by Frank Holmes, reporter
After getting shut out of government, repudiated by voters, and deprived of the government grants that keep their advocacy groups afloat, the Democratic Party is facing its latest crisis: the threat of imprisonment.
It’s not just high-level grift, like the Biden family’s years-long influence-peddling schemes.
It’s also the one crime Democrats have repeatedly dismissed as a myth: election fraud.
In fact, no fewer than eight Democratic officials have been slapped with charges related to voter fraud in the last few days.
The first three Democrats who may face the music come from the swing state of Pennsylvania.
The three officials in question—Munsur Ali, Nurul Hasan, and Rafikul Islam—have a few things in common.
All three serve, or served, on the Borough of Millbourne Council. (Hasan was council president.)
All three have a Bangladeshi background.
And all three are Democrats.
Their plan ran like this: They talked dozens of their friends who lived in other counties into giving up their personal identification. The officials then logged onto Pennsylvania’s online voter registration, changed their friends’ addresses to Millibourne, then had them request mail-in ballots.
But the ballots were mailed to Hasan and Ali, who cast their buddies’ ballots for their preferred candidate in the primary: Nurul Hasan.
They weren’t very effective: Their candidate lost, anyway.
But officials know even a handful of ballots in a low-turnout election in the tiny Delaware County community of 1,200 people could have altered the outcome of the election.
So, federal prosecutors slapped the trio with the charges last Tuesday: conspiracy and several counts of fraudulent voter registration and providing false information in voter registrations.
ELECTION INTEGRITY: Despite claims election fraud is a myth, CT Democrat Party vice chair Wanda Geter-Pataky turns herself into state police on election fraud charges after being caught stuffing ballot boxes in the 2023 Democrat Primary. pic.twitter.com/t2znr6U5WI
— @amuse (@amuse) February 21, 2025
The second case involved five liberals in one the Democratic Party’s deepest strongholds, and The Horn told you about the case when it happened.
Five Democrats in Bridgeport, Connecticut, are dealing with charges: One Democratic leader alone facing 92 counts on a criminal indictment for trying to rig the election by falsifying other voters’ ballots.
The most conspicuous figure actually serves as vice chairwoman of the Democratic Party’s Town Committee, Wanda Geter-Pataky.
She got caught, on video, stuffing dozens of ballots into a ballot drop box in the city’s mayoral election.
The feds charged her with 92 crimes, including conspiracy to take possession of multiple voters’ absentee ballots.
Also indicted are three Democratic members of the city council: Maria Pereira, Alfredo Castillo and Jazmarie Melendez.
The fifth conspirator, Margaret Joyce, lives in Stratford and got control of four people’s ballots.
“To protect the integrity of our voting process in Connecticut, it is important that our elections are fair and free from fraudulent activity and criminal intent. These prosecutions hopefully send the message that deters tampering with election results in the future in Connecticut,” said Patrick Griffin, Connecticut’s Chief State’s Attorney.
BREAKING: The Connecticut State Elections Enforcement Commission is now investigating four complaints and two police referrals in connection with the recent Bridgeport Democrat primary election where a Clerk was seen on video stuffing illegal ballots into a drop box
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Election fraud doesn’t always involve ballot stuffing; sometimes, it’s just the opposite.
In Florida last October, just before the election, officials charged a mailman named Ottis McCoy for throwing away thousands of letters—including mail-in ballots for the 2024 election.
🚨#BREAKING: Federal authorities have arrested a U.S. Postal worker for discarding thousands of pieces of mail, including political mailings and some election ballots.⁰⁰📌#Orlando | #Florida ⁰
Federal authorities have arrested U.S. mail carrier Ottis McCoy, accused of dumping… pic.twitter.com/cqeHGfImuu— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) October 25, 2024
Despite these three cases of election fraud—some of them caught on video—Democrats continue to insist voter fraud never happens and concerns about election integrity are overblown.
“Voter fraud is largely a myth,” swore election-denier Stacey Abrams in 2019. “It happens occasionally but not sufficiently to focus on it as much as we do. But voter suppression is real.”
.@StaceyAbrams: "Voter fraud is largely a myth. It happens occasionally but not sufficiently to focus on it as much as we do. But voter suppression is real." https://t.co/qZbqVJWF3f pic.twitter.com/KgmXofWGm0
— The Hill (@thehill) February 19, 2019
Even as the Philadelphia Inquirer todl readers about Hasan and Ali’s voter conspiracy, their reporters called it “a rare case of voter fraud.”
But the Delaware County elections director, Jim Allen, told the paper he was thrilled the Trump Justice Department pressed forward with its promise to clean up elections.
“I view this as evidence that investigators are not going to let passage of time or the lack of an impact on the election result prevent them from pursuing the case,” he said.
They’ll keep on pursuing the case—and so will The Horn—until voter fraud really becomes as rare as its perpetrators claim it is.