Way back there in the midst of the fall 2008 presidential election I had this headline on a column in The American Spectator:
Stealing Pennsylvania: “Massive Fraud”
In which, among other things, I said this, quoting then-Pennsylvania Republican State Chairman Robert Gleason:
“Between March 23rd and October 1st, various groups, including ACORN, submitted over 252,595 registrations to the Philadelphia County Election Board” with 57, 435 rejected for faulty information. “Most of these registrations were submitted by ACORN, and rejected due to fake social security numbers, incorrect dates of birth, clearly fraudulent signatures, addresses that do not exist, and duplicate registrations. In one case, a man was registered to vote more than 15 times since the Primary election.”
In other words, voting fraud in Pennsylvania was out there in the 2008 election cycle.
And here we are again.
Over there in The American Spectator, one George Parry, a Spectator colleague and, to the point an ex-state and federal prosecutor, has a piece out that is headlined – yes, indeed -this:
Stealing Pennsylvania
Unpostmarked mail-in ballots will make the difference, thanks to the Democrat state Supreme Court
Among other things, George notes the recent appearance on Sean Hannity’s TV show of pollster Robert Cahaly of the Trafalgar Group, the polling outfit that correctly called the Trump win in 2016. In discussing 2020, Cahaly said that Trump can win again. But when it comes to Pennsylvania he said that Trump had to win by a big enough margin to overcome voter fraud.
Indeed. George Parry went on to explain Pennsylvania’s problem. Said George:
“Given Pennsylvania’s recently decreed rules for receiving and counting mail-in ballots, there may be no percentage of honest votes large enough to overcome the voter fraud already underway in the Keystone State. These new rules have been put in place by a Democrat majority (Pennsylvania judges are elected) on the state supreme court. In addition to allowing mail-in ballots to be received and counted up to three days after the statutory Election Day deadline, the new judicially conjured rules for processing mail-in ballots can be boiled down to this aphorism: no postmark, no matching signature, no problem!
You read that right. Here in Pennsylvania, our state supreme court has mandated that a mail-in ballot received up to three days after Election Day must be counted and cannot be rejected merely because it is not postmarked by the statutory Election Day deadline or bears a signature that doesn’t match the one on record for the purported voter.
Care to guess how many such unverifiable ballots will mysteriously turn up after Election Day?”
In other words, to beat voter fraud in Pennsylvania, Trump needs a landslide win.
Can he get it?
Possibly. The President has been doing one rally after another here in my home state. The other day he appeared in Butler, which is in Western Pennsylvania. His rally drew a mind-boggling 57,000 people – in the cold:
I personally have been at three of his recent rallies – two in South Central Pennsylvania (Harrisburg and outside Lancaster in Lititz) and Montoursville (next to Williamsport in North Central Pennsylvania.) All three were filled with tens of thousands of people who were seriously enthusiastic Trump supporters.
Which is to say, these crowds represent precisely the kind of enthusiasm that can carry Pennsylvania. And taking no chances, there is a team of 20 lawyers who are watching very, very carefully – to make sure there is no stealing Pennsylvania
