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Workers Are Sentenced in Vote Fraud Case
AP via Yahoo! News ^
| 01/30/2006
| Jim Suhr
Posted on 01/30/2006 11:01:59 AM PST by GeneD
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - A former Democratic election worker in this impoverished city was sentenced Monday to a year and a half in federal prison for scheming to buy votes in the November 2004 election. A City Hall volunteer also accused in the scheme was given probation.
U.S. District Judge G. Patrick Murphy said the case reflected an American election process "under attack" by fraud.
Former precinct committee member Sheila Thomas and her attorney, Paul Sims, declined to comment after the sentencing. Yvette Johnson told reporters: "I'm just glad that it's over."
The two were convicted last year of felony conspiracy to commit vote fraud, along with a local Democratic Party chairman, a former city official and another precinct worker who are expected to be sentenced in February.
Prosecutors said the defendants schemed to buy votes with cash, cigarettes and liquor. Their case rested largely on secretly recorded audiotapes in which the defendants could be heard talking about paying $2, $5 or more per vote to get key Democrats elected in East St. Louis.
The city of 31,500 people, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, became one of the nation's poorest cities with the decline of its smokestack factories and the exodus of whites in the 1960s. Its schools were broke for years and the deed to City Hall once went to a man to cover a multimillion-dollar judgment over a jail beating.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: democrats; govwatch
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posted on
01/30/2006 11:02:02 AM PST
by
GeneD
To: GeneD
year and a half...just in time for the 2008 next election when theyll be needed again.
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posted on
01/30/2006 11:03:22 AM PST
by
wallcrawlr
(http://www.bionicear.com)
To: GeneD
Dems cheating? say it isn't so????
It's amazing how a party that claims the American people are behind them, has to cheat to get votes...
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posted on
01/30/2006 11:03:32 AM PST
by
fhlh
(Polls are for strippers and liberal spinsters.)
To: GeneD
We need a few more prosecutions like this one.
To: GeneD
Its schools were broke for years What kind of English do perfessional jernilists get away with nowadays?
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posted on
01/30/2006 11:03:52 AM PST
by
atomicpossum
(Replies must follow approved guidelines or you will be kill-filed without appeal.)
To: GeneD
DEMOCRAT CULTURE OF CURRUPTION
To: martin_fierro
CURRUPTION = CORRUPTION
feh.
< |:P~
To: GeneD
City Hall volunteer also accused in the scheme was given probation. Not even a wrist slap...more like a gentle wrist pat.
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posted on
01/30/2006 11:06:30 AM PST
by
ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
To: GeneD
These wouldn't all be "Democrats" would they?
Nah,....couldn't happen, The Demo-crits wouldn't engage in voting fraud would they? They believe in "Democracy". They wouldn't lie, cheat or steal.
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posted on
01/30/2006 11:06:34 AM PST
by
garyhope
(Happy, healthy, prosperous New Year to all good Freepers and our brave military.)
To: atomicpossum
What kind of English do perfessional jernilists get away with nowadays?If they were any worse they could become pblik skul techurs.
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posted on
01/30/2006 11:07:05 AM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(Peace Begins in the Womb)
To: GeneD
This must be what Harry Reid is talking about when he brings up "A Culture of Corruption".
To: GeneD
A former Democratic election worker in this impoverished city was sentenced Monday to a year and a half in federal prison for scheming to buy votes in the November 2004 election.Well... what the heck does living in an impoverished city have to do with the story? Huh? What if the culprit lived in Palm Beach? Acquittal? Forgiveness? Talk about editorializing. ('Course, I would have expected living in an impoverished city would have been a reason for acquittal. /sarcasm)
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posted on
01/30/2006 11:09:35 AM PST
by
fuquadukie
(If you can't hang with the big dogs, then don't jump off the porch.)
To: GeneD
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - ... this impoverished city ... became one of the nation's poorest cities with the decline of its smokestack factories and the exodus of whites in the 1960s.What about the strip joints? In my wasted youth, a bunch of us would roadtrip to a Cardinals game or two, always spending at least one night in E. St. Louis. "A stunning display of beauty" we used to call it.
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posted on
01/30/2006 11:16:36 AM PST
by
newgeezer
(James 1:2-3)
To: fuquadukie
You wouldn't see Hamas doing this.
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posted on
01/30/2006 11:16:53 AM PST
by
massgopguy
(massgopguy)
To: fuquadukie
in this impoverished city that people like us helped create with our liberal idiocy, jackass policies,re-electing corrupt politicians and wrist slappin',monkey-spankin' judges.
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posted on
01/30/2006 11:17:13 AM PST
by
Rakkasan1
(Peace de Resistance! Viva la Paper towels!)
To: GeneD
They ought to have written.......morally impoverished.....
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posted on
01/30/2006 11:17:31 AM PST
by
OldFriend
(The Dems enABLEd DANGER and 3,000 Americans died.)
To: fuquadukie
To: atomicpossum
Okay, I give up. What's wrong with, "Its schools were broke for years"?
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posted on
01/30/2006 11:19:07 AM PST
by
newgeezer
(James 1:2-3)
To: albertp; Allosaurs_r_us; Abram; AlexandriaDuke; Americanwolf; Annie03; Baby Bear; bassmaner; ...
Libertarian ping.To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here
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posted on
01/30/2006 11:19:49 AM PST
by
freepatriot32
(Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)
To: GeneD
Oh come on, we all know the Republicans stole the 2004 elections....
</sarcasm>
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posted on
01/30/2006 11:21:52 AM PST
by
Kidan
(Tolerance is the virtue of a man without convictions - G.K. Chesterton)
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