In the first ballot-box test of abortion rights after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the Kansas electorate kept abortion legal in their state, by a vote of 543,855 (59%) to 378,466 (41%), see details here. Anti-abortion activists requested a recount, raising $50,000 online, with another $[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Voting Fraud’
August 21st, 2022 - 5:30 pm § in Politics
Kansas abortion foes got their recount and here’s what it shows
Florida voting police nab 20 vote thieves!
Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis’s new “Office of Election Crimes and Security” has identified 20 cases of suspected voting fraud since going into business on July 1, The Hill reported on Wednesday, August 18, 2022 (read story here). All of the cases are from Palm Beach, Broward, and [...]
July 29th, 2022 - 12:53 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Rogue sheriff backs vote fraudsters, not election laws
At its heart, it’s a partisan stunt, but also a crime. Kinda like setting fire to a barn to “prove” an arsonist is on the loose. In Wisconsin, GOP activists fraudulently applied for absentee ballots using the names of prominent people, including the state assembly speaker, to ̶[...]
July 18th, 2022 - 7:18 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Drop boxes weren’t a problem
“The expanded use of drop boxes for mailed ballots during the 2020 election did not lead to any widespread problems,” KING 5 News reported on Monday, July 18, 2022 (see story here). Washington, which has 100% mail voting, uses drop boxes, but this report is based on a nationwide survey o[...]
Trumper who screeched about “rampant voting fraud” voted twice using her dead mother’s ballot
Crystal Mason, a black woman, got 5 years in a Texas prison for casting a provisional ballot that wasn’t counted because a pollworker told her she could. I’ve posted about numerous cases of deliberate voting fraud committed by white Trump supporters, and none of them got jail time. What&[...]
April 20th, 2022 - 5:11 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Joe Crackpot for Congress
Rep. Jaime Herrera-Butler (R-WA) probably will be re-elected. Age 41, now serving her 7th term in Congress, Herrera-Butler’s never had a “real” job. She’s a career politician, of the sort wingnuts want to “term limit.” They have another reason for term-limiting he[...]
2 states, 2 voter fraud prosecutions
Charles Franklin Barnes Jr., 64 (left), and Jay Richard Ketcik (right), 63, are white, male, Republican, and live in a notoriously pro-Trump Florida retirement community. Both intentionally voted multiple times in the 2020 election. They got pretrial diversion, which means their records will be wipe[...]
It looks like Trump’s chief of staff committed voting fraud
Mark Meadows, Trump’s chief of staff, voted by absentee ballot in the 2020 election. This is where he was registered to vote. He and his wife have never owned it. She rented it — apparently several years earlier — but the owner at the time says she stayed only one or two nights and[...]
Where illegal voting is a serious crime — but only if you’re black
In Tennessee, Pamela Moses was sentenced on January 31, 2022, to 6 years in prison for “illegally registering to vote” despite her assertion the state department of corrections told her she was eligible to vote (story here). Legal experts said they were “baffled” by the sever[...]
January 23rd, 2022 - 10:58 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Special grand jury to investigate Trump’s Georgia election meddling
Read story here Lawyers for embattled attorney John Eastman told a federal judge he was “representing his client, Donald Trump,” when he concocted a nefarious scheme to derail the certification of the 2020 election. That story is here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]