Posted on 10/28/2016 9:14:29 AM PDT by simpson96
A 74-year-old woman tasked with opening envelopes sent by Miami-Dade County voters with their completed mail ballots was arrested Friday after co-workers caught her illegally marking ballots, resulting in an unknown — but small — number of fraudulent votes being cast for mayoral candidate Raquel Regalado.
Investigators linked Gladys Coego, a temporary worker for the county elections department, to two fraudulent votes, but they suspect from witness testimony that she submitted several more.
Coego, of Westchester, turned herself in to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Friday morning. She’s expected to be charged with two felony counts of marking another person’s ballot.
In a separate election-fraud case, authorities also arrested a second woman for unlawfully filling out voter-registration forms on behalf of United for Care, the campaign to legalize medical marijuana in Florida.
The Miami-Dade state attorney’s office plans to accuse Tomika Curgil, 33, of filling out forms for five people without their consent. She also submitted at least 17 forms for people who apparently don’t exist — and several forms for people who are dead.
Police officers arrested Curgil at her Liberty City home Friday morning and intend to charge her with five felony counts of submitting false voter-registration information.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
Lock them up!
Remember, Hillary is doing this: Getting THOUSANDS of Lawyers to register to defend her election:
https://www.hillaryclinton.com/page/learn-more-victory-counsel/
I don’t see Trump doing this!! He should!
I firmly believe that Vote/Election Fraud should be a capital offense.
If the number really is unknown, how can they credibly claim that they're sure it's small?
Make an example of them. Enough with the disregard for the Constitution and rule of law.
But, but.....I thought voter fraud didn’t exist.
Charlie rose insists there is no fraud, no rigged election.
Believe me these stories get to the ears of those that Democrats are relying on to commit voter fraud. To do voter fraud they HAVE TO get little people who don’t realize they have much to lose and little to gain. These kind of stories throw cold water on their plans to commit this crime. Now somebody’s grandmother has been turned in by a CO-WORKER! This is all good.
If the number is UNKNOWN, then you don’t know if it is small or large. Also “small” is relative. Small compared to what? Stealing even one persons vote is an outrage.
This is editorializing instead of reporting facts.
I love how the media make up stuff but even more telling is that they cannot even manage to make up something logical.
Coego’s job was to remove mail ballots from envelopes and check for any paper tears before someone else introduced them into an optical scanner to count the votes. Miami-Dade started counting mail ballots Monday, as allowed by Florida law.
Investigators say Coego picked out ballots in which voters had left the county mayoral race blank and bubbled in Regalado’s name. Sometimes, the marking was obvious because she used a different color pen than the actual voter.
“As a normal part of their working procedures, all Election Support Specialists were prohibited from bringing any other pens or pencils into the ballot sorting room,” the state attorney’s office said in a statement announcing the arrests. “It appeared that Ms. Coego concealed a black ink pen in her purse and brought it into the ballot sorting room.”
Well. (dusts hands off)
I guess that is it. This is proof positive that our government is on guard for election fraud, and is doing everything it can to prevent it, find it, and prosecute it.
I feel much better.
[Remember, Hillary is doing this: Getting THOUSANDS of Lawyers to register to defend her election:]
Q: How many lawyers are needed to defend HILLARY’S election?
A: Thousands
Q: How many lawyers are needed to defend TRUMP’S election?
A: One or maybe two :)
I was thinking the same thing. I would say that if you do not want to vote for someone as a protest mark the green party or mark for write in and write in any cartoon name. Green party mainly due to the lack of chance they will win but if they get above a certain percentage they would be in the next election cycles debates.
Funny, they don’t look like Powerball Winners who were struck by Lightning. Well, the one on the left does.
Oh no, there is no election fraud. You are more likely to be hit by lightning, says the Commie Muslim in Chief.
When Trump loses, I hope he can force investigations that ferret out all the fake votes and he winds up winning the election.
He is smart to say he will not voncerde defeat. The first thing he has to do when he loses is to force real investigations in all of the battleground states.
Just another lightning strike and lottery win.
She marked and unknown number but they’re quick to say it was a small number. Sure and they know this how?
Shoot ‘em. “Who’s next?”
It costs the taxpayers $50 k a year to incarcerate. Better to incinerate.
Commies come in all shapes, ages, colors and sizes.
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