By John Klar, American Thinker
In a suit filed November 12 in Windham, Vermont, two town residents alleged that State of Vermont House representative (and former Democrat majority leader) Carolyn Partridge knowingly solicited residents from another town — but who owned a vacant property in Windham — to vote in a controversial Windham school vote. The suit includes as defendants the Windham School District and Windham Board of Civil Authority (responsible for voter checklists).
Representative Partridge stated that “the allegations are completely false.” But in an amended complaint filed December 10, the plaintiffs include email exchanges with one of the three nonresidents Partridge allegedly groomed for illegal voting.
In the (alleged) email exchange, a non-resident woman from Peru, Vermont named Lisa Beshay was clearly hesitant to vote in Windham and had even been warned that one of the plaintiffs in this present suit was aware of her conflicting resident status:
“If I own property in Windham but reside in Peru, can I not vote in Windham? I thought I could vote in Windham because we own property but Alexis just told me Crystal is going after me for voting illegally.”
Partridge replied by email: “She would! If you intend to return to your house/land eventually and have not registered somewhere else, you may vote in Windham. You might say that for health reasons you have had to rent elsewhere but it is your intention to return. That’s all you need to say. If she goads you, remain silent. Maureen Bell has a brother who lives in Montreal and votes in Windham. And he knows nothing about the school!! As long as you’re on the checklist, you are a legal voter.”
Partridge was well aware of that fact. The dubious ethicality of coaching someone to claim a health reason to defraud residency requirements is matched by the similarly shady suggestion that Ms. Beshay say it is her intention to return when it is not.
Carolyn Partridge knew that it was not her intention, for in a subsequent (alleged) email, she prompted the reluctant Beshay. Per the amended complaint:
Partridge then asked Ms. Beshay in a subsequent email if Ms. Beshay applied for a grant to renovate her home. Ms. Beshay said she had not, and continued: “right now, we are focusing on our business, trying to grow it to a point where it is lucrative to accomplish one of those goals [of renovating or bulldozing the Windham home]. Our hope is to have something figured out before Charlotte starts school in a couple of years.” … Partridge’s statement that Ms. Beshay may vote in Windham if she intends to move to her property “eventually” is not true, and upon information and belief, Partridge knew that it was not true. Partridge is a long time member of the Windham Board of Civil Authority, and a longtime member of the Windham School Board. The standards for residency for voting and for school attendance are virtually identical, and Partridge must be familiar with the standards.
Lisa Beshay specifically informed Representative Partridge that she did not intend to even consider renovating her dilapidated former Windham residence for a couple of years. That is not an intent to return sufficient to establish residency. Yet three people were allegedly cajoled by these falsehoods from Carolyn Partridge to still travel to Windham and participate in the subsequent school vote. And they did.
This blatant misconduct is accompanied by a bold boast about a Canadian who votes regularly in this local election, aided and abetted by (fellow Democrat?) Maureen Bell — the chair of the Windham Selectboard! Small-town Vermont is the perfect place for cozy elitists to manipulate the locals, and Carolyn Partridge has done so with gusto. She is a state rep and is on the Windham School Board and the Board of Civil Authority. That’s a lot of hats to wear concurrently — one could get conflicted.
The original complaint was filed prior to the provision of the relevant emails pursuant to a public records request — Representative Partridge and Windham school superintendent Bill Anton had initially balked at releasing them, for now obvious reasons. In view of the sheer audacity of Representative Partridge’s inappropriate conduct, the amended complaint requests that the Court fine Partridge and refer her for investigation to the appropriate prosecutorial authorities:
Defendant Partridge, as indicated above, aided unqualified persons to vote in the school closure vote on November 2, 2021 by telling Ms. Beshay she could vote even though she knew Ms. Beshay was no longer a town resident. … Plaintiffs pray this Honorable Court, pursuant to its broad mandate in 17 V.S.A. § 2603, issue fines to Carolyn Partridge who aided unqualified persons to vote in the school closure vote, and pursuant to the statute noted above, forward the transcript of the hearing to the state’s attorney, if warranted.
It will be interesting to see if there are any consequences of significance to this flagrant abuse of trust by this veteran carpetbagging Democrat. It certainly would shock Vermonters if Carolyn Partridge were charged with even a misdemeanor — public officials are generally teflon in the Green Mountains.
But wouldn’t that be a great gift for Vermonters for Christmas? A Partridge in a fair plea.
The author is a Brookfield resident, farmer, and 2020 candidate for governor.
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Perfect! Fraud is everywhere, thank you for standing up for what is right!
Great article and funny conclusion. A local microcosm of non-citizen voting. It just reminds me of how crazy Democrats have become. What country has ever allowed noncitizens to vote in national elections? But now it is welcomed by the lunatic left.
Partridge rotten eggs come home to roost for Christmas: Feathers ruffled.
Keep pecking, John!
On another Note – The Voter Rolls are over-inflated by phantom, ghost voters, then later may be “cleaned”, or not, depending on the corruption of the “officials” in charge of the rigged system. There is no accountability or consequences if all of the “players” are in on it together, so most of them sit-back and take their $$$$, which is the tax-payers money, to commit this crime (or could be threatened or blackmailed, whatever works, there are many “players”, judges, lawyers, secretary of states, town clerks, attorney generals, etc.). The over-inflated voter rolls support the injection of fake ballots into the “system” by the use of drop boxes, “mail-in” and ballot harvesting. These fake ballots can be stored somewhere, hiding, until needed and then later added into the “computer” system. No State is immune to this egregious theft of our Election System. All machines must go! No more Drop Boxes or Mail-in Ballots. Signature Verification must be put back into Voting, and Voter ID with residence’s name and address. All Ballots have watermarks on a specific paper stock. The Ballots which are to be used are publicly inspected by We The People BEFORE Elections are taken place. Only ONE day to vote and ends at 7 p.m. There is no excuse why We The People can’t fix this threat to our Nation.
We The People ARE AMERICA!
Liberty is from God not man.
On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
Twelve drummers drumming
Eleven pipers piping
Ten lords a-leaping
Nine ladies dancing
Eight maids a-milking
Seven swans a-swimming
Six geese a-laying
Five golden rings
Four calling birds
Three french hens
Two turtle doves, and
A Partridge in the Penitentiary!!!
Well played.
Well seeing as how she cheated on that election (allegedly), and she’s on the board of civil authority which gives her the ability to cheat in the other election, maybe we should look into Windham. It’ll be like New Hampshire all over again.
John you are doing way more than the entire VTGOP.
They would not even ask the question, Is Molly Gray meet the very open and generous standard to hold the office of Lt. Governor……she did not.
And they let her get away with it. Not only that, some thought it good she should hold the office and now she is running for federal office.
Voter fraud, election fraud is alive and well in the Green Mountains.
I agree with Neil. You are doing more than our Party and I often imagine how different things might be if you had won the governorship. You constantly ferret out the misconduct of our officials and the reckless policies the left never stops pushing on our education system and our culture.
Thank you for all you do. You are a great tribute to a freedom loving society!
Time for a full forensic audit for the past election, in all jobs held by elected officials, starting with the school boards in every county, and every other position voted on all the way to the national election. If we are going to save our state AND our country, we need to Stand Up to this corruption that has come into every state. Thanks John for once again helping us see the truth to what is happening all around us but the main stream media fails to tell us about. It takes sites like this too that makes us aware of the true happenings going on around us. I applaud you all.
Can we agree that all sides to any issue will advocate for their positions? If so why spend time chastising others for what we all do.
Let’s focus energy on getting wide spread agreement on the core foundational principals. Clear concise language, not confusing legaleaze.
The conversation doesn’t seem entirely damning. Actually dwelling in one location but registering in another is not uncommon.
However, the Left has been bringing in many individuals, mostly young people, to register here in order to influence elections.
There has been much research, personal audits (Bennington), and documented reporting on the massive voter fraud in Vermont that few seem to care about. They laugh at Kevin Hoyt who has been involved in it all, and this gets attn in the Daily Chronical? Kevin has been exposing the major crimes daily, yet he is poo-poo’d.
Perhaps give HIM the time of day and listen up…. like he’s been asking for for a few years now.
There ARE NO FAIR elections!