Posted on 09/24/2020 6:45:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Four people in Texas including a county commissioner were charged with felonies Thursday in an alleged ballot-harvesting scheme, while the Justice Department opened an investigation into discarded mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania.
The developments came as President Trump voiced renewed concerns about the potential for fraud in widespread mail-in voting in the presidential election.
“We have to be very careful with the ballots,” Mr. Trump said. “That’s a whole big scam.”
Texas officials announced charges in what they called a vote-harvesting scheme during the state’s 2018 primary election, accusing four people of arranging to have people mailed absentee ballots even though they didn’t qualify.
In at least one instance the schemers actually cast a ballot on behalf of a voter, while other times they encouraged them to claim to have a disability — or marked the disability box themselves — to make sure the voters were sent an absentee ballot, according to a lengthy indictment.
To vote by mail in Texas, a voter must be 65 years of age or have a disability. The voters in question were young and did not have a disability, Attorney General Ken Paxton said.
The scheme helped Gregg County Commissioner Shannon Brown win the Democratic primary for his seat by expanding the pool of absentee voters.
He would win the primary by 1,047 to 1,042 over Kasha Williams, in part by winning 73.4% of absentee mail ballots, the Longview News Journal reported in 2018.
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Of course the FBI would downplay it, they are still an arm of the DNC.
FBI COVERUP — Not unexpected!
From the same agency that insists that white supremacists are a greater threat than Antifa and BLM.
The FBI has zero credibility.
This is the same FBI that tried to coup President Trump.
The FBI has been politicalized for Democrats.
I noticed that the Libs are quoting the FBI in order to down play it. DOJ needs to get them in line.
Trump hasn’t handled FBI well when it comes to personnel. Wray should have been kicked to the curb months/years ago. These kinds of problems that threaten his re-election are partially his fault.
Wray and his ilk at the top are running cover for the communists. He and his ilk should have been replaced long ago.
They are the swamp
It is Pennsylvania & Texas, not Pennsylvania, Texas...no such place.
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If you’re surprised by this, you haven’t been paying attention for the last 12 years or so.
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But there is an East Texas, PA.
Commas are hard.
Wray is one busy little rat.
Blithering FBI
Deception again
“Of course the FBI would downplay it, they are still an arm of the DNC.”
They’re probably helping facilitate election fraud.
When will we ever find Democrat ballots thrown in a dumpster?
The Postal Union- that’s your door to door mail men and those who sort the mail- has had incidences in the past, quite a few actually, of dumping mail in the gargage or into rivers or otherwise disposing of it because the carriers thought it too burdensome. Politically motivated postmen would happily dump identifiable ballots from Republican neighborhoods or reroute them to the Democrat Party HQ for further processing. The mail in vote count will certainly go heavily for Biden or that portion of it allowed to reach its destination will.
My hope and prayer is that if President Trump wins this November, which I trully feel he will do, that he will fire and close down everyone involved in the current FBI and rebuild it with integrity.
And there is a Keith’s Texas Barbeque in Dorchester, Massachussets but it is boiled meat on a hogie.
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