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Voter Fraud Watch Video Exclusive: Poll Watcher Witnesses Misconduct in Houston

Witness describes poll misconduct, professors push the vote on campus, plus, if you want to report voter fraud, there's now an app for that courtesy of American Majority.

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Bryan Preston

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October 28, 2010 - 11:14 am

We are hearing stories about voter fraud and leftist shenanigans from all over.  For instance, watch this video of a poll watcher’s story about what she has seen during early voting in Houston, Texas.  This is eyewitness testimony to voter fraud in the form of a poll worker casting votes on behalf of voters, captured by True the Vote and aired exclusively at PJM/PJTV.

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This has been reported to the authorities.

We’re gathering other evidence of the left’s particular brand of GOTV, such as hints that professors may be abusing their positions to encourage their students to vote a certain way, as in this email from a professor at the University of Texas at Brownsville (emphases in original).

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Dear CoE Colleagues,

This afternoon, we received a request from the provost that all faculty walk with their students to the UTB/TSC early voting polling site located in Mary Rose Cardenas South during the last 10-15 minutes of class on Thursday and Friday (the poll will also be open on Monday).

The number of students and faculty voting on campus remains low, far below our goal of 100%, which puts our campus polling place at risk.  Please consider engaging your students in a dialog about why they choose to vote or not to vote.  With several positions on the ballot for the local school board, there is much to talk about in a College of Education regarding voter participation.

No class? No problem. CoE staff will be available to drive faculty and staff (not students) in the golf cart to MRCS to vote.  The minimum number of passengers is three. Call 882-7220 for a free ride to the polling place.

Starting tomorrow, tallies will be taken by college for student, faculty, and staff voter turnout.  Let the College of Education lead the way!

Enthusiastically,

Selma Yznaga

Selma d. Yznaga, Ph.D., LPC-S
Founder, Texas Counselors for Social Justice
Associate Professor
Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies
The University of Texas at Brownsville

“Founder, Texas Counselors for Social Justice.”  How telling.  Any chance she wants her students to vote for fiscal responsibility and limited government?

If you witness anything like these incidents, please send it to us at pollwatch@pajamasmedia.com.

We also want to encourage you to download and use American Majority’s Voter Fraud app if you have a smart phone.  The Voter Fraud app will help you capture and geotag what you witness, and you can use it to flag your report to AM.  American Majority and Pajamas Media are working together through Election Day to get voter fraud cases reported, both to the proper authorities and to the nation.

Bryan Preston has been a leading conservative blogger and opinionator since founding his first blog in 2001. Bryan is a military veteran, worked for NASA, was a founding blogger and producer at Hot Air, was producer of the Laura Ingraham Show and, most recently before joining PJM, was Communications Director of the Republican Party of Texas.

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20 Comments, 16 Threads, 2 Trackbacks

  1. 1. Andy

    Sorry, I have a problem with the second example of ‘election fraud’.
    “…professors abusing their positions to encourage their students to vote a certain way…”
    I have read the email several times. She encourages people to vote, nothing wrong with that is there?
    Where does she encourage students to vote a certain way?

    • Jan in Michigan

      The words “social justice” will make most conservatives question motive.

      • Bill

        Professors are also being encouraged to encourage students to vote by the schools’ administrations who are, in turn, being encouraged to encourage encouraging from state legislatures and governing boards. It’s not fraud and it even wouldn’t be fraud if they were just doing benign electioneering. It WOULD however be *unethical* to associate grades for a decision to vote (or stay home) or to vote absentee vs at the polling place, or of course to support scribbling in any given circle on the ballot or wearing a specific political button or such.

      • richard40

        The words “Social Justice” in the signature line indicates the professor is a leftist, but there is nothing else to indicate the leftist professor is telling the students to vote leftist.

  2. 2. Al

    host mx1.emailsrvr.com[98.129.184.3] said: 550
    5.1.1 : Recipient address rejected: User
    unknown in relay recipient table (in reply to RCPT TO command)

    SRSU Democrat Organization
    Election November 2, 2010
    Early Voting going on now!

    We are Sul Ross State University – College Democrats. We believe that
    facts matter, policies matter, and issues matter. Whether it is advocating
    for Student Financial Aid reform, Health Insurance reform, or the issues
    that matter to young Americans, now is the time to vote. In 2008, many
    college students came out to vote and became engaged in the political
    system for the first time in their early lives and made a difference. Now
    in 2010, we again need the college students to go out and vote in Brewster
    County, or apply for an absentee ballot from the county they are
    registered in the state of Texas. Your vote does make a difference!

    People are always saying that college students, don’t care about the real
    world issues. “College students don’t even think about voting in any
    election, but believe that their parents will be voting.” Students need
    to rekindle the passion and stir up our Lobo pride and get involved and
    defy the skeptics that believe our generation is out of touch. We are
    adults now, and our university has prepared us to go out and make a
    difference. Get your voter registration card and vote – early voting is
    right now at the old post office across the street from the Brewster
    County Court House.

    Here at Sul Ross State University College Democrats, we have many students
    interested in what is going on in politics. We have had two voter
    registration drives and have re-opened the Sul Ross State University
    Democratic organization. We as college students need to inspire each
    other to get involved in politics and in all elections that are to come.
    We have College Democrat organizations all around Texas working hard to
    make a difference in each college and universities all over Texas.

    I am voting because I want a governor of the State of Texas that
    exemplifies how effective and honest government can be. Right now in
    Texas, our governor openly rejects offers to debate the issues important
    to Texans. I am voting because I do not want a governor who is proud to
    have a state ranked close to last in education and healthcare. I am voting
    because it is only through the ballot that we can stand up against
    corruption and elect an individual that is going to stand up for Texas
    students and working families.

    I know each and every one of you has a particular candidate or issue that
    energizes you. That is why I am urging you to get out and vote. For a
    sample of Brewster County Election Ballot, go to Alpine Daily Planet.com
    and see a sample copy.
    Do you want to be involved in our organization? Contact Evelyn Garcia
    Nieto at 432-837-9779 – leave a message or email me at
    enie109@sulross.edu We are Voting Students, we are Lobo Vicious!

    See Attachment for copy of ballot sample

  3. 3. Yaeli

    Actually, quite a lot of professors I know within psychology who do research in the field of social justice tend to be center to center-right politically. If you look at the New Black Panther’s case, this has been a very hot topic and incorporated into many social justice courses examining the importance of race-neutrality when it comes to enforcement of the law –all voters, no matter their skin colour, should be equally protected and free from intimidation.

    I see nothing wrong with the letter or with encouraging people to vote. Nowhere does it say who to vote for.

  4. 4. News Flash

    Further evidence that massive voter fraud by Democrats is now being orchestrated and condoned at the highest level in the Democratic Party AND IN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, also, is that now AG Eric Holder has intervened personally to prevent Arizona from requiring voters in Arizona to provide proof of citizenship before they can vote, even though the DOJ has been provided with substantial evidence that HUGE numbers of ilegal aliens are registering to vote in Arizona. In fact, Holder is trying to strip Governor Jan Brewer of her authorities as governor, usurping that authority and placing Arizona under the DOJ’s control. If they get away with it, that will set a VERY dangerous precedent. (And here again, FOX is the only one in the MSM that is reporting those events.)

  5. 5. Terbreugghen

    Agreed that the “example” of fraud by the professor is not fraud. I teach in the arts at a small southeastern college. I take pride that my students know nothing about my political position (conservative) but just as Dr. Yznaga is doing, I encourage students to excerise our hard-won franchise without stating what should be voted on. I have no doubt Dr. Yznaga is hard left politically, but the forwarded message cannot be used as evidence of indoctrination. It’s just not there. That’s not to say there is no such thing. We should be vigilant. But there’s enough blatant voter fraud going on all over that we ought not have to invent things.

  6. 6. WordBearer

    I am a GOP election judge in Houston and it is improper for the clerks to assist in this manner. The judge may assist voters but not the clerks. Still, the Dims cheat every election. In 2006 I was a GOP poll watcher and personally witnessed Dimocratic election judges printing out access codes for the machines and handing them to voters without qualifying them or even checking their identity.

  7. 7. richard40

    I agree the professors email does not in itself say much about voter fraud. It encourages students to vote, but says nothing about what/who to vote for. True the signature line indicates the professor in question is a leftist, but that does not prove the professor is encouraging the students to vote a certain way. It might be a reason for suspicion though, but suspicion does not equal proof. The only way to really find out would be to ask the students.

  8. 8. Chris

    I am leaning towards agreeing that there is nothing in the letter that says WHO the students should vote for. The problems I see here are twofold.

    1.) The “Social Justice” portion of the signature – why is an employee of a state university begin paid to advocate Social justice
    2.) Why are instructors asked to “walk with their students to the UTB/TSC early voting polling site….” ? So the instructors can report back which students voted or did not vote? So the instructor can remind them on the way to the polls which candidates to vote for?

    • Bill

      “2.) Why are instructors asked to “walk with their students to the UTB/TSC early voting polling site….” ? So the instructors can report back which students voted or did not vote? So the instructor can remind them on the way to the polls which candidates to vote for?”

      Now THAT is inappropriate and creepy. And it may be interpreted as enabling monkeyshines if the early ballots are handled differently (e.g., individually enveloped rather than all put loose in the box, thus no longer hiding any “wrong” votes in a forest of ballots.) Heck, that’s the other reason, asides from the social tradition, that I only do early voting when I have to go on travel on election day.

  9. 9. buzzsawmonkey

    Voting Day
    —apologies to Cole Porter and “Night and Day”

    By the cheat cheat cheat of the counting
    When pre-marked ballots are tolled
    By acceptance of the dubious lists
    On which fake names are enrolled
    By the blip blip blip of the touchscreens
    That don’t record what you want them to
    So the partisans will disenfranchise
    You, you, you

    Voting Day, go cast your one
    But remember that some of the totals
    Are already done
    In the now smoke-free back rooms
    There still linger the corruption fumes
    Their stink comes out
    Voting Day

    Ask, you might—why is it so?
    They can predetermine how
    Certain contests will go?
    ‘Cause a groundwork has been laid
    For inaccurate counting to be made
    When returns come in
    Voting Day

    Voting Day,
    Across the continent
    Election boards display for us all of their rank incompetence
    But unless the count is true
    Our own nation’s being stolen from me and you
    By sleight of hand
    Voting Day

  10. 10. Yehudit

    I think the complaints here are that the professors are being a little too hovering and hand-holding, which can lead to influencing and being able to tell how students vote. I think that’s a reasonable concern. It’s certainly legal, but it looks fishy. Anyway, students should be treated like adults. If they live on a campus and don’t have cars, sure, have a bus to take them to their polling place. Then drop them off at the corner and pick them up 3 hrs later or whatever.

  11. 11. sawdust_128

    What is the reasoning for allowing and promoting abuse of state funding to go to early voting? This Provost and all the faculty involved in this should be subjected to a serious ethics review by the State Auditor of State of Texas. In my opinion, they are all guilty of failing their fiduciary responsibility to ensure that the public funds are used for the ascribed purpose. To purposefully waste public funds is a significant breach of the public trust. There is no excuse for this abuse. It is criminal in nature, unethical, amoral and most certainly unprofessional.

  12. 12. paul_unalaska

    Not surprising this despicable behavior is occurring in Houston. The land of ‘Where’s my Gubmint cheeze’?

    I recall the Mayoral election this past year, resulting in ‘Houston’s 1st Lesbian Mayor’ with TOTAL voter participation being 16% !!! 1 in 6 people voted. Ahh, viva la progressivism’ right? haha

  13. 13. Elaine Schiff

    I am not suprised-as an ex temp in 2004 and 2008 I saw some hair raising activity, and there was nothing to be done. But if we vote in large numbers you cant hide it, and they cant tweak it to get the results they want- So vote-

  14. 14. Greg James

    As an Australian I am dumbfounded that you have electronic voting, without paper back-ups. Or even that you don’t have a single system for your elections.

    How could you allow this to happen?

    Our own system is hardly perfect I suppose – it is all on paper ballots and these are available to be counted and recounted – and every registered voter is rigorously checked beforehand – but it is rare to ever hear of an allegation of electoral fraud or fraudulent voting.

    You guys need to do some serious work on your electoral system if this sort of voting fraud is able to happen.

  15. 15. Kamlhj

    Not sure if this constitutes voter fraud. The accompanying of students by staff could be. When I attended college, the teachers were almost 100% socialist & would often lecture us on the evils of capitalism. It was inferred that if you agreed with their views, you could get a higher grade. Here in Baltimore, the voter rolls constitute 105% of the voting population! My friend’s wife told me that her long deceased father is still on the voter’s list & the poll workers only give her lip service each year on removing it. Baltimore is about 11% Republican. Another friend told me that one year, a Democratic candidate actually walked into the voting booth section(not her voting location)& campaigned before being ushered out. A city I once worked for told us that whomever did not attend a Democratic victory party would lose their job. The cost was so high that we didn’t, & subsequently lost our jobs. In a neighboring city,my sister lost her job since she refused to register as a Republican. This year looks like an uncommonly strong year for voter fraud.

  16. 16. ConcernedStudent

    In one of my 50 minute classes, my professor has been taking up to 30 minutes of the class by preaching his politics and telling us how we should vote. I feel like this is wrong and am wondering what to do about it. Just the other day, it wasn’t until 11:30 (11:00-11:50 class) that we even got around to discussing the topics at hand. And it’s not just the other day; he’s been taking up significantly longer periods of time to tell us how we should vote. Not only do I feel this is unethical, I feel that my money is being wasted to hear him preach politics to me in a class that has little overlap with politics. What can I do about this?

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