NO QUESTION VOTING ABUSE WAS COMMITTED BY HERNANDEZ, HENCHMEN

"And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall"..."

Bob Dylan

By Juan Montoya
Even as Erin Hernandez Garcia, the declared the winner of the July 31 JP 2-2 runoff race, and her father Pct. 2 commissioner Ernie Hernandez, label her opponent's claims of massive voter fraud during the elections as "sour grapes, and "ridiculous," a majority of county residents now know otherwise.

Whether it was the published reports of their drivers and assistants (politiqueros) herding mentally-disabled and elderly voters in a fleet of rental vans, the manipulation of the mail-in votes – and on occasions voting for their charges as they were held as unwilling captives in the vehicles – it all points to a brazen disregard for the democratic process and the right to vote for the candidate of your choice.

This right, one of the foundations of a free society, was deliberately violated on a grand scale this July 31 and in the mail-in and walk-in early voting by the partisans of the Hernandez clan. To them, the niceties of a free democratic process is nothing more than words. To them, winning means everything and they know that once the rest of the governmental entities supposed to deter this type of voter abuse turn a blind eye to the blatant abuse before their noses, the system will continue on its corrupt course.

Usually, Hernandez (Ernie Norma and Erin) try to keep it under the radar, but this time, with daughter Number One trailing by 500 votes after the May 29 election, they grew desperate and pulled all the stops. No more feigning that you were "assisting" elderly voters, that you were offering them rides to vote because they had no way to get to the polls, no more bringing in nice lunches to their noon meals and soliciting their vote.

Desperate times called for desperate measures.
The kidnapping of elderly voters from adult day-care facilities and retirement complexes and the transforming of vans into politicized campaign voting booths to coerce them to vote for their ticket, the altering their ballots, the outright lies that their opponent could not be trusted because she was a member of "el cartel," was bipolar or an alcoholic, and the manipulation of the system to achieve their goals happened right before the eyes of the elections department officials, its director Roger Ortiz included.
Now, as the voter abuse case wends its way through the courts, get ready to see yet more tactics of delay and evasion used in the first voter abuse trial when Ruben Peña brought Ernie Hernandez to court and came within 7 votes of the 49-vote difference to overturn that election before a judge from Hidalgo County put an abrupt halt on the process.
You remember.
The first time in May 10, 2010 Hernandez was declared the winner over Peña, who then sued and was "able to prove fraud, but due to Hernandez's abuse of the discovery process, was unable to prove a sufficient number of illegal votes to overturn the election.
"Hernandez and his wife (Norma), who is also a politiquera, avoided being served with subpoenas and did not attend the trial. The politiqueras also avoided service and absconded rather than appearing at trial. Numerous persons who supposedly voted by mail refused to appear at trial after being served...

Erin Hernandez represented her father, (Ernie) Hernandez, in this election contest, states the lawsuit filed by Erin's opponent Yolanda Begum.

Begum, through her attorney Michael R. Cowen, said that the "Hernandez family (Ernie, his wife Norma, and Erin and her siblings), aided by their network of politiqueras, have stolen two consecutive Democratic primary elections in Cameron County."

And who was seen outside the courtroom telling witnesses and elderly voters who were subpoenaed to testify in the trial that they could leave and didn't have to stick around? Longtime Hernandez ally and now the new chairman of the Cameron County Democratic Party Sylvia Perez-Garza.

You remember her siren song when she ran for the position, don't you?

She said: "Change does not happen over night it only happens when we get involved, and when we work together to better our community and those that need help the most. I want to work to bring together a more unified party that allows us all to have a voice."

The disenfranchising of the poor and elderly with promises of a chicken plate for their vote that was never delivered, the nullifying of unfriendly votes by filling in the both ovals when the voters didn't pick their candidate, and the unsolicited offers to assist people to apply for mail-in ballots by politiqueras going house to house and the deceiving of people saying they were supporting their opponent in order to get their hands on the ballot is not the type of actions that "allows all of us to have a voice."

Instead, those actions deprive all of us of a meaningful exercise of the most fundamental right in the constitution: the right to elect the people we want to represent us.

Feel the raindrops yet?