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Finally!In October Project Veritas released a bombshell undercover video of a Texas “Republican” consultant violating both Texas and federal laws.Raquel Rodriguez, a consultant for GOP House candidate Mauro Garza was caught on camera coercing and bribing voters into voting Democrat.Rodriguez is seen on camera taking the ballot from the voter and helping her fill it out.Later on, Rodriguez admits that what she is doing is illegal and brags about giving the elderly voter a pretty shawl as a gift for her Democrat vote!“That’s illegal. I could go to jail,” Rodriguez tells a Project Veritas undercover journalist. “If I go to...

Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher reports voter intimidation in Harris County, Texas (Houston) by volunteer poll watchers trained by King Street Patriots, a local non-partisan group who started the True The Vote campaign. Tommy leads with this inflammatory paragraph saying: In a story that’s sure to draw comparisons to the New Black Panther Party member who brandished a nightstick at a Philadelphia polling place in 2008, a Tea Party group called the King Street Patriots has been accused of “1960s style” voter intimidation in primarily minority precincts on the first day of early voting in Texas. The group is being sued by...

Burglars took two computers and other equipment during a break-in at an early voting station in northeast Houston, but appeared to have left electronic voting machines untouched, Harris County Clerk Beverly Kaufman said Monday. A skeptic of voting machine security said the break-in underscores how vulnerable the county's electronic ballots are to tampering. “It's very easy to do this in a surreptitious fashion. No tooling required, no screwdrivers, nothing fancy,” said Dan Wallach, a computer science professor at Rice University who was hired by the state of California to study the same Hart Intercivic machines used by Harris County. “If...

Click2Houston.com Related To Story UPDATED: 9:08 am CDT October 10, 2008 HOUSTON -- Note: The following story is a verbatim transcript of an Investigators story that aired on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2008, on KPRC Local 2 at 10 p.m. Local 2 investigates dead voters. The push to register voters for this year's presidential election is breaking records. More than 1.9 million people are registered to vote in Harris County alone. But how many of the people listed on the voter roll are actually eligible to cast a ballot? Investigative reporter Amy Davis shows you how hundreds of voters could sway...

Texas AG office is investigating fraud allegations Allegations of voter fraud and a poorly administered primary election in Jim Wells County played a part in dual rulings Monday from District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos calling for a new election to pick a Precinct 1 justice of the peace and Precinct 3 county commissioner. It was unclear Monday when the new election will take place. After Alice Mayor Juan Rodriguez lost his race for justice of the peace by nine votes to pharmacist and former Jim Wells County Democratic Party Chair Guadalupe "Lupe" Martinez and 14-year incumbent Oswald "Wally" Alanis lost...

SCOTT REESE WILLEY The Progress Karnes County attorney and rancher Eric Opiela said he has presented evidence to a special committee of state lawmakers on Friday showing that more than 1,700 fraudulent ballots were cast in the Nov. 2 general election in Jim Wells and Bee counties. In addition, he added, a precinct by precinct mathematical analysis of the illegal votes show that when the fraudulent ballots are deducted from the vote totals, Opiela won the race for State Rep. District 35 by 110 votes. District 35 includes Atascosa, Bee, Goliad, Jim Wells, Karnes, Live Oak and McMullen counties. “The...

Heflin petitions for ballot recount Campaign also alleges fraud, has until Wednesday to contest election ------------------------------------------ State Rep. Talmadge Heflin is seeking a manual recount of all ballots cast earlier this month in his unsuccessful bid for a 12th term in the Legislature, his lawyer said Monday. The lawyer, Andy Taylor, also said the campaign has uncovered "deeply disturbing evidence of voter fraud and election irregularities" and that the problems may have contributed to Heflin's 32-vote loss to Democratic businessman Hubert Vo earlier this month. "Illegal votes were counted, and legal votes were rejected," Taylor said Monday. Several election experts...

GOP Complains About School Voting Over Alleged Ice Cream Bribe School Administrator Denies Any Wrongdoing POSTED: 10:41 am CST November 2, 2004 UPDATED: 11:58 am CST November 2, 2004 LUFKIN, Texas -- Lufkin-area Republicans are complaining about voting by residents from the local state school for the mentally disabled. The Lufkin Daily News reports the Angelina County GOP headquarters was told that Lufkin State School employees bribed students with ice cream. They also alleged improper use of a state van to take students to the poll for early voting. County Republican Chairman Dale Ingle alleges the school was trying to...