I feel safer just knowing Andy is on the case.
Posted on 11/24/2004 1:13:06 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
Talmadge Heflin Has Uncovered Widespread Illegal Voting, Including 32 Double Votes, in H.D.149
State Representative Talmadge Heflin will announce today at a 1pm press conference that he has “clear and convincing evidence” of “widespread illegal voting” in the race for State House District 149.
“What we found in our initial examination of the voting was shocking,” said Heflin. “You hear tales of such things in politics but hardly believe they could be true.
“We saw that more than 100 people came in from other counties and voted in District 149 and even were brazen enough to write down their actual address in official voting records. Voters admitted their home addresses were in places as far away as Denton County - 300 miles away,” said Heflin.
83% of the fraudulent out-of-county votes came from precincts won by Heflin opponent Hubert Vo.
Additionally, the Heflin campaign has thus far uncovered 32 voters who are shown to have voted twice in the election - once either by mail or via in person early voting, and then again in person on Election Day.
At the end of the initial count, Heflin trailed Vo by exactly 32 votes.
Andy Taylor, attorney for Representative Heflin, said “The evidence is disturbing but rock solid. It is rare to see so many voters vote illegally and then literally sign their name to it. They seemed to have no fear that what they were doing would be uncovered.”
Heflin has officially requested a full recount, and will push to have illegal voters removed from the count. Some of the problems may only be able to be remedied by an election contest.
Heflin filed papers to initiate said election contest today.
Nip it Andy! Nip it in the bud!
That would be Talmadge Heflin (R)
Even though I don't know anything about this race I'll take a wild guess and say Hubert Vo is a Democrat. I know, I'm really going out on a limb...
Just a couple of good ole' Texas boys having fun. That's how we play politics down here . . . even within the same party. The 28th Congressional District race may be settled, but the squabbling between Democrats Henry Cuellar and Ciro Rodriguez continued this week. At issue now is the vast number of constituent case files that Cuellar, the victor in the general election, wants from Rodriguez, who lost his re-election battle in the Democratic primary eight months ago. Rodriguez charged the Cuellar camp resorted to shenanigans when recounts in the March 9 primary overturned the congressman's victory and handed it to the challenger. Rodriguez has vowed to challenge Cuellar in the primary in 2006 to win back his seat. Cuellar, who defeated Republican lawyer Jim Hopson of Seguin Nov. 2, is preparing for his move to Washington and is calling on Rodriguez to hand over files on constituents served in the congressional district. In an interview, Cuellar acknowledged the transition is unlikely to be smooth and pointed to lack of cooperation from Rodriguez's office.
Gary Martin
San Antonio Express-News
Nov. 13, 2004
[He's a Republican but some of us have become very suspicious of him recently over allegations that he is using his political power to take a baby away from its mother because he and his wife want to raise the child as their own.]
That sounds like the plot of the only "Walker Texas Ranger" show that I saw(with Chuck Norris).
I feel safer just knowing Andy is on the case.
Come on, Man! You know that is a safe assumption!
Here's how you know the illegal votes were for the Democrat:
The article doesn't mention it. If the illegal votes had been for the Republican, the article would have said it at least once in every paragraph.
But we all know it was Barney who was the real law-and-order force in Mayberry.
In "Walker Texas Ranger" was the baby's mother an immigrant working in the home of the politician?
What is the status of the immigrant's child and Helfin attempts at adopting it? Has it been decided and if so who got the child?
I don't understand how they let these people vote or why they had to write down their address unless these were provisional ballots that were wrongly counted.
I don't know. Really didn't pay much attention or keep up with the story. I vaguely recall that the mother is African.
Yes she was an African immigrant..... I think it may still be in court. Heflin had a reasonable close call in 2002 when he won by only some 2000 votes against a Vietnamese paralegal who wasn't into politics as I understand it.
No....I think she was a runaway teenage mom that got involved with a corrupt adoption agency.
lol, yes that was something I would have bet the house on!
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