1prophet
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Voting fraud usually happens in local elections where it can make a difference.
http://www.recordonline.com/news/20161215/shalom-lamm-charged-with-voter-fraud
But most Americans don't care about local elections which actually happens to be where most politicians who go on to higher state and federal offices learn the meaning of "he who sits by the pot eats".
http://www.recordonline.com/news/20161215/shalom-lamm-charged-with-voter-fraud
By Amanda Loviza
Times Herald-Record
BLOOMINGBURG — Residents have been shouting it at village board meetings for years: Shalom Lamm orchestrated voter fraud in the Village of Bloomingburg in order to push forward his 396-unit Hasidic townhouse development, Chestnut Ridge.
On Thursday, the FBI arrested Lamm and charged him and two others with conspiracy to corrupt the electoral process - voter fraud. Former Mamakating Town Supervisor Harold Baird has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to submit false voter registrations, according to court papers.
According to the federal indictment, Chestnut Ridge developers Lamm and Kenneth Nakdimen and their associate, Volvy "Zev" Smilowitz, bribed people from outside the village with money, subsidies and other items of value to entice them to vote in the March 2014 village election. Lamm and Nakdimen, through their real estate company, allegedly paid one recruiter $500 per voter, with payments totaling $31,000. The conspirators allegedly backdated false lease agreements for uninhabited properties they owned in Bloomingburg, picked up mail from uninhabited homes where fraudulent voters were registered, and planted household items like toothbrushes and toothpaste to make unoccupied apartments appear lived in.
But most Americans don't care about local elections which actually happens to be where most politicians who go on to higher state and federal offices learn the meaning of "he who sits by the pot eats".
