Posted on 10/27/2004 11:35:04 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
GALVESTON - A half-dozen Galveston County voters could face criminal charges if a grand jury decides they intended to cast more than one early election ballot and commit voter fraud, officials said.
Since early voting opened Oct. 18, daily checks indicated that six people might have voted twice as of Monday, said Galveston County Clerk Mary Ann Daigle.
District Attorney Kurt Sistrunk said the cases will be submitted to a grand jury and indictments will be issued if the jury believes voting fraud occurred.
Voting twice is a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison, Sistrunk said.
More than 30,000 people had filled out ballots in Galveston County by the time the early-voting locations closed for the day Tuesday, Daigle said. The county has 185,880 registered voters.
"With the mail-in ballots that have been returned, the total vote is 36,452 so far," Daigle said.
Daigle said her staff is scrambling to keep 16 early-voting locations supplied with ballots for all 101 voting precincts. Because of the large turnout, some voters have had to wait until more ballots were delivered or return to vote an hour or so later, Daigle said.
"It makes us look bad, but we're doing the best we can and we're moving as fast as we can," Daigle said.
Early voting ends at 7 p.m. Friday.
kevin.moran@chron.com
Oh yeah!
I'd love to see a few LONG sentences in a Texas prison handed out to fraudulent votors. Sets a great example.
THEY NEED TO BE MADE EXAMPLES OF WHAT HAPPENS WITH FRAUD !!!!!!!!!!!
I wonder what party they were from? (sarcasm)
"Voting twice is a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison, Sistrunk said."
I wonder how many people find this a worthwhile risk?
Maybe Ashcroft could do a little media event, concerning federal laws covering voter fraud. He is, after all, the sitting Chief Law Enforcement official.
Bet a lot of democrats don't realize that
He'll just be called a bigot. Maybe these people have multiple personalities--ya never know.
As O'Reilly might say,
Name and town
Name and town
Name and town
If you wish to opine/vote twice.
Then we'll be lookin' you up.
Since the party they voted for wasn't mentioned in the article AT ALL, my wild guess would be Dem.
APf
Yes! I don't think they do.
I think they NEED to know!
Idiots. Texas isn't exactly a swing state... Did they really think a few people voting a few extra times would be enough to give the state to Kerry?
"We'll hang 'em tomorrow right after the trial!"
Dean Martin in ROUGH NIGHT IN JERICO
A half-dozen Galveston County voters could face criminal charges
That says it all for me. COULD/MAY face charges? It's a felony! Put these bastards away! They are STEALING the votes of all the rest of us who are LEGAL voters, not felons, not yet DEAD, and only voting ONCE!
I'm tired of going through this but one more time..
Early voting makes it easy for working stiffs (Republicans) to get to the polls. We've had it in Texas for ages and it's one of the leading reasons that this is now an ALL Republican state. We love it here. Try it, you'll like it too. There is clearly a lot more Republicans who benefit than Democrats who might cheat. When legal votes are greatly increased (by early voting) the fraudulent votes become more diluted and less effective.
Period!
I hope they throw the book at them.
I wish they could be nailed that way.
It'd be funny if the dems end up voting an average of 87 times for some third party characters by mistake. All we need is some Democrat county officials to program the machines in such a way that the average Dem numbnut voter finds it as confusing as they claimed the FL 2000 election was.
Absolutely, lock em' up and throw away the key. Peggy Noonan voter fraud should be a class 1 felony instead of a class 5 felony.
If not him (that might be "intimidating"), there should be an annoucement to the MSM!
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