{"id":1356,"date":"2011-10-23T20:36:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T20:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2011-10-23T20:36:46","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T20:36:46","slug":"Latest-Ed-Lee-Voter-Fraud-Just-the-Tip-of-the-Iceberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/23\/Latest-Ed-Lee-Voter-Fraud-Just-the-Tip-of-the-Iceberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Ed Lee Voter Fraud Just the Tip of the Iceberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Press release from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lelandyee.com\/releases\/latest-ed-lee-voter-fraud-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg\/\">Leland Yee&#8217;s campaign today<\/a> which follows <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sfgate.com\/cityinsider\/2011\/10\/21\/witnesses-ed-lee-supporters-mark-others-ballots\/\">more recent allegations of voter tampering<\/a><\/p>\n<p>update >  the city attorney and a bunch of candidates are now asking for <a href=\"http:\/\/sfcitizen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/23\/uh-oh-adachi-alioto-pier-avalos-chiu-herrera-rees-and-yee-call-for-election-monitors-improper-votes-for-ed-lee\/\">federal election monitors<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xyp5Zfowve4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is also posted today on <a href=\"http:\/\/sfcitizen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/23\/update-from-the-leland-yee-campaign-latest-ed-lee-voter-fraud-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg\/\">SFCitizen<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSunday, October 23, 2011<br \/>\nLatest Ed Lee Voter Fraud Just the Tip of the Iceberg<br \/>\nVolunteers witness many instances of potential voter fraud and election violations by Ed Lee campaign<\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 Volunteers for Leland Yee\u2019s campaign for mayor are hearing about and witnessing many instances of potential voter fraud and election violations conducted by Ed Lee\u2019s campaign. Over the past several days, Yee\u2019s volunteers have witnessed or heard from voters about at least six different incidents of voter fraud or intimidation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am deeply concerned that the voting rights of individuals are being abused, seniors in subsidized housing are being taken advantage of, and laws that are meant to protect the integrity of the voting process are being ignored and circumvented,\u201d said Yee.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the Bay Citizen and the San Francisco Chronicle reported on workers of an independent expenditure campaign for Ed Lee filling out ballots for voters and in some cases using a stencil which only allowed voters to cast their vote for Lee and no other candidate.  The Ed Lee workers also collected dozens of vote-by-mail ballots from voters at the make-shift station.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we are hearing from the field is deeply concerning, not just for our campaign but for the integrity of this election and our democracy,\u201d said Jim Stearns, Yee\u2019s campaign manager. \u201cWe are encouraging individuals to report potential violations to the Department of Elections; unfortunately, our volunteers are witnessing that many voters are reluctant to speak out, because they are afraid of potential retaliation such as losing their housing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These incidents appear to be just the tip of the iceberg as Yee\u2019s campaign volunteers and workers have also witnessed the following voter and election fraud:<\/p>\n<p>    At a number of Chinatown Community Development Center (CCDC) run housing complexes, residents told Yee workers that they turned their ballots over to their apartment managers.  Volunteer Tommy Lin said, \u201cMany residents told me they didn\u2019t even know who they voted for, because their ballots were turned over before they were filled out.\u201d<br \/>\n    According to Yee worker Andy Li, at the federally-funded Senior Housing Complex on 441 Ellis St, residents were invited to the common room for help on how to fill out their absentee ballots, but were first treated to a projector video of commercials and videos of Ed Lee.  Residents then were \u201cassisted\u201d by Ed Lee volunteers in filling out their absentee ballots.<br \/>\n    In clear violation of election law, Bayview volunteers told Yee\u2019s Field Director Anthony Thomas that they were paid $150 cash to walk precincts and do other voter contact in the neighborhood.<br \/>\n    In a number of Filipino housing complexes, absentee ballots still have not arrived at residents\u2019 homes, raising concerns that they may have been removed by apartment management. Yee is widely considered to be heavily favored in the Filipino American community.<br \/>\n    A number of Ed Lee volunteers have attested that they were assigned to work on both Ed Lee\u2019s official mayoral campaign as well as his various independent expenditure campaigns, raising serious issues of illegal coordination between the campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is imperative that the Elections Office, Ethics Commission, Secretary of State, District Attorney, Attorney General, and the US Attorney immediately investigate these various illegalities,\u201d said Stearns. \u201cEd Lee and his comrades are already under investigation by the DA and US Attorney; it is now time for him to come clean for the good of San Francisco.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Leland Yee is endorsed by the United Educators of San Francisco, California Nurses Association, Sierra Club, San Francisco Firefighters, AFSCME, SEIU, San Francisco Labor Council, and the San Francisco Building and Construction Trades Council.  Yee immigrated to San Francisco at the age of 3. His father, a veteran, served in the US Army and the Merchant Marine, and his mother was a local seamstress. Yee graduated from the University of California \u2013 Berkeley, then earned a Ph.D. in Child Psychology, and later served in various mental health and school settings. He and his wife, Maxine, have raised four children who all attended San Francisco public schools. Yee has served in the State Legislature, Board of Supervisors and Board of Education.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press release from Leland Yee&#8217;s campaign today which follows more recent allegations of voter tampering update > the city attorney and a bunch of candidates &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-1356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-SF-politics","tag-sf-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}