A top Democratic operative says voter fraud, especially with mail-in ballots, is no myth. And he knows this because he’s been doing it, on a grand scale, for decades. Mail-in ballots have become the latest flashpoint in the 2020 elections. While President Trump and the GOP warn of widespread manipulation of the absentee vote that will swell with COVID polling restrictions, many Democrats and their media allies have dismissed such concerns as unfounded. 一位民主黨高級特工表示，選民欺詐，尤其是郵寄投票的欺詐行為，並非神話。而且他知道這一點，因為他幾十年來一直在大規模地這樣做。 郵寄選票已成為2020年選舉的最新熱點。特朗普總統和共和黨警告說，缺席投票的廣泛操縱將使COVID投票限制膨脹，但許多民主黨人及其媒體盟友卻認為這種擔心是沒有根據的。 但是這位政治內部人士因為不願提出起訴而以不願透露姓名的身份發言。他說，欺詐更多的是規則，而不是例外。他的骯髒工作使他度過了帕特森，大西洋城，卡姆登，紐瓦克，霍博肯和哈德遜縣的市政選舉和聯邦選舉的雜草，在整個加登州的地方立法，市長和國會競選活動中都可以找到他的印記。根據《郵政》（The Post）審查的競選記錄，新澤西州的一些知名人士和最高職位的職員都從他的benefit倆中受益。 提示者說：“以500票，1000票搖擺的選舉可以有所作為。” “翻轉狀態就足夠了。” 這位舉報人-他的身份，說唱歌手和作為各種戰役顧問的悠久歷史得到了《郵報》的證實-說他不僅多年來改變了自己的選票，而且還領導了欺詐者團隊並在新澤西州指導了至少20名特工，紐約和賓夕法尼亞州–關鍵的2020年搖擺狀態。  1 3 阿拉米庫存照片 提示者說：“新澤西州沒有從市議會到美國參議院的比賽，我們沒有參加過。” “我在伯靈頓縣參加了消防專員的比賽。比賽越小，比賽就越容易。” 伯尼·桑德斯（Bernie Sanders）在總統競選中不屈不撓地奮鬥不息，他說，他感到被迫挺身而出，希望各州立即採取行動，解決郵寄選票中存在的嚴重安全問題。 他說：“這是真實的事情。” “到11月3日，將會有一場關於這種材料的前衛戰爭……如果他們知道香腸的製作方法，就可以修理它。” 郵寄投票的過程可能很複雜-足以使84,000名紐約人因錯誤填寫而在6月23日的民主黨總統初選中投了他們的郵寄票。 但是對於政治專業人士而言，這只是小菜一碟。例如，在新澤西州，它首先是用大信封將空白的郵寄選票發送給註冊選民。包裝盒內是回郵信封，選民必須簽名的“選民郵件證明”以及選票本身。 那就是選舉操縱者開始行動的時候。 假票 選票沒有特定的安全特徵（例如郵票或水印），因此內部人士說，他只會自己做選票。 知情人士說：“我只是把（選票）放在複印機上，結果是一樣的。” 但是回國信封“比選票更安全。您永遠無法重新創建信封，”他說。因此，必須從真正的選民那裡收集它們。  1 4 彭博社通過蓋蒂圖片社 他將讓他的特工散開，挨家挨戶，說服選民讓他們代表他們郵寄完整的選票作為公共服務。然後，騙子和他的僕從將密封的信封帶回家，並用沸水將它們抱起來。 業內人士說：“您必須將其蒸掉以鬆開膠水。” 然後，他將刪除真實的選票，將偽造的選票放入已簽名的證書中，然後重新密封信封。 內幕人士說：“每張票頂上五分鐘。” 知情人說，他注意不要將偽造的選票塞進幾個公共郵箱中，而是將它們散布在城鎮各處。這樣一來，他避免了在今年新澤西州帕特森市議會競賽中挫敗選民欺詐行動的注意，在那裡，僅三個郵箱就發現了900張選票。 知情人士說：“如果他們將它們散布在所有不同的郵箱中，就不會發生任何事情。” 內部工作 提示者說，有時郵政員工在騙局中。 “您有個郵遞員，他是狂暴的反特朗普傢伙，他在Bedminster或某些共和黨據點工作……他可以參加那些（已填滿的）選票，並且知道95％的人將去共和黨，他可以將那些扔進去。垃圾。” 也可以看看 新澤西州下令進行新的選舉，因選民欺詐指控而受損在某些情況下，郵遞員是他的“工作人員”的成員，他們會從郵件中篩選選票並將其移交給操作員。 2017年，紐約市超過500份郵寄選票從未到達選舉委員會參加11月的比賽-剩下數百票被剝奪了選舉權。他們最終在2018年4月被發現。“由於一些不確定的原因，一些綁定到紐約市選舉委員會的郵件在布魯克林處理設施旁被擱置了，”城市選舉老闆邁克爾·瑞安（Michael Ryan）在紐約發現的時間。 療養院 知情人士說，建立輔助生活設施並“幫助”老人填寫缺席選票是一個金礦。 “在某些療養院中，護士實際上是帶薪的操作員。告密者說：“他們逐個房間地走到這些仍想與自己保持聯繫的老人身上。” “ [他們]確實為他們填寫了內容。” 知情人士指出，前澤西市市長傑拉爾德·麥肯（Gerald McCann ）曾在2007年以驚人的優勢贏得地方學校董事會席位後被起訴，理由是該組織欺騙了“無能……生病的”療養院居民為他投票。麥肯否認了這一點，儘管他確實承認協助缺席選票的一些療養院居民。 選民模擬 當所有其他方法都失敗時，內部人員會派特工在投票站現場投票，特別是在新澤西州和紐約州等不需要選民證的州。賓夕法尼亞州在大多數情況下也沒有。 最好的目標是註冊選民，他們通常會跳過總統選舉或市政選舉，而這些信息都是公開的。  1 3 阿拉米庫存照片 內幕人士在談到他如何派遣他的團隊時說：“您用這些人的名字和所在的地區填寫這些索引卡，然後繞着城市說，'您將成為他，您將成為他'。”骯髒的騙子。 知情人士說，在投票站，偽造的選民將登錄並“排隊並……投票”。冒名頂替者會儘可能地重新創建已經出現在選民名單中的簽名。在極少數情況下，一個真正的選民已經登錄並進行了投票，模仿者只會將其歸咎於無辜的錯誤和mistake發。 賄賂選民 提示者說，新澤西州的無家可歸者收容所提供了幾乎無窮無盡的可靠（可購買）選民。 他笑着說：“他們可以登記居住的地方，然後投票給民意調查。”邁克·彭博（Mike Bloomberg）贏得他的第三任市長一職時，每票約為174美元。他說，他本可以以70％的折扣獲得相同的結果，例如房地產開發商和Hoboken nabob的Frank“ Pupie” Raia去年因向低收入居民支付50美元以投票給他們而被聯邦定罪他在2013年市政選舉中的意願。 提示者說，在組織上，他在花園州和其他地方的選民欺詐計劃類似於黑手黨組織，老闆（通常是競選經理）將暴民士兵的日常管理移交給了下層首領（他）。實際的候選人通常被故意隱藏在黑暗中，因此他們可以維持“合理的可否認性”。 通過郵寄選票，雙方的黨派人士都會在當地的選舉委員會中散列並計算選票-辯論哪些選票會減少，哪些選票因不合規定而被扔掉。  1 3 美聯社 知情人說，他或他的行動提供的任何選票都將沿着選民證書上彎曲的一角（包含選民簽名），因此民主黨選舉委員會的計數器會知道解決辦法，而不是反對。 提示者說：“它不會彎曲，但您可以知道它已經彎曲了。” “在[證書]獲得批准之前，投票無所謂。除非他們批准[證書]，否則他們看不到投票。” 這位內部人士誇口說：“我發明了彎角，”他說，一旦將固定選票與普通選票混合在一起，便製成了床。“一旦開票，這是匿名投票。” 儘管聯邦法律警告最高可判處五年徒刑，但破滅的選民欺詐行為所受到的懲罰要少得多。而在2018年得克薩斯州女人被判處有期徒刑五年，在郵件中給出只是一個男人亞利桑那州破獲投票兩次緩刑三年。保守的傳統基金會（Heritage Foundation）進行的一項研究發現，在美國有1000多起有記錄的選民欺詐案，幾乎所有案件都發生在過去20年中。 Heritage負責選舉法改革計劃的高級法律研究員Hans von Spakovsky說：“這些技術沒有什麼新意。” “他所說的一切都是完全可能的。” 市選舉委員會拒絕回答有關投票安全的問題。 But the political insider, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he fears prosecution, said fraud is more the rule than the exception. His dirty work has taken him through the weeds of municipal and federal elections in Paterson, Atlantic City, Camden, Newark, Hoboken and Hudson County and his fingerprints can be found in local legislative, mayoral and congressional races across the Garden State. Some of the biggest names and highest office holders in New Jersey have benefited from his tricks, according to campaign records The Post reviewed. “An election that is swayed by 500 votes, 1,000 votes — it can make a difference,” the tipster said. “It could be enough to flip states.” The whisteblower — whose identity, rap sheet and long history working as a consultant to various campaigns were confirmed by The Post — says he not only changed ballots himself over the years, but led teams of fraudsters and mentored at least 20 operatives in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania — a critical 2020 swing state. 13 Alamy Stock Photo “There is no race in New Jersey — from city council to United States Senate — that we haven’t worked on,” the tipster said. “I worked on a fire commissioner’s race in Burlington County. The smaller the race, the easier it is to do.” A Bernie Sanders die-hard with no horse in the presidential race, he said he felt compelled to come forward in the hope that states would act now to fix the glaring security problems present in mail-in ballots. “This is a real thing,” he said. “And there is going to be a f–king war coming November 3rd over this stuff … If they knew how the sausage was made, they could fix it.” Mail-in voting can be complicated — tough enough that 84,000 New Yorkers had their mailed votes thrown out in the June 23 Democratic presidential primary for incorrectly filling them out. But for political pros, they’re a piece of cake. In New Jersey, for example, it begins with a blank mail-in ballot delivered to a registered voter in a large envelope. Inside the packet is a return envelope, a “certificate of mail in voter” which the voter must sign, and the ballot itself. That’s when the election-rigger springs into action. Phony ballots The ballot has no specific security features — like a stamp or a watermark — so the insider said he would just make his own ballots. “I just put [the ballot] through the copy machine and it comes out the same way,” the insider said. But the return envelopes are “more secure than the ballot. You could never recreate the envelope,” he said. So they had to be collected from real voters. 14 Bloomberg via Getty Images He would have his operatives fan out, going house to house, convincing voters to let them mail completed ballots on their behalf as a public service. The fraudster and his minions would then take the sealed envelopes home and hold them over boiling water. “You have to steam it to loosen the glue,” said the insider. He then would remove the real ballot, place the counterfeit ballot inside the signed certificate, and reseal the envelope. “Five minutes per ballot tops,” said the insider. The insider said he took care not to stuff the fake ballots into just a few public mailboxes, but sprinkle them around town. That way he avoided the attention that foiled a sloppy voter-fraud operation in a Paterson, NJ, city council race this year, where 900 ballots were found in just three mailboxes. “If they had spread them in all different mailboxes, nothing would have happened,” the insider said. Inside jobs The tipster said sometimes postal employees are in on the scam. “You have a postman who is a rabid anti-Trump guy and he’s working in Bedminster or some Republican stronghold … He can take those [filled-out] ballots, and knowing 95% are going to a Republican, he can just throw those in the garbage.” SEE ALSONew election ordered in NJ race marred by voter fraud chargesIn some cases, mail carriers were members of his “work crew,” and would sift ballots from the mail and hand them over to the operative. In 2017, more than 500 mail-in ballots in New York City never arrived to the Board of Elections for races that November — leaving hundreds disenfranchised. They eventually were discovered in April 2018. “For some undetermined reason, some baskets of mail that were bound to the New York City Board of Elections were put off to the side at the Brooklyn processing facility,” city elections boss Michael Ryan said at the time of discovery. Nursing homes Hitting up assisted-living facilities and “helping” the elderly fill out their absentee ballots was a gold mine of votes, the insider said. “There are nursing homes where the nurse is actually a paid operative. And they go room by room by room to these old people who still want to feel like they’re relevant,” said the whistleblower. “[They] literally fill it out for them.” The insider pointed to former Jersey City Mayor Gerald McCann, who was sued in 2007 after a razor-thin victory for a local school board seat for allegedly tricking “incompetent … and ill” residents of nursing homes into casting ballots for him. McCann denied it, though he did admit to assisting some nursing home residents with absentee ballot applications. Voter impersonation When all else failed, the insider would send operatives to vote live in polling stations, particularly in states like New Jersey and New York that do not require voter ID. Pennsylvania, also for the most part, does not. The best targets were registered voters who routinely skip presidential or municipal elections — information which is publicly available. 13 Alamy Stock Photo “You fill out these index cards with that person’s name and district and you go around the city and say, ‘You’re going to be him, you’re going to be him,'” the insider said of how he dispatched his teams of dirty-tricksters. At the polling place, the fake voter would sign in, “get on line and … vote,” the insider said. The impostors would simply recreate the signature that already appears in the voter roll as best they could. In the rare instance that a real voter had already signed in and cast a ballot, the impersonator would just chalk it up to an innocent mistake and bolt. Bribing voters The tipster said New Jersey homeless shelters offered a nearly inexhaustible pool of reliable — buyable — voters. “They get to register where they live in and they go to the polls and vote,” he said, laughing at the roughly $174 per vote Mike Bloomberg spent to win his third mayoral term. He said he could have delivered the same result at a 70 percent discount — like when Frank “Pupie” Raia, a real estate developer and Hoboken nabob, was convicted last year on federal charges for paying low-income residents 50 bucks a pop to vote how he wanted during a 2013 municipal election. Organizationally, the tipster said, his voter-fraud schemes in the Garden State and elsewhere resembled Mafia organizations, with a boss (usually the campaign manager) handing off the day-to-day managing of the mob soldiers to the underboss (him). The actual candidate was usually kept in the dark deliberately so they could maintain “plausible deniability.” With mail-in ballots, partisans from both parties hash out and count ballots at the local board of elections — debating which ballots make the cut and which need to be thrown out because of irregularities. 13 AP The insider said any ballots offered up by him or his operation would come with a bent corner along the voter certificate — which contains the voter signature — so Democratic Board of Election counters would know the fix was in and not to object. “It doesn’t stay bent, but you can tell it’s been bent,” the tipster said. “Until the [certificate] is approved, the ballot doesn’t matter. They don’t get to see the ballot unless they approve the [certificate.]” “I invented bending corners,” the insider boasted, saying once the fixed ballots were mixed in with the normal ones, the bed was made. “Once a ballot is opened, it’s an anonymous ballot.” While federal law warns of prison sentences of up to five years, busted voter frauds have seen far less punishment. While in 2018 a Texas woman was sentenced to five years, an Arizona man busted for voting twice in the mail was given just three years’ probation. A study by the conservative Heritage Foundation found more than 1,000 instances of documented voter fraud in the United States, almost all of which occurred over the last 20 years. “There is nothing new about these techniques,” said Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at Heritage who manages their election law reform initiative. “Everything he’s talking about is perfectly possible.“ The city Board of Elections declined to answer Post questions on ballot security. 
由KIM ZETTER 美國東部標準時間11/04/2020 01:55 PM 一位縣選舉主管 說，周二上午在佐治亞州兩個縣中止了一次技術故障，原因是供應商在前一天晚上向其選舉機器上傳了更新。 州官員說，在電子設備墜毀後，選民在摩根和斯伯丁縣無法連續幾個小時投票。為回應延誤，高等法院法官W. Fletcher Sams將投票延長至晚上11點 各縣使用由Dominion Voting Systems製造的投票機和KnowInk製造的用於在選民身上簽名的電子民意調查書。 斯伯丁縣選舉委員會選舉主管瑪西婭·里德利（Marcia Ridley）說，這兩家公司“昨晚上傳了一些不正常的東西，這引起了故障”。這種故障使民意調查人員無法使用民意調查表對選民插入投票機的智能卡進行編程。 里德利說，兩家公司的代表在民意調查人員星期二早上開始對設備出現問題之後給她打電話，並說問題是由於他們的一名技術人員在一夜之間將設備上傳到機器上造成的。 “這是他們從未做過的事情。我從未見過他們在大選前一天有任何更新。”里德利說。里德利說，她不知道上傳的內容。 國務卿辦公室投票系統實施經理加布里埃爾·斯特林（Gabriel Sterling）對記者說，問題可能出在上傳到系統上的數據集上，但他們不確定。他沒有透露數據集是否由投票機供應商上傳。 斯特林告訴記者，此問題需要花費一些時間來解決，因為技術人員必須帶進更多設備以糾正問題。 Dominion和KnowInk均未回應評論請求。國務卿辦公室發言人也未回答有關誰上傳數據集以及是否有人事先審查和測試過後續問題的後續問題。 摩根縣選舉與登記委員會選舉主任詹妮弗·多蘭（Jennifer Doran）說，問題在於KnowInk投票簿如何編碼與Dominion投票機一起使用的選民訪問卡。 當選民在投票地點簽到，投票工作人員將一張選民接入卡插入投票Pad平板和編碼它為選民。然後將卡插入投票機以顯示該選民的正確選票。該故障顯然阻止民意測驗人員對這些卡進行編碼。 多蘭說：“摩根縣民意調查人員在迅速轉移到緊急備用程序方面做得很好，以便選民能夠繼續投票。” 她說，Dominion技術人員解決了該問題。 縣在某些情況下設計了一種解決方法，即讓民意管理者使用自己的卡和代碼來初始化每個選民的投票機。但這在某些區域導致排長隊。 佐治亞州在全州範圍內使用Dominion投票機和KnowInk投票站，這是該州在取代其已有20年歷史的電子投票系統後，今年才在每個縣中首次部署該系統。 目前尚不清楚為什麼其他佐治亞州的縣沒有摩根和斯伯丁遇到的問題。 埃里克·蓋勒（Eric Geller）為這份報告做出了貢獻。 Camp/AP Photo By KIM ZETTER 11/04/2020 01:55 PM EST A technology glitch that halted voting in two Georgia counties on Tuesday morning was caused by a vendor uploading an update to their election machines the night before, a county election supervisor said. Voters were unable to cast machine ballots for a couple of hours in Morgan and Spalding counties after the electronic devices crashed, state officials said. In response to the delays, Superior Court Judge W. Fletcher Sams extended voting until 11 p.m. The counties use voting machines made by Dominion Voting Systems and electronic poll books — used to sign in voters — made by KnowInk. The companies “uploaded something last night, which is not normal, and it caused a glitch,” said Marcia Ridley, elections supervisor at Spalding County Board of Election. That glitch prevented pollworkers from using the pollbooks to program smart cards that the voters insert into the voting machines. Ridley said that a representative from the two companies called her after poll workers began having problems with the equipment Tuesday morning and said the problem was due to an upload to the machines by one of their technicians overnight. “That is something that they don’t ever do. I’ve never seen them update anything the day before the election,” Ridley said. Ridley said she did not know what the upload contained. Gabriel Sterling, voting system implementation manager in the secretary of state’s office, told reporters that the issue likely was a dataset that got uploaded to the systems, but that they don’t know for certain. He did not say if the dataset was uploaded by the voting machine vendor. Sterling told reporters the issue took some time to fix because technicians had to bring in additional equipment to correct the problem. Neither Dominion nor KnowInk responded to a request to comment. A spokesperson for the secretary of state’s office also did not respond to follow-up questions about who uploaded the dataset and whether it had been reviewed and tested by anyone beforehand. Jennifer Doran, elections director for the Morgan County Board of Elections and Registration, said the issue was with how the KnowInk pollbooks encode a voter access card that is used with the Dominion voting machines. When voters sign in at a voting location, poll workers insert a voter access card into the Poll Pad tablet and encode it for that voter. The card is then inserted into voting machines to display the proper ballot for that voter. The glitch apparently prevented poll workers from encoding those cards. “Morgan County poll workers did a great job of quickly moving to emergency backup procedures so that voters were able to continue voting,” Doran said. She said Dominion technicians fixed the issue. The counties devised a workaround in some cases by having poll managers use their own card and a code to initialize the voting machine for each voter. But this caused long lines at some precincts. Georgia uses Dominion voting machines and KnowInk Poll Pads statewide — systems that the state only deployed in every county for the first time this year after replacing its previous 20-year-old electronic voting systems. It’s not clear why other Georgia counties did not have the problems Morgan and Spalding had. Eric Geller contributed to this report. 
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Voting machines at a polling station in Doral, Florida, on Election Day in 2018.Scott McIntyre/Bloomberg
華為近日被指涉嫌操縱韓國選舉。東亞研究中心指出，華為生產的投票伺服器可連結到中國境內，也能通過QR code從外部將其指令發送到主伺服器，並在中國境內運行。（AFP）
