Posted on 03/10/2012 6:53:40 PM PST by Redcat
As the sheriff of Lincoln County, W.Va., Jerry Bowman is sworn to uphold the law. But the 58-year-old law enforcement veteran stood in a federal courtroom in Charleston on Wednesday and pleaded guilty in a shocking voter fraud case that has stripped him of his job and could send him to prison for a decade.
Prosecutors say Bowman and former Lincoln County Clerk Donald Whitten, 62, were part of a scheme to steal the May 2010 Democratic primary by stuffing ballot boxes with illegal absentee ballots.
Bowman admitted to falsifying more than 100 of the absentee ballot applications and even voting with some of the ballots himself, while Whitten, who also pleaded guilty Wednesday, acknowledged lying to investigators about the plan to try to throw the election.
"It makes you mad," said Charles Brumfield, who ran against Bowman for Lincoln County circuit clerk, about having the election stolen from him. "It was hurtful. You just didn't think that would happen in today's society."
Brumfield told Fox News that on election night, he was ahead by about 235 votes. That is, until additional batches of absentee ballots started mysteriously appearing, repeatedly, throughout the evening.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
And when it happens to Republicans, the MSM just says 'move along, nothing to see here'.
In 2001 I heard Democrat college students ADMIT to double voting and they defended it saying they “...just knew Bush would steal the election!”.
Why do we let New Hampshire, which almost never goes Republican in the general election, launch the GOP primaries when we need better candidate support in the battleground states of Ohio and Florida?
Yep - they do it to themselves and that is the only time they will be prosecuted for it. If they do it against Repubs, it's part of the "all is fair..." doctrine.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.