Saturday, April 26, 2003
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Bar owner's wife indicted
Pam Horrocks faces voter fraud charges, as does her husband
By GLENN PUIT
REVIEW-JOURNAL
The wife of North Las Vegas bar owner Gary Horrocks was indicted Friday on charges she conspired with her husband to rig an election.
An indictment was unsealed before District Judge Valerie Adair charging Pam Horrocks with seven felonies and one misdemeanor.
According to authorities, Pam and Gary Horrocks tried to use fraudulently filled out voter registration cards, requests for absentee ballots, and other voting documents in a plot to influence the Assembly District 37 race in November.
"Obviously, the district attorney's office and the grand jury thought there was probable cause to bring the charges," Clark County prosecutor Christopher Laurent said.
Pam Horrocks' attorney, Michael Cristalli, could not immediately be reached for comment Friday.
Pam Horrocks' indictment comes three weeks after her husband was indicted on 60 felonies relating to the Assembly race, in which Democrat Marcus Conklin defeated Republican Francis Allen by just 134 votes.
Authorities say Gary Horrocks, whom Allen defeated in the Republican primary, committed voter fraud because he wanted to ensure Allen lost in the general election.
Voter fraud charge an issue in District 118:Indicted Green Party operative
By Chris Busby
PORTLAND – At first, Green Party Rep. John Eder didn’t think his opponent, Democratic Rep. Ed Suslovic, would use last week’s indictment of a Green campaign worker against Eder in the campaign for House District 118.
The worker, Ben Chipman, was indicted on a misdemeanor charge of attempting to influence a voter filling out an absentee ballot during a House campaign in Biddeford earlier this year. Campaign workers can deliver absentee ballots, but are prohibited by law from attempting to influence a voter’s decision during such interactions.
Eder was not involved in the Biddeford campaign, which also resulted in the indictment of three other Green Party campaign workers, but Chipman is his legislative aide, responsible for helping Eder with constituent services.