DIDN'T REGISTER? DON'T WORRY. YOU'RE IN CAMERON COUNTY

By Juan Montoya
The news stories tell us that yesterday, October 9, was the deadline to register to vote in the November 6 general election.
But, hey, you're in Cameron County. The rules that apply to mere mortals don't hold here.
Why do we say that?
Investigations by voter abuse activist members of Citizens Against Voter Abuse (CAVA) and others have uncovered evidence that they are in the process of turning over to the appropriate law enforcement authorities that show that in the July 31 runoff, not only did 50 or more people registered to vote on that same day, but that some of them even voted by mail after registering on the day of the runoff election.
"How," you may ask, "is that possible? After all, isn't it the law that one must register at least 30 days before the election before being allowed to cast a ballot?"
We asked that, too.
However, a list of 50 or more voters who registered on the day of the runoff election – some of who voted by mail-in ballot" has been put together by CAVA and their associates and shows that documentation at the Cameron County Elections Administrators' Office indicates that very fact.
Now, the mechanics of registration and of applying for the mail-in ballots necessarily take some time. But how is it possible that someone could register on the day of the election and back file for a mail-in ballot and still manage to get the ballot in on time?
Those are the kind of questions that CAVA and other interested parties want elections office administrator Roger Ortiz and the Cameron County District Attorneys' Office to answer. To that end, they have prepared the evidence for the DA's personnel perusal and possible action.
"Evidently, this points to the existence of someone inside that office that facilitated this to happen," said a CAVA member. "In this case, everything points to manipulation of the applications and issuance of mail-in ballots inside that office. We want to see that they are going to do about this."
What makes matters even more intriguing is that a statistical analysis of the votes in these precincts totals indicate that all of these votes apparently went to candidacy of JP 2-2 candidate Erin H. Garcia and not one to her opponent Yolanda Begum. And interviews indicate that the majority were generated by politiqueras identified with her and her mother Norma and father Ernie Hernandez, commissioner for precinct 2.
The instantaneous registrations and casting of mail-in ballots by those individuals are but the tip of the corruption iceberg that no one seems to want to acknowledge. Just as the new Cameron County Democratic Party chairwoman Sylvia Perez-Garza kept saying during a recent special meeting of the county's election commission, there exist "gray" areas in the system.
Yet, in the face of overwhelming evidence and occurrences of voting coercion of elderly and mentally-impaired voters being hauled in vans from pliant adult day-care centers right on front of election judges and administrators, everyone who could do something chooses instead to turn a blind eye to the facts before them.
"We all know who the politiqueras and politiqueros are," said a member of the public who attended the special elections commissioner meeting. "If they (the members) really wanted to do something about it, they would have done it already. These people won't quit committing voter fraud until someone gets indicted and convicted of this. I guarantee you that if they are squeezed hard enough they will point the fingers at the candidates who paid them to do it. Until that happens, all this is just so that the public will say they are doing something about it."