Posted on 10/21/2008 12:23:01 AM PDT by trumandogz
The first day of early voting in Texas was only a few hours old when the Travis County Clerk says a man tried to feed some voters a line of baloney at a south Austin early voting location.
"He was asking voters 'ok, who are you supporting', and then if they said they were supporting one particular candidate, he then repeated false information about how to express a vote for that candidate," says Dana DeBeauvoir, County Clerk.
She says witnesses describe the man as in his late-30s, clean-cut, well-dressed and appeared professional. DeBeauvoir says he was telling voters who planned to vote straight-ticket to then proceed to the candidate's name and vote again. DeBeauvoir says that would actually negate their vote.
She says the man was challenged by the polling judge.
"He was trying to hand out this bad information. He had just started this conversation, apparently, and the judge inside the election place overheard the improper conversation," DeBeauvoir said. "He turned and fled the polling place and got into a dark red, looked like an old Impala, kind of a boxy car. It was covered in McCain and other kinds of bumper stickers.
"I'm not a lawyer, but I can think of about three or four crimes that this guy committed. I mean, he impersonated a voter, impersonated an election official, he was electioneering within the hundred-foot mark and I'm not sure what all this misinformation accounts for," DeBeauvoir says.
She recommends voters report any suspicious activity like that to poll workers immediately and try to get the license plate number of someone as they are leaving so police can track them down later.
(hear KLBJ's Jarrod Allen's interview with Dana DeBeauvoir below)
Not the same thing...but this caught my eye the other day:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/straightticket.asp
oh sure......right out of their handbook......massive fraud in many states but be sure to make one obvious fraud attempt become the focus of the campaign .....like the outright lie about “kill him” in Scranton......
Well, I hope this individual is tracked down, if this actually happened.
There’s something about the only “identifier” being McCain stickers on the guy’s car that makes the story stinky.
That and the blinking “I AM A MCCAIN VOTER...NO REALLY” neon sign floating over the car.
“It was covered in McCain and other kinds of bumper stickers.”
But yet, they did not get a plate number. Hmm.
BTW, you have a habit of trolling FR and consistently posting this kind of dubious liberal AgiProp for some time.
If we are not dealing with a mentally unstable person here, then this does not pass the smell test. I think we are going to see a lot of these stories to negate the negative press Obama and ACORN (although fewer than there should be) are getting.
LOL, yeah like anybody is worried about Obama taking Texas!
That’s good because I left the pres. slot blank when I voted yesterday.
The entire story sounds fishy. On the Eslate machine that we use in Harris County, TX, if you punch the “straight ticket” button and then punch the individual candidate of the party you selected, it does NOT negate your vote. Methinks the reporter is confused...or is trying to confuse the reader.
Around here the cars covered in bumper stickers are typically liberal (”coexist”, “appalled”, “end of an error”). The McCain stickers are (from what I’ve seen) on larger, more expensive cars. It would be nice if they could get to the bottom of this.
Well, KLBJ was once owned by the Johnson family but is now owned by Emmis.
As far as can tell, they are Austin’s only conservative news outlet with an in-house news team and the home to Rush Limbaugh.
KLBJ is still slanted left - just not as bad as the rest of Austin. Kind of like the least slutty whore, not a ringing endorsement.
They run Rush because he gets listeners, thus advertising $$. I’m sure the KLBJ staff enjoys running obnoxious news articles, opinion pieces and PSAs around and during Rush’s commercial breaks. The Houston station does the same thing.
I don’t believe this story.This is a BS article trying to take the heat off of Acorn. This makes the second attempt in two days to say a Republican committed voter fraud, a feeble attempt to project voter fraud onto Republicans.
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