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Posted on 12/13/2001 10:01:28 PM PST by GOPcapitalist

As part of a continuing effort to catelogue fraud, criminal activity, and other election irregularities by the Democrats during the 2001 Houston Mayoral Election, I am posting this week's update below. Due to the pending nature of our investigations of certain complaints, I regret that some of the details below are vague, and that I have to save several incident reports for later once they've been fully identified.

I. Post Office Fraud continues - To date, myself and others have collected several dozen names and precinct numbers from voters who have, in the last two weeks, reported recieving Sanchez literature long after the election. Some of the literature recieved by these voters was postmarked as early as 2 and a half weeks before the election, AND sent out with a political red tag, which by law requires that mail to be delivered first before general bulk mail. Additionally, the Republican Party recieved a rubber banded stack of returned-to-sender stamped pro-sanchez mailouts, almost all of them from the same street in succession from house to house by address.

II. Danburg letter draws criticism in Austin, possible subject of future inquiry and investigation - As I reported earlier, Brown supporting democrat state rep. Debra Danburg sent out a letter to Republican election judges shortly before the runoff. The letter, which was mailed on State of Texas Elections Committee stationary, contained intimidating threats of felony prosecutions against the recipients. The threats were said to apply if the election judge did not precisely follow a highly questionable misinterpretation of an election procedure that was outlined in the letter. The misinterpreted law was intentionally misconstrued by Danburg so as to more easily facilitate non-credentialed and unregistered democrat voters to cast votes anyway. It's a little early at this point, but the House of Representatives Election Commission and state legislature's GOP leadership has all been notified of the Danburg letter. I can say as of now, we have already recieved angry responses from some of the state representatives we notified. One was particularly angry about Danburg's use of house elections committee stationary to mail the letter. Additional concerns by the representatives have been voiced about Danburg's bolding and/or underlining of the threats of felony prosecution in the letter, as well as the questionable interpretation of the law that she gives. Currently, I am encouraging Republicans who recieved the letter to contact a select lit of state representatives to voice their concerns and complaints as this seems to have gotten their attention. It is too early to say what will come of this and at present I regret that again I must be vague on the details of what is occurring, but I am confident that an issue can be made of this.

III. DEMOCRAT COUNTY CHAIRWOMAN (FORT BEND) OPENLY ENDORSES CRIMINAL ACTIVITY IN THE POLLING PLACE:

Fort Bend Democrat Chair Felicia Farrar recently registered a highly publicized complaint to the U.S. Justice Department alleging "voter intimidation" in the recent Houston mayoral elections. Among the things Farrar listed as "intimidation" was the fact that the Fort Bend County Elections Administrator showed up to bring more supplies to a polling place - she called that "snooping intimidation" because he dared to correct an election worker who was violating election procedures while he was there.

Farrar's most glaring accusation came in the form of a complaint against Sanchez poll watchers. At one Fort Bend precinct, a Sanchez poll watcher attempted to exercise his statutory right to observe the activities of election clerks as they signed in voters. The clerks responded by preventing the Sanchez poll watcher from sitting near the table where they were working...until a county official came by and corrected them.

Sure enough, Farrar shot her mouth off and accused the Sanchez worker of "intimidation" for wanting to sit behind a clerk and observe their activities. And of course, the county worker aided that "intimidation" by telling the democrat election judge to correct the situation. She continued by expressly asserting that the poll watcher's activity was "intimidating." She did not say exactly who it was "intimidating," but her comments indicated that she was not talking about the voters, but the CLERKS!

Farrar noted in her complaint, "That is intimidation, to have someone sitting behind you like that."

Only one problem for Farrar: to deny a poll watcher his statutory right to observe an election clerk signing in voters is a Class A Misdemeanor offense. The Texas Election Code makes this clear-

§ 33.061. Unlawfully Obstructing Watcher
(a) A person commits an offense if the person serves in an official capacity at a location at which the presence of watchers is authorized and knowingly prevents a watcher from observing an activity the watcher is entitled to observe.

(b) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.

Additionally, § 33.056 (a) makes it clear that the poll watcher is "entitled to sit or stand conveniently near the election officers conducting the observed activity"

In other words, Farrar advocated, defended, and attempted to legitimize the blatant perpetration of a criminal offense in her formal complaint to the U.S. Justice Department.

In addition, we have recieved multiple reports of incidents at the polling places as well as several incident reports from poll watchers. Among the incidents include reports of the same democrat voters returning many times throughout the day and voting under different names with different ID cards. Another reported one heavily black precinct in which he said persons were being allowed to vote after simply showing post-it notes with their names written on it as a form of identification. One voter reported seeing Brown literature taped inside the voting booth. Another reported that election workers were removing candidate literature left behind in the voting booth, as they are supposed to after every voter, except when that literature was from Brown, in which cases they were leaving it there.

Additional reports to follow. Please forward me any information you may have if you know about fraud or irregularities in the houston mayoral election. Also, if you are a republican PRECINCT CHAIR pr ELECTION WORKER who recieved the Danburg letter, please freepmail me ASAP

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