FOX NEWS and the Washington Examiner are covering voter fraud in Harris County better than the Houston Chronicle covers it.
To get just a taste of how deeply devious the Left's tactics are in subverting elections, check out this report by Leo Vasquez, the Harris County, Texas, Voter Registrar. Here's a partial list . . . of the many ways one leftist group, Houston Votes, has tried to register thousands of illegal voters in recent months:
Houston Votes has turned in 25,640 applications.
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Houston Votes has submitted 1,597 multiple applications (two or more applications for same person).
Houston Votes has 129 felon rejection of applications . . . .
Houston Votes has submitted 1,133 applications where the No ID box was checked.
Houston Votes has presented the Tax Office with 1,323 application later than the five day stuatory deadline.
. . . .submitted 1,014 applications for pre-existing voters .
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Houston Votes has submitted 25 non-citizen applications.
Houston Votes has submitted 325 too young applications.
. . . . Truethevote.org is another group battling for honest elections, and they've produced an excellent YouTube video that focuses specifically on the problem in Houston . . . as well as on the situation nationwide . . . .
(Mark Tapscott, "Massive, nationwide vote fraud is the [sic] among the most rotten fruit of ACORN-type activism," washingtonexaminer.com, September 18, 2010)
When Catherine Engelbrecht and her friends sat down and started talking politics several years ago, they soon agreed that talking wasn't enough. They wanted to do more. So when the 2008 election came around, "about 50" of her friends volunteered to work at Houston's polling places.
"What we saw shocked us," she said. "There was no one checking IDs, judges would vote for people that asked for help. It was fraud, and we watched like deer in the headlights."
Their shared experience, she says, created "True the Vote," a citizen-based grassroots organization that began collecting publicly available voting data to prove that what they saw in their day at the polls was, indeed, happening -- and that it was happening everywhere.
"It was a true Tea Party moment," she remembers.
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"Vacant lots had several voters registered on them. An eight-bed halfway house had more than 40 voters registered at its address," Engelbrecht said. "We then decided to look at who was registering the voters."
Their work paid off. Two weeks ago the Harris County voter registrar took their work and the findings of his own investigation and handed them over to both the Texas secretary of state's office and the Harris County district attorney.
Most of the findings focused on a group called Houston Votes, a voter registration group headed by Sean Caddle, who also worked for the Service Employees International Union before coming to Houston. Among the findings were that only 1,793 of the 25,000 registrations the group submitted appeared to be valid.
The other registrations included one of a woman who registered six times in the same day; registrations of non-citizens; so many applications from one Houston Votes collector in one day that it was deemed to be beyond human capability; and 1,597 registrations that named the same person multiple times, often with different signatures.
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"The integrity of the voting rolls in Harris County . . . appears to be under an organized and systematic attack by the group operating under the name Houston Votes" . . . Leo Vasquez charged as he passed the documentation to the district attorney. . . .
(Ed Barnes, "Citizens' Group Helps Uncover Alleged Rampant Voter Fraud in Houston," Fox News, September 25, 2010; linked by Mark Hemingway, "Local Tea Party group may have uncovered massive vote fraud in Texas," washingtonexaminer.com, September 26, 2010)
Go to truethevote.org for links to more articles and posts about voter fraud in Harris County and about True the Vote's plan to flood the precincts with poll watchers.
The Chronicle has given minimal coverage to Houston Votes and True the Votes, but has done no enterprise reporting on the issue of election integrity. The Chronicle editorial board cares about anything that might prevent Democrats, real or imagined, from voting. It cares not a whit about the things True the Vote and Leo Vasquez have uncovered.
The paper is more likely to write an editorial cautioning True the Vote's poll watchers against suppressing turnout than one condemning Houston Votes for writing and submitting fictional applications.
UPDATE: Blogger Patterico identifies the notorious Maria Isabel -- Obama campaigner, Guevarista, and private licensor of medical doctors -- as a mover and shaker at Houston Votes.
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