Posted on 10/16/2018 2:58:28 PM PDT by TBP
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced voter fraud charges against four women accused of being part of an organized ring that targeted elderly residents in the Fort Worth area in 2016 and used them to generate forged mail-in ballots, many of which were for Democratic candidates, KTVT-TV reported.
A grand jury indicted Leticia Sanchez, Leticia Sanchez Tepichin, Maria Solis, and Laura Parra on felony charges last week, the station said.
Paxton’s office told KTVT that the women “harvested” votes by filling out applications for mail-in ballots with forged signatures. Then the women would either “assist” elderly voters in filling them out or just do it themselves — and then “use deception” to get voters to sign envelopes, the station said.
Political consultant Aaron Harris told KTVT in 2016 he provided investigators documents showing signatures that didn’t match on applications and envelopes.
“The harvesters sit around and fill these out by the hundreds, often by the thousands,” he added to the station.
Harris also told KTVT others are involved in the ring but acknowledged the cases can be difficult to prosecute.
“Just because they may have been indicted on one or two, or 16 counts, doesn’t mean they don’t have 200 counts,” he added to the station. “But those are the only 16 that can be proven.”
Tarrant County elections administrator Heider Garcia told KTVT Friday his office cooperated with state investigators — and while he hadn’t reviewed the indictments, Garcia said he anticipated contacting Paxton’s office to see if any procedures needed correcting.
Tarrant County Democratic Party Chairwoman Deborah Peoples told the station she had met one of the accused women — Leticia Sanchez — in the past but wasn’t aware of specific details of the case.
Peoples added to KTVT that she questioned the timing of the indictments, which come less than a month before the midterm elections.
“... many of which were for Democratic candidates, KTVT-TV reported.”
Horrible reporting.
By many for Democrats, were most for Democrats, all for Democrats or some for Democrats?
As the the story in the Ft Worth paper states, they were paid. No one is saying paid them.
no one is saying who paid them
The Democratic Party paid them, probably not directly.
ALL for demonrats.
There, fixed it.
Fusion GPS?
Apparently they were forging ballots that would cancel each other out??
Or did they vote for a Republican dogcatcher so it wasn’t a straight party Democrat ballot and look less suspicious?
“Many of which were for Democrats”
Ok, so are you saying that while many, most on the other hand...?
Or, is the “journalist” trying to say something else?
I’m sure they are all or virtually all for Democrats, but I suspect nobody has gone through all of them, so they just say “many” to be safe.
Exactly correct. This type of voter fraud does not happen at a low level among individuals that do not know how to do it. It comes from the top down.
I myself would give them a pass if they will tell all and thus get the real criminals at the top. If they will not do this, prosecute and convict and put them in jail.
Someone was in charge of this
Bttt.
5.56mm
This is why the Dems fight against voter ID. Fraud at the polls, and fraud on mail-in ballots, would be impossible if everyone who voted had to identify in person, or in the case of mail-in, a notarized signature.
It should also be PERMANENT loss of voting rights!!
In my opinion this crime should carry the death penalty.
In my opinion this crime should carry the death penalty.
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Yes. It is a form of coup. Death is appropriate.
Today they use ‘go-fund-me’ to pay their fellow conspirators.
It adds a layer that they can hide behind.
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