Posted on 04/08/2010 6:38:48 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
MATHIS, Texas --- South Texas is rife with agents from local political camps who prosper by organizing mail-in ballot fraud, elections administrators and other observers in the region say, even after a state-level push to curb the wrongdoing.
The office of state Attorney General Greg Abbott has several open investigations into the practice of shepherding mail-in ballots, mostly in the name of elderly voters. But perpetrators leave a sparse paper trail, election officials say, and the potential five-figure earnings for local operatives far outweigh any punishment levied for committing fraud, typically a misdemeanor.
“It’s a racket,” said Nicole Perez, general manager of the Alice Echo-News Journal, a daily newspaper that has chronicled voting malfeasance in the region for years. A canvasser can earn as much as $30,000 during a political season, Perez said, by walking elderly and infirm voters through the mail-in ballot process, coaching their vote for the favored candidate and helping those voters sign, seal and deliver that ballot.
Perez led her newsroom in a 2008 investigation of checking each mail-in ballot in two counties, lining up the signature on file for each voter with the signatures on the request form and return form for the mail-in ballot.
The newspaper found numerous inconsistencies in the voting process for the March 2008 primary in Jim Wells County. Findings included unaccounted for mail-in ballots; duplicate, and in some cases, triplicate, mail-in ballot applications for one person; and some applications that cited disability as the reason for voting by mail when the voter had no disability.
The newspaper's stories coincided with a state AG's investigation, but despite the newspaper's interviews and documentation of seemingly blatant abuses of the voting process, only three minor charges have been filed so far.
(Excerpt) Read more at texaswatchdog.org ...
Is that how it’s done in Mexifornia?;^)
I could ask my Father, but I don’t know. I’m 52 and was in elementary school back then. He was a Baptist Deacon and a 32nd Degree Mason in Freer, but I don’t remember anything about the freedom party.
I do remember talk about Parr’s Duval County Sheriff’s Deputies getting in a running gun fight with the Freer Police and local men. Parr’s Deputies were not allowed in Freer.
I also remember a story where as revenge for trying to unseat Parr and get him jailed, he and his Deputy henchmen kidnapped daughters of some of the Freer ringleaders and turned them out in one of his brothels. After several tries and some time finding them, the girls were rescued.
Judge Parr was hated by many…
Ping!
I noticed that El Paso County is not on the map. I think it is oficially part of Mexico now.
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