Kudos to Kevin Burns for going after residency, but he shouldn’t have punted on Voter Fraud
By Hector Roos
Investigating voter fraud is simple to do in concept but difficult to accomplish. First off, you need people who know who to ask the right questions of just to figure exactly what happened during the election. Next, you need to figure if anything that you know happened was illegal and then determine whether or not it was enough to change the results of the election. Determining if fraud was committed, who did it and why is a daunting task (unless Lucie Tondreau herself was directly involved that is). Adding to the difficulty is that in North Miami, Lucie Tondreau won with more than 800 votes so figuring out how 800 people committed voter fraud is very challenging.
This is why Kevin Burns is challenging the results of the election by going after the matter regarding Lucie Tondreau’s residency rather than voter fraud. It’s just an easier case to make.
With all due respect to Tondrau supporters, numbers don’t lie and something extraordinary happened in the North Miami election which was either miraculous or fraudulent (just read my last post on the subject). Since Kevin Burns doesn’t have the time or the resources to investigate the potential voter fraud scenario, it is left to other concerned citizens of the North Miami to do.
Why is this so important if Lucie Tondreau could be removed as soon as next week? Because voter fraud is a bigger issue than residency.
You may have already heard the race baiting from Lucie Tondreau supporters on the streets or on the radio turning Kevin Burn’s legal complaint into a question about race or some other sectarian nonsense. Many already refer to Burns as a sore loser who is trying to steal the election from Tondreau. It is precisely this kind of talk that precipitates violence.
If voter fraud occurred in North Miami, then it should be exposed if only to discredit those voices who always justify lawbreaking in the name of the common good. If these charlatans of community concern are finally exposed as liars and cheaters and should Lucie Tondreu be unseated by the court, their support from the community against Kevin Burns will lose traction. And North Miami should be better served by the transparency.
Hector Roos is a libertarian activist and advocate for open government, fair elections and civic activism. He blogs at Open Government Miami. Roos has never worked in North Miami politics but is an experienced political consultant throughout other parts of Miami-Dade County and is familiar with Florida Election Law and Voter Fraud Issues.
You have to start somewhere. You may say sore loser, as others have done but I say kudo’s to Kevin for bringing this all forward. If she shouldn’t have been qualified in the first place, then all voters and candidates were cheated out of their right to be heard.
Let me tell you a little open secret about government corruption. If you don’t take care of it from the beginning, it will only get worse like an untreated cold developing into pneumonia. If its so easy to rig the system and doubly so because you can do it without any legal consequences, it will only embolden the perpetrators. And North Miami will become like Hialeah a place where people engage in such activity can ever be elected. Thats the other reason why we don’t have the luxury to ignore corruption when it creeps in. North Miami is lucky that this case is so egrigeous and in your face that it alerted people like myself who recognized the signs before the perpetrators got another chance to do it better without being so obvious.
It gets better! Wednesday Lucy claimed she knew nothing about this lawsuit. Kind of like Pierre didn’t know his house was in foreclosure while holding a workshop on how to avoid this happening to people of North Miami. Do as I say…So wed afternoon she tells reporters that she hadn’t been served and doesn’t know a thing. Yesterday she leaves for Vegas with Pierre for a Mayors conference. He’s no longer a Mayor and she’s been one for 5 minutes. I suppose she is using the travel allowance afforded by her office. The bigger question is who’s paying for Pierre travel, registration and other expenses? In what capacity is he there? Is he her “plus 1”? Puppet master and puppet, the dynamic duo! North Miami needs so much help it isn’t even funny.
And said conference starts today so why leave yesterday? Maybe because if you’re not here you can’t be served.