{"id":104546,"date":"2020-08-31T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=104546"},"modified":"2020-08-31T11:33:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T15:33:58","slug":"tammany-hall-and-those-good-old-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=104546","title":{"rendered":"Tammany Hall, New York State, and Those Good Old Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Boss Tweed – the guy who controlled the votes in NYC<\/p>\n

Tammany Hall in the 19th<\/sup> century controlled the votes in all the boroughs of New York City.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/html\/how-steal-election-12824.html<\/a><\/p>\n

From the article: Nowhere did voter fraud have a more notorious record than in Tammany-era New York. Tammany Hall’s ruthless efficiency in manufacturing votes\u2014especially during the zenith of its power in the second half of the nineteenth century\u2014is legendary. At the time, America didn’t yet have privacy-protecting voting machines or official government ballots, so Tammany fixers could ensure that voters would cast ballots as promised. Vote riggers would simply give people pre-marked ballots and watch as they deposited them into the voting box.<\/p>\n

The immigrants flooding into New York were easy prey for the Tammany pols. Each state then set its own standards for naturalizing new citizens, and New York’s were lax. In 1868,\u00a0The Nation\u00a0reported that Tammany Hall had set up a “naturalization mill,” instantly certifying folks right off the boat as citizens\u2014and Tammany voters. (In 1996, the Clinton administration similarly sped up the naturalization of up to 1 million new citizens so that they could vote in time for that year’s election.) \u2013 article<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.newyorkalmanack.com\/2014\/11\/1931-tammany-hall-voter-fraud-and-sullivan-county\/<\/a><\/p>\n

But it wasn\u2019t just the boroughs of New York City that were affected. No, it was all over the state.<\/p>\n

From the article:\u00a0\u00a0Howard Beecher, the chairman of the county\u2019s Republican Committee, was surprised by the over 1,100 absentee ballots requested in Sullivan that year, and sent a list of 620 names to the state GOP committee, asking that they be investigated for falsely filing an application to vote here<\/em>. Beecher suspected that Democrats had imported persons registered in New York City to vote in Sullivan County in an attempt to ensure a victory for Whittaker, and retain a key seat in a desperate battle for control of the Assembly.<\/p>\n

Such control of the legislative body was particularly crucial that year, as Republicans continued their efforts to dismantle the long-standing influence of Tammany Hall on politics, both within and outside of New York City. The so-called Hofstadter Committee, chaired by State Senator Samuel Hofstadter, had been empaneled the year before to conduct what would become widely known as the Seabury Hearings.<\/p>\n

\u201cRepublican leaders in Sullivan County see the hand of Tammany extended to obtain control of upstate constituencies in its fight for a majority in the 1932 Assembly as a means of snuffing out the life of the Hofstadter Committee in the large number of absentee voters\u2019 ballots that have been issued by election authorities in the county<\/em>,\u201d the\u00a0New York Times<\/em> reported in its October 31, 1931 edition. \u201cColonization by absentee voters is said to be an entirely new device in political mechanics. According to Republican leaders, it is having its first tryout this year in Sullivan County, where their party is making an aggressive fight to defeat William Whittaker, the Democratic incumbent, a candidate for re-election.\u201d – article\u00a0 (Italics are added for emphasis.)<\/p>\n

How is this relevant to the November elections this year?\u00a0 The uptick in mail-in ballots is one symptom. I have received the unasked-for form<\/em> to get one, but since I will not be out of town or anywhere but where I am currently, I see no reason to ask for a mail-in ballot. And besides, the polling place in my district is at the town hall, which is right next door to the police station, so it’s fairly quiet there most of the time. I can take the bus to get there, if I need to do so.<\/p>\n

If I see any Antifas showing up to start a fuss, I’ll get photos of them when they’re arrested.<\/p>\n

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