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Posted on 06/28/2021 11:11:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
A South Texas woman was arrested by the Texas Attorney General’s Office Wednesday on 26 counts of violating state election laws.
Monica Rene Mendez, 36, of Port Lavaca, was charged with three counts of illegal voting, seven counts of unlawful voter assistance, eight counts of returning marked ballots without consent and eight counts of election fraud, according to jail records.
Further details, including the jurisdiction, timing or specific nature of the alleged violations, as well as the number of ballots potentially affected, remained unclear Thursday.
As of Thursday morning, Mendez remained in custody at the Victoria County jail, where she is being held on $1,000 bond.
Chief Deputy Will Franklin of the Victoria County Sheriff’s Office referred questions about the charges to the Texas Attorney General’s Office, which did not immediately respond to an interview request Thursday morning.
Victoria County Elections Administrator Margetta Hill said she was not aware of any violations that had occurred locally during this past November’s election or the May 1 elections this year. Local officials and the Attorney General’s office would typically communicate in the event of any election integrity issues, Hill said.
“They would notify me, and I would notify them if I was having a problem also,” Hill said.
Franklin said the Attorney General’s Office conducted an interview with Mendez at the Victoria County Sheriff’s Office, but said he did not know where the alleged election violations occurred.
“The reason they obtained (the warrant) here is more likely because she’s a resident here,” he said.
Several types of violations constitute illegal voting under Texas law, including voting by non-eligible voters, voting multiple times by the same person, impersonating another voter, using another person’s ballot or knowingly marking another person’s ballot without their consent.
Illegal voting is a second-degree felony punishable by two to 20 years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine, according to state law. Attempted illegal voting is a state jail felony punishable by 180 days to two years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine.
Voters who have physical disabilities or language barriers are eligible to receive assistance in Texas. Unlawful voter assistance includes aiding voters ineligible to receive assistance, filling out a voter’s ballot in a way other than the way the voter directs, suggesting how the voter should vote while helping fill out their ballot or providing help to a voter who has not requested assistance.
Unlawful voter assistance is punishable by up to a year in jail and up to a $4,000 fine.
Since 2005, the Texas Attorney General’s Office has successfully prosecuted 534 election fraud offenses against 155 people, according to its website. There are 510 pending offenses statewide against 43 people, along with 386 active election fraud investigations.
This is just the tip of the taco.
Ji Bi Din
Trace the $.
Someone paid her to do it
We have a law abiding AG in Texas. That’s the difference. Ken Paxton.
Get a rope!
Cant be, everyone knows the 2020 elections were the most secure election in history. Bill Barr said there was no fraud.
Fact check: voter fraud does not exist.
Or something like that.
Who was the switch benefiting.
Is the accused the woman who was caught by project veritas bragging that she had manipulated/delivered 5000 ballots?
She is Far from the only one. Most of them get away with it.
I assume she is not a registered Republican or the media would have pointed it out and ran nationally with the story.
You have to peel the small potatoes to catch the chef.
This may sound like an insignificant incident but, they need to get this woman to squeal.
candidates allegedly paid the woman in the project veritas video
When Paxton became the AG, the left and their media went after him like a pack of hyenas. Within days of being sworn in.
$1,000 bond? For subverting our most sacred political right? Acts that come pretty close to or could be rightly called treason?
With the “delay” of results from Arizona and this to add to the thousands of times no one was held accountable, I declare here and now, if a miracle happens (and it will take a miracle) and someone, anyone, is actually held accountable for corruption in our voting system, in the Federal “law enforcement” agencies, among elected Democrats, Rinos or Democrat bureaucrats, in the IRS, etc., etc. etc. that day should henceforth be celebrated as a National Holiday, so it is said, so it is written, so it shall be done. Geeez.
Turn the table on the criminal democrats! All who are convicted of vote fraud need to be made an example of by sentencing each to max that the law allows. Vote fraud and election rigging laws should carry a “life in prison, no parole” so obviously those laws need to be changed ASAP. Heck, the democrats, like most hardcore communists want anyone who disagrees with them dead. We, the American patriot class, should offer them nothing less.
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