Republican Staffers Charged With 36 Counts of Election Fraud

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Republican Staffers Charged With 36 Counts of Election Fraud

The party of voter ID laws may need to clean up their own house first when it comes to election fraud.
By Augusta ChristensenSeptember 20, 2012

It turns out that the Republican Party’s obsession with voter fraud may be yet another case of projection. Four former staffers for resigned House Rep. Thaddeus McCotter have been charged with 36 counts of misdemeanor and felony election fraud. Yesterday one of those staffers, Lorianne O’Brady, pled not guilty to five misdemeanor counts of submitting fraudulent signatures on a ballot petition. O’Brady is the last of the four staffers to be arraigned; the other three, Don Yowchuang, Mary Melissa Turnbull, and Paul Seewald, were arraigned on similar charges on August 10th.

<..> Michigan’s Secretary of State announced that the McCotter campaign had not gathered 1,000 valid signatures, which McCotter accepted. McCotter then announced that he would still be running for his seat in the August primary, as a write-in candidate. But the discoveries of fraud by the Secretary of State were so egregious that the matter was turned over to Michigan’s state attorney general. The Michigan elections director Chris Thomas called the fake signatures an “unprecedented level of fraud.”

<..> This incident perfectly highlights the dirty little secret about election fraud. Election fraud overwhelmingly happens on the campaign side, not the voter side. It’s far easier – and more rewarding – to cheat while working from within the system than it is to commit in-person voter fraud. The GOP is legislating against cases of voter fraud in which a person would have to give someone else’s name at the correct polling place in order to falsely vote once; meanwhile a Republican Congressman and his staff fabricated 1,756 signatures so that he could run illegally.

<..> The cognitive dissonance bordering on willful delusion has become the hallmark of Republican policies and rhetoric. Expecting this heinous fraud to bring the GOP back to reality would be wishful thinking at this point, but at least one corrupt Congressman is now out of a job.

http://lawsonry.com/2012/09/republican-s...ion-fraud/

I hope to see a lot more repubs charged with election fraud and voter suppression very soon.

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Turzai: Voter ID Will Allow Romney to Win Pa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuOT1bRY...ata_player
Published on Jun 25, 2012 by pahousevideo

Pa. House Republican Leader Mike Turzai speaks on June 23, 2012


He can be first to be charged.

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And remember this one:

Republican IT Guru Dies In Plane Crash
http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-201_162-4684431.html

"....the fatal accident is also raising questions about Connell and his work for key
political figures and lobbyists, which has targeted him in investigations over missing
White House e-mails and a lawsuit alleging electronic voting fraud.

Following Last Friday's fatal accident, CBS Affiliate WOIO reported that Connell, who
had recently been subpoenaed to testify in relation to a lawsuit alleging vote rigging in
the 2004 Ohio election, was warned at least twice about flying his plane because his
plane might be sabotaged."