More Blatant Satmar Voter Fraud Discovered

Hundreds of votes for Brooklyn D.A. Charles J. Hynes and other favored Satmar candidates appear to be illegally cast by minors who voted on the orders of Satmar leaders who have illegally obtained official voting lists. Many of these minors may have voted multiple times using the names of hasidim who no longer live in Williamsburg or who have died.

Gothamist has all the sordid details – and should win a journalism prize for the work they've done today.

Here's a brief excerpt:

…According to a Board of Elections poll worker and another poll watcher, groups of young Hasidic men attempted to enter the polling station at IS 71 and vote under the names of other citizens who have yet to vote. "They're signing signatures, but the ID they show doesn't match the signature on the forms. Yes, there's been some illegal stuff going on," BOE poll worker Antoinette Reaves said.

An NYPD officer standing outside IS 71 told us he had witnessed four men attempting to vote under the wrong name in the two hours he had been posted there.

While some of the attempts were made by men who looked to be of voting age, others struck poll workers as obviously fraudulent. "They're fourteen, fifteen years old, walking in here with a crowd of people. We stopped them and asked for ID—we know they're too young to go in there. They've been trying it all day," Reaves said. "The same faces are appearing."

While Reaves could not say whether or not any of them have been successful, David Greenberg, a poll watcher for city council candidate Stephen Pierson, said the sheer number of attempts suggested that the problem was more widespread.

"I would definitely expect there are more, it's got to be closer to 20 or two dozen," Greenberg said. "[The BOE workers] are seeing a lot of fraudulent stuff, people are trying to steak in, so they're aggravated as all hell."

Greenberg added, "There was a period of time when we weren't able to come in [to observe] because we didn't have the proper credentials, or so they said. I wouldn't question that there are more people trying this than we can see."…

This is the same polling place where Gothamist found illegal hasidic raffles paired with a list of Satmar-endorsed candidates. Hasidic voters were given a chance at a $250 cash prize or a gift certificate – as long as they voted

But it gets even worse, as Gothamist shows:

…According to a member of the ultra-Orthodox community who claimed intimate knowledge of the faction's electioneering processes, the raffles serve a greater purpose than just enticing voters to cast ballots for their preferred candidates.

"Your name goes into a raffle if you put in that you voted. And they have access constantly to this data so they know who's voted from that," said the source, referring to leaders of Williamsburg's Satmar Ahronim sect. The raffle allegedly provides a list of names that cannot be used by fraudulent voters. At IS 71 earlier today, community members were seen picking up a stack of raffle cards every 20 minutes or so and scanning their barcodes.

The source, who declined to be named for fear of retribution, told us the fraud operation is centered at an ultra-Orthodox wedding hall at the intersection of Franklin Avenue and Flushing Avenue in Williamsburg. Volunteers are allegedly given free food and then "driven to four or five places" to vote under false names. "They have copies of the voter rolls, I don't know how they get them, but they get the names and the signatures," the source alleged.…

Comments

[ah-pee-chorus]

satmar is a rotting fish with a rotten head. may all of their numerous fraudsters be caught and punished beemhayra byomeinu. start from the top and work your way down.
with the lowlife brothers at the helm none of their schemes are a big surprise.

[anuran]

A dozen cases of voter fraud. That's all the Bush Administration could find in a multi-year study.

Florida had two, possibly four.

Pennsylvania couldn't find a single one.

And the fucking criminals go and corrupt our democracy. Satmar needs to be RICOed out of existence. It is an ongoing criminal enterprise associated with a pattern of crimes

[David]

Are the Charedim not capable of doing ANYTHING in an honest or proper manner?

These idolaters are walking, talking advertisements for the incitement of SERIOUS antisemitism.

They must be stopped!

[David]

Vote early and vote often!

[S M L]

Maybe with a new DA in place some of these pestilential creeps will be successfully prosecuted. I suppose the reason they don't seem to draw the ire of the usual antisemitic elements is that this being New York those other groups are running their own scams and don't have time to deal with the frumma - or, maybe, they are dealing with them suporting each other's frauds. You never know. Birds of a feather....

[rebitzman - $101 to read my posts]

They aren't afraid to cite other sources either. In addition to Yeshiva World, they write "Failed Messiah, a blog that closely monitors Brooklyn's ultra-Orthodox community, has also received tips about dirty tricks in South Williiamsburg today"...........

[Jeff]

>>Simon, a 24-year-old Hasid with a baby girl, expressed an even stronger bond with his community. "I don't know the meaning of democracy, I just vote what they tell me to do, because maybe they've made deals with the politicians," he told us. "If people voted more than once or voted for other people, I don't know if that happened, but it doesn't matter to me, because I know they're voting for the right people."<<

[S M L]

That says it all about the frumma doesn't it? Complete lack of independent thinking, group-speak, surrendering all personal choice to be subservient to their Rebbe. This idiot is a citizen by dint of birth and he doesn't give a f--- about the state of the country that supports him and keeps him safe. At the same time high-achieving young people, high school and college students brought illegally into the US as babies are considered fodder for deportation. How about this - make kids like that citizens and ship an equivalent # of frumma to points south of the border.

[RWisler]

I hope they arrest these 15 year olds when they are discovered and throw 'em in a common holding cell. Then they'd learn a bit about respect for the law.