absentee-ballot broker arrested; state attorney recuses herself from ongoing case

Miami Herald ^ | August 3, 2012 | Patricia Mazzei, Daniel Chang, Charles Rabin and Christina Veiga

[Cincinatus' Wife]

A Hialeah boletera at the center of a weeklong absentee-ballot investigation that muddied the Miami-Dade mayor’s race was arrested Thursday after police say she fraudulently obtained an absentee ballot from a terminally ill woman in a nursing home.

Deisy Penton de Cabrera, 56, was charged with absentee-ballot fraud, a third-degree felony, and two misdemeanor counts of violating a county ordinance that makes it illegal for anyone to possess more than two ballots belonging to other voters. Investigators say Cabrera illegally collected at least 31 absentee ballots for the Aug. 14 primary election.

Hours after her office made the arrest, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernández Rundle, who is seeking reelection, announced she would recuse herself from any further involvement in the case to avoid a potential conflict of interest with an unnamed person who may be linked to both Cabrera and her campaign.

[EQAndyBuzz]

First 3 paragraphs and no clue what party she is from.

Hmm......

[TribalPrincess2U]

Another ‘file under dimocRAT’.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

...”Fernández Rundle had come under pressure from her Democratic primary opponent, defense attorney Rod Vereen, for remaining on the case because her longtime campaign consultant, Al Lorenzo, also works on Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s reelection bid. Gimenez has denied any connection to Cabrera, the ballot broker, but she is said to support him.”....

http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2012/08/miami-dade-state-attorney-katherine-fern%C3%A1ndez-rundle-to-step-aside-from-hialeah-absentee-ballot-inve.html

[Larry - Moe and Curly]

Not sure why I have to hunt up a Spanish to English translation program to find the definition of a word “boletera” in an article in a newspaper in the United States of America, but I guess that’s how low we’ve sunk.

Boletera = ticket taker.

At least I’ve increased my vocabulary.

[Ann Archy]

Boletera????? They have a Spanish word for VOTE FRAUD WOMAN??? OMG!!!

[Kenny Bunk]

Boletera is a 'ticket taker' in the most literal translation. However, I think it's a person who sells lottery tickets, a runner in the numbers racket, and god knows what else. Do they mean she sold voter registration ID? What? E.G., "jinetera," is literally an 'equestrienne." In real life, it's a whore.

I was just as mystified by this story as you were. What the hell are they driving at. Tough on us being thrust against our wills into citizenship in the hemisphere's newest Latin-American country.