Texas Voter Fraud Convictions

“A South Texas woman has pleaded guilty in federal court in Brownsville to voting multiple times in a 2012 primary runoff election.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office says Sonia Leticia Solis forged absentee ballot applications for people she claimed were disabled. The scheme gave the 55-year-old five additional votes in the runoff election for the newly created 34th Congressional District. She pleaded guilty on Monday.”

Link.

Destination Unknown: Socialist Vote Buying in France

 L’Acorn:

“Between 2005 and 2008, during which time she served as both MP and county councillor in the southern Bouches-du-Rhône region, Andrieux is said to have siphoned off some 740,000 euros of public funds. According to prosecutors, Andrieux knowingly allocated grants to phoney associations, which were fashioned to look like social outfits for disadvantaged youths or deprived neighbourhoods. Those funds were then used to sweeten voters in return for their support at the polls.


But while many would dismiss the Andrieux vote-buying affair as something typical of Marseille – where a history of banditry has left the city with an unshakeable reputation for delinquency – for local journalist Legrand, the problem is not endemic to the south of France. “This is going on all over the country,” he argued. “The only difference in Marseille is that politicians don’t bother to cover their tracks properly.” Legrand attributes this carelessness to a “general acceptance of corruption” in the region.”

“18 voters reviewed for fraud” in Colorado recall



The El Paso County Clerk and Recorder’s Office referred for investigation 18 potential voter fraud cases from the recent recall election of now-former state senator John Morse, including “at least 11 people who may have used the same-day voter registration system to vote without actually residing in the district.”


 


Meanwhile, executive director of the El Paso County Democratic Party, Christy Le Lait, observed keenly “there is nothing wrong with same-day registration as long as people are honest.” Well, yes, “If men were angels…”


“Federal Judge to consider Wisconsin Voter ID lawsuit”



Federal trial set to begin Monday.  


The Wisconsin law passed in 2011 has never gone into effect because a judge handling a separate state lawsuit declared the measure unconstitutional soon after it was enacted…
 


The trial starting Monday involves two federal lawsuits filed by civil rights groups, one of them brought on behalf of Bettye Jones, a 77-year-old black Brookfield woman [now deceased] who had difficulty voting because she had neither a state-issued driver’s license nor a birth certificate needed to acquire one.



“We think voter ID laws like the one in Wisconsin have a disproportionate impact on people of color…” said Jim Eichner, an attorney for the Advancement Project, a Washington-based nonprofit that is supporting the federal lawsuit.


It’s a shame Advancement Project attorneys’ time and money wasn’t spent helping voters like Bettye get the ID they need to vote (and access many other services), rather than suing the state for the past two years.

“No evidence for claim that Texas voter ID law is an effort to disenfranchise women”


“Pants on Fire!”


 


PolitiFact correctly identifies as “incorrect and ridiculous” Democrats’ “dramatic” claims that Texas voter ID is “trying to undo the voting rights women fought for,” and rightly notes “this claim suffers from an absence of proof that the Texas law was intended to disenfranchise tens of thousands of women or has had such an immediate effect.”


 


Faced with this “overall absence of evidence,” Democrats tried unsuccessfully to manufacture some:


 


“[T]hese days, the Democrats and voter ID critics are talking about how the law will affect women. The Democratic National Committee pointed to District Judge Sandra Watts of Nueces County and said she was ‘turned away when she went to vote.’  But Watts, a Democrat, later told MSNBC that she was not turned away and voted after signing the affidavit.”

But keep those dishonest fundraising emails coming, Dems – maybe your donors don’t read “right-wing” media like the Austin American-Statesman or HispanicBusiness.com.


 


More on New Haven voter fraud scandal



More on the New Haven voter fraud scandal involving a campaign volunteer for Democrat Ward 8 Alderman Michael Smart accused of “unlawfully handling the absentee ballots of at least eight voters in a Wooster Square elderly living complex.”


 


The woman also “may have filled out the ballots herself” and “provided the voters with stamps, instructed them how to vote or mailed their ballots in for them. All of these actions would be in violation of section 9-140 of the Connecticut General Statutes, which states that absentee ballots may only be handled by the individual voter or his or her family member or caretaker.”


 


“This is the fifth time in the past four years that charges of ballot fraud have been leveled in New Haven elections.”

“Voter Fraud Scandal Brewing in New Haven”



There are allegations that something fishy is going on with absentee ballots in the city.  And the number of those ballots already turned in is unusually high.



When asked who’s been mailing his ballot out, Thurman Hines, a New Haven resident said, “a lady that lives right here in the building. She has been mailing everybody’s ballots out, every time somebody votes… I didn’t fill it out. She helped me fill it out and then I sign it and said vote for him,” said Hines.


 


“That’s against the law.”