In August 2024, The Gateway Pundit’s Patty McMurray first reported on a Democrat-funded voter registration group accused of handing over a whole lot of suspected fraudulent voter registrations—this time in Ohio!
** You possibly can learn the complete TGP August report right here.**
The Gateway Pundit found {that a} group known as Black Fork Methods, which operates throughout the state of Ohio, was being investigated by the Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose over one other alleged fraudulent voter registration marketing campaign.
On their web site, Black Fork Methods brags about registering a surprising 125,000+ voters in Ohio since 2018.
The Hamilton County Board of Elections has turned over a number of suspicious voter registration functions Ohio Secretary of State’s Public Integrity Division.
In accordance with Hamilton County Board of Elections members, the voter registrations in query have been lately turned in by the self-described “progressive” voter registration group Black Fork Methods.
Within the video under, Hamilton County Director of Elections Sherry Poland discusses three points she recognized with voter registrations tied to Black Fork Methods, which she claims is operating voter registration drives all through the state of Ohio.
In a single instance, Ms. Poland defined how they obtained a voter registration from Black Fork Methods, and the identify of the registrant was ‘Henry Kissinger.’
“We did do a match, the voter registration database as in comparison with the DMV database, and it was a mismatch on each merchandise listed, any figuring out info listed on this registration kind. So we once more requested Black Fork Methods for the canvasser who submitted this registration kind, and that’s in your abstract sheet.”
Subsequent, Sherry Poland held up a big stack of voter registrations about an inch thick to point out what number of registrations one canvasser from Black Fork Methods turned in with that each one appeared to have the identical handwriting.
“Lastly, we’ve obtained a variety of registrations, and there’s a desk copy for every of you. The stack of registration varieties seems to have the identical handwriting. And so they have been all submitted by the identical canvasser, who’s, once more, the contact info listed in your abstract.”
Ms. Poland defined that they’ve reached out to the Southwest regional discipline director for Black Fork Methods, telling her fellow board members, “Once we first observed these suspicious registrations, we requested her to return to the workplace.
Democrat BOE member Joseph Mallory added, “I’ve heard of different counties within the state having to cope with suspicious registrations. I believe we must always refer the matter to the Secretary of State’s Public Integrity Workplace for additional investigation.”
Hamilton County BOE member Alex Triantafilou didn’t mince phrases when describing the alleged actions of the progressive Black Fork Methods:
“Very first thing I wish to level out is that we use phrases like ‘anomalies’ and ‘suspicion’ and every little thing else as a result of we attempt to be PC, I suppose. However that is fraud! That is outright fraudulent habits! Who’s accountable, and the way are they accountable? That’s all.
“That’ll be as much as any person aside from me. Nevertheless it’s plain and apparent to me while you get this many registration playing cards with the exact same handwriting that somebody is attempting to defraud the elections course of in Hamilton County.
“So, to the extent that there’s any press watching, voter fraud is actual! It does occur. It occurs oftentimes within the type of phony registrations, all in the identical handwriting. In order that occurs.” the outspoken BOE member stated.
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This isn’t the primary time Black Fork Methods has turned in suspicious voter registrations to clerks. Final yr, on July 17, 2023, the Cuyahoga, OH, Board of Elections spent appreciable time discussing a number of irregularities and adjustments to voter registrations.
On Tuesday The Gateway Pundit reached out to Benjamin Kindel, the Press Secretary and Deputy Communications Director for Media with the Ohio Secretary of State’s workplace.
Benjamin supplied The Gateaway Pundit with an replace on the investigation into Black Fork Methods within the state of Ohio.
Benjamin additionally knowledgeable TGP that the Ohio Secretary of State’s Workplace created the Ohio Secretary of State’s Public Integrity Division for Ohioans to report suspicious voter integrity points on to the state leaders. This software seems to be working as deliberate within the nice state of Ohio.
Benjamin supplied an earlier press launch that we missed for some motive on the updates of the SOS investigation.
There are at present ongoing investigations by prosecutors in 20 Ohio counties.
This earlier press launch was supplied to The Gateway Pundit from the Secretary of State’s Workplace.
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose introduced at present that he has formally referred proof of suspected election regulation violations to quite a few county prosecutors for evaluation and attainable felony prosecution.
“We take each allegation of wrongdoing in our elections severely, whether or not it’s a faux signature on a petition, a fraudulent voter registration kind or a stolen vote,” stated Secretary LaRose.
“As we speak we’re handing over proof to prosecutors in 20 counties, the place dishonest people have been apparently attempting to sport the system. Each considered one of these has the potential to fraudulently influence an election, and, though fraud is uncommon, it’s necessary to maintain it that approach by sending a transparent message that misconduct gained’t be tolerated.”
Prosecutors in 20 counties obtained referrals for violations involving petition varieties to grant minor get together standing, petition varieties to position a constitutional modification relating to redistricting on the November poll, and fraudulent voter registration varieties submitted by canvassers engaged on behalf of Black Fork Methods LLC.
The workplace’s Election Integrity Unit has been working to construct the referrals to help every county prosecutor with profitable enforcement of the regulation, together with felony fees.
Background: Ohio regulation provides the Secretary of State the obligation to “examine the administration of election legal guidelines, frauds, and irregularities in elections in any county, and report violations of election legal guidelines to the Legal professional Common or Prosecuting Legal professional, or each, for prosecution.” (R.C. 33501.05(N)(1))
The regulation additional states: “Within the efficiency of the Secretary of State’s duties because the chief election officer, the Secretary of State could administer oaths, problem subpoenas, summon witnesses, compel the manufacturing of books, papers, data, and different proof, and repair the time and place for listening to any issues referring to the administration and enforcement of the election legal guidelines.” (R.C. 33501.05(EE))
To raised fulfill these statutory duties, LaRose introduced the creation of the workplace’s first-ever Public Integrity Division in 2022 as a part of an ongoing effort to construct on Ohio’s document as a nationwide chief in election administration.
The division consolidates most of the workplace’s longstanding investigative capabilities, together with marketing campaign finance reporting, voting system certification, voter registration integrity, the investigation of election regulation violations, information retention & transparency, and cybersecurity protocols.
The Ohio Common Meeting is at present contemplating laws to make the division’s Election Integrity Unit a everlasting perform of the workplace.
The workplace lately introduced an growth of the division, including high personnel with investigative and regulation enforcement expertise from prior service with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Ohio State Freeway Patrol, and america Secret Service.
The Gateway Pundit will proceed to comply with these investigations in Ohio.
In fact, this Ohio group Black Fork Methods is eerily just like the GBI Methods group The Gateway Pundit reported on extensively from neighboring Michigan. We could have extra info on GBI coming within the days forward.
