Voter Fraud Found in Vernon Election

Sam Allen,  Los Angeles Times

An election officer on Monday claimed that voter fraud occurred during Vernon's June City Council election, throwing out seven of the sixty-four ballots cast and declaring a new winner in the race. The election was between Reno Bellamy and Luz Martinez who were running as candidates for the secretary of The Chamber of Commerce. Martinez lost the election by four votes in which seven had been thrown out. Superior Court Judge Debra Yang concluded that five of the voters in question were not residents of the city. Two others, she said, did not properly mail in their ballots. This now changes the entire outcome of the election. When Bellamy was questioned, he responded by saying that the hearing process was bogus because it is corrupt. He claimed that Judge Debra Yang was receiving 1,000 dollars an hour for her services. He was quoted saying, “The city government itself ran this show. When it comes to an election, they shouldn't be playing that part. They shouldn't have any say in who wins—that’s more corrupt than the old Chicago mob." To see voter fraud in a city with a population 112 people just shows us that voter fraud will and may have already occurred in much larger and more significant elections. It is obvious that new methods of voting need to come in to place in order to make elections fair.