Jul 2, 2024: Accusation that Illegal Ballots Cast in Democratic Primary
The Chairman of the Texas Democratic Party just swore in a lawsuit that voting fraud is taking place in South Texas.
The chairman of the Texas Democrat Party, Gilberto says election fraud is taking place in South Texas.
This claim is based on a lawsuit filed in Hidalgo County contesting the election for Justice of the Peace Precinct 3, Place 1. The certified vote showed Sonia Trevino winning the Democrat primary runoff last month with 4,233 votes, while Ramon Segovia finished second with 4,202 votes.
Segovia is currently challenging the election results, with Hinojosa representing him as his lawyer. The lawsuit makes numerous allegations of voter fraud, including:
– Numerous votes were allegedly cast illegally by individuals registered at an address that was not their residence or was not a residence at all.
– Many voters who cast ballots during early voting and on election day were allegedly assisted in reading or completing the ballot, despite not being eligible for such assistance under the Texas Elections Code.
– Numerous mail-in ballots that were counted should not have been counted due to voters being ineligible to vote by mail, incorrect or mismatching signatures, and mail-in ballots prepared “without direction from the voter.”
The contest argues that “because the number of illegal votes cast exceeds the difference in the total votes cast for the Contestant and those cast for the Contestee, the Court cannot ascertain the true outcome of the election and must declare the election void and order a new election.”
They claim Sonia Trevino “conspired to monitor, influence, and pressure voters to vote for her by unlawfully exploiting the voter assistance laws in the State of Texas.”
Earlier the Republican party was accused of fraud. In 2022, a lawyer wrote the district attorney's office on behalf of Dallas County Democratic Party Chair Kristy Noble. The Democrats allege that Texas House District 114 candidate Mark Hajdu, a Republican, falsely stated that he still lived within that district. They also claim that his wife, Dallas County Republican Party Chair Jennifer Stoddard-Hajdu, signed off on the false filing. Hajdus' alleged goal? Hajdu filed at the last minute so that there was a Republican on the primary ballot. Then later a good Republican contendertor could be chosen to square off with the Democratic nominee after Hajdu’s candidacy was declared ineligible, Noble argues. Hajdu was the only candidate in the Republican primary but was later declared ineligible. The Republican party was able to enter a different candidate.
Hinojosa was on the other side of voter fraud allegations a decade ago when his client, Lupe Rivera, won a 2013 election for a spot on the Weslaco City Commission by 16 votes over Letty Lopez. A visiting judge ruled in 2014 that some of the votes for Rivera were cast illegally and ordered a new election to be held as soon as possible. Legal maneuvering prevented that reelection from being held until 2017. When the election was finally held again, Lopez was name the winner while Hinojosa's client, Rivera, faced criminal charges.
Nov 21, 2023: Wife Submitted Fraudulent Ballots
A group of Vietnamese immigrants were targeted in a months-long voter-fraud scheme by the wife of an Iowa Republican county supervisor who wanted her husband to win “by any means necessary” in the 2020 primary and general elections, according to prosecutors. Kim Phuong Taylor was convicted Tuesday of 52 counts of voter fraud, the Justice Department announced. A federal jury in Sioux City, Iowa, found Taylor, 49, guilty on 26 charges of false information in registering and voting, 23 charges of fraudulent voting and three charges of fraudulent registration. Taylor carried out a scheme to fraudulently generate votes for her husband, Woodbury County Supervisor Jeremy Taylor, who was challenging Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) in the June 2020 GOP congressional primary election. After Jeremy Taylor finished a distant third in that race, Kim Phuong Taylor again engaged in ballot fraud to help her husband’s successful reelection campaign as county supervisor, prosecutors say.
“[Kim Phuong] Taylor submitted or caused others to submit dozens of voter registrations, absentee ballot request forms, and absentee ballots containing false information,” the Justice Department wrote in a news release. “Taylor completed and signed voter forms without voters’ permission and told others that they could sign on behalf of relatives who were not present.” Prosecutors have not specified whether Jeremy Taylor, who still serves on the Woodbury County Board of Supervisors, was aware in advance of the fraud perpetrated by his wife on his behalf or when he learned about it. Jeremy Taylor, who met his wife while teaching at a university in Vietnam, was not charged but was named in a government filing as an unindicted co-conspirator, according to the Sioux City Journal. The Taylors did not take the stand during the trial.
As Jeremy Taylor hit the campaign trail, his wife also was busy, according to prosecutors. Her lawyers argued that Kim Phuong Taylor, who is from Vietnam, had been helping voters in Sioux City’s Vietnamese community for over a decade, often with documents not related to elections. But witnesses testified that none of them gave her permission to submit ballots on their behalf during the 2020 elections.
In one instance, Huong Nguyen, the mother of Tam and Thien Doan, testified that Kim Phuong Taylor had called her to see if she needed help voting and came to the house to complete the paperwork that Nguyen signed. Nguyen testified that she was unaware that completing ballots for her children was against the law, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Ron Timmons said during closing arguments that Kim Phuong Taylor “told her to lie” and not tell her children what happened to their ballots.
The exchange became an issue in October 2020, when Woodbury County Auditor and Recorder Pat Gill met with Tam and Thien Doan over returned ballots that the siblings said they had not filled out. Thien Doan was shown his ballot with a signature that was not his, and that was marked as a vote for Trump, according to the Journal.
“I had no intention of voting for Donald Trump in that election,” he said.
Other members of the Vietnamese community testified that Kim Phuong Taylor committed voter fraud without their knowledge. Gill, who also is the election commissioner and the lone Democrat holding elective office in Woodbury County, testified that the handwriting on many of the ballots looked similar but that it was impossible to tell who submitted the ballots.
“It looked like something was going on, but at that point there was nothing I could do,” Gill said.
A few months later, there were several suspicious ballots that he could trace, which led Gill to contact the FBI. Brown, Kim Phuong Taylor’s attorney, claimed during opening statements that a “bias virus” and bad blood between Gill and Jeremy Taylor had sparked the probe.
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