Friday, July 20, 2012

The Bigger War Behind the Election Battles~Mail Ballot Requests Now Total 643!

Norma Carrillo, Administrative Assistant
Cameron County Elections
Visiting the Elections Office

There is a much larger issue than Saenz vs. Masso, Begum vs. Hernandez or Gomez vs. Avila.  Cameron County elections are not clean.  The disillusionment in the electorate, the low voter turnout certainly is deeply rooted in that common knowledge.  Votes can be bought in Brownsville, Cameron County, overriding ALL the work done by poll watchers, election administrators and ballot counters. 

Election Administrator Roger Ortiz was not in his office Friday morning when Nena and I stopped in to see him.  He was in a training meeting.  Norma Carrillo, Ortiz administrative assistant did visit with us, and, as usual, we came away with a little better understanding of the Election Code and how things work in Cameron County.  

First of all, 643 applications for mail-in ballots have been picked up or sent out with 462 of those automatically mailed to those using mail-ins in the primary.  That was something we learned;  those voting by mail in the primary automatically receive mail-in ballot applications for the run-off.  Here is a brief part of our conversation with Ms. Carrillo:

MEAN MISTER BROWNSVILLE:  "Can anyone just walk into the elections office and ask for 100 mail-in ballot applications?"

Ms. Carrillo:  "No, we do not allow anyone to get that many.  Candidates are limited to 25 per month and non-candidates to 10 per month."

MEAN MISTER BROWNSVILLE:  "So, if Ernie Hernandez walks in?  Or Norma?  Or Erin?"

Ms. Carrillo:  "Ernie and Norma as non-candidates could get up to 10 each per month.  Erin, as a candidate could get 25 per month.  But, of course, we accept copies or reasonable facsimiles  or faxes.  
MEAN MISTER BROWNSVILLE:  "So, really, all you need is one copy and you could go to Staples and make 500 copies?"

Ms. Carrillo:  "That is correct.  We even accept handwritten notes asking for a mail-in ballot."

MEAN MISTER BROWNSVILLE:  The last time we talked with Roger, we looked at the election code and talked to the Legal Department at the Secretary of States' office about assisted ballots.  We learned that generally you can witness one ballot, but assist on an unlimited number.  But, what about the mailing of that ballot?"

Ms. Carrillo:  "The election code is clear.  It is actually illegal to possess someone else's mail-in ballot.  Section VIII, 86.011, article b states that possession of 1-9 mail-in ballots is a Class B misdemeanor, possessing 11-19 is a Class A misdemeanor and possessing 20 or more is a state felony."

Our visit with Ms. Carrillo concluded with our leaving of copies of the Western Blvd. voter records that were color-coded by Laura Miniel for Mr. Ortiz.  We explained the research being done by CAVA, etc. and the obvious geographic patterns indicative of voter harvesting, not random mail-ins as one might expect.  This concentration and pattern of voting was being sent to the Secretary of State, we explained. 

Voter Fraud Negates Polling

Alex Begum told me Wednesday:  "We paid for two polls done scientifically out of Washington, D.C., working from lists of those who voted in the last election.  The question was phrased:  'Who do you support in the Justice of the Peace, District 2-2 race?'  Both polls came out with very similar numbers with an accuracy of, as they say, plus or minus 5%.  The polls indicated my mom(Yolanda Begum) at 28%, Javier Hernandez at 25% and Erin H. Garcia at 15 and 18%.  Yolanda Begum and Javier Hernandez finished that way but somehow Erin got 25%."


OK, Which Candidates Support or Use Politiqueras?

Omar Lucio
Lucio admitted in a 2008 interview with Bobby Wightman-Cervantes that he uses politiqueras.  He does not pay for their services, however, but allows them to intercede for friends who receive traffic tickets.  Any compensation is between the politiquera and the person they are helping.  

Lucio received the exact number of mail-in votes in the primary as Gomez and Masso.  Even Roger Ortiz could see that they used the same politiquera or group of politiqueras.

Carlos Masso


Carlos Masso has spent freely in this election, advertising everywhere including billboards, blogs and signs.  Some have reported that he has outspent his opponent 4-1.  In any event, it's pretty obvious he used the same politiqueras as Lucio and Gomez because of his mail-in totals in the primary.




Erin H. Garcia



Erin and her family are deeply connected to the use of politiqueras.  Her father Ernie was quoted in the Brownsville Herald in 2001 defending their use.  Her mother Norma is generally regarded as a politiquera.  Herminia Becerra attends all of Erin's functions wearing a laminated "administrator" card for the Hernandez campaign.  









Abelardo Gomez

Same mail-in vote total as Masso and Lucio.  Received this unconfirmed comment: 
 " I know Gomez paid each politiquera $350 a week, I know this because they don't care for him and came to us. They asked for the same amount to help us. $350x7 for 8 weeks up to the last election. That's a lot of money, then $350 x7 for the last month of runoff. That's a grand total of $19,600 plus the runoff $9800. AN INCREDIBLE $29,400.00 to politiquera from only Gomez. What a shame that these candidates do this."

14 comments:

  1. 2 THINGS;
    1. WE NEED TO CATCH THE CROOK RED HANDED.
    2. WE NEED TO INVITE MORE PEOPLE TO VOTE.

    NOT AN IMPOSSIBLE TASK AND IS DO ABLE.

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  2. Politiqueras, like cockroaches, have been a part of the local culture for decades. No one has managed to eradicate them. And as all of us know, the cockroach will survive even a nuclear bomb. You can step on them, but 10 more will come out of the woodwork. Blogs have been dumping on politiqueras for 30 years. Nothing has come of it. McHale alone has spent more than a million words on this subject, yet he never made a dent into the politiquera world. He was like a eunuch against Herminia Becerra, the industry's Top Mullah. The problem is they are at times openly courted by local politicians, often because they know their candidacy won't go anywhere without a little fraud. Brownsville is home to the most corrupt people in the states, eclipsing even the Redneck Cartels of West Texas towns, where elections are won in similar fashion. One solution would be to actually enforce the laws, to actually identify fraud and - get this one! - actually bring charges against these Comadres de la Corrupcion. Herminia Becerra is likely an uneducated woman who fell into a scam a long time ago and made a freakin' career out of it. You can't blame her alone, however. The entire town is to blame for not jailing her when she started the deguello. Someday, if they're smart, they'll erect a statue for Herminia Becerra downtown, for, really, what other Browntown Mexican has done as much as she has on Election Day.

    El Raton Macias

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    1. Spoken like a raton

      What has she done on Election Day in this poor town, but steal votes from los pobres viejitos, to elect mexicano crooks who steal from their own people!

      The only statue anyone will ever make of Herminia, is a massive brown dump in the toilet. which resembles piles of fat with a little head on top. and the shit stink of a cheater

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    2. Then, poor lad, you do not know your own history, which is a bigger damnation against you. To solve a problem, you must first identify (which you have apparently done) and then take care of it. You did with the massage parlors and plastic bags at the grocery store. Are you telling me that a wildly unattractive old woman is unbeatable? Yes, you are, which makes you one of her flunkies in a roundabout manner. BTW, you do not impress me, either. Try communicating in your native tongue and perhaps you'll come across as a half-nitwit.

      El Raton Macias

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    3. Herminia has been beaten many times at her own game. Ruben Pena gave her a kick in the nuts you can see house by house in the voter list of calle Western. When her mail in voters stopped voting after she ran to hide from the judge in the voter fraud trial, and never voted since.

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  3. Can anyone just walk into the elections office and ask for 100 mail-in ballot applications?"

    Ms. Carrillo: "No, we do not allow anyone to get that many. Candidates are limited to 25 per month and non-candidates to 10 per month."

    Ms. Carrillo: "Ernie and Norma as non-candidates could get up to 10 each per month. Erin, as a candidate could get 25 per month. But, of course, we accept copies or reasonable facsimiles or faxes.

    MEAN MISTER BROWNSVILLE: "So, really, all you need is one copy and you could go to Staples and make 500 copies?"

    Ms. Carrillo: "That is correct.

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    Right there is a big part of the problem. What is the point of imposing a limit if they can submit as many xerox copies as they want??

    I question whether that is permissable by law.

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  4. "We even accept handwritten notes asking for a mail-in ballot."

    That can't be legal.

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  5. What percentage of the 640 votes are from Brownsville?

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  6. Since this issue requires judicial action and all the judicial officials are elected....we can expect no action. Not from Sheriff Lucio...he uses the politiqueras and gives them benefits from his office. The DA uses politiquers and both Luis Saenz and Carlos Masso are using them. All the judges uses them. So, no action will be taken....and since Roger Ortiz is a pawn of the Dumbokratic Party....he won't do anything. They will refuse to take positions against politiqueras because they are a part of the corrupt judicial system in this county. To allow candidates and other persons to walk out of the elections office with 10 or 25 mail in ballots.....each month.....is a joke and laughable. In the military we were required to give all our identification, be registeredd ot vote and have our commanding officer sign off on an absentee ballot. Yet now the electiions office is passing them out like candy.....and they are much cheaper than giving away free fajita plates to voters. Amazing.....we could get great laughs from the Comedy Channel over this schtick.

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  7. Erin looks scary, evil!

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  8. Erin smells like a fat person

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  9. An observation to Mr. Begum's comment about vote fraud negating polls. Of interest in the Western Blvd. voting history provided by Ms. Miniel; notice the remarkable number of times these residents voted by mail in run-offs, despite not participating in the first half of the election. This history indicates Western Blvd residents are being used as a reservoir of absentee votes to swing the critical run-off races. The exclusion of these harvested absentee voters from the survey pool is contributing to the skewed poll results.

    -R

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  10. The old fart Lucio, is too worried right now about being found out about the air conditioning unit his jailer took to be installed in his San Antonio home. He should be worried about His idiot sidekick Reyna having an accident while driving intoxicated in the county truck. That would be funny. Lucio is paying Herminia, why would she go to Lucio's office often? The fart is pathetic, and farts without out will. that shit just comes out involuntarily! lol

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  11. Roger Ortiz should be fired for allowing them to submit copies. He should be jailed voter voter fraud.

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