[SmithL]

More info:

GUILTY PLEAS

Three former Shelby County poll workers have pleaded guilty to charges they faked votes to throw a 2005 state Senate election to Ophelia Ford.

Verline Mayo: Admitted to 10 felony counts, including illegal voting registration, false entries on election documents and official misconduct. Sentenced to 2 years' probation, $1,000 in fines and 200 hours of community service.

Gertrude Otteridge: Admitted to one felony count of voter fraud and one misdemeanor involving illegal registration. Sentenced to one year probation, $200 in fines and 100 hours of community service.

Mary McClatcher: Admitted to one felony count involving illegal registration and one misdemeanor. Sentenced to one year probation, $500 in fines and 50 hours of community service.

[SmithL]

Verline Mayo

Mary McClatcher

Gertrude Otteridge

[SmithL]

Showtime?

[PeterPrinciple]

She admitted to falling off a bar stool at Nashville’s Downtown Sheraton across from Legislative Plaza, saying the episode was triggered by her anemia and by “not eating.’’

The dog ate my paper......

[NonValueAdded]

In a rematch in last November's general election, Ford beat Roland in a landslide.

Well, the people in her district have spoken, post-fraud. They fully deserve her.

[Old Professer]

A key cultural component of this mess is the result of the rematch in the General Election where the vote was overwhelmingly for Ophelia; the public clearly showed its preference for “the Devil it knows...”

BTW, I believe she has missed more sessions than she has attended so far this year.

[WesternPacific]

The names of these three ladies, along with a pardon, will probably be included in the fine print of the revised Amnesty Bill. We do take care of our own, don't cha know.

[traditional1]

"there would be no evidence to the contrary"

Why is it now that in this country today, every time the statement above is made in relation to a crime that smells from the git-go, there's no denial of having done the crime, just the allusion to "no evidence" is available to PROVE the case?

Evidence seems to mysteriously disappear, such as Law Firm Billing records (for 2 years after subpoena), witnesses disappear (Jim McDougal, Vince Foster, etc.), and "there's no evidence to the contrary" is voiced in defense of the perps.....

[spinestein]

[”I think the public has a right to know exactly what went on,’’ Colton told The Commercial Appeal in a rare interview involving a case before him.]

Baloney. The public’s right to know ends where it interferes with the right of Democrats to be elected to public office, and if it takes vote fraud to stop the Republican juggernaut, then the end justifies the means.

[freekitty]

First mistake was not giving jail time to these felons.

[silver charm]

“.......don’t know what motivated Mayo, a longtime election official and Democratic Party activist to influence the others to commit fraud.”

Duh, they don’t know??? She’s a “long time democratic activist/election official. That explains it perfectly. IMO, more investigation would reveal that she has been throwing elections for years.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

The Democratic Party strongly supports full civic rights for Necro-Americans!!!!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

With felony voting fraud convictions on their records, they can't ever work the polls again, nor will they be able to get their voting rights restored.

They can still work the polls illegally. They didn't receive much punishment this time. Why would next time be any different?

[L.N. Smithee]

Prosecutors say there's no evidence that Ford or anyone else was involved in the plot that helped the Memphis Democrat eke out a 13-vote win over Republican challenger Terry Roland in a September 2005 special election for the vacant District 29 state senate seat.

"There is no indication that this involves some broader conspiracy to steal the election," said Dist. Atty. Gen. Bill Gibbons. "If it had gone to trial, there would be no evidence to the contrary."

Reports could not be confirmed that Gibbons then mumbled "Because I got rid of it all" under his breath.

[gogeo]

The senator told WMC-TV News last week that she suffers from chronic anemia. She admitted to falling off a bar stool at Nashville's Downtown Sheraton across from Legislative Plaza, saying the episode was triggered by her anemia and by "not eating...''

That happened to me once...now I make sure I have something to eat before I go out drinking.

[L.N. Smithee]

An addendum to my previous post: Out of habit, I just assumed that District Attorney General Bill Gibbons was a Democrat since his party was not mentioned in the context of the article. He's a Republican. But strangely enough, just over a year ago, a blog by a Shelby County Demo expressed outrage that Gibbons was being allowed to attend a fundraising event held by county Democrats.

Responded "autoegocrat" to the post:

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I've been look around [sic] at the political scene in other cities, and I have to say without hesitation that this is one of the most poltically [sic] depressing places anywhere in America outside of DC. The combination of apathetic incompetence and chummy corruption is more worthy of Hazzard County than Shelby County.

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Curiouser and curiouser.

[Nailbiter]

ping , Dem’s practice run leading up to 2008
Dead voting, hey this is not Chicago, how dare they