Elected official arrested in vote-buying scheme[La]

www.wbrz.com ^ | Ken Pastorick

[luv2ndamend]

More arrests possible

Iberville Parish council member Howard Oubre surrendered to Plaquemine Police Thursday.

Howard Oubre Detectives say Oubre paid people $3 to $10 to vote for certain candidates in September's absentee voting. Those candidates were not involved in the alleged vote-buying schemes, according to police.

Three others were booked on voter bribery charges -- Terry Wayne Baker and Geraldine Belony of Plaquemine and Victoria McKnight of Baton Rouge.

Elections Fraud investigator Gregory Malveaux says his office received complaints of voter bribery in September and immediately began investigating.

Oubre was booked on seven counts of voter bribery. It is a felony offense, which means if Oubre is convicted he loses his council seat and cannot hold any public office in the future.

The penalty for voter bribery is up to 2 years in prison and/or a maximum $2,000 fine.

Malveaux says his investigation is not over, and that more arrests could be possible.

[KQQL]

Associated Press

Dirty tricks aimed at smearing candidates and confusing or discouraging voters were in ample supply during the primary and runoff elections for the U.S. Senate and a Louisiana congressional seat.

Mostly anonymous, the skullduggery was aimed at disrupting the usual racial and ideological voting patterns.

In the Senate runoff, the targets were the liberal black vote for Democratic incumbent Mary Landrieu and conservative white voters for Republican challenger Suzanne Haik Terrell. One, for example, gave voters the wrong election day.

In the 5th congressional district runoff in northeastern Louisiana, losing Republican Lee Fletcher found himself the target of a Democratic pamphlet comparing him with David Duke.

Donna Brazile, who works on get-out-the vote strategies for the national Democratic Party, said such tactics have a two-fold effect: they make a highly motivated voter, who has decided on a candidate, get to the polls, but discourage others who are not as committed.

http://www.wbrz.com/stories/121202/new_skulldugger.shtml

[Andyman]

Let's see. no party mentioned. I guess that means they are Dumbascraps.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

I wonder what party Oubre belongs to?

I did a Google search and found several articles about the situation, but not one mentioned Oubre's party.

I'll go out on a limb and say he's a Democrat!

[KQQL]

The South Dakota Vote Scandal: How High Does It Go?
A new lawsuit makes some intriguing accusations.

http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york121302.asp

[Free the USA]

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list

[luv2ndamend]

Good catch! They are letting the little fish take the blame!

[YOMO]

Oubre was booked on seven counts of voter bribery. The penalty for voter bribery is up to 2 years in prison and/or a maximum $2,000 fine. .................

Which as Oubre explained is just enough time for thenext election.

[luv2ndamend]

LOL

[M Kehoe]

All of theses articles in the papers regarding LA and SD electionering, vote buying, absentee ballots misteriously appearing, Republican ballots disqualified for no legitimate reason, etc. and no mention of the perps party affiliation.

Bias in the media? Nah.

5.56mm

[RIGHT IN SEATTLE]

$3-$10?

I see that he was after the upper-crust of Bumville!

[FreedomPoster]

>>I'll go out on a limb and say he's a Democrat!

I've got $1000 at 10:1 odds that says he is, too.

Something tells me that no one with $100 will take that bet.

[nicmarlo]

I posted this article/link last night on the FReepers Against Voter Fraud thread....but here's a separate thread on the article, for archive purposes.

[TheLion]

This is probably just the tip of the iceberg, in Louisana. Hard to imagine why anyone would want officials to win an election by theft, no matter what party they are from. I posted an article, post #143 on the fraud thread when the warrants for these arrests were issued...check it out: FReepers Against Vote Fraud

[Steve Eisenberg]

Howard Oubre Detectives say Oubre paid people $3 to $10 to vote for certain candidates in September's absentee voting.

Allowing widespread absentee voting is asking for this, yet more and more states are making it easier. People forget that the entire reason for the secret ballot was to prevent vote selling, since secrecy prevents the vote buyer from knowing whether his purchase succeeded. Of course the military needs to get absentee ballots, and diplomats overseas, but little beyond that is justified.

[appeal2]

You gotta love the South, the cost of living and bribing is so much cheaper than up here in NY. You gotta pay at least $25 a vote to get a welfare recipient out of their drunken stupor and into the voting booth.

[sweetliberty]

Thanks for posting that. I knew something was rotten when things changed at the end of the day. D*mn Rats. I hope he does the max!

[sweetliberty]

Well, it isn't too hard to figure out. Let's see....Landrieu was losing, blacks weren't turning out in predominantly black Rat areas. Suddenly blacks start turning out in same said black Rat areas. Landrieu starts winning. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out.

[deport]

Allowing widespread absentee voting is asking for this, yet more and more states are making it easier.

I'm not sure that LA has lax absentee voting rules. They allow it for only a few things such as being out of the parish on election day, other scheduled things, military, occupation, etc. I haven't looked at their rules specifically but they aren't open for just any excuse. Now that doesn't keep someone from using a false excuse...

[deport]

I knew something was rotten when things changed at the end of the day. D*mn Rats.

Remember this is a September absentee voting for an earlier primary, not the runoff in Dec. that this guy got caugh vote buying. Now that doesn't mean it didn't happen in Dec.