Wednesday, October 27, 2010

What party is he?

More voter fraud. This time it's from Florida...........

The arrest of Henry and Genesis Robinson comes a little more than two months after Volusia County Supervisor of Elections Ann McFall requested an investigation into irregularities in absentee ballot requests coming into her office.

McFall brought her concerns to the Volusia County Sheriffs Office in August, prompting the Sheriffs Office and the State Attorneys Office to immediately launch a joint investigation that ultimately led to the filing of a dozen felony charges against both defendants.

The investigation revealed that Henry and Robinson devised a strategy to boost Henrys re-election bid by obtaining absentee ballots for numerous people, most of whom never requested the ballots. By law, residents are only allowed to request absentee ballots for themselves, immediate family members or for someone for whom they’re acting as legal guardian.

McFall filed the complaint on August 11 after her office received a large number of requests for absentee ballots that were all initiated from the same e-mail address. Based on the e-mail address, it appeared that the requests came from someone with an interest in the Daytona Beach City Commission Zone 5 race. Henry, the Zone 5 incumbent who was locked in a three-way primary, was re-elected on August 24.

The subsequent investigation revealed that between the two of them, Henry and Robinson had requested a total of 92 absentee ballots through the elections offices web site. Four of the absentee ballots were found at Henrys house when investigators searched it on Sept. 23. Investigators also recovered absentee ballot applications and receipts for some of the absentee ballots along with handbooks outlining Florida election laws. The four absentee ballots were found under a computer keyboard.

For the past couple of years, I've voted using an absentee ballot. But now I'm clear that this a rampant invitation for fraud. For instance, assume you have an elderly resident of a nursing home. How hard would it be for a nurse to request absentee ballots for all the residents, fill them out and send them back. If a resident says anything, the nurses would probably just tell the resident that they forgot completing the ballot.

And then you have a situation like the Lovely Mrs. Gekko who rarely votes. How hard would it be for a Board of Election employee to see who hadn't voted in previous elections and just request absentee ballots for those residents knowing the voter probably wouldn't notice.

It goes on and on.

None the less, the article makes no mention of political affiliation of the d-bags here. Use your imagination as to the party affiliation.

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