Posted on 10/18/2002 11:47:13 AM PDT by jpthomas
A KOTA Territory man is the first person to be charged with voter fraud this election.
Police say Lyle Nichols is charged with five counts of forgery of voter registration cards. Nichols is one of two brothers hired by the Native American Voter Registration Project.
They collected and submitted 226 registration cards. The Pennington County Auditor's office found that two of those newly registered voters were dead.
If convicted, Nichols could be sentenced to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine for each of the five felony counts.
Last week, accusations of voter registration fraud began to surface in several counties. Dead people had been registered, people were registered in counties other than where they live, and names were misspelled, signatures didnt match.
Throughout the state, there are massive voter registration drives being conducted by both political parties, tribal governments and national organizations. Nichols currently is the only person charged.
There is another voter fraud investigation involving a woman paid by the South Dakota Democratic Party to register people. Becky Red-Earth Villeda says she is innocent, that the accusations against her are an attempt to stop the registration of Native Americans. Red-Earth Villeda was fired after discrepancies were found in two applications she collected.
These folks are being caught because of the sparse population. Out here folks tend to know or at least have heard of the locals and it's easy to spot an imposter.
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You and I better be careful driving home tonight; we could end up voting for Ron Kirk.
Multiple times.
Wow! better drive safe there Texas Dog.. Worse yet, Sanchez.. I think I'll just stay home. LOL!
The guy was hired by a bunch of welfare recipients who are trying to manufacture votes for the DemonRats. You better believe that these welfare slugs are trying to keep the welfare benefits that those big bad Repubs want to take away. It's tough to work for a living when you're a raging alcoholic.
I agree with you, but it seems our people don't have the stomach for that kind of head on challenge, and even if they did, with all the Rats on the bench, what kind of chance do we really have of defeating their efforts? They have the courts, the media, and the ignorance of the masses in their favor and are not constrained by laws, ethics or truth.
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You and I better be careful driving home tonight; we could end up voting for Ron Kirk.
Multiple times.
47 posted on 10/18/02 4:26 PM Central by Texas dog
Hey Meek, let's both drive careful, okay? I can't stand Sanchez and Kirk. :)
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for that investigation either. In fact, I heard a report while I was in Colorado that these were some of HIS people running the operation.
Hint: if it had been Republicans, the media would be billing it as the top story on every network. Since that is not the case, then we can assume that it is Rats and therefore not "newsworthy."
It does seem that way doesn't it?
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