Blame Kathy Fernandez Rundle
By Geniusofdespair
From Eye on Miami blog
MIAMI – Republicans pushed absentee ballots as a voting method for their flock…but it took a Democrat to F–k it up for them by taking the scam to another level. It is disingenuous for either party to cry foul now. They have all been eating cake for years, stealing votes. I don’t see the absentee ballot scandal in U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia’s camp any worse than all the other absentee ballot fraud scandals the Republicans have been caught up in over and over. At least Garcia’s Chief of Staff never got his scam to work.
This quote irritated me the most in Pat Mazzei’s article in the Miami Herald Saturday:
“Historically, absentee voting is the source of all voter fraud”… Said by: State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle.
For our State Attorney to acknowledge that, while not having done anything substantial to stop it in 20 years on the job, is criminal. In fact, under her reign absentee ballot fraud has skyrocketed out of control. The Miami Herald’s investigation led to the discovery that Garcia’s staffers were the ones who tried to submit a couple of thousand phantom absentee ballot to the Elections Department, not Rundle’s investigators.
A cottage industry of ballot brokers has grown up around absentee ballot collection. Absentee ballot collection even has a reigning Queen: Republican political operative Sasha Tirador (Who is a close friend of disgraced David Rivera, also known for absentee ballot collection).
"Garcia blamed the region’s rough-and-tumble politics…" for what happened with his aides. YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING. The theft of our votes shouldn’t be minimized, written off as "politics as usual." Our vote is sacred to each of us.
And what has Mayor Gimenez done to help? First he denied hiring the Boletera seen lurking in his office before she was arrested. Then he created a voter task force after the election and puts – of all people – [County Commissioner] Lynda Bell on it. Lynda Bell was working out of David Rivera’s office for a while during her campaign and the rumor is Rivera ran her absentee ballots. How did she win her election: ON ABSENTEE BALLOTS. What County Commissioner had her name in the indicted Boletera’s book: Lynda Bell. Coincidence? What was the Mayor thinking?
Back to our State Attorney: Rundle should be at the bully pulpit every single day begging the Legislature to change the laws on absentee ballots. She should be leading the charge to each and every Election Department head in the State of Florida to get on board with reform. Her lukewarm response for two decades to a problem she fully acknowledges makes me want to puke.
Has anyone thanked the Miami Herald for uncovering the local IP addresses? Send your comments to: pmazzei@MiamiHerald.com
Let’s not do absentee ballots anymore for the general public because they just don’t work.
