Even Dead People Voted in Miami

In a survey of just 138 of Miami-Dade's 617 precincts, the paper found that 144 persons voted illegally.

The Herald study indicates that if this number is extrapolated, more than 600 votes were illegally cast in the heavily Democratic county.

Vote fraud is no stranger to the city of vice. Just three years ago, the Democratic mayor of Miami was forced from office after massive election fraud was uncovered.

This time was no different.

Here are just several examples discovered by the Herald, suggesting vote fraud was as easy as 1-2-3:

"A Haitian immigrant, Alismé registered to vote in Miami-Dade on Sept. 10, 1996. The registered Democrat cast his first and only ballot as an American citizen in the presidential election that year.

"He was 60 years old when he died the following May. After spotting his obituary in the newspaper, the Elections Department routinely verified his death with the Florida Department of Vital Statistics. Then his registration was canceled, on June 2, 1997.

"On Nov. 7, Alismé's name was resurrected at the Korean Presbyterian Church of Miami, 13700 NE 10th Ave., the polling place for Precinct 141. Alismé's name was handwritten on Page 65 of the precinct roll, along with an obvious forgery of his signature. The roll shows that Ballot No. 119451 was cast in Alismé's name.

"’No, no, that cannot be! André Alismé is deceased,’ said Elda Suffret, who lives with Alismé's son at the family's El Portal home. ‘There is no other André Alismé in Miami. His sons have different names, and they are not U.S. citizens. I don't know how this could happen.’ "

According to the Herald, the precinct where the phony vote for Alisme was cast had a 67 percent turnout where nearly 90 percent of the presidential vote went for Al Gore.

Guerda voted in the same precinct where Alisme "voted." She said two girlfriends asked her to vote, and when she arrived she was asked for a photo ID and asked to sign some paperwork.

Even though Guerda was not even on voting rolls, she was quickly ushered to a voting machine to vote.

The Herald study being conducted with the help of an independent accounting firm only compares the people who voted against the obituary list and residency list. The study is not considering another area of voter fraud: votes cast for registered voters who didn’t bother to show up at the polls.