I daresay my two boys would be more effective at securing the border than *certain* elected officials...
Posted on 06/22/2007 3:25:00 PM PDT by bahblahbah
The second time Duncan M. MacDonald sent in an absentee ballot, an election worker in Federal Way called to ask about the paw print on the envelope. But it took three ballots before the prosecutor contacted the voting dog's owner.
Jane Balogh said she registered the Australian shepherd-terrier mix to vote in protest of a 2005 state voter-registration law that she says makes it too easy for noncitizens to vote.
She put her phone bill in Duncan's name, then used the phone bill as identification to register him as a voter.
"I wasn't trying to do anything fraudulent. I was trying to prove that our system is flawed. So I got myself in trouble," she says.
Prosecutors have offered the grandmother and Army veteran a deal: plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of making a false statement to a public official and they will not file a felony charge of providing false information on a voter-registration application.
Balogh said she doesn't plan to contest the charge because "I know I'm guilty." She said she submitted ballots in the dog's name in the September and November 2006 and May 2007 elections. She wrote "VOID" on the ballots and didn't cast any votes.
Prosecutors said they would recommend she be sentenced to 10 hours of community service, pay a $250 fine and commit no other crimes for a year. Balogh is scheduled to be arraigned in King County Superior Court on Tuesday.
Acting Prosecuting Attorney Dan Satterberg says his office "can't simply look the other way. They say you should let sleeping dogs lie, but you can't let voting dogs vote."
that’s ruff...
Satterberg is an idiot.
ping
Jane Balogh said she registered the Australian shepherd-terrier mix to vote in protest of a 2005 state voter-registration law that she says makes it too easy for noncitizens to vote.
I'm very impressed. I would be too chicken to do this.
If she’d only voted DEMOCRAT, we’d have never heard about this.....
She was right but she shouldn’t jepordize her own right to vote. Sounds like a smart woman otherwise.
“Prosecutors said they would recommend she be sentenced to 10 hours of community service, pay a $250 fine and commit no other crimes for a year.”
How dare she question the authority!
If so it should have more right to vote than many Detroiters who do vote several times each.
Dead people or non-citizens are OK. Dogs are not.
Throw me a frickin’ bone here...
Well, yeah. Within an election cycle or two, the dog would have ended up on the ballot.
I say let the dog vote, he couldn’t be any worse than someone who would vote for Rudy or Hillary.
They ought to give her a job working for the government. Leading a task force investigating voter fraud.
Yes and if the RINO's would quit rolling over we would be beter off too
I daresay my two boys would be more effective at securing the border than *certain* elected officials...
HAH!
Good one Rolling.
I would have said, “They day to leave sleeping dogs lie, but I just proved you shouldn’t let lying dogs vote.”
Oh, my, if this vote fraud example gets exposed, how will Christine ever win again!? GO ROSSI!!!
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