Monday, June 4, 2012

More with Roger Ortiz

MEAN MISTER BROWNSVILLE:  Have you seen this before?

Mr. Ortiz:  No, I have not.  It appears three candidates may have used the same politiquera or group of politiqueras.

MEAN MISTER BROWNSVILLE:  Of course, in this instance the mail-in votes did not change things much.  Masso was not close to 50% where the mail-in votes would allow him to win without a runoff.  Lucio would have won with or with out the mail-in votes and Abelardo Gomez finishes second regardless.  But there have been other elections where the mail-in votes have turned the election.  Are you aware that Alex Begum is offering $5,000 for information leading to a conviction of voter fraud?

Mr. Ortiz:  No, I wasn't aware of that.  I met Alex Begum the other day, a very intelligent young man.  I knew his dad, Mike Begum, back when I was involved in assessing property taxes.  Mike had a personal formula no one else understood.  He could look at a few figures and quickly determine if an inventory was undercounted.  We never knew how he did it, but he was always right on the mark.

MEAN MISTER BROWNSVILLE:  Let me ask you about another incident that was reported in the El Rrun Rrun blog.  It was reported that in this last primary 10 mail-in votes were disqualified for various reasons, but only one voter was contacted, Blanca Vela, so that she could vote at her precinct the next day.  The upshot was that your office only notified one voter by phone when you could have taken a few minutes and notified all ten.

Mr. Ortiz:  That story is untrue.  My office doesn't handle the mail-in votes for approval or rejection.  That is done by the board.  Those letters go out almost immediately explaining why the vote was disqualified.  I only remember one time when there was enough time for a corrected mail-in vote to be received.  We don't call.  I don't think the board does either.  If someone was notified, it must have been by a poll worker.

MEAN MISTER BROWNSVILLE:  Thank you, Mr. Ortiz, for your time.

5 comments:

  1. Good Article Jim. Let the bloodbath begin.

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  2. LOL at his comment about Mike Begum! Because only a math whiz would have been able to notice the absurd reoccurence of exactly 191 mail-in votes, which is staring everyone in the face!!

    How sad, a bunch of amateurs had to point this out to the ELECTIONS ADMINISTRATOR.

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  3. This episode - this story - is quintessential Browntown. Why sugar coat the obvious, or, better yet, why damn the culture that's in place. Roger Ortiz long-ago fell into the elections culture of the city; that is, that the work of a band of loose-jointed broads would count on Election Day. Everybody knows the score. Proving it is the equal of proving that a large number of Brownsville motorists are either drunk or carry no liability insurance, as required by law. Face it, the absentee vote is an element of the game, like the "walk" in baseball. More important than that is this: Would it really matter if every physically-eccentric politiquera was wiped off the face of the Earth? My answer is a loud "No!" Brownsville is the same Brownsville it's been forever. As I like to say, "A retard is mysterious to everyone but the retard." Chew on that one when the subject of electoral fraud lands on your dinner table.

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  4. Jim: Thanks for bringing attention to voter fraud in Cameron County. Election fraud undermines all of our votes. I am not a partisan hack, but I did look at your mail-in numbers with curiosity. First, is it mathematically possible that a 191-192 permutation was possible for all mail-in ballots on the Masso-Lucio-Gomez slate of candidates? Also, the constable race focused on precinct 2 rather than the entire county in the DA and Sheriff's race. Were all of your suspicious 191-192 mail-in votes from precinct 2 then?

    Again, I'm not a partisan politiquera, just curious.

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  5. Countywide only 281 mail-in ballots were received. 238 of them, (which is actually 85% of all countywide mail-ins) came just from precinct 2 (Gomez area). Still waiting for the elections office to deliver the voter list for a more thorough stat analysis of the mail-ins distribution pattern.

    As far as possible random permutations, this distribution is obviously non random. Nor does it correlate with the actual vote % received in person during early or election day.

    In the District Attorney's race
    Masso received only about 35% of the real person vote (35.4%, 7880 votes)
    Masso received a whopping 71% of this race's mail-in vote

    Luis Saenz also received about 35% of the real person vote (34.7%, 7719 votes)
    Saenz received only 17% of this race's mail-in vote

    Maria De Ford received about a third of all in person votes (29.8%, 6639 votes)
    but received only 12% of the mail-in vote

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    In the Constable race (Precinct 2),
    Abel Gomez only received 30% of the in-person vote, but
    Gomez received an astounding 80% of the mail-in votes for this race

    Pete Avila, who received the most in person votes with 38% and more overall votes than Gomez, only received 11% of the mail-in vote

    Raul Arreola, who received 9% of the in person vote received a correspondingly small percentage of the mail-in vote, with 3%.

    Juan Torres, who received 23% of the in person vote, received only 13% of the mail-in vote.


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    what would be interesting is if Chris Davis would plug all of the mail-ins addresses into his mapping device.

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