No Possibility He Could Have Been There to Vote

A Florida college student recently became aware that someone used his name to vote in the controversial November 5th, 2019 Kentucky gubernatorial election, according to an exclusive from Loomered.com.

His name is Jake Burd and he’s from Louisville, Kentucky. His mother contacted him Tuesday while he was in class in Tampa and asked him if he was in possession of his driver’s license. Burd did have is license on him, which was odd given that according to the state of Kentucky, he voted in the election. Apparently, someone had used a form of ID with Burd’s name and even forged his signature at the polls. There was absolutely no possibility that Burd could have been present for that vote, as he was verifiably busy the entire day. This is only one example of several issues plaguing Kentucky voting.

Additionally, the official election results posted on the Kentucky State Board of Elections website showed obvious discrepancies, with 3,762 votes cast but only 3,731, leaving 31 votes unaccounted for in Breathitt County, Kentucky.

Several Voting Irregularities

11/08/2019 Kentucky’s voting problems run deep and are especially important to pay attention to now. From conservative activist Laura Loomer’s website, the story a woman named Tore Lindeman and her husband Barry Lindeman demonstrate just how ridiculous the state’s voting irregularities are, and could quite possibly be downright fraud.

For the Lindemans, this began back in 2016, when her and her husband, who is not a US citizen, went so she could cast her vote at their local precinct. After arriving and attempting to vote, a woman working the polls told her a passport would not work and that she needed a state issued ID. The woman then went on to tell Barry Lindeman he could vote, looked to Tore Lindeman and said, “but not you,” to which she said a passport was not considered valid identification.

Tore Lindeman then told the woman to remove her husband, who was not a US citizen, from the registered voter list. The woman refused, and told the couple he would have to file the appropriate papers and send them off on his own time. A heated argument ensued, followed by a police presence. They finally left, but only after the cops confirmed that yes, a passport is a valid form of ID to vote, and no, you cannot vote if you aren’t a US citizen.

When the Lindemans got home, Tore began researching both hers and her husband’s registration, and sure enough, both her and her husband were on the voter registration list. She made a phone call to then AG Andy Beshear, the governor, and Secretary of State in Kentucky formally complaining about the entire situation. The next month, she was ensured by the AG office that at the request, both her and her husbands names would be removed, as they no longer lived there and again, he wasn’t a US resident.

The Voter Registration Issues Continue

Fast forward to the 2018 midterm elections, Tore Lindeman again researched and this time found that her and her husband’s name was removed from the Kentucky voting list. After this, everything should have been just fine. It wasn’t until the 2019 gubernatorial governor race and rumors of voter fraud in Kentucky that Lindeman decided to just double-check the online list of voters. To her surprise, both of their names were listed as registered Democrat Kentucky voters.

Friday morning Lindeman called the Kentucky electoral board and spoke with a woman that told her, “Recently we were in litigation. We had through the course of this last, what’s called list maintenance, deemed 175,000 voters as inactive.Then through litigation, from different individual agencies, partners, individuals, that suit required us to add those 175,000 back in. You said the only way you knew that in 2018 is that you checked and you weren’t on, the only way I can envision that that happened is through that process. I cannot see all of the activity records. I’m the low man here, I’m not one of the chiefs.”

The woman seemed confused but went on, she offered to help and call Jefferson County, but made it clear that Jefferson County was very busy and it would be some time before they responded. Lindeman told her she had never registered to a specific party, yet her registration was marked Democrat, that her and her husband both were. They offered to open an investigation, but said they had little control of the outcome. The woman finally admitted it wasn’t the first time she’d seen it happen. People with green cards are erroneously able to receive voting rights some how, and it’s a lengthy process to “unregister.”

This example is one of many voting irregularities found in Kentucky. Back in 2018, then Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes, also then chairwoman of the State Board of Elections, wielded the power to slow the process of cleaning the state’s voter rolls. It would basically put Kentucky out of compliance with an agreement it had signed with the Department of Justice for improvement of roll accuracy. She denied it but was investigated by three different state agencies.

AG Beshear, who ran against the incumbent governor Matt Bevin, litigated against Kentucky and the federal request of purging inactive voters, to reinstating those 175,000 people who had been removed from the voter rolls. Based on the Lindemans being put back on the list, it is not unlikely there are others.

Can You Trust Your Board of Elections?

In the lawsuit Judicial Watch Inc. and the United States v. Alison Lundergan Grimes, et, al, it was held that the removal of old voter registrations is mandatory under the NVRA, something the Kentucky State Board of Elections had failed to do. In a consent judgement, Kentucky acknowledges the state is not in compliance and must make a reasonable effort to remove ineligible persons from the voter rolls due to change in residence outside of jurisdiction. The state was supposed to proceed with canvass mailing, but the office improperly delayed.

Matt Bevin, the incumbent governor of Kentucky refused to concede due to the voting irregularities he found, including the 82 complaint calls after the polls opened and 32 that were received prior to them opening. With the vote difference at just over 5000, it would be a reasonable request to ask for a recanvass of the votes. A recount is scheduled for Thursday, November 14th at 9am.