Electoral fraud: increasing the voter registry

THE SCAM OF INFLATING THE ELECTORAL ROLL

The scam consists of registering people in the locality to manipulate the results. It is especially effective in small towns, where adding 10 or 20 more registered voters can directly secure the mayoralty. It is particularly effective in local elections and, to a lesser extent, in regional ones.

The most worrying aspect of this scam is that we do not know of any case where a court has declared these votes invalid or found anyone guilty for these fraudulent registrations.

2019: IMPORTANT: The INE has made a website available to report these increases in the ELECTORAL ROLL.

http://www.ine.es/ss/Satellite?L=es_ES&c=Page&cid=1254735789004&p=1254735789004&pagename=CensoElectoral%2FINELayout

2019-03-23 More than 120 towns in empty Spain inflate the roll to influence local elections

"With the local elections approaching, suspicious registrations that influence the outcome have surged. El Confidencial identifies anomalous increases of up to 100%."

https://www.elconfidencial.com/espana/2019-03-23/fraude-censo-electoral-padron-pueblos-espana-vacia_1899490/

2015-07-27 Possible electoral fraud in the town that decided the mayoralty by heads or tails

"Eight people who, according to him, have their habitual residence in Níjar and not in Albanchez, registered at the same address, and three others were registered at an address where a 'corral with animals' is located."

http://www.elmundo.es/andalucia/2015/07/27/55b67cb546163f7f1b8b4591.html

2014-11-10 A court investigates alleged electoral fraud in Mombeltrán (Ávila)

"The complaint, accepted for processing, presented documentation about the residence of many of them, registered 'up to twenty people' in 'homes owned by the mayor or the deputy mayor,' explained today in a press conference the socialist spokesperson in the Provincial Council, Tomás Blanco."

http://www.lavanguardia.com/politica/20141110/54419143578/un-juzgado-investiga-un-supuesto-fraude-electoral-en-mombeltran-avila.html

2013-04-10 The census fraud jumps to the electoral roll of Santa Cruz de Tenerife

The INE began detecting since 2007, two years before it could cross-check its data with the Ministry of the Interior, that in Santa Cruz de Tenerife there were almost 12,000 people registered on the electoral roll who did not exist. The figure practically matches the number of residents fraudulently registered in the city since 1996.

http://www.canarias7.es/articulo.cfm?id=297428

2011-04-05 19 municipalities inflate their electoral roll before the elections. The INE warns of "significant and unjustified" increases
 "Due to their small size, it is estimated that in these localities it is more likely that some party artificially inflates the rolls to achieve favorable electoral results."

http://elpais.com/diario/2011/04/05/cvalenciana/1302031079_850215.html

2007-07-06 31 people called as suspects for electoral fraud after registering in a town

"In the elections, 97 of the 102 registered people voted, with 50 votes for the PP, 39 for the PSOE, five abstentions, and two null votes. In 2003, the PSOE doubled the PP in votes."

http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/252346/0/imputados/fraude/electoral/