A funny (tragic?) thing happened on the way to a primary election.
The number of mail-in votes that were cast in the 2014 Democratic Party primary election were 99. If you remember, that was the year that law enforcement closed off a two-year investigation into mail-in voter fraud and rounded up a half dozen politiqueras who were accused of harvesting the votes of elderly people in adult-day care centers, the Brownsville Housing Authority High Rise and in the barrios of Brownsville.
For a while, many thought that the days of vote harvesting were over. Now, with more than a nearly eight-fold increase (783) in the number of these votes cast in Cameron County fur years later, some believe that desperate politicians have returned to their bad old ways to remain in power.
"If you remember, when the 2014 primaries came around in March, there was a politiquera roundup in progress," said Citizens Against Voter Abuse director Mary Helen Flores. "They were afraid they would get arrested."
But while politiqueras were active predominantly in the barrios of southeast and west Brownsville and in the Cameron Park colonias, the newest increases are in San Benito and in the mid-county areas, poll watchers report.
A telling statistic – the number of mail-in ballots that were rejected for not including the statement of residence, in effect an affidavit asserting that the address you give is actually your address – was 14, a number considered high by any standards. Additionally, poll watchers say that very few – if any – show that anyone assisted them to vote in the space provided for that purpose on the ballot.
To CAVA's Flores, the lack of an address indicates that some of those gathering the mail-in ballots are new at the game.
Only two mail-in ballots came from the military, watchers said.
To give the increase a context, in the 2014 Democratic Party primary there were 10,564 early votes cast in Cameron County and an additional 99 by mail before election day.
This year there were 9,372 Democratic Party early votes and 783 more cast by mail in the same period.
Have politiqueras reappeared four years later to manipulate the vote and potentially skewer the vote in favor of those candidates who paid them harvest the mail-in ballots?
Who will be the candidates who will benefit from the huge increase in mail-in ballots, and did they pay politiqueras for those votes? As soon as the mail-in ballots are tallied, we should know.
10 comments:
Oh well, Mexicans will be Mexicans.
It happens all over the country hillbillies will be hillbillies what do you expect from pigs...
All this happens with Gilberto Hinojosa's approval. Sylvia Garza Perez, Joey Lopez and Carlos Masso hired all available politiqueras to do their dirty work again. " Son patadas de ogado." When well Cameron County do aesy with this illegal activity. Enough is enough Gilberto. Pinches bolla de corruptos. If they were to run a clean race they would be embarrassed.
How much you you want to bet that Sylvia, Treviño, Masso, Joey Lopez, Javier Reyna, and that San he chick running against Laura Betancourt will get about the same mail in votes Juan! And the blimp is protecting all of them! The fat round mound of ass pound prints in his blog of lies that you need to end the dynasties.... he supports the corrupt Sylvia Garza Perez... so he supports the mail in fraud. Watch and see what the blimp says when he sees Sylvia bought Nd paid for the mail in ballots. And Sylvia was responsible for that oak suelta that trashed the Betancourt’s. Blimp and Sylvia up on a tree... K I S S I N G.... gente corriente
Folks come on this has being going on for many years (decades) does everyone really think its over, well its not, they just laid dormant during the previous elections and will continue in the future, yes folks if these corrupt politicians ran a straight clean race- they would not win, everyone knows it. We're back to the same old stuff, vote harvesting, too bad Ms. Helen flores tried to clean it up and she did for a while but their back once again, oh well Cameron county and gilberto hinojosa caca land- we should not expect anything else but pure corruption- yikes.
Same ol' Shit!! Different year same corrupted system with CORRUPT POLITICIANS!! That is why Brownsville will never be what McAllen is.....too many ppl run their own agendas and only want to screw ppl over. No politician is above the CORRUPT ways that rule on Cameron County
After all the talk about voting, the Democratic Party goes back to what it knows and does best....CHEAT, LIE, STEAL.
Sounds more like your president and republicans.
I saw a bunch of vans with political signs parked at all senior centers. I think they were bring lunch to the seniors. They were unloading boxes of papers and envelopes.
They can't help themselves they learned from the best. Los gringos democrats which are now republicans. Now watch these copycats turn republicans.
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