Another Reason For the SAVE America Act

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When someone says there is no “Election Fraud” committed by anyone, point them to this. It is rampant, even in a school board election.

A Long Island school clerk overseeing board of education elections tore up ballots and threw them in a dumpster to rig the election for a local DJ, a newly revealed internal probe found.

Hempstead Union Free School District Clerk April Keys allegedly rigged the May 19 trustee election by smuggling official ballots out of her office and handing absentee ballots to incumbent candidate Victor Pratt so he could trash them, according to a 51-page petition filed by the district with the state Education Department.

Keys could now face criminal charges as the district is looking to overturn Pratt’s razor-thin win. Pratt is a third-term trustee and former school board president who moonlights as a local DJ under the stage name DJ Vic-Lover, according to his social media.

“The Board of Education Trustee election must be overturned because widespread irregularities affected the outcome of the election and were so pervasive that they vitiated the electoral process,” the filing, from the Hempstead school district’s attorneys, said. “The Board of Education Trustee election must be overturned because widespread irregularities affected the outcome of the election and were so pervasive that they vitiated the electoral process,” the filing, from the Hempstead school district’s attorneys, said.

The filing, which was submitted June 15 but emerged Thursday,  asks state Education Department Commissioner Betty Rosa to order a new one election, with a replacement clerk and oversight by the state Attorney General’s Civil Rights office.

The district launched an internal investigation after it discovered major irregularities in its election for the unpaid trustee seats.

What a surprise! NOT!!

And here is another little tidbit, friends. Pratt won by just 81 votes, boosted by a suspiciously large number of absentee and early mail ballots that boosted him to the win even though he only came in third on machine voting, the probe found.

Pratt racked up 87% of absentee votes and 55% of early mail votes, compared to just 27% of in-person machine votes, while other trustee candidates received fewer than 100 absentee and early mail ballots combined, the probe found. 

If this can happen for a local school board election, with only two people involved, one can only extrapolate that with many more people at state and federal levels counting absentee and mail-in ballots, greater fraud is probable. Especially when there are no fail-safe checkpoints like cameras installed in the rooms where ballots are counted.

Eighty percent of ALL Americans want election integrity in our elections. It seems that forty-five Democrats, two Independents and several Republicans keep voting to allow fraud in our elections by voting against the SAVE America Act.

It is well beyond time to finally pass and enact this bill.