Fox News’ Eric Shawn Talks To Mediaite About His Career, The United Nations And Rampant Voter Fraud

In Seattle, where Shawn was first tasked with finding evidence of voter fraud in an under-publicized case, he was tasked with sifting through “a room that was floor to ceiling with boxes that was evidence of all the fraudulent voter forms that the workers filled out.”

“That was the start of it, and it just mushroomed from there,” said Shawn.

His travels took him to Baltimore to cover the trail of a political consultant working for former Republican Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich. That consultant was implicated in a case of voter suppression by sending out a fraudulent Election Day robocall to African American homes in 2010 that told voters to “relax” and there was nothing left to do but “watch [election results] on TV.”

Shawn covered the widely-publicized case of a Democratic campaign operative who confessed to filling out absentee ballots of voters in Troy, New York. That campaign operative and former Troy Housing Authority Clerk, Anthony DeFiglio, testified that “this is an ongoing scheme and it occurs on both sides of the aisle.”

“To political insiders in the county, what appears as a huge conspiracy to non-political persons, is really a normal political tactic that went out of control,” read DeFiglio’s 2009 testimony. “Since my involvement in politics began, it has been the way things were done and the ramifications are never considered.”

“These people are admitting that stealing election is the normal way to win,” said Shaw.

Perhaps the highest profile case that Shawn investigated is that of Indiana’s 2008 Democratic presidential primary where there was rampant signature fraud that could have affected the candidacies of both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

“In Indiana, we went out in the fall to where the allegations that the presidential petitions that put President Obama and Hillary Clinton on the ballot were forged,” said Shawn.

We conducted interview s with the Democratic and Republican politicians and talked to law enforcement, a variety of sources. It was very detailed, methodical work. We took the petitions – in Indiana, to get on the ballot you have to qualify with 500 signatures in each congressional district. In South Bend Indiana, where Notre Dame is, Obama qualified with 534 signatures. Hillary Clinton’s campaign qualified with 734. Reports say about 150 signatures were faked. The question is did President Obama legally qualify for the ballot in Indiana?

“We went out and knocked on dozens and dozens of doors in Indiana,” Shawn recalled. “We found people and showed people their names their signatures their address and they said ‘I never signed that.’ It brings the whole issue of voter fraud home, when your vote is being stolen.”

“Imagine what would have happened if that had been made public and exposed during the presidential primary,” asked Shawn. “What’s unique about this story is – allegations of voter fraud touched the highest office in the land.”

“There is a big debate that voter fraud – election fraud doesn’t happen,” said Shawn. He emphasized that, aside from the myriad cases he covers on a weekly basis that are predominantly local, the Indiana case represents an example of voter fraud that should merit national concern.

People may say, well it’s only isolated or, you know, the campaigns didn’t do it. The fact is, even in the race for 5th grade class president, if people go and fake the votes, you’d be thrown out and your teacher would put you in detention on Friday for two hours.

Shawn says that he is happy to be covering the fraud beat as opposed to the day-to-day horse race updates that focus on the latest polling data and candidate’s political ads. “It’s a huge issue,” said Shawn. “The very tenets of our democracy are based on the honesty of the election process.”

When asked if he believes the issue of voter fraud and voter identification laws around the nation will be a national issue in November, Shawn says “it already is.” He cites Department of Justice lawsuits against states like South Carolina and Texas which have instituted voter I.D. laws.

I think it’s become politicized in some ways. Republicans says it prevents crime, democrats says its voter suppression. When the administration goes out there to these states that have laws on the books – especially when the Indiana state law, which was the fist, has been upheld by the supreme court –I think you’ll be seeing more lawsuits, state after state after state.

Shawn anchors his own news program on Sundays from 10 to noon, with a special voter fraud segment at 11:30 every week. If you have been a victim of voter fraud, Shawn invites you to send an email to a special inbox at Fox News: voterfraud@foxnews.com.

This is an opinion piece. The views expressed in this article are those of just the author.

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