In Fairfax County voters receiving absentee ballots are seeing Democrat campaign ads and a letter from the Governor urging them to vote Democrat.
Jena Jones who lives in Fairfax and is not politically active received her ballot from the Board of Elections stuffed with information on Democrats. From WND.com,
“I found a letter from the governor of Virginia asking me to please vote Democrat and ‘help keep Virginia blue’ this year. Then I got a letter from the Fairfax County Democratic Committee, giving me a step-by-step, yes-and-no what I should vote for as far as the meal tax and all those other things on the ballot,” Jena explained to WND and Radio America.
Jones did not apply for absentee ballot through the Democrat party.
Jones was surprised there was no information in the ballot packet about any Republican candidate.
“I was a little confused as to why we didn’t get anything Republican at all, and I wasn’t sure why that was included in my ballot at all,” she said.
On the back of the letter from Governor McAuliffe were “glowing biographies of Hillary Clinton, Tim Kaine and her local congressman, Rep. Gerry Connolly”.
Jones’ husband, David Jones, was equally surprised,
“I also was a little befuddled because I figured that this would be a time that you wouldn’t want to encourage voters to go one way or the other,” David Jones said. “It’s just like when you walk into the precinct or the polls, they can’t be within a certain amount of feet from the voting booths, and I figure they shouldn’t be able to put a piece of paper in the envelope with your ballot.”
David was also surprised at the full page letter from the Governor bashing Trump and his policies.
“If it was just a letter saying, ‘Hey we appreciate you voting. Every vote counts,’ that would make sense and I would totally back that. But when there’s a specific flier that says, ‘Hillary Clinton for President’ and ‘Tim Kaine for Vice President,’ laying out their platform, to me it was just biased. It was one side.”
“I just think of the people who don’t have social media or television access, who are confined to a house, who just can’t get out, or are overseas and they’re relying on this information to cast their vote,” David said.
The Democrats will do anything to win in Fairfax County and we have no protections in Richmond as we have previously reported.
If you received a similar absentee ballot you may register your complaints here.
More on the story and a live interview with Jones here.
52 comments
The information did NOT come from Fairfax Registrar’s office nor was it official communications or ballots – the Democrats generated a mailer with a sample ballot along with instructions on how to fill out the envelope. They even used a different color paper for the sample ballot.
Steve Albertson is correct, no laws were broken. The Dems just outflanked us on this one.
Yes, of course, different color paper, probably was clearly marked, implied, and designated as not being official. Probably mailed from same locations as original, matched timing of mailings, of course these mailings didn’t break any laws. Outflanked? Like Fairfax GOP wouldn’t have this under control? Nahhh, they were unit of the year just recently right?
Congrats on Unit of the year – I didn’t realize that award equated to perfect.
I think Loudoun got it recently too. If only the rest of the GOP could be like Loudoun and Fairfax…
This story is absurdly false. But I guess that once you believe the worst about someone, you’re willing to believe any other rumor or allegation.
We issued a press release in response to the story, here:
http://www.fairfaxdemocrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Release-10.26.2016-Letters-sent-to-absentee-voters.pdf
The reporter you cite wrote a follow-up story, here:
http://dateline.radioamerica.org/?p=17015
The parties get lists of people who requested absentee ballots, and often send letters to those voters. Separately. The letters are stuffed right in my office. The ballots come from the Office of Elections. This voter just received both at the same time and thought that they came in the same envelope.
Here’s a photo from Sen. Scott Surovell who received our letter separately from his ballot:
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We never have access to other people’s ballots and the Office of Elections does not have access to our literature.
If you think someone at the Office of Elections stuffed people’s ballots, consider this: if they were really willing to commit voter fraud, wouldn’t it make more sense to just mark the person’s ballot and send it in, rather than sneaking in some Democratic literature in the hopes of influencing the voter? Besides, we’re already mailing that stuff to the voter so it would just be duplicating the effort.
Now, faced with this new information, do you:
a) ignore it and continue believing what you want to believe?
b) distract from it and bring up some other issue?
c) stubbornly (and lazily) insist that we’re just lying, because it’s hard to admit that you were misinformed?
Welcome, glad you stopped by to try to set the record straight.
Your efforts thus to garnish absentee votes, while distinctly legal, demonstrates your thorough and well-timed initiative.
I would be shocked if your team was involved in anything untoward…
Absentee votes are so much easier to manipulate, store, discover as needed, and re-allocate upon demand. Less poll-watching, more time to arrange during an extended provisional review period.
I totally expect that your Fairfax democrat party is fully statute-compliant and would never be associated with efforts to circumvent a fair and open process.
You have third-parties, PACs, and cutouts to handle the heavy lifting…
But there was that prominent son a while back…
And #Wikileaks…
And #ProjectVeritas..
and, and, and.
Thanks for stopping by, I think you should have gotten the Featured Comment, usually we only hear from your paid troll operatives.
Entirely possible in Fairfax Co. that some election worker decided it was their calling to slip Democratic material into an absentee ballot, but at this point, how do you prove what was in the original envelope once its been opened? Can’t really complain to our thug governor, and his hire Cortes, who would of course cover up any wrong doing. Only way to prove it would be to get independent outlets to record the absentee ballot mailings being opened.
It has been proven they were two separate mailings, see jeanine’s responses below
Two separate mailings may have been made, I trust the person who received the mailing.
If you can’t trust a rando that posts things on Facebook, who can you trust?
Donald J Trump!
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I guess he is pretty reliable, I was absolutely shocked when I learned Ted Cruz’s dad killed JFK.
That’s the problem, Fairfax County electoral board has zero credibility.
I can’t believe that. They’ve just had so much BS in the past that kept them in the negative?
LOL–Love it!
This isn’t cheating, it’s good campaigning. They didn’t put campaign material in with official absentee ballots. Instead, they put absentee ballot APPLICATIONS in with campaign material.
I’ve seen one they were not in the actual ballot submissions. My friend had tossed the contents but claimed it was like the stuff the VA and American Legion sponsored advertisers send to vets in semi official looking mailers that are hyping their goods. Just a smart follow up program nothing more, regarding the legality of doing that I have no idea.
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This has been proved false. If you had done you own research, you would known. But once again, Jeanie only repost lies and misstatements. What a shame you have no journalistic integrity.
Please provide a link that has PROVEN this to be false.
Thanks,
JEANINE
take a look at the other posts here, once again you post a fake newstory
Just stop with the rhetorical tricks and manipulation tactics:
“This has been proved false.”
Stating it as false and proven false with a declaration.
“If you had done you own research, you would known.”
Presupposition and implication.
“But once again, Jeanie only repost lies and misstatements.”
Claims repeated, exclusive declaration of accusations.
“What a shame you have no journalistic integrity.”
Shaming, projecting non-existent standards, and more baseless accusations about traits that seem to be anathema to democrat party members.
We are supremely tired of this Charlie Sierra and will be jamming a Trump down your throats on the 8th. Have a nice day.
If I could give you 5 thumbs up I would!
you posted below that there were two separate mailings. The one from the board of elections did not come with the advertisements.
who is Charlie Sierra?
Phonetic for barnyard fowl excrement
SD, where had it been proven false? Reference please.
Can’t wait for the “update: absentee ballot was actually sent separately from democratic mailing” on this one. If republicans were smart they would send info to the absentee list as well.
I agree Republicans should be sending out information too. The couple was aware they had two separate mailings.
So you know this story is false but you post it anyway with no disclaimer. Nothing wrong with either side sending out literature including sample ballots.
Sample ballots, no. ABSENTEE ballots, yes. Big problem there.
Wrong again. Why don’t you go yell at the muslims some more
Knock it off. You may not insult our readers. First and last warning.
Have you seen what David writes about Muslims? You are fine with that but not with someone calling him on it? You are fine with posting fake news and lies but draw the line at anyone voicing an objection? You are OK with other posters calling Clinton terrible names or berating anyone who believes in limited govt intervention in personal lives but get upset when someone else protests?
You seem angry and butthurt. Please stop stalking David, your micro-aggressive comments are triggering. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6b06513428834541b5a69c2bcc78583a6b50cc77137a3492fc8010e84c805e3d.jpg
“Angry and butthurt?” You are reading between the lines but illiterately. I come in peace but will attack all illogical and false statements, bigotry, and any attempts to discredit simply based on a difference of opinion. In David’s case, by his own testimony, he crosses the line in his posts frequently. Here is what he posted this week in the Loudoun Times Mirror, ” I got zapped 6 times this week and counting.” So, even knowing that his posts are inappropriate at best, he continues with this action. Yet, JM is more concerned about his feelings than those he slams???
Do you see how I get anger from your posts?
Did you get the point about stalking?
Your crusade is disturbing.
the truth is disturbing? I absolutely imagine you would feel attacked. But, who cares how you feel. If you post nonsense, you should expect to be challenged.
If you read anger in my posts, you are projecting your own feelings, not interpreting mine
“I come in peace but will attack” the ongoing battles with David you pursue across comment sections, illustrate a disdain, even anger, and a potential for violence.
Let it go, TBE tolerates discussion and dissent as well as rhetorical exchanges of good clean fun.
If you want to be a better conservative Republican, you’re going to have to learn how to get along with your fellows, and/or work to purge the deserving out of the GOP into the dems or libertarians or some other party that doesn’t matter.
Not sure why you immediately go to violence except that once again you are projecting your own issues. Perhaps you are a defender of illogical statements because you put feelings over facts?
Who wants to be a better conservative – I am against bigotry and religious persecution. I am against obstructing govt business simply in an attempt to assert political power. I am against govt intervention in personal lives. I am against letting the rich get richer at the expense of me. I am against unneeded spending, especially in the military. All these are trademark badges of honor for conservative republicans.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/532edbd0547bee85b159fbd7b9b86e4dd7c51fb7972f677685fcbd31a8ef7ac6.jpg Your violent word choice and rhetoric betrays you. Your stalking and presence demonstrates your anger and bitterness.
As a compassionate conservative I feel I must reach out to help you be a better SD.
You declare the many things you are against and the injustices that you seem to take personally.
I suggest that you get a notebook and list all the things that you are for, and all the new opportunities you will have with a President Trump. Be part of the solution and let the anger, resentment and stalking flow away from you.
Has reading always been this difficult for you?
The title of this post says the opposite of that, “democrats stuffing absentee ballots”
I fully expect democrats stuffing absentee ballots, you think those boxes fill themselves?
Hopefully not to the democrats.
rigging the election
Come have some fun, be a pollwatcher on Election Day — contact your friendly neighborhood Republican unit chairman for more details.
Take it from Bernie, or your lying eyes…
https://youtu.be/8YsRU0TFQTY
6000 millionaires net worth lost by Hillary now come and tell me why your voting for her? Anyone? Do you know how many Americans taxes for their entire life that is, flushed! God dam!
Easy answer. She is not Trump. We know why you are voting for Trump, he is am angry, illiterate white guy who makes you feel better about yourself
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Crooks, crooks, and more crooks. The Democratic Party is just disgusting.
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