By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
DEC. 6, 2022 | The caller’s request was simple. She wanted to report election fraud.
The call came during the 2022 General Election Early Voting, as she asked: “Is this the place where I can report voter fraud?”
Perplexed as to why she was calling GwinnettForum, I asked of her: “Why are you calling this number?”
She responded vaguely: “Someone said you would know what to do with it.”
Therefore, it was with some intrigue that I said: “Tell me about it.”
She began: “There’s this guy at Killian Hill and Five Forks Road doing it,” she said.
“Exactly what is he doing?”
“He’s parked at that intersection, has the trunk of his car opened, and has this sign that reads ‘Cast your vote,’ and that worries me. He’s collecting votes and that is election fraud.” The lady said this in a most rational manner, very concerned at what she saw. “I just think he needs to be reported,” she added.
After that we began to ask a few more questions. We learned that she had moved to Gwinnett from New Jersey many years ago since her two brothers had found jobs in the area. She was now retired, and was most content to have lived here all these years. She had voted in each year’s election, and had never seen something like this ‘voter fraud’ before.
Here’s the way we ventured from this point. We explained that while she saw what may have been something different for her, we didn’t think this amounted necessarily to voter fraud. “We think that one of the candidates is paying that guy to tell people that they need to get out and vote. After all, there’s no way one person can collect lots of ballots and take them into the voting precincts and cast them for another person. There’s no provision for this. The voting officials would never allow this. He’s just encouraging people to vote.”
By now, the lady seemed less disturbed by what she saw. We asked her to call back if she thought she saw anything else like this before the General Election. She was much more calm by the time the call ended.
What bugged me about this call was not the perceived voter fraud. Our elections laws are tight enough that would not allow an individual to haul in lots of votes and get them cast.
What bugged me is that people like this lady are so surrounded by allegations of stolen elections, unregistered people voting, ballot tampering, and the possibility of fraud in our midst, that thoughts of illegal situations are creeping into their minds.
All this has been caused by the outright lies that certain people are telling as truths, and some people believing. All of a sudden, some are caught up in these instances of mis-information, to the point that they see situations before them….and make interpretations in their minds from it, that are just not right. Without realizing it, they have been conditioned to the point that they can’t recognize what is actually happening, but are moved to a false assumption. Their minds are so confused by today’s world that they see what is not there.
You wonder how long it will be before our country is back to more sanity, so that people’s minds won’t be whipped into widespread false assumptions. The person with the voter fraud thought was conditioned to see something that was just not there.
Then you wonder how all this influenced her vote.
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