Election Fraud as a Way of Life for Democrats

In most states, the Secretary of State is in charge of enforcing the election laws. As a result, any party wanting to "stuff" the ballot box would do well to make sure to have a friendly Secretary of State. Indeed, a few years ago, the Democrat party began a national effort to take over these offices. The effort has not always been successful; in 2010, the Republican Matt Schultz won an upset to take that position in Iowa. Apparently, this set back did not sit too well with the Democrats.

The Des Moines Register reported this yesterday: "A Des Moines man has been arrested after police say he used, or tried to use, the identity of Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz in a scheme to falsely implicate Schultz in perceived unethical behavior in office." And who was it who used identity theft in an effort to frame the Iowa Secretary of State as unethical? The alleged criminal is Zachary Edwards. Here is a good summary of his background from Powerline Blog:

Edwards is a former Obama staffer who directed “new media operations” for Obama in five states during the 2008 primaries. Thereafter, he was Obama’s Director of New Media for the State of Iowa. In the Democratic Party’s lexicon, “new media” apparently includes identity theft.

Edwards now works for LINK Strategies, a Democratic consulting firm with extraordinarily close ties to Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin. Its principal, Jeff Link, has served as Harkin’s campaign manager and chief of staff. Link, too, is a former Obama staffer. The LINK Strategies web site says that Jeff Link “served as a media consultant to the Obama for President Campaign, coordinating branding, all paid media and polling in 25 states, including seven battleground states (VA, NC, FL, CO, NM, NV, MT)….”


So we have a high placed Obama operative who is alleged to be stealing the identity of a prominent Iowa Republican in order to make him look unethical. Can it be that Obama and the Obamacrats recognize that they are going to need to use election fraud in order to win in 2012? It sure looks like that.