New York State Opens a Door to Vote Fraud

May 11, 2010
By David Pietrusza

Card check -- the scheme that violates the traditional American freedom of the secret ballot in labor union organizing elections -- has just captured a beachhead in New York State general election law, arguably opening the floodgates to massive ACORN-style voter fraud and intimidation.

The event at hand involves absentee ballot "reforms" hurriedly signed into law by New York's hapless accidental governor David A. Paterson.

In the era before the Australian "secret ballot" came to America, voting could be a tricky -- and often violent -- proposition. Goons from such big-city machines as Boss Tweed's Tammany Hall knew how you voted, and if you knew what was good for you, you voted the right way.

All that changed with the secret ballot. What you did behind the curtain stayed behind the curtain. American elections got a lot cleaner and fairer.

But with an absentee ballot, party activists can "assist" you in filling out those ballots as they cannot "assist" you at your local polling place.

The possibility for intimidation increases exponentially once those in power -- or those who lust for power -- know how you are voting.

So, of course, does the possibility of fraud. the rest