Judge says absentee ballot fraud a “cottage industry” in Miami-Dade The Miami-Herald reports: Sergio “El Tío” Robaina, uncle of former Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina, will “plead guilty Wednesday to misdemeanor charges he illegally possessed absentee ballots, setting up a legal showdown challenging a Miami-Dade County law governing ballot collection… “Allegations of absentee-ballot fraud shook the August 2012 primary as police investigators arrested two ballot brokers, or boleteros, on voter-fraud charges. That included Robaina, who was accused of illegally collecting absentee ballots, a misdemeanor, and of felony voter fraud charges for allegedly filling out a ballot against the wishes of two voters, one of them a woman with dementia.”