And there's no end to those who have no conscience about committing fraud.....and there'll be no end, as you've said Lion, with this kind of "punishment": "hand-slapping" or telling them "no, no, don't do that."
Six candidates in the May primary in East Chicago, including mayoral challenger George Pabey, are alleging widespread vote fraud in the city.
They want a judge to impound more than 1,600 absentee ballot applications that have been received so far by county election officials.
The allegations and the request for a preliminary injunction were filed Monday in a lawsuit in Lake Superior Court in Crown Point.
The lawsuit attempts to strike at the heart of the city’s Democratic machine headed by Mayor Robert Pastrick by listing allegations of pressure tactics used to force city employees and their families to vote for him to keep their jobs.
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The lawsuit lists a litany of allegations relating to potential voter fraud including:
Valdez requesting and collecting absentee ballots from city employees and many new hires in the city;
Callas, who holds three jobs in the city, is listed as the coordinator of the absentee ballot process for the “machine”;
Paying money to the homeless and drug addicted to cast false votes; as well as collecting votes from non-residents, non-citizens, the dead and nursing home residents.
The lawsuit even lists an attempt to sign up a special education student at East Chicago Central High School for an absentee ballot.
The student’s mother, Gilda Orange, says the candidates will stop at nothing to win. “It’s just amazing to me the lengths these people will go to. I'm really upset,” Orange said of the recent attempt. “Don’t abuse the handicapped children.”
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