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Posted on 09/13/2007 9:12:07 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Officials involved in a joint federal-state probe say that some of the dozens of people under investigation in a months-long Bexar County voter fraud case may be charged with both state and federal crimes.
Federal investigators are to meet this week with local prosecutors to coordinate the cases being developed and determine who'll face state felony charges for voting illegally and who will be deported for violating federal immigration law.
No arrests have yet been made.
Authorities said they are anticipating charging some of the undocumented people alleged to have voted in Bexar County with felony violation of state law before they are turned over to immigration agents and likely deported.
As the federal portion of the investigation begun in late May winds down, Bexar County District Attorney Susan Reed will determine how she'll proceed in the case of the 41 people who allegedly voted, some repeatedly, despite being non-citizens.
Reed's office will determine who will be charged with felony offenses after a meeting between Homeland Security Department investigators from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Adriana Biggs, Reed's white-collar crime division chief.
"The joint federal-state strategy will likely be that (Bexar County) pursues felony voter fraud charges, while the parallel federal investigation will focus on violations related to identity theft, re-entry after deportation and other violations of (federal) immigration law," ICE spokeswoman Nina Pruneda said Tuesday.
She said it appears likely that some of the investigation's targets will be prosecuted in state court on voter fraud charges before facing an immigration law judge in deportation proceedings.
"They have not shown me what the results of their investigation reveals," Biggs said, referring to ICE's ongoing probe. "Once we have determined who is a citizen and who is not, then we'll proceed with looking at filing state charges."
The investigation was launched after Bexar County Elections Administrator Jacque Callanen apparently discovered that undocumented immigrants had voted, some several times, in more than a dozen local, state and federal elections between 2001 and early 2007.
She said it didn't appear the illegal voting influenced an election's outcome.
Callanen earlier this year was updating the county's list of eligible voters when she discovered some 330 people who should not have been on the rolls because they weren't citizens.
Callanen compiled the list of names after she determined that they had stated on juror summons cards that they should be excused because they weren't citizens.
Pruneda said her agency will process those found to be illegally in the country for deportation hearings, an administrative proceeding.
Saying the probe was ongoing, Pruneda would not comment on substantive issues in the investigation, such as how many people have been interviewed by federal agents or when the federal portion of the investigation would end.
"We are looking at a big pie," Biggs said. "We are going to be carving out state offenses and determining how to proceed, while the feds will carve out their portion of the pie related to immigration law."
Biggs said the DA's investigators also would seek to determine whether those people who said on the jury summons that they were not U.S. citizens were just seeking to duck jury duty. Citizens who attempt to mislead authorities by claiming they are non-citizens could face charges of lying on a government document, she said.
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ggarcia@express-news.net
Adios, Texas!
Vote fraud should be a capital offense.
Senors Boosh and Peeery are not concerned.
And this is more serious than illegal aliens posing as citizens to vote?
When I got my jury questionaire, it asked if there was any physical or mental condition which should exclude me from jury duty. Under physical, I checked "no"-- even a semi-cripple can make it to the courthouse. However, under mental, I checked "yes" and, in the explanation blank, I wrote "too intelligent". No brag, just fact.
Now, how do you get on the voter rolls and jury pool list?
Can you say “stolen SS number”?
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WE need to see these cases followed through, prosecuted to the max and high publicity so that future 'voters' will think twice about risking it.
I betcha some of these folk could be coerced into ratting out the people who coached them into voting - that would be hitting at the head of the cobra
I hope they FOLLOW THE MONEY TO SEE WHO PAID THE ILLEGALS TO VOTE. Very few illegals will take a risk like that for free.
ACORN comes to mind.
Vote fraud in Texas!
Women and minorities hardest hit.
There, I feel better now.
Anybody want a copy of my report from the 2000 election? Its six pages of detailed notes that show how easy it is to commit vote fraud. They used every trick in the book. I think I prevented at least 100 fraudulent votes out of 850 cast in that precinct. Just freepmail me for a copy in Word.
They should be taking a really close look at the person (or persons) who registered these illegal aliens to vote.
What risk? Nothing will be done to them.
The libs are licking their chops and drooling to eat this country alive. The pie is getting bigger everyday; voter fraud that will keep them in power for the next 50 years.
That will surely happen if we let them, of course.
>>>>I think I prevented at least 100 fraudulent votes out of 850 cast in that precinct.
Bump! Thank you.
>>>Anybody want a copy of my report from the 2000 election? Its six pages of detailed notes that show how easy it is to commit vote fraud.
Did you ever send that info to feedback@electionline.org?
http://www.electionline.org/ResourceLibrary/ElectionReformReports/tabid/91/Default.aspx
They are part of Help America Vote.
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