Voter Fraud guilty plea in 2008 Presidential election: double voting

“Tarrell Campbell, 34, St. Louis, pleaded guilty to one felony count of voter fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and/or fines up to $10,000.”  Mr. Campbell voted in the November 2008 election in Illinois.  Then he apparently drove across the bridge to St. Louis and voted again.  More here.

Still more:  “Campbell’s public defender said, in court, that Campbell told the agents that he did not recall voting in Illinois at the time of his Missouri vote, less than two weeks later.  Campbell, who told U.S. District Judge Jean C. Hamilton that he has three master’s degrees, faces up to six months behind bars under federal sentencing guidelines.”   Three master’s degrees? 

UPDATE: Looks like Tarrell can give up on plans for lawschool discussed here.

North Carolina vote fraud investigation

 WWAY-TV reports problems with voters who never requested absentee ballots having ballots voted in their name.  Even worse, the investigating police officers reportedly told voters there was a lack of a signature match, but that’s ok because the voter “voted for the right man.”  This implies that the officer was a participant in curing any facial defects in the ballots, and also knew for whom the ballot was marked.  There were federal candidates on this ballot and George Holding should be all over this matter.  It may involve both voter fraud in a federal election as well as public corruption by the law enforcement officials offering to “run the ballot out to the house” to get it fixed up right:

“[An investigating police officer] said that, ‘Randall had sent in his absentee ballot, but they couldn’t make out his signature that good, but it’s OK because he voted for the right man.'” Corbett said. “And he said, ‘I could go get the ballot and bring it to your house,’ talking about my mother and father, ‘and ya’ll can take it inside, and one of ya’ll can sign it, sign his signature to it and bring it out to me and I’ll turn it in.'”  The problem is Corbett says he never voted at all. “I didn’t apply for or request an absentee ballot,” he said.

 

Von Spakovsky on Thernstrom

Hans von Spakovsky on Thernstrom at NRO.

” . . .Thernstrom also says something that she has thus far been unwilling to state in her numerous media appearances: ‘In fact, I still have questions about DOJ’s conduct, and I remain interested in knowing more about why the department declined to pursue the case. I would thus join my colleagues in welcoming further testimony. I would love to hear firsthand from Christopher Coates about DOJ’s handling of this case.’ Perhaps CBS will invite her back next week to publicize her call for the DOJ to stop stonewalling the testimony of Christopher Coates, something she failed to mention in her prior appearance on Face the Nation.”

Philly Radio Wednesday

I’ll be on the Big Talker 1210 WPHT-AM with Michael Smerconish  during the 7a.m. hour talking black panthers and the amazing admission on MSNBC  by Steven Collins  that the voter intimidation case should not have been dismissed if it was the KKK doing the intimidating, but should be dismissed if it was the New Black Panthers.

Chris Matthews: Suppose those were white folks with white sheets?

Steven Collins:  Sure, then you have a legitimate case with intimidation.

Chris Matthews:  Wait a minute!  Where is the symmetry  here??

Canton (MS) indictments for vote fraud

The Clarion Ledger has more here.  Canton (MS) is where a nephew of the infamous Ike Brown recently won an election.  The Clarion Ledger reports “Ray Rosamond, an ex-alderman who lost the Democratic Ward 1 runoff election to Rodriquez Brown, has said the municipal elections – especially his race – were rife with fraud. He sees the indictments as a step toward long-awaited justice.”

The indictments remain sealed.  The District Attorney said “all three indicted last week are convicted felons who either registered or voted after being convicted of a disenfranchising crime.”

The Clarion Ledger goes on to mention Ike Brown: “The controversy surrounding Canton’s elections began in May when Rosamond alleged people outside of Ward 1 and Canton voted in the race and that some voters were provided illegal assistance by poll workers, which he said aided Brown to victory.  Rosamond also charged that Ike Brown, Rodriquez Brown’s uncle, interfered with the election.”