015
Apostle Charles Frederick DivM, EdM, EdD
Retired US Army
Future (Hypothetical) Voting Accountability Stories with a
USPS Tracking Number on Mail-In Ballot Envelopes
S#1 – Dead People voting stopped: Ken’s uncle Bob died last year. Ken looks up on the USPS tracking system and finds out that Uncle Bob’s ballot was received at the county election clerk’s office. Ken calls his aunt Kim, and asks, “Did a vote by mail ballot come for uncle Bob this year?” Kim replies, “No.” Ken explains, and Kim is shocked and furious. The next day, Kim went to the county election office, and removed her husband from the voting rolls, and told the election officials of what she discovered. Election officials found a change of address in the computer after Bob died. Arrests were made.
S#2 – Multiple voting held accountable: Haman voted by mail in seven counties for decades. USPS software caught this, and Postal Investigators appeared with an arrested warrant. Haman is facing at least 20 years in prison for mail fraud. The matter also got turned over to the county district attorney for prosecution of voter fraud. Come to find out, Haman had many, many friends doing same, and they too went to jail.
S#3 – Counterfeit voting held accountable: Karen lives in Mt. Shasta, California. She got a call from her county electionoffice. The friendly agent asked, “Karen, we received two ballots from you in the mail. Tracking through the USPS, we see one ballot from Mt. Shasta, and the other ballot from Los Angeles. Which one is valid? Of course bewildered, Karen asks, “What?” The agent says in a casual, explain the repeat situation again in a dull tone, “Yes, we are seeing many duplicatevotes this year, and they seem to be coming mostly from Los Angeles. Which mail in ballot is correct?” Karen replies, “Mt. Shasta, as I have never been to L.A..” Agent replies, “We will discard the L.A. ballot, and report to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service & the county DA.”
S#4 – Voting for non-voters held accountable: At a family Thanksgiving party, Bill said to everyone, “I have an announcement. Wonderful the family, is together again for our annual family reunion, & there are so many of us again. Without going into politics, if you did NOT vote, come talk to me, and we will see if someone voted for you this year.” Tim, Dave, Susy, and Mary approached him out of curiosity. Bill said, “This is not about politics, I want to see if someone voted for you. There is no fault of yours in this. Come to my computer room, lets check it out.” Bill looked up everyone’s name on the USPS tracking website, and found that Tim did send in a mail in ballot; he did not vote. However, from USPS tracking, it appears clearly that Dave, Susy, and Mary did vote. They were all in shock. Bill said, “I know you don’t even talk about politics, and don’t vote, but assure me; did you mail in a ballot.?” Dave, Susy & Mary all stated they have not voted in over 10 years. All three were furious that other people voted for them. Still in shock, they asked all sorts of questions of Bill. He tried his best to answer them. They discovered to report mail fraud to the US Postal Inspection Service; they did.
S#5 – Election Fraud (Mass Scale) Colorado: The Denver County election official displayed that 195,000 votes were cast in the 2016 Presidential election. The U.S. Postal Service reported that only 145,000 ballots were delivered to the Denver County Election Clerk’s Office. Colorado is a 100% vote by mail state. Investigations ensued, and arrests have been made upon many involved. Oregon, Washington St…..same.
S#6: Cincinnati: Postal worker Bob Smith and Jerry Jones were arrested by US Postal Inspectors for destroying ballots on Thursday. This from evidence of the USPS tracking system, and further investigation. This started when John Evans, a resident of Cincinnati could not confirm that his ballot was received by the county election office. Mr. Evans looked at the tracking record on the USPS website and discovered that the local mail carrier (Zip code area 45215) did log in his ballot upon picking up from his residential mail box. Then found out that the ballot was logged in as “received” at the local post office (45215). Then, there was no more tracking information, in the further chain of delivery to the county election office. Mr. Evenscontacted the US Postal Investigation Service, and the USPI then discovered from the USPS tracking system that over 3,872ballots never left the 45215 Post Office. This could only mean one thing: An insider in the post office was destroying ballots. Investigating, the USPI talked with other postal workers in the 45215 Post Office, and they clearly identified that co-workers Bob Smith and Jerry Jones were grabbing ballots and destroying them. These honest postal workers were concerned of retribution should they come forward, however, the federal government has “whistleblower protection” laws. Bob Smith, and Jerry Jones, if convicted, are each facing 20 years in prison.
Sum UP: These are only hypothetical future stories of accountability happening with USPS tracking of mail-in ballot envelopes. Of course, when USPS ballot envelope tracking is in place, and those attempting voter fraud do not know, they are going to get caught. If they do know, they will probably cease and desist knowing they will go to jail. When the media reports arrests, voter & mass election fraud is reduced.
Considering the present New Jersey Primary disaster… that a Judge disgusted with mail-in ballots reordered the election…..USPS tracking will prevent, or jail those corrupting our election system.
By Kelly Z. Mordecai/ DFS – 08/27/2020
[Aug. 29th, 2020] A top Democratic operative says voter fraud, especially with mail-in ballots, is no myth. And he knows this because he’s been doing it, on a grand scale, for decades.
Mail-in ballots have become the latest flashpoint in the 2020 elections. While President Trump and the GOP warn of widespread manipulation of the absentee vote that will swell with COVID polling restrictions, many Democrats and their media allies have dismissed such concerns as unfounded.
But the political insider, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he fears prosecution, said fraud is more the rule than the exception. His dirty work has taken him through the weeds of municipal and federal elections in Paterson, Atlantic City, Camden, Newark, Hoboken and Hudson County and his fingerprints can be found in local legislative, mayoral and congressional races across the Garden State. Some of the biggest names and highest office holders in New Jersey have benefited from his tricks, according to campaign records The Post reviewed.
“An election that is swayed by 500 votes, 1,000 votes — it can make a difference,” the tipster said. “It could be enough to flip states.”
The whisteblower — whose identity, rap sheet and long history working as a consultant to various campaigns were confirmed by The Post — says he not only changed ballots himself over the years, but led teams of fraudsters and mentored at least 20 operatives in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania — a critical 2020 swing state.
“There is no race in New Jersey — from city council to United States Senate — that we haven’t worked on,” the tipster said. “I worked on a fire commissioner’s race in Burlington County. The smaller the race, the easier it is to do.”
A Bernie Sanders die-hard with no horse in the presidential race, he said he felt compelled to come forward in the hope that states would act now to fix the glaring security problems present in mail-in ballots.
“This is a real thing,” he said. “And there is going to be a f–king war coming November 3rd over this stuff … If they knew how the sausage was made, they could fix it.”
Mail-in voting can be complicated — tough enough that 84,000 New Yorkers had their mailed votes thrown out in the June 23 Democratic presidential primary for incorrectly filling them out.
But for political pros, they’re a piece of cake. In New Jersey, for example, it begins with a blank mail-in ballot delivered to a registered voter in a large envelope. Inside the packet is a return envelope, a “certificate of mail in voter” which the voter must sign, and the ballot itself.
That’s when the election-rigger springs into action.
Phony ballots
The ballot has no specific security features — like a stamp or a watermark — so the insider said he would just make his own ballots.
“I just put [the ballot] through the copy machine and it comes out the same way,” the insider said.
But the return envelopes are “more secure than the ballot. You could never recreate the envelope,” he said. So they had to be collected from real voters.
He would have his operatives fan out, going house to house, convincing voters to let them mail completed ballots on their behalf as a public service. The fraudster and his minions would then take the sealed envelopes home and hold them over boiling water.
“You have to steam it to loosen the glue,” said the insider.
He then would remove the real ballot, place the counterfeit ballot inside the signed certificate, and reseal the envelope.
“Five minutes per ballot tops,” said the insider.
The insider said he took care not to stuff the fake ballots into just a few public mailboxes, but sprinkle them around town. That way he avoided the attention that foiled a sloppy voter-fraud operation in a Paterson, NJ, city council race this year, where 900 ballots were found in just three mailboxes.
“If they had spread them in all different mailboxes, nothing would have happened,” the insider said.
Inside jobs
The tipster said sometimes postal employees are in on the scam.
“You have a postman who is a rabid anti-Trump guy and he’s working in Bedminster or some Republican stronghold … He can take those [filled-out] ballots, and knowing 95% are going to a Republican, he can just throw those in the garbage.”
New election ordered in NJ race marred by voter fraud charges
In some cases, mail carriers were members of his “work crew,” and would sift ballots from the mail and hand them over to the operative.
In 2017, more than 500 mail-in ballots in New York City never arrived to the Board of Elections for races that November — leaving hundreds disenfranchised. They eventually were discovered in April 2018. “For some undetermined reason, some baskets of mail that were bound to the New York City Board of Elections were put off to the side at the Brooklyn processing facility,” city elections boss Michael Ryan said at the time of discovery.
Nursing homes
Hitting up assisted-living facilities and “helping” the elderly fill out their absentee ballots was a gold mine of votes, the insider said.
“There are nursing homes where the nurse is actually a paid operative. And they go room by room by room to these old people who still want to feel like they’re relevant,” said the whistleblower. “[They] literally fill it out for them.”
The insider pointed to former Jersey City Mayor Gerald McCann, who was sued in 2007 after a razor-thin victory for a local school board seat for allegedly tricking “incompetent … and ill” residents of nursing homes into casting ballots for him. McCann denied it, though he did admit to assisting some nursing home residents with absentee ballot applications.
Voter impersonation
When all else failed, the insider would send operatives to vote live in polling stations, particularly in states like New Jersey and New York that do not require voter ID. Pennsylvania, also for the most part, does not.
The best targets were registered voters who routinely skip presidential or municipal elections — information which is publicly available.
“You fill out these index cards with that person’s name and district and you go around the city and say, ‘You’re going to be him, you’re going to be him,’” the insider said of how he dispatched his teams of dirty-tricksters.
At the polling place, the fake voter would sign in, “get on lineand … vote,” the insider said. The impostors would simply recreate the signature that already appears in the voter roll as best they could. In the rare instance that a real voter had already signed in and cast a ballot, the impersonator would just chalk it up to an innocent mistake and bolt.
Bribing voters
The tipster said New Jersey homeless shelters offered a nearly inexhaustible pool of reliable — buyable — voters.
“They get to register where they live in and they go to the polls and vote,” he said, laughing at the roughly $174 per vote Mike Bloomberg spent to win his third mayoral term. He said he could have delivered the same result at a 70 percent discount — like when Frank “Pupie” Raia, a real estate developer and Hoboken nabob, was convicted last year on federal charges for paying low-income residents 50 bucks a pop to vote how he wanted during a 2013 municipal election.
Organizationally, the tipster said, his voter-fraud schemes in the Garden State and elsewhere resembled Mafia organizations, with a boss (usually the campaign manager) handing off the day-to-day managing of the mob soldiers to the underboss (him). The actual candidate was usually kept in the dark deliberately so they could maintain “plausible deniability.”
With mail-in ballots, partisans from both parties hash out and count ballots at the local board of elections — debating which ballots make the cut and which need to be thrown out because of irregularities.
The insider said any ballots offered up by him or his operation would come with a bent corner along the voter certificate — which contains the voter signature — so Democratic Board of Election counters would know the fix was in and not to object.
“It doesn’t stay bent, but you can tell it’s been bent,” the tipster said. “Until the [certificate] is approved, the ballot doesn’t matter. They don’t get to see the ballot unless they approve the [certificate.]”
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“I invented bending corners,” the insider boasted, saying once the fixed ballots were mixed in with the normal ones, the bed was made. “Once a ballot is opened, it’s an anonymous ballot.”
While federal law warns of prison sentences of up to five years, busted voter frauds have seen far less punishment. While in 2018 a Texas woman was sentenced to five years, an Arizona man busted for voting twice in the mail was given just three years’ probation. A study by the conservative Heritage Foundation found more than 1,000 instances of documented voter fraud in the United States, almost all of which occurred over the last 20 years.
“There is nothing new about these techniques,” said Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at Heritage who manages their election law reform initiative. “Everything he’s talking about is perfectly possible.“
The city Board of Elections declined to answer Post questions on ballot security.
To: U.S. SenatorsDRAFT08/26/2020
Re: Proposed REVISION/ADDITION to H.R. 8015 in the U.S. Senate
“Delivering for America Act”
Section (c) with proposed REVISIONS reads:
Ln. 1 (c) ELECTION MAIL.—
Ln. 2 (1) POLICY ON POSTMARKS.—It shall be the
Ln. 3 policy of the United States Postal Service to post
Ln. 4 mark, which shall include any imprinted indicia from
Ln. 5 the Postal Service that indicates the date of receipt,
Ln. 6 all election mail processed by the Postal Service.
REVISIONS/ ADDITION:
(1A) POLICY ON REQUIRED TRACKING OF MAIL-IN BALLOT ENVELOPES-A) Upon initial contact by Postal Service personnel of a mail-in ballot envelope (going from a citizen to an election office), said personnel shall immediately affixed a bar code sticker (or ink bar code) to the ballot envelope. Then, said bar codes shall be scanned for an electric time, date, and location stamp. Said sticker(s) and scans shall be used to track the ballot envelope the same as if the ballot envelope is a USPS Priority Mail package. Said bar code shall work with other mail identification measures to allow the mail-in voter to look up and confirm tracking locations and delivery confirmation of the election ballot envelope to their county election facility office.B) Postal Service personnel, upon initial contact, shall separate all mail-in ballot envelopes, from all other mail articles. C) A dedicated bin(s) shall be designated at each post office for collection of all mail-in ballot envelopes.D) It is a federal misdemeanor to place a mail-in ballot envelope into the bin(s) of item C above without a bar code sticker (or ink bar code.) Each offense, each ballot envelope placed illegally is its own separate misdemeanor.E) All mail-in ballots shall be processed through the Priority Mail system.F) On-line tracking shall be by either voter name, or address.G) This section supersedes other sections of H.R. 8015.
Ln. 7 (2) SAME-DAY PROCESSING.—The United
Ln. 8 States Postal Service shall ensure, to the maximum
Ln. 9 extent practical, that election mail is processed and
Ln. 10 cleared from any postal facility or post office on the
Ln. 11 same day it is received at such a facility or post office.
For Senator’s Website Comments
[FILL-IN SPACES ARE IN BRACKETS, like this statement.]
Re: SENATE AMENDMENT PROPOSED; H.R. 8015 prohibits tracking of mail in ballots.
Note: Already, Congressman Andy Barr (KY) likes the proposed Senate amendment, for “mail in ballot tracking” by the USPS and wills to get this to Senator Rand Paul. I am seeking approval of my Senator.
As an [Fill in State Here] resident, I am deeply concerned of H.R. 8015, (“Delivering for America” Act.) It prohibits mail in ballot tracking by USPS. First class mail has no tracking from the voter’s door step to the county election official.
Of course, with political genius, the Dems in the House are trying to put an egg on the face of Republicans in the Senate. Should the Senate vote “no” on H.R. 8015, then the Dems and the media will claim that the Republicans are attempting “voter suppression.” They will claim minorities will be hurt, and thus claim the Republicans are “racist.” Blah, blah, blah, flap, flap, flap.
However, the below amendment/ revision if passed by the US Senate will require tracking of mail-in ballots. Said amendment will go back to the House for approval. If the Dems in the House vote “no” on the amendment, then the Dems are exposed for not wanting accountability via tracking of mail-in ballots. This is not an egg back in the face of Dems, but a whole “Egg Pie.” If the Dems do pass it, and Trump approves, then the voter can look on-line to know theirmail-in ballot was received by the county election official. Tracking will expose removing, stuffing, or switching ballots. Then the US Postal Inspection Service can investigate and arrest. Or “ballot tracking”will deter the “cheaters” from cheating. For an honest election, the below displays the proposed Senate Amendment/ Revision:
To: U.S. SenatorsDRAFT 08/26/2020
Re: Proposed REVISION/ADDITION to H.R. 8015 in the U.S. Senate
“Delivering for America Act”
Section (c) with proposed REVISIONS reads:
Ln. 1 (c) ELECTION MAIL.—
Ln. 2 (1) POLICY ON POSTMARKS.—It shall be the
Ln. 3 policy of the United States Postal Service to post
Ln. 4 mark, which shall include any imprinted indicia from
Ln. 5 the Postal Service that indicates the date of receipt,
Ln. 6 all election mail processed by the Postal Service.
REVISIONS/ ADDITION:
(1A) POLICY ON REQUIRED TRACKING OF MAIL-IN BALLOT ENVELOPES- A) Upon initial contact by Postal Service personnel of a mail-in ballot envelope (going from a citizen to an election office), said personnel shall immediately affixed a bar codesticker (or ink bar code) to the ballot envelope. Then, said bar codes shall be scanned for an electric time, date, and location stamp. Said sticker(s) and scans shall be used to track the ballot envelope the same as if the ballot envelope is a USPS Priority Mail package. Said bar code shall work with other mail identification measures to allow the mail-in voter to look up and confirm tracking locations and delivery confirmation of the election ballot envelope to their county election facility office.B) Postal Service personnel, upon initial contact, shall separate all mail-in ballot envelopes, from all other mail articles. C) A dedicated bin(s) shall be designated at each post office for collection of all mail-in ballot envelopes.D) It is a federal misdemeanor to place a mail-in ballot envelope into the bin(s) of item C above without a bar code sticker (or ink bar code.) Each offense, each ballot envelope placed illegally is its own separate misdemeanor.E) All mail-in ballots shall be processed through the Priority Mail system.F) On-line tracking shall be by either voter name, or address.G) This section supersedes other sections of H.R. 8015.
Ln. 7 (2) SAME-DAY PROCESSING.—The United
Ln. 8 States Postal Service shall ensure, to the maximum
Ln. 9 extent practical, that election mail is processed and
Ln. 10 cleared from any postal facility or post office on the
Ln. 11 same day it is received at such a facility or post office.
For more information, please request an aid to contact Daniel Simon 530-598-9671, as he authored the Amendment/ Revision to H.R. 8015. He is also with Watch the Vote USA a nationwide election integrity organization.
There are other documents explaining the importance of this amendment. I can forward these to a Senator’s Aid if I am contacted at [fill in e-mail here.]