I'm amazed the lengths the Seattle media will go to in order to protect Gregoire's butt.
Forging a ballot is illegal, period.
I admire his sentimentality, but yes, it's both a scam and illegal.
Cheating old folks out of their life savings isn't always a scam. My dear departed parents always hoped that I would become rich. By bilking the elderly, I am merely going with their last wishes.
In Indiana it's legal to vote if you are dead, if you have a valid drivers license and walk in to the voting booth. Due to voter record purging they labeled some people as dead who were quite alive.
Once she died, she lost her right to vote. Sorry, dude. She also can't collect Social Security.
Gogol's DEAD SOULS had to do with buying the souls of dead Russian serfs. A tax scam as I recall.
Bob Holmgren said yesterday that he voted on behalf of his late wife, Charlette Holmgren, who died Sept. 29. The West Seattle man filled out his own ballot and hers, and signed both of them.
"Her vote was important to her," Holmgren said. "She was very strongly against Governor-elect Gregoire." Election officials said all signatures on absentee ballots were doubled-checked against the signature on record.
I don't claim that Republicans are saints who would never, ever, ever cheat, but this guy sure talks like a Democrat.
Or: Voting for dead people is always illegal.
Guess it depends on which side of the fraud you're on.
But forging a signature on a ballot is, which should make the ballot invalid and the perp should be charged, period.
The bottom line is that if Rossi had won, the press would have a radically different perspective on what constitutes voter fraud. There are laws against signing other peoples' names on official documents. Period.
The temptation results from all the boons and banes that government hands out. If the handouts were eliminated, the temptation would evaporate. Ergo, the love of government is the root of [much] evil.
The Democratic Party fully supports the Civil Rights of Necro-Americans!
You know this article is part of the cover-up when they use what is probably the only example in the state of someone casting an illegal vote for Rossi/Bush as their lead-in. How much do you want to bet that they had to check around a lot before they found this guy?
Typical Dem attitude - wait years and years for the government to do something that you should take responsibility for yourself.
Not a good example in there. My grandmother almost voted dead though, right after she sent in her absentee ballot she got really sick, was in the hospital during the election. It can happen legitimately, but it's probably pretty rare.
Last I looked, one of the prerequisites for voting is that the voter be breathing (i.e.: alive)
I love it----talk about taking the 'intent' of the voter to the extreme.
*geez*
I worked the Republican telephone banks for several months here in Oregon before the election. Oregon is a one hundred percent vote-by-mail state. I lost count of the people I asked for to be told they had been dead for quite some time. At least twenty percent had moved, but were still on the voter rolls. Others I called at their listed out-of-state phone number had been living in the other states for some time. Some said they were voting in the other state and wanted to know what to do with the Oregon ballot. Some people I called had listed a cell phone number with out-of-state prefixes.
I spent the last week of the election every day going door to door to remind people to vote and also picking up votes to deliver to the county election office. I was assigned to precincts that had large assisted living facilities and elder care homes. Several people at those facilities told me their son, daughter, or grandchild had their ballots. Several said they didn't know if they received their ballots, but they were listed as voting in every recent election. People told me their children were at college in a different county and had received a ballot at each address. They asked what to do with the extra ballot. Several people told me the person I was looking for was their child who lived in another state and was voting there, but they still got the Oregon ballots at their parent’s address. Every requested absentee ballot in our county was followed by a second ballot this election by mistake. There is no statewide database of voters so you could potentially get a vote-by-mail ballot in each county. I believe Oregon’s vote-by-mail system provides for massive voter fraud.
I believe that there should be a national voter database. I agree with the DemocRats when they say every vote should count. Where we disagree is every vote should be validated and should only count once.