Electoral fraud by the nuns
The little nuns scam.
This scam is called that due to the large number of documented cases involving nuns who manage nursing homes, asylums, and other places where elderly people who cannot think for themselves reside. This scam consists of voting on behalf of another person whose reasoning ability is completely nullified, whether due to very advanced age, serious illnesses, or mental problems. The scam is carried out simply by voting for these people, either through mail-in voting against their will and/or taking them to vote without the ability to choose, merely showing up with the vote in hand and nothing more. It is important, to distinguish this scam from others, to note that it is carried out on several people at once, all members of the same institution — whether nursing, mental, etc. — unlike other scams that affect unrelated individuals. This practice fits perfectly with THE MAIL-IN VOTING SCAM.
Often, these people vote without even their relatives knowing, as signatures and copies of ID cards are fraudulently obtained to carry out mail-in voting, or they are directly taken to polling stations usually located in towns different from those of their relatives.
This scam usually benefits the PP, and it’s not only "little nuns" who take these people to vote; there have been cases recorded of vans driven by PP members who pick up the elderly at the residences and transport them to vote themselves.
The scam is not new; we have found cases dating back to 1978, when the Constitution was voted NO.
Danger to elections:
High, since a nursing home in a medium or small town can represent a considerable percentage of the votes. It is a widely used technique: taking the elderly to vote even if they suffer from Alzheimer’s; one vote is one vote.
Solution:
There are two options to address this problem: one is to report it to the police and have very strict laws for those who commit these practices. However, this happens every year, it is reported to the electoral board, and generally nothing happens. The other option is to implement the system we propose in Electoral Scam, consisting of an intelligence test to vote that you can read here, which serves to verify that the person is capable of deciding for themselves and thinking, and is not, unfortunately, mentally incapable, something that by law prevents voting but is currently allowed.
Collection of cases:
2019-04 A nun from La Misericordia residence in Bilbao steals votes from elderly women for the PP
Two representatives from Unidas Podemos caught the nun when two elderly women she cared for had asked her for PSOE and PNV ballots. Since the incident, the polling station has banned nuns from entering the voting room.
2016-06-26 UPN-PP councilors caught red-handed transporting elderly to a polling station in Navarra
Richard García Palacios (on the left) and José Luis Medrano Alcántara (on the right), UPN councilors in Villava-Atarrabia, took residents of the “Landazabal” Elderly Residence to vote. Given the undeniable poor democratic taste of the regionalist/conservative councilors, one wonders: are the people sitting in those wheelchairs fully mentally capable?
2016-06-26 En Marea corrects its representative in Cambados and will not challenge the vote of a "disoriented" elderly woman
http://www.eldiario.es/galicia/VIDEO-Marea-electoral-anciana-votando_0_530897247.html
2016-01-07 Teruel. Nuns from Hogar San José
"It was strange when grandpa told us that a doctor had come saying that if they didn’t sign a paper, the medicines would run out. Also, they had asked for his ID. The constant delays from the little sisters put us on alert."
2015-12-21 The nuns of the Cangas Home, reported for forcing the elderly to vote
The nuns of the Fundación Camila Beceña elderly residence in Cangas de Onís ended the election day testifying before a judge for allegedly forcing the votes of the residents under their care. The complaint came from the general secretary of Podemos and councilor in Cangas, José Carbonell García, who filed a report with the local Electoral Board stating that the elderly had been transported by bus to the polling station, and that a nun handed them sealed envelopes with the ballot already inside.
"According to Podemos Asturias’ Twitter account, elderly people from a residence are taken by bus to vote and receive envelopes with votes already inside as they enter the polling station. "We are filing a complaint for a crime against the voting freedom of the elderly at the Beceña Home," they wrote on this social network. The text is accompanied by an image of the filed complaint."
"A video released by Aracena Puede (Huelva) shows two elderly women who have just voted at a polling station to which they were taken by the nuns from their asylum: "I don’t know where I am".
2015-05-24 Galicia - Electoral fraud reported with the transport of elderly in Pontedeume
With photos and videos, an electoral fraud case was attempted to be reported in the early hours of election day, accusing the Popular Party of transporting elderly people in Pontedeume from the local asylum to the polling station, which is only 100 meters from the residence. Accompanied and supervised by nuns and Popular Party militants, including the wife of the local PP number 2 and current deputy mayor, Javier Crespo.
2015-05-18 "They stole my mother’s vote"
"There is a signature, which is more like a scribble, and the rest of the document where the mail-in vote is requested is well written. And that is surprising because the person who requested that procedure at the Calamonte Post Office cannot read or write. Therefore, her son, Ramón Ledo, is outraged. “She couldn’t have written that, my mother is deaf-mute, she can’t read, can’t write; they stole her vote.”
Riotorto (Lugo): The PP was accused of transporting elderly "with dementia" to vote by mail. Federico Guriérrez, mayor of Riotorto (BNG), with barely 1,400 inhabitants, says that several "witnesses" confirm that "PP candidates moved people with dementia" to Post Offices to request postal votes despite not being "capable". "We have filed a complaint with the Electoral Board because we have witnesses," Gutiérrez explained in statements to this newspaper.
2015-04-25 Cáceres - PSOE and Podemos denounce PP members for vote usurpation.
“If it had been one or two, maybe we wouldn’t have said anything; but it was dozens and dozens of elderly people they brought to vote with envelopes already sealed and without knowing who they were voting for,” says one of the people who went to the Cáceres Court of Guardia No. 4 this morning to file a complaint for possible vote usurpation.
2015-05-24 The mystery of the nuns of Béjar and the votes of the elderly
They first tried with three elderly women, but when a party representative suspected the operation, he asked the old ladies several questions and none of them knew their own names or why they were there. A small commotion occurred at the polling station, including intervention by the National Police, and everything was resolved with the departure of the nuns. This led to an agreement among all parties, except the PP, to file a challenge. But it didn’t end there. After lunch, around 4 p.m., voter turnout dropped significantly, and the polling station members agreed to take turns going for coffee. When the shifts left only one female member at the polling station, known to be a PP affiliate, and the PP representative at that table, an inexplicable phenomenon occurred. Nobody knows how or why, but when everyone else returned, all the elderly men and women from the Las Hermanitas residence had voted. Now all suspicions fall on the two PP affiliates, who allegedly took advantage of being in charge of the table to call the residence and warn them so the elderly would come down again to vote, without anyone asking questions.
"Three elderly women from the 'Las Hermanitas' residence arrived with a nun, who held the ballots and the ladies’ IDs in her hand. When she went to deposit the envelopes herself in the ballot boxes, the Izquierda Unida poll watcher — who noticed something strange — stopped the process to ask the elderly women their names, what year it was, and what they had come to do. "They couldn’t answer any of the questions."
"Did you tell the nuns what you wanted?”, they ask one of the elderly women. “She put it for me, she put it for me,” repeats the woman, who admits she can’t read. “Didn’t you know what you wanted to vote for?”, the PP representative present at the Cáceres training school where the events took place asks again. “No, the nun prepared it for me,” the elderly lady answers. Read more: Extremadura Elections 2015: Vote manipulation complaint: The nun gave me the envelope. I don’t know what I voted."
2012-09-17 The PP on trial for taking elderly with impaired intellectual faculties to vote
A judge in Lugo accuses a party leader and militants in Lugo of transporting several residents to a polling station despite "lacking the capacity to decide the direction of their vote".
http://www.eldiario.es/politica/PP-ancianos-facultades-intelectuales-afectadas_0_524947732.html
1978 - The nuns of an elderly asylum advised to vote "no" to the Constitution
"The mother superior of the Hermanitas de los Ancianos Desamparados residence in Gijón admitted to recommending the vote, presumably negative, to the elderly residents. On the other hand, it has been verified that all the votes sent by mail by the elderly from the Oviedo asylum contained negative votes to the Constitution. The socialists had denounced that a nun from the Hermanitas de los Ancianos Desamparados residence in Gijón had advised a no vote to the Constitution because with a yes they would remove the King and the communists would govern. The superior stated that she had indeed guided the vote in the same way as previously asking for a yes to the political reform and support for Alianza Popular in the June 15 elections."