Jury Convicts Five in Federal Vote Fraud (Democrat Party Chairman Convicted for buying Votes)

AP Wire ^ | 6-29-2005 | AP Wire

[Thanatos]

Jury Convicts Five in Federal Vote Fraud

ASSOCIATED PRESS

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) - A federal jury Wednesday convicted the chairman of the city's Democratic Party and four others of scheming to buy votes with cash, cigarettes and liquor last November.

Prosecutors relied largely on secretly recorded audiotapes in which they say the accused could be heard talking about paying $5 per vote to get key Democrats elected.

Charles Powell Jr., 61, the city's Democratic Party chairman, was found guilty along with the city's former director of regulatory affairs and three others

[Mikey_1962]

Shocking!!!!!!!!

[mewzilla]

Dems sell themselves cheap.

[TheBigB]

Where's Jesse screaming "RACISM!"

[Mo1]

Ping to John Kerry

[TX Bluebonnet]

Wonder what the penalty will be.

[balrog666]

So a few peons get incarcerated, the fraudulent results will still stand.

And that's all that matters.

[JoeSixPack1]

the city's Democratic Party chairman, was found guilty...

the city's Democratic Party chairman, was found guilty...

ROFL!! Sorry, just had to see it TWICE. :-)

[Tenacious 1]

Why is this not headlines in the NY Times, CNN, LA Times and the rest of the MSM?

If it were a republican Dean, Billary, Paluski, and the rest of the pop-off club would be doing crack flips while screaming, stripping and beating themselves.

[advance_copy]

The RAT party is imploding. This is good for America because we don't need a RAT party.

[Feiny]

I am sure the MSM will be all over this ......bwhahahahaha.....I couldn't even type that with a straight face.

[mewzilla]

Talk about pouring money down a 'Rat hole...

[Reagan is King]

"convicted the chairman of the city's Democratic Party and four others of scheming to buy votes with cash, cigarettes and liquor last November.

Five caught, thousands more still on the loose.

[LTCJ]

Here's hoping it's great golf weather on every weekend they're required to do community service! They'll not soon mess with American jurisprudence again!

[doug from upland]

Gee, I wonder what should happen to Hillary for her $1.9 million campaign finance fraud in 2000.

[randog]

Why is this not headlines in the NY Times, CNN, LA Times and the rest of the MSM?

They're still waiting for the lid to blow off the Great 2004 Presidential Republican Ohio Voter Fraud Scam^TM. Should be any day from what I hear........any day now......heck to pay, I say, heck to pay.....

[Dad yer funny]

photos , photos , who has PHOTOS??

[Doogle]

wow....this oughta make pelosi blink.


*snickers*

Doogle

[skimbell]

I'm not sure if this is the same thing-it probably is because it involves crooked Illinois democrats. I just received this as an email.(the original is in a pay site of a local newsgroup-QConline.)

It's really starting to look like the wheels are falling of the dim bandwagon. This involves Illinois' 17th Congressional District during the past two HR voting cycles.

Friends of Lane Evans agree to pay FEC $185,000 to settle suit : The Friends of Lane Evans will pay the Federal Election Commission $185,000 in a consent judgment filed this week in federal court. The agreement will let the defendants settle the case without admitting or denying the allegations made in the suit. The FEC filed the lawsuit in January 2004 in U.S. District Court, Rock Island, against the Friends of Lane Evans and its treasurer, Samuel M. Gilman; the 17th District Victory Fund and its treasurer; and the Rock Island Central Democratic Committee and its treasurer, John A. Gianulis. The suit was filed after the Rock Island County Republican Party filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission in 2000 regarding the 17th District Victory Fund. The complaint included 17 causes of action relating to the 1998 and 2000 election campaigns when Rep. Evans, D-Rock Island, defeated challenger Republican Mark Baker.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Here in Tennessee, the chairmen of the DNC in the two biggest cities (Nashville and Memphis) were indicted for child porn and bribery, respectively. Does anyone expect anything more from the party of criminals?

[Mister Baredog]

Dean will probably hire this guy for tne DNC.

[LM_Guy]

Couln't they just use the names of registered voters who are dead and cast their ballots for them like the other honest democrats do !!!!

[Finny]

It would have been so neat if somebody, as a practical joke, could have tweaked the original newswire story to have mistakenly identified the perps as Republicans rather than Democrats, and to leave the mistake uncorrected for at least two days. MSM outlets everywhere would be on this story like stink on a steaming diaper -- you can see the headlines:

Republicans Convicted in Federal Vote Fraud -- Cash, Cigarettes, Liquor Used to Buy Votes
Experts say fraud may have been more widespread than indicated; legitimacy of many elected officials called into question

Pinhead and Possumhead (Katie and Matt), Peter Jennings, Paula Zahn, Tim Russert, and the rest of the Usual Suspects would lead their repports by calling into doubt the results of every election for the past ten years where a Republican won, and busy coming up with tough questions to pose to Republican leaders ... then, in the middle of it all ... to find out that ... er, oops! The vote buyers were Democrats!

As it is, note the conspicuous absence of any mention of party affiliation in the AP wire article's title.

*sigh* Wankers.

[Mister Baredog]

Dems sell themselves cheap.

I dunno, the "dead DUmmie caucus" votes for FRee, LOL.

[shield]

Teehehehehehehe

[Mister Baredog]

It would have been so neat if somebody, as a practical joke,

You mean like the "conviction" of Tom Delay?

[mewzilla]

I dunno, the "dead DUmmie caucus" votes for FRee, LOL.

LOL. Misguided though they are, I have more respect for them than the folks who'd sell their votes.

[I'm ALL Right!]

BUMPITY BUMP. I'm laughing and cheering at the same time.

[popdonnelly]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh, say it ain't so! Democrats following their heritage and attempting to buy votes? This gives me an idea. We need an investigation of every incidence of Democratic vote buying and vote fraud in the nation. If the DU can sift through the votes in Ohio, we should be checking for voting irregularities by the Dems.

[Steve_Seattle]

Wanna bet this won't be on any of the evening news shows?

[popdonnelly]

Yeah, I saw endless coverage of their indictments on NBC, CBS, ABC, and CNN.

[Fudd Fan]

This is for the DUms lurking: YIPPEE HORRAY! The guilty will be punished! FReepers are celebrating!

[Fudd Fan]

NOTHING could make Bela Pelosi blink, facelifts have stretched her face to the limit.

[Fudd Fan]

Does this also explain how Osama Obama got votes in percentages rivaled only by the heyday of Saddam? lol

[HarleyLady27]

ahemmmmmmm

[stands2reason]

Isn't t enough that the AP picked it up?

[jackbill]

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2005/06/esl-makes-voter-fraud-business.html

[Darkwolf377]

DUmmies on suicide watch...but no one's watching!

[Dad yer funny]

thanks jackbill , ... hey everybody , PHOTOS asile 38

[eleni121]

I can't wait to see this on the national news...

[Dr.Zoidberg]

You charge whatever the market will bear. As I see it, they were excessively over valued.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Wow!!! This is shocking. I've gotten really used to liberal judges or juries letting them go, just like the Klintons' fundraisers who never get convicted.

[cake_crumb]

I am shocked, utterlt SHOCKED that the mass media is not reporting this DASTARDLYA plot by the left to buy votes.

Calling ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN/PSB/VOA please pick up the white phone at the courtesy phone!

[Lurker]

ESL is one of the nastiest places it has ever been my misfortune to visit.

I was more frightened there than I was in Beirut.

It's a massive sewer.

L

[Dante3]

Good.

[cake_crumb]

"the city's Democratic Party chairman, was found guilty...

"the city's Democratic Party chairman, was found guilty...

"the city's Democratic Party chairman, was found guilty..."

Reading it a third time is not even charming enough.

HEY, EVERYONE, TURN ON CNN HEADLINE NEWS!

Wanna guess which story is NOT being shown?

[cake_crumb]

"It would have been so neat if somebody, as a practical joke, could have tweaked the original newswire story to have mistakenly identified the perps as Republicans rather than Democrats, and to leave the mistake uncorrected for at least two days. MSM outlets everywhere would be on this story like stink on a steaming diaper -- you can see the headlines: "

That's our problem. We're just tooo honest to think that level of Evil.....though now that you MENTION it, there ARE a few morw cases pending...

[YaYa123]

Good news soooso hard to find. this qualifies. And even better, the speed in which this went to trial. I LOVE IT!! Wish more folks got to see it here, cause it sure ain't being reported in the MSM.

[SkyPilot]

"Vote Democrat!"