Florence (SC) Man Charged With Voter Fraud (1500)

ABC News 4 ^ | October 07, 2004 | Gia McKenzie

[11th_VA]

Florence, SC - A Florence man has been arrested on charges of using names and personal information of people - including the Florence mayor - on more than one thousand voter registration forms and turning them in to the county voter registration office.

Prosecutor Ed Clements the third says 44-year-old Terence Hines was taken into custody Wednesday on charges of forgery and multiple counts of fraudulent registration or voting.

The State Law Enforcement Division began investigating soon after Hines turned in more than 15-hundred completed forms to the Florence County Voter Registration Office last week.

Voter registration and elections director Russell Barrett says a registration form for Florence Mayor Frank Willis sent up a red flag. Barrett says he is pretty sure the mayor was already a registered voter and had been for some time.

[fooman]

They seem rather good natured about it. We should ask them to audit the other registrations that they have done.

[JackDanielsOldNo7]

Ahhh Florence SC my hometown. Always was a rat hole.

[fooman]

Good material for right talk. You could call the woman who is running this voter drive in Cola, SC and ask her if this guy in Florence was the only source of voter fraud.

Her name and number coming.

[fooman]

Communications Director Becci Robbins, 803-808-3384



Progressive Network
Lexington, SC 29072
(803) 808-3384

[My Favorite Headache]

Surely Jesse Jackson will call this an outrage and be on TV.

[Hostage]

Voter registration and elections director Russell Barrett says a registration form for Florence Mayor Frank Willis sent up a red flag.

So if the defrauder had not dropped off a card with the mayor's info on it, then 1499 fraudulent registrations would have cleared the elections office?

Frightening!

[fooman]

Yep, we can all do something about this by calling the lady above and asking for a audit of the other voter registrations.

[fooman]

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[fooman]

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[talleyman]

Forwarded to Hannity, Brit Hume & Fox & Friends. Thanks. (Did somebody ping Rush?)

[Inwoodian]

This is a very serious charge- trying to fix an election. Prosecutors should seek the maximum penalty if this guy turns up guilty. Of course, that could be reduced if he is willing to name names of those who put him up to this. Others in a similar position in other Dem haunts will be watching. If law enforcement does not show its fangs Dems will be sure to try this tack forever. This election will see the greatest attempt to commit voter fraud in history.

[fooman]

Thank you.

[Salvation]

Dimwits are paying for votes again??????

[Bob J]

If you get anything else, contact diotima. She will be compiling a biweekly "teaser" file that goes out to program hosts which will include suggested guests and topics!

[WHBates]

LOL, That's the funny part. I live in Florence and this is really a hoot. I don't think it has anything to do with the Presidential election but it may have lots to do with the state Senate elections.

Florence is in a gerrymandered congressional district and as a state I don't believe it will be much a contest for President.

[fooman]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1239259/posts


More at this Florence Morning news article.

[fooman]

This is the first arrest for fraud nationally. Has national implications for PA and FLA.

[WHBates]

Florence is really funny. My wife died in 2001 and as I was the executor of the estate I did everything I could to ensure her name was removed from the voting rolls.

However, every election her name is on the roll. It has got to make you wonder? I've taken to going to the poll very late in the day to make sure that there is no signature next to her name every election day.

[ThermoNuclearWarrior]

Please Pass Emergency Anti-Vote Fraud Measure Immediately!

Vote fraud threatens the very core of our republic, and it directly threatens our sovereignty

Please send the following message to your Congressmen and Senators:

Please pass, on an expedited basis, emergency legislation to require voters to show ID at all polling places on Election Day.

Vote fraud threatens the very core of our republic, and it directly threatens our sovereignty. There is a significant amount of evidence emerging that evinces a wide-spread plot to engage in massive voter fraud. Thus, Congress must take immediate action to counter this potential menace.

Congress has the express power to dictate the time, place, and manner in which federal elections are held. The congressional power to make or alter time, place, or manner of federal elections extends to the regulation of voter registration. Federal regulation of the electoral processes, including the regulation of federal voter registration, is also consistent with the Tenth Amendment and permissible; although states do have broad discretion to enact and implement registration procedures, states may not transgress the Constitution. It follows that state voter registration and Election Day statutes that are inconsistent with federal voter registration and Election Day mandates are preempted.

As per the Federal Court in Byrd v. Brice, the government may require a voter to furnish proof of identity at the polling place on Election Day. Such a measure would go a long way in protecting citizens’ federal voting rights from fraudulent practices.

Please set to work immediately on enacting emergency legislation to require a valid ID at the polling places on Election Day.

http://capwiz.com/congressorg/issues/alert/?alertid=6486121&content_dir=ua_congressorg&mailid=custom

[hripka]

How Democrats Steal Elections - Top 10 Methods of Liberal Vote Fraud

1. Over-Voting. In Democrat strongholds like St. Louis, Philadelphia and Detroit, some precincts had 100% of their registered voters voting, with 99% of the ballots going to Gore. Clearly, multiple voting resulted in extra tallies for Gore in the 2000 election. (New York Post, 12/09/00).

2. Dead Voters. This classic Democratic method of vote fraud goes all the way back to 1960 in Chicago and Dallas. The 2000 election was no exception. In Miami-Dade County, for example, some of the 144 ineligible votes (those which officials actually admitted to) were cast by dead people, including a Haitian-American who's been deceased since 1977 (Miami-Herald, 12/24/00).

3. Mystery Voters. These "voters" cast votes anyway but are not even registered to vote. In heavily Democratic Broward County, for example, more than 400 ballots were cast by non-registered voters. (Miami-Herald 1/09/01)

4. Military ballots. Many of these votes were disqualified for the most mundane and trivial reasons. At least 1,527 valid military ballots were discarded in Florida by Democratic vote counters (Drudge Report, 11/19/00).

5. Criminals. Felons are a natural Democratic voter and they're protected on voter rolls across the country. In Florida at least 445 ex-convicts - including rapists and murderers -- voted illegally on November 7th. Nearly all of them were registered Democrats. (Miami-Herald 12/01/00)

6. Illegal aliens. These voters have long been a core liberal constituency, especially in California. In Orange County in 1996, Rep. Bob Dornan had his congressional seat stolen from him when thousands of illegal aliens voted for Loretta Sanchez (Christian Science Monitor, 9/2/97).

7. Vote-buying. Purchasing votes has long been a traditional scheme by Democrats, and not just with money. In the 2000 election in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Democratic workers initiate a "smokes-for-votes" campaign in which they paid dozens of homeless men with cigarettes if they cast ballots for Al Gore (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 11/14/00).

8. Phantom Voters. These voters don't really exist, but their ballots do. In the 1996 Lousiana Senate race, GOP candidate Woody Jenkins had the election stolen from him when he discovered that 7,454 actual votes were cast but had no paper trail to authenticate them (Behind the Headlines, F.R. Duplantier, 4/27/97).

9. Dimpled chads. Those infamous punch-cards were a ballot bonanza for Al Gore. Democratic poll workers in Palm Beach, Dade and Broward counties tampered and manipulated thousands of ineligible ballots and counted them for Gore, even though no clear vote could be discerned. (NewsMax.com 11/27, 12/22, 11/18, 11/19/00).

10. Absentee ballots. Normally it's assumed that Republicans benefit from absentee ballots. But in the case of Miami's 1997 mayoral election, hundreds of absentee ballots were made for sale or sent out to non-Miami residents. Fraud was so extensive in the race that the final results were overturned in court (FL Dept. of Law Enforcement Report, 1/5/98)."

SOURCE: http://www.conservativeaction.org/resources.php3?nameid=votefraud

Links on freerepublic:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=electionfraud
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=votefraud

WE MUST FIGHT VOTE FRAUD!