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To: hanamizu
......‘ballot harvesting’ reminded of a similar scenario—cheating on standardized tests by school staff. A big scandal erupted in Georgia where the ‘award-winning’ superintendent put pressure on principals to make sure their schools scored well on state-mandated tests. The principals then put pressure on teachers to have parties where they would gather to change students’ answers to correct ones.......

Good point....there were huge repercussions to that school scenario.

REFERENCE The 1980 Georgia General Assembly was concerned about the increasing sophistication of various criminal elements on the public payroll (and those in elective and appointive office). The Georgia General Assembly then adopted the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), patterned after a similar federal law. (RICO is routinely used to try to prove that a legal business was being used for illegal means, and, in at its inception, RICO was used to prosecute drug traffickers or organized crime members).

In recent years prosecutors have applied RICO to crooked government officials: (1) those accused of using their public offices for personal gain, and, (2) tax-paid officials of govt agencies using public monies to flout the law.

To bring a case under Georgia's RICO law, there must be at least two underlying felonies such as fraud, bribery, witness tampering (among other felonies). RICO allows prosecutors to include multiple defendants charged with various crimes in the blanket indictment, and to charge that govt employees, publicly-funded and publicly-sanctioned entities were allegedly part of an ongoing criminal enterprise.

EXAMPLE A govt official commits two felonies by (1) accepting, and, (2) filing falsified documents.

UPDATE Georgia tried convicted and jailed 27 corrupt teachers under this law.....for falsely taking public money, falsifying official school records, and so on.

13 posted on 12/07/2018 7:10:56 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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Conniving Democrats’ are on the attack.

When Republicans lose they graciously concede and the race is over.

When predatory Democrats lose, the mobilize the heavy artillery —— their heavy duty voter fraud tanks-—
they roll over anyone standing in their way until the seat is in their hands.


As FReeper KNARF insightfully posted: I haven’t seen “the Democrat party” as a political arm in a long time.
All we’ve been subjected to is gauntlet after gauntlet thrown down.......
they’re an aggressive army challenging a peaceful nation....a nation they despise.


Democrats abandoned their role in the two-party system of checks and balances.
Democrats have morphed into an invading army......trailed by a bunch of camp followers.


14 posted on 12/07/2018 7:13:03 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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