Posted on 04/04/2012 4:26:32 AM PDT by lbryce
Felony charges related to election fraud have touched the 2008 race for the highest office in the land.
Prosecutors in South Bend, Ind., filed charges Monday against four St. Joseph County Democratic officials and deputies as part of a multiple-felony case involving the alleged forging of Democratic presidential primary petitions in the 2008 election, which put then-candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the Indiana ballot.
The officials are accused of taking part in a scheme to fake signatures and names on the primary petitions needed to run for president. Court papers say the plan was hatched by local Democratic Party officials inside the local party headquarters.
Presidential Primary Fraud Case Heats Up
Allegations of election fraud with 2008 ballots
Among those charged is the former long-time chairman of the St. Joseph County Democratic Party, Butch Morgan, who allegedly ordered the forgeries. He was forced to resign when the allegations were first made public last October, even though his lawyer, Shaw Friedman, told Fox News at the time that Morgan did not do anything wrong.
The St. Joseph County Board of Voter Registration's Democratic board member, Pam Brunette, Board of Voter Registration worker Beverly Shelton and Democratic volunteer and former board worker Dustin Blythe also face charges.
According to affidavits, St. Joseph County Voter Registration Office worker Lucas Burkett told investigators that he was part of the plan that started in January 2008 "to forge signatures on presidential candidate petitions instead of collecting actual signatures from citizens."
The documents state that Burkett told investigators that “he was heavily involved in St. Joseph County political activities with the local Democratic party," and that "he had, in fact, personally forged several such signatures," and had attended meetings at the local Democratic party headquarters, where it was agreed to forge the petitions.
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I still remember the great Clinton saying, “Mistakes were made, but you have to understand, we had a tough election to win to overthrow 12 years of Republican rule.”
Heil Hussein!!!!!
This is a isolated incident.. a handful of rogue dimwits..this certainly doesn’t happen in any other states.
I appreciate your sarcasm but you know every bit as much as I that the President, personally and politically will remain untouched by all, any criminality he could ever manage to facilitate.
As a long time poll watcher in PA, the thing that is going to effect obama is Voter ID and more pubbie poll watchers.
I volunteered to go into a "bad precinct" provided it wasn't a school {you can't take a pistol into a school}.
We cut the double and triple voting in half {didn't eliminate it}, with our presence and the use of cameras and cell phones.
The addition of Voter ID this year, will help keep the voting day fraud down, but it won't affect the fraud in old age homes, absentee ballots, voters registered in multiple states {college kids and folks with multiple homes}.
Voter fraud should be considered treason and the cheaters put to death.
Voter fraud would cease.
I'll volunteer to be the executioner, without remorse.
Forget your /sarc tag?
On the contrary, we’ve demonstrated the equation: Democrats + FORGERY = Election FRAUD and Obama
The question is: are We the People vigilant enough to stop it before the election rather than acting on it 3 years later?
I hope more people are exposed and tried. They’re out there.
Only four charged?
What’s more, it (voting fraud in general) is likely to happen again to a much greater extent (better organization, longer planning period) in November.
My god... only 4??? I guess the New Black Panther Party didn't have any 'nice citizens' (aka THUGS) at any of the polling booths there...
That's how they got all those recall signatures in Wisconsin. Of course, we'll find that out years from now, after it's too late....
Those poor Dimawits just get caught every time! /s
Useful Liberal Idiots for the “CAUSE!!!”, who likely thought they were doing some great service to America by doing this, and would be rewarded for it.
Instead, it’s just more useful idiot liberal Democrats going to Prison for “THE CAUSE!”.
Careers over, lives ruined.
The Democratic Party won’t be anywhere to be found, and they won’t be paying for the legal defense. All those Democrat/liberal ‘Friends’ who encouraged this behavior won’t be answering the phone when they call.
WHY DO PEOPLE DO SUCH STUPID SH...?
Career-enhancers for the Rats.
If he's not on the ballot, he can't win the primary, but more importantly, if he's not on the ballot for the primary, he cannot be on the ballot for the general election.
As Treason is the undermining of a country by an individual or group of individuals, I would say election fraud constitutes that.
Of course you wouldn't want to be put to death for voting at the wrong polling place accidentally, but if we executed the ones who stuff the ballot boxes blatantly then we would see a LOT less voter fraud.
Until a Republican stands up and confronts this issue, it will always be a back-burner in the news.
Thank you for your efforts.
Forget your /sarc tag?
:)
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