by Natalia Mittelstadt
While Democrats and liberals criticize Republicans, conservatives, and others concerned about election integrity with the pejorative label of “election deniers,” Democrats are currently facing multiple allegations of election irregularities.
Since the 2020 presidential election, former President Donald Trump and other Republicans have raised concerns about election irregularities and are often called “election deniers.” by Democrats and the media. However, many Democrats have been accused or found guilty of election crimes, sometimes by members of their own party.
Arizona
In Arizona, several people claimed theirs the signatures were forged regarding a petition addressed to Michelle Martin, a libertarian candidate running in Arizona’s first congressional district. The campaign employed nine signature collectors, two of whom were registered Democrats. Martin and several signature collectors did not respond Arizona Republicrequests for comment.
Also in Arizona, both former Democratic mayors of St. Louis Guillermina Fuentes, as well as the vice mayor of St. Louis Gloria Torres he pleaded guilty to participate in the collection of votes in the July 2020 primary elections. Fuentes was sentenced to 30 days in prison and Torres was sentenced to two years of supervised probation.
Torres, who was a member of the city council, was named the up-to-date vice mayor of San Luis last December.
Connecticut
Bridgeport, Connecticut had repeat the primary and general elections this year after evidence came to lithe of alleged ballot harvesting in last September’s Democratic mayoral primary.
The Democratic incumbent mayor, whose supporter was the reason for a rerun after allegedly committing vote harvesting, won the election. The mayor denied any knowledge of the alleged ballot harvesting. The Connecticut Democratic Secretary of State sent many of them referrals regarding alleged electoral fraud by the State Election Enforcement Commission in connection with the repeat of the general elections in February.
The Secretary of State also has two electoral reform proposals progress in the state legislature to “plug the gaps identified by our election observers.”
Massachusetts
Ahead of the November general election, a Democratic mayoral candidate was impeached in Springfield, Massachusetts last year bribing residents to vote.
Local media reports that election officials in the city of Springfield say they witnessed voters being brought to City Hall for early voting and that at least some expected to receive cash after voting for Democratic candidate Justin Hurst, according to local news outlets. Republican. Grove negative all allegations.
Incumbent mayor of Springfield from the Democratic Party won re-election.
New Jersey
In New Jersey, Paterson City Council President Alex Mendez (no) and fellow councilor Michael Jackson (no) are both he was charged with vote fraud since the May 2020 election initiated by the state’s Democratic attorney general.
Before the May 2020 election, in which Mendez ran for city council, he allegedly collected multiple absentee ballots from households over several days, in violation of state law, – informed the prosecutor general’s office. Mendez denies the allegations.
Charges against Jackson include election fraud, mail-in voting fraud, unauthorized possession of ballots, tampering with records or public information, and falsifying or tampering with records. He also denied the accusations.
Pennsylvania
In 2022 in Pennsylvania former Democratic congressman Michael “Ozzie” Myers pleaded guilty to “conspiracy to disenfranchise voters, bribery, obstruction of justice, falsifying voting records, and conspiring to illegally vote in federal elections by orchestrating schemes to fraudulently stuff ballot boxes for specific Democratic candidates in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and the 2018 Pennsylvania Elections.” according to the Department of Justice.
Myers bribed Domenick DeMuro, the Philadelphia Democratic Party precinct chairman and election judge who pleaded guilty in 2020 to accepting bribes. Myers also pleaded guilty to another election conspiracy in which he worked with South Philadelphia election judge Marie Beren, who was charged separately and pleaded guilty in 2021.
Mississippi
Last year in Mississippi, Hinds County District 2 Supervisor David Archie (D-state) claimed that Democratic Executive Committee Chair Jacqueline Amos involved in fraud in the party’s August primaries. Amos said that the primary election was conducted “in accordance with applicable state law” and that Archie had the “right to challenge the results” of the election.
Archie filed a lawsuit last year against the Hinds County Democratic Party and others calling for a up-to-date election. However, the Hinds County Circuit Court dismissed the lawsuitruling that Archie filed the lawsuit after the deadline for filing election complaints.
When is “denier” not “denier”?
As Trump and other Republicans raised concerns about voter irregularities in the 2020 presidential election, it was often labeled “election deniers.”– Hillary Clinton herself often declared Trump was an “illegitimate president.”” and suggested that “ he knows it stole presidential elections in 2016
But last year, multiple Democrats sued each other over alleged voter fraud several dozen of them claimed that the elections were rigged and irregularities at least since then presidential elections in 2000.
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Natalia Mittelstadt is a reporter for Just the News.
Photo “Al Gore” by Al Gore; “Hillary Clinton” dir Hillary Clinton; cover photo “flag” by Joshua Woroniecki.
