Jury Convicts Five in Federal Vote Fraud (Democrat Party Chairman Convicted for buying Votes)

AP Wire ^ | 6-29-2005 | AP Wire

[Thanatos]

Jury Convicts Five in Federal Vote Fraud

ASSOCIATED PRESS

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) - A federal jury Wednesday convicted the chairman of the city's Democratic Party and four others of scheming to buy votes with cash, cigarettes and liquor last November.

Prosecutors relied largely on secretly recorded audiotapes in which they say the accused could be heard talking about paying $5 per vote to get key Democrats elected.

Charles Powell Jr., 61, the city's Democratic Party chairman, was found guilty along with the city's former director of regulatory affairs and three others

[Finny]

Good point ....! And a scary one, too. Can't win for losin'.

[TC Rider]

Back in '72 I was at UK in Lexington, KY.

A friend in the dorm was the son of some local county politico. On election day he'd be driving around town in his Daddy's Cadillac with the back seat full of cases of half pints of whiskey.

Yes, Democrats.

[hometoroost]

Most excellent, thanks for the ping. I hope this is the first of many to come. Who cares about campaign finance if you cannot have honest elections.

[cookcounty]

Wait til this hits the nightly network news!!! </ sarcasm>

[cookcounty]

East St. Louis ILLINOIS. Is that SILENCE we are hearing from that Dynamo of Justice, the oh-so-honorable DICK DURBIN of downstate (his backyard) ILLINOIS?

[zeaal]

This just canNOT be. I am taken aback.

[GoodWithBarbarians JustForKaos]

"..Can't win for losin'."

We are winning! Radio and the internet are taking down the MSM! YES!

[weegee]

Michael Moore bought votes and encouraged others to do the same. There was no will to prosecute.

[weegee]

The story would only grow legs if that D had legs (get the picture? R)

[G-Man 1]

If they go to jail and when they get out, they will be relected as heros. If you don't believe it just remember judge alcee hastings. Convicted of bribery and now is a US Congressman.

[PGalt]

Outstanding post! Thanks.

Another in-your-face example of the anti-freedom, Democratic Crime Syndicate at work in The United States of America.

[DCPatriot]

If it was the OHIO GOP they (NYT) would be calling for impeachment of President Bush.

[dsc]

So...they *are* going to burn them at the stake on network TV, right?

[PetroniDE]

Bump.

[rface]

I am sure there won't be much airplay...I'll forward this to Limbaugh

[Steve_Seattle]

"Isn't t enough that the AP picked it up?"

Belated reply: No, because the AP picks up a lot of stuff that never finds its way into the evening news or the daily newspaper. Very few people monitor the AP wire; it's invisible unless the networks and newspapers pick it up and run with it.

[malia]

Didn't St Louis do the same in the 2000 election.

Bussed parishioners to vote, which was legal on the Sunday before election Tuesday, but went outside their district. Also buying of votes with cigs and money to the non registered.

[alessandrofiaschi]

Dems sell themselves cheap.

YES, they do!

[alessandrofiaschi]

RAT'S AMERICAN FLAG.

[stocksthatgoup]

I am Shocked! Shocked that gambling is going on in this casino!