Tammany Hall, New York State, and Those Good Old Days
Boss Tweed – the guy who controlled the votes in NYC
Tammany Hall in the 19th century controlled the votes in all the boroughs of New York City.
https://www.city-journal.org/html/how-steal-election-12824.html
From the article: Nowhere did voter fraud have a more notorious record than in Tammany-era New York. Tammany Hall’s ruthless efficiency in manufacturing votes—especially during the zenith of its power in the second half of the nineteenth century—is legendary. At the time, America didn’t yet have privacy-protecting voting machines or official government ballots, so Tammany fixers could ensure that voters would cast ballots as promised. Vote riggers would simply give people pre-marked ballots and watch as they deposited them into the voting box.
The immigrants flooding into New York were easy prey for the Tammany pols. Each state then set its own standards for naturalizing new citizens, and New York’s were lax. In 1868, The Nation reported that Tammany Hall had set up a “naturalization mill,” instantly certifying folks right off the boat as citizens—and Tammany voters. (In 1996, the Clinton administration similarly sped up the naturalization of up to 1 million new citizens so that they could vote in time for that year’s election.) – article
https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/2014/11/1931-tammany-hall-voter-fraud-and-sullivan-county/
But it wasn’t just the boroughs of New York City that were affected. No, it was all over the state.
From the article: Howard Beecher, the chairman of the county’s Republican Committee, was surprised by the over 1,100 absentee ballots requested in Sullivan that year, and sent a list of 620 names to the state GOP committee, asking that they be investigated for falsely filing an application to vote here. Beecher suspected that Democrats had imported persons registered in New York City to vote in Sullivan County in an attempt to ensure a victory for Whittaker, and retain a key seat in a desperate battle for control of the Assembly.
Such control of the legislative body was particularly crucial that year, as Republicans continued their efforts to dismantle the long-standing influence of Tammany Hall on politics, both within and outside of New York City. The so-called Hofstadter Committee, chaired by State Senator Samuel Hofstadter, had been empaneled the year before to conduct what would become widely known as the Seabury Hearings.
“Republican leaders in Sullivan County see the hand of Tammany extended to obtain control of upstate constituencies in its fight for a majority in the 1932 Assembly as a means of snuffing out the life of the Hofstadter Committee in the large number of absentee voters’ ballots that have been issued by election authorities in the county,” the New York Times reported in its October 31, 1931 edition. “Colonization by absentee voters is said to be an entirely new device in political mechanics. According to Republican leaders, it is having its first tryout this year in Sullivan County, where their party is making an aggressive fight to defeat William Whittaker, the Democratic incumbent, a candidate for re-election.” – article (Italics are added for emphasis.)
How is this relevant to the November elections this year? The uptick in mail-in ballots is one symptom. I have received the unasked-for form to get one, but since I will not be out of town or anywhere but where I am currently, I see no reason to ask for a mail-in ballot. And besides, the polling place in my district is at the town hall, which is right next door to the police station, so it’s fairly quiet there most of the time. I can take the bus to get there, if I need to do so.
If I see any Antifas showing up to start a fuss, I’ll get photos of them when they’re arrested.
Category: 2020 Election
Figured this little history lesson would show up after the commenting from the other day. Some true empirical evidence for the spapos seagull that documents the long sordid history of demonrat voter fraud. Not to say that repubs haven’t been guilty of it too, but the majority has been done by the donks. I personally think it is because so many Blacks that used to vote for Repubs (til the ’60s) have started drifting “off the plantation” and the donks have had to supplement the legit votes with the ones they can steal. I noticed the article didn’t mention Dan Sickles but did talk about George Brinton McClellan (son of Maj Gen George B. McClellan) becoming the Mayor of Noo Yawk Sh^tty. Both McClellans, in addition to Sickles (and Tweed) thought that they should have the presidency. I liked the part where Tweed said, “…never been an honest election in New York…” Several of my Compatriots of many years work for the Postal Service. Met with one this weekend on other matters and we got to talking about the whole “mail in vote.” This individual has over 30 years with them and he informed me that all of the carriers shudder when they think about it. Not only have they seen multitudes of absentee ballots sent to homes where they know that the addressee is dead or moved, there are multiples sent out to addresses/addressees that have changed. Like Rt1 Box 269 is now 696 Sugar Creek Rd, but they are required to deliver both. And so on. I showed him the multitudes of “mail in ballot” requests that I’ve received and he said I was lucky that that was as small a number as it was. Another one showed up today. I voted absentee when I was overseas. I requested the ballot thru SecState, got it, filled it in (voted for Nixon and Sam Nunn (72)) sent it back, but every election since then I voted in person. As I will this year. There were many an election that happened when I was travelling that I would have to… Read more »
“The immigrants flooding into New York were easy prey for the Tammany pols.”
Much like the illegal aliens of today that the D-rats want to be able to vote.
So much content in this email received today, copied and pasted, should address the issue for safety of mail-in ballots. Now, if ONLY the powers that be would approve it and cover mail during the mail-in voting window, that might make it at least somewhat fair. Massive undertaking, may not be possible. Years ago, when activated, it appears most of what being watched was communications between banks, gub. officials,etc. the PRIMARY concern. Watching ALL mail from ALL post offices might during an election these days be nearly impossible. Maybe color this story as “Pleasant memories that simply can not be repeated. Date: August 30, 2020 at 3:57:59 AM PDT Subject: USMC Mail Guards FYI; Should the powers that be decide to invoke the Marine Corps to protect the mail during the upcoming election… Hell I’d volunteer to go back in in a heartbeat. Check out the general orders, and the question-and-answer section… I love it Subject: USMC Mail Guards As we’re talking about the Postal Service…. ___________________________________________ The Intense Rules For U.S. Marines Who Protected Mail From Gangsters (WE ARE THE MIGHTY 25 AUG 20) … Blake Stilwell “When our Corps goes in as guards over the mail, that mail must be delivered,” wrote Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby. “Or there must be a Marine dead at the post of duty. There can be no compromise.” It was the Golden Age of the Gangster, when bank robbers were folk heroes, cheered on by citizens who were suffering under the weight of Prohibition and the Great Depression. But when the mail started getting robbed by these hoods, the Postmaster General asked President Harding to send in the Marines. In October 1921, gangsters hit a mail truck in New York City, making off with $2.4 million in cash, securities, and jewelry – $34 million dollars when adjusted for inflation. That wasn’t the only high-stakes robbery. Between April 1920 and April 1921 alone, thieves stole more than six million dollars in U.S. mail robberies – $85 million when adjusted for inflation. So when the Postmaster asked the President for the Marines,… Read more »
Good to know that history. Thanks for posting that.
Isn’t it interesting how quickly everyone gets the memo when you are dead serious?
Democrats gonna Democrat.