10th District Democrat Let Fingers Do Walking on Fraudulent Petitions

The good folks working with TA up at the Team America's Tenth District Blog earlier uncovered numerous dead signatories to the nominating petitions of Illinois State Senator Terry Link, the Chairman of the Democratic Party of Lake County, Illinois. Well they have outdone themselves with their investigation of Mr. Link's petitions by noticing that the names were apparently copied out of the phone book and the signatures allegedly forged. It was not immediately noticeable due to the fact that the petitions show the first name first, however they have compiled a long list of pages that list the last names alphabetically or in reverse-alphabetical order (TA charitably calls the later "sneaky"). They have found people with only a first initial listed in the phone book who's petition entry contains only the same first initial, TA's group contacted some of them who claimed to never sign anything with just the first initial. They found other instances in which those telephone customers were listed on the nominating petition with incorrect names that start with the correct initial. In spite of all of that I have to agree with TA that the following pretty much closes the deal:


Aritha Walker (sheet 41, line 23) is listed as living at 245 Jackson, in North Chicago. Aritha lives on Jackson, but at a different street number. "245" is April Walker's house number at a completely different street in Mundelein. April Walker is the entry in the phone book immediately above Aritha Walker.


All of us who appreciate honest elections and honest campaigning owe a thanks to TA and his mystery sleuths. Considering all of the talk I hear from the Obama campaign on new ways to "do" politics I'm sure that former Illinois State Senator Barack Obama would also appreciate their work.

New 10th District Democratic Candidate?

Copyright: Flying Debris
I recently saw this sticker on a post box near De Paul.

Here in Chicago we are used to the dead voting, up in the north suburban 10th Congressional District the Chairman of the local Democrats has turned in a nominating petition containing the "signatures" of dead "voters", and in last year's Democratic Primary the voters here in Cook County elected a County Board President who had suffered a stroke weeks before the ballot and has not been seen since; his incompetent son Todd Stroger was appointed to the ballot position and is now the County Board President.

No, as far as I know Elect the Dead is not the latest Democratic vote scheme nor does Elect the Dead have anything to do with the seminal jam band the Grateful Dead, known to their fans simply as the Dead. Rather Elect the Dead is the latest album from the former frontman for the alt metal band System of a Down, Serj Tankian.

Lake County Dem Uses Dead "Voters"

The excellent new blog Team America's Tenth District Blog has been covering politics in Lake County Illinois and the northern part of Cook County. The proprietor, TA has helped to discover and has written about the Chairman of the Lake County Democratic Party and his use of deceased voters on his latest nominating petitions. Terry Link is an Illinois State Senator and the Chairman of the Democrats up in Lake County.

As a life-long resident of Cook County, a long-time resident of the city of Chicago and an observer of Chicago politics since about the age of five when my father was a Democratic Precinct Captain on the city's West Side, I must say that this is nothing new for the local Democratic parties. Many local Democrats bragged about their abilities to cheat and steal elections until about 4:00 AM of the day following the 2000 election. I guess that it appeared unseemly to brag about stealing elections while they were trying to steal an election. It has been at least six years, a week and a few days since I have heard a local Democrat brag about "stealing" the 1960 Presidential election for John F. Kennedy.

This election dishonesty could be a much larger problem. Professor Reynolds at Instapundit linked to this very interesting paper by U. of Tennessee Law School Associate Professor Jennifer Hendricks on the subject of and likely legality of the National Popular Vote (NPV) legislation that is in front of a number of state legislatures, it has passed in Illinois. The NPV legislation would bind the Electoral College votes of signature states to the candidate who wins the national popular vote, state voters be damned. The biggest problem with this electoral scheme is people like Mr. Link. Imagine how many votes that Democrats could steal in the most populated cities if it guaranteed them the White House. If some Democrats will use the deceased on petitions that are so likely to be inspected what would people like that do during the confusion of an election day?

I have long been a supporter of the Electoral College and over the years I have found that some people are vociferously against the Electoral College, the subject makes some of the the anti-Electoral College group downright angry. I have also found that when those anti-Electoral College folks discuss the subject they describe those of us who are pro-Electoral College as being from a political party other than their own. Before the 2000 election I was accused of being a member of the Democratic Party by Republicans and since 2000 I have been described as a member of the Republican Party by Democrats. Go figure.