As Random Person Offered Attorney General Holder's Ballot in Washington DC Polling Station, DOJ Insists There is No Voter Fraud Problem

In another hidden camera video released by former Andrew Breitbart protege James O'Keefe, a man is shown walking into a Washington DC polling station and is offered Attorney General Eric Holder's ballot by a poll worker after checking the name off of a ledger during- presumably last week's primary elections in the District of Columbia.

The Justice Department fired back on Monday afternoon, claiming that the stung was 'manufactured' [which is technically true- O'Keefe claims he orchestrated this to demonstrate how easy it was to commit voter fraud- NANESB!] while Holder himself insists that there “is a misperception that there is a vast amount of vote fraud out there.”

An unnamed DOJ official was quoted in a brief article from the Talking Points Memo blog on Monday as saying

“It’s no coincidence that these so-called examples of rampant voter fraud consistently turn out to be manufactured ones.”

. Previously, O'Keefe had released videos showing operatives entering polling stations in Vermont and New Hampshire earlier this year and obtaining ballots by using the names of dead or nonexistent voters.

Even without the O'Keefe hidden camera videos, there have been a number of ballot fraud cases that have been prosecuted across the country.

In upstate New York, Troy City Councilman Michael LoPorto and Rensselaer County Board of Elections Commissioner Ed McDonough [both Democrats- NANESB!] are awaiting separate trials after investigators determined they and forging signatures on absentee ballots during a 2009 Working Families Party primary. The two were tried together by prosecutors when the presiding judge declared a mistrial after contentious deliberations by the jurors last month. Jury selection for LoPorto's trial is set to begin on June 4th.

Over in the Hoosier State, prosecutors in South Bend, IN have charged four St Joseph County Democrat Party officials and their subordinates with forging signatures on primary petitions during the 2008 Presidential election.

Among those charged is the former long-time chairman of the St. Joseph County Democratic Party, Butch Morgan, who allegedly ordered the forgeries. He was forced to resign when the allegations were first made public last October, even though his lawyer, Shaw Friedman, told Fox News at the time that Morgan did not do anything wrong.

The St. Joseph County Board of Voter Registration's Democratic board member, Pam Brunette, Board of Voter Registration worker Beverly Shelton and Democratic volunteer and former board worker Dustin Blythe also face charges.

According to affidavits, St. Joseph County Voter Registration Office worker Lucas Burkett told investigators that he was part of the plan that started in January 2008 "to forge signatures on presidential candidate petitions instead of collecting actual signatures from citizens."

The documents state that Burkett told investigators that “he was heavily involved in St. Joseph County political activities with the local Democratic party," and that "he had, in fact, personally forged several such signatures," and had attended meetings at the local Democratic party headquarters, where it was agreed to forge the petitions. Morgan, the County Democratic Chairman, allegedly "instructed Mr. Burkett, Pamela Brunette, Beverly Shelton, and Dustin Blythe to forge ballot petitions for presidential candidates," and that "all of them agreed to follow these instructions" by copying names and signatures from old election petitions.

According to affidavits, Burkett told investigators it was his job to "forge petitions for candidate Barack Obama," Shelton "was assigned to forge petitions for candidate Hillary Clinton" and Blythe "was assigned to forge petitions for candidate John Edwards." When Edwards dropped out of the race at the end of January 2008 and Burkett refused to continue the forgeries, Morgan allegedly ordered Blythe to then forge petitions for Barack Obama.

Indiana State Police investigators identified a total of 22 petitions that appeared to be faked, yet sailed through the Voter Registration Board as legitimate documents. The signature of the board's Republican supervisor, Linda Silcott, which is required for legal certification, appeared to be rubber stamped on the documents. She told investigators that she did not remember signing or authorizing her rubber stamp to be used.

The developments in Indiana and upstate New York come less than a month after the DOJ struck down voter ID laws in Wisconsin and Texas- in December 2011, the Justice Department struck down similar legislation in South Carolina.