As we’ve seen so many times before, defendants charged in a criminal voter fraud case in Madison Florida are playing the race card, this time in Florida. “Racially motivated voter suppression.” In August 2009, Rosie Lyles reversed herself and entered a guilty plea to possessing forged absentee ballots. The following month, Valada Paige Banks did a similar about-face and entered a guilty plea to possession of forged absentee ballot applications. The convictions of Tinker, Lyles, and Banks all involved actions identical to the ones Faye Cochran had complained about to DOJ lawyer Avner Shapiro a decade earlier.
Let’s journey back to Hale County Alabama. From my book Injustice (Amazon link over there <—–)
As the investigation wrapped up, Attorney General King described “a systemic problem of corruption” in Hale. “It is a culture problem, an elite believing they have the right to decide who holds office,” he declared. Eventually three women active in the all-black political faction would face justice. Two of them, Valada Paige Banks (who had previously been convicted of welfare fraud)and Rosie Lyles, were indicted on multiple felony voter fraud counts in August 2007. In a stunning display of racial solidarity, more than 200 people, almost all black, packed their arraignment hearing and loudly applauded when not guilty pleas were entered. In a corrupt appropriation of the moral authority of the civil rights movement, they wore t-shirts that said, “Greensboro 2: Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere.” Outside the courthouse, supporters held hands in a huge circle, sang songs from the civil rights movement, and prayed for the defendants’ legal deliverance. . . .
Criminal Voter Fraud Defendants Play Race Card in Florida
As we’ve seen so many times before, defendants charged in a criminal voter fraud case in Madison Florida are playing the race card, this time in Florida. “Racially motivated voter suppression.” In August 2009, Rosie Lyles reversed herself and entered a guilty plea to possessing forged absentee ballots. The following month, Valada Paige Banks did a similar about-face and entered a guilty plea to possession of forged absentee ballot applications. The convictions of Tinker, Lyles, and Banks all involved actions identical to the ones Faye Cochran had complained about to DOJ lawyer Avner Shapiro a decade earlier.
Let’s journey back to Hale County Alabama. From my book Injustice (Amazon link over there <—–)
As the investigation wrapped up, Attorney General King described “a systemic problem of corruption” in Hale. “It is a culture problem, an elite believing they have the right to decide who holds office,” he declared. Eventually three women active in the all-black political faction would face justice. Two of them, Valada Paige Banks (who had previously been convicted of welfare fraud)and Rosie Lyles, were indicted on multiple felony voter fraud counts in August 2007. In a stunning display of racial solidarity, more than 200 people, almost all black, packed their arraignment hearing and loudly applauded when not guilty pleas were entered. In a corrupt appropriation of the moral authority of the civil rights movement, they wore t-shirts that said, “Greensboro 2: Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere.” Outside the courthouse, supporters held hands in a huge circle, sang songs from the civil rights movement, and prayed for the defendants’ legal deliverance. . . .