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41 Dead Voters Request Ballots by Mail!
San Antonio Express-News
| 3/19/2004
| Ihosvani Rodriguez
Posted on 03/19/2004 1:26:46 PM PST by The South Texan
41 ballot requests were dead on arrival Web Posted: 03/18/2004 12:26 AM CST
Ihosvani Rodriguez San Antonio Express-News
Angelita Aguero was among an estimated 4,000 Bexar County voters who asked for a mail-in ballot in last week's primary election, Bexar County election records show.
The problem is, Aguero has been dead since August 2003.
And she isn't the only one who appears to have wanted to vote from beyond.
A computer at the Bexar County election office recently flagged the names of 41 deceased people who somehow sent applications to vote by mail.
The applications are being forwarded to the Bexar County district attorney, officials confirmed Wednesday.
But officials there said they aren't optimistic about finding a culprit.
"It happens in nearly every election, and it's just near impossible to investigate," said Cliff Herberg, chief of the district attorney's white-collar division.
No ballots were sent to the deceased, and there is no indication any dead person managed to receive a ballot, election officials said.
"That's the important thing to stress here," Bexar County Elections Administrator Cliff Borofsky said. "No ballots were sent out to deceased individuals. No dead person voted."
But they tried.
According to election officials, the 41 applications were mailed to Borofsky's office in the weeks leading to the primary elections.
All but four came from voters with addresses in Bexar County's Precinct 1, where incumbent Commissioner Robert Tejeda is heading for an April 13 runoff against Sergio "Chico" Rodriguez.
The applications had different handwriting styles and were mailed from different parts of the county, making it difficult to track their origins, investigators said Wednesday.
Tejeda did not return messages seeking comment. Rodriguez said his campaign didn't have anything to do with the applications.
"You hear rumors about it all the time, but I never thought it actually happens," Rodriguez said. "The only thing I could say is that I am only trying to get votes from people who are alive."
According to Borofsky, election staffers run each application for a mail-in ballot through a database. The computer cross-references them with updated lists of deceased residents provided by city and state officials, he said.
In the meantime, Aguero's neighbor Esperanza Cuesta laughed at the notion that the deceased widow would try to vote.
"That's just spooky," she said, looking over at Aguero's overgrown and newspaper-strewn yard.
TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2004; deadvote; elections; fraud; votefraud; voting
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To: The South Texan
No ballots were sent to the deceased, and there is no indication any dead person managed to receive a ballot, election officials said. No problem. They will just show up in person at the polls on the day of the election.
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posted on
03/19/2004 2:03:55 PM PST
by
cinFLA
To: The South Texan
It's just a shame. The only thing a leftist has to look forward to in the next life is that they will be able to vote. Of course the climate will be much hotter that Florida.
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posted on
03/19/2004 2:09:12 PM PST
by
timydnuc
("Give me Liberty, or give me death"!)
To: MeekOneGOP
Texas bump!
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posted on
03/19/2004 2:09:19 PM PST
by
The South Texan
(The Democrat Party and the leftist (ABCCBSNBCCNN NYLATIMES)media are a criminal enterprise!)
To: anonymous_user
Oh, it is not exploitation of Indians and Mexicans. Or, Haitians or Jamaicans, for that matter. The local dem ward captains pay very well for multiple voters and for the voting documents for dead people.
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posted on
03/19/2004 2:31:50 PM PST
by
Tacis
To: The South Texan
bump
To: xJones
"why is it that Democrats rise from the dead and Republicans don't?"
Maybe it's because the democrates souls were condemed to hell and forever to walk the earth, whereas the republicans souls went on to paradise in heaven. :>)
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posted on
03/19/2004 2:40:41 PM PST
by
Chewbacca
("Turn off your machines! Walk off your jobs! Power to the People!" - The Ice Pirates)
To: The South Texan
What would a Dead-Rights March look like? Brains..
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posted on
03/19/2004 2:42:56 PM PST
by
Skwidd
(Isolationism Now!)
To: The South Texan
How many times does this happen in this form or some other? Yet, I never read about anyone going to jail for it. Are there any records of such?
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posted on
03/19/2004 2:43:35 PM PST
by
Joee
To: The South Texan
This is the Democrats' way of energizing their core constituency!
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posted on
03/19/2004 2:45:14 PM PST
by
CurlyBill
(Voter fraud is one of the primary campaign strategies of the Democrats!!!!)
To: The South Texan
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posted on
03/19/2004 2:50:10 PM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(The Democrats say they believe in CHOICE. I have chosen to vote STRAIGHT TICKET GOP for years !!)
To: yall
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posted on
03/19/2004 2:50:32 PM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(The Democrats say they believe in CHOICE. I have chosen to vote STRAIGHT TICKET GOP for years !!)
To: sphinx
No ballots were sent to the deceased, and there is no indication any dead person managed to receive a ballot, election officials said. I suppose not. It's a little difficult to pass the ballot through 6 feet of dirt.
And these guys would be R's or D's?
Well, as you said, they must be Democ-Rats, because their Party was not mentioned, and you know if they had been Republicans, every human being on the planet would know about it by now, and maybe some who are not even on the planet any more.
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posted on
03/19/2004 2:53:08 PM PST
by
Mark17
To: Chewbacca
Maybe it's because the democrates souls were condemed to hell and forever to walk the earth, whereas the republicans souls went on to paradise in heaven. :>) That would be a comforting thought, except that I have some elderly yellow-dog Democrat Southern relatives.:)
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posted on
03/19/2004 2:53:30 PM PST
by
xJones
To: The South Texan
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posted on
03/19/2004 2:55:10 PM PST
by
Mike Bates
(Artist Formerly Known as mikeb704.)
To: Robert357
Worse, a party operative is voting, repeatedly, for all sorts of other people, some of whom vote and some of whom do not. When and if that person happens to be dead, they notice (sometimes) and catch it. When that person isn't dead, the party operative gets away with it. Mail in ballots are tailor made for vote fraud. Large scale fraud probably succeeds, to the extent of 5% to 10% of the votes cast. Few elections *aren't* that close.
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posted on
03/19/2004 2:59:03 PM PST
by
JasonC
To: BenLurkin
I actually think this method is written as a RULE for Philadelphia.......
To: The South Texan
Likely Democratic voter fraud.
A Republican candidate always have to take into account that he needs to win by a comfortable margin, otherwise he may fall victim to Democratic fraud.
To: The South Texan
it's just near impossible to investigateHave the sheriff deliver the absentee ballot and arrest the person who claims it.
To: Mike Bates
LOL!!!!!!!
It's so funny, cause it's close to truth!
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posted on
03/19/2004 3:07:16 PM PST
by
The South Texan
(The Democrat Party and the leftist (ABCCBSNBCCNN NYLATIMES)media are a criminal enterprise!)
To: sphinx
Probably ol' LBJ himself telling these people he'd lower their tempuratures if they vote Democrat.
He has friends in low places, ya know...
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