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Man charged with wife’s murder illegally cast her ballot for Trump, officials say: ‘I just thought, give him another vote’
WP via Seattle Times ^ | 15 May 2021 | PAULINA VILLEGAS and Hannah Knowles

Posted on 05/15/2021 7:55:56 PM PDT by Fractal Trader

The county clerk immediately knew something strange was going on last fall. A mail ballot had arrived from Suzanne Morphew — a woman missing since May.

“There’s posters all over our town,” said Lori Mitchell, the clerk and recorder in Chaffee County, a Colorado community of about 20,000 rocked by Morphew’s disappearance last Mother’s Day. “Constant things in the news about her. There’s people at the grocery store passing out fliers.”

The ballot didn’t have Morphew’s signature as required, Mitchell said. But someone had signed on the “witness” line: The woman’s husband, Barry Morphew.

“I was stunned,” Mitchell recalled. “I couldn’t believe it. I was like, what in the world is going on?”

For a long time, she said, it was just something fishy that her office reported to law enforcement. Then Barry Morphew was charged this month with murdering his wife. This week, things got stranger still: Barry Morphew was also accused of casting his wife’s ballot in a fraudulent vote for President Donald Trump.

Barry Morphew echoed Trump’s false claims of election fraud as the motivation for his own alleged wrongdoing, according to an affidavit filed Thursday in court. The 53-year-old told FBI agents last month that he did it because “all these other guys are cheating” and said his wife would have backed Trump anyway.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: 2020; antrimcounty; barrymorphew; chaffeecounty; colorado; fbi; fraud; lorimitchell; matthewdeperno; mediawingofthednc; michigan; morphew; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; steal; stopthesteal; suzannemorphew; thesteal; trump; voterfraud
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To: carriage_hill

he admits that he did it, and there’s a ballot from a dead person with his signature as witness. yelling fake news doesn’t make it fake news.


21 posted on 05/15/2021 9:29:30 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: Fractal Trader

If convicted of murder his lawyer should get this sentence to run concurrent.


22 posted on 05/15/2021 10:07:42 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Fractal Trader

So the Washington compost doesn’t lift a finger to investigate allegations multiple allegations of multiple violations of election laws including fraud

But it does find one guy who cast an illegal vote for Donald Trump


23 posted on 05/15/2021 10:23:52 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (#LeaveTheGOP. Pass it on Liberty Valance Time. The point of a gun is the only law they understan)
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To: HollyB

They couldn’t wait to write this article as the Arizona audit is underway.

Exactly. Our mockingbird press does what the corrupt FBI tells it to write. The regime must be supported.


24 posted on 05/15/2021 10:30:31 PM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: BrexitBen

There is nothing fake about this story. It proves we need stronger laws combat voter fraud. If the woman was not widely known to be missing this would never have been noticed.


25 posted on 05/15/2021 11:53:04 PM PDT by nbenyo
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To: Rusty0604

I don’t claim to know this one individual clerk’s politics or level of professionalism. I don’t generally have a high opinion of people working in government based on my experiences, but from the information in this article, this clerk did the right thing in this case.

Voter fraud is voter fraud, regardless of who it benefits. Do I wish we had much more stringent voting controls in place to ensure better election integrity? 100% absolutely! Is that critical to our election security and our nation? Yes! But in this one case, a clerk did their job. No fault in that.


26 posted on 05/16/2021 12:05:14 AM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
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To: Fractal Trader

So I’m suppose to believe the Washington Post Now?


27 posted on 05/16/2021 12:05:45 AM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: algore

I saw this a few days ago, It is an easy low hanging fruit hit piece.

but in real life I am not concerned about a single vote fraud committed by a murderer, even if it is a good headline

The real story is that Trump supporters are murderers!!!!!!!


28 posted on 05/16/2021 12:07:23 AM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: algore

you should be concerned


29 posted on 05/16/2021 12:38:21 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: Fractal Trader

“Barry Morphew echoed Trump’s false claims of election fraud”

Then I guess this Barry guy is innocent, huh?


30 posted on 05/16/2021 3:14:07 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: Fractal Trader

VOTE FRAUD is VOTE FRAUD!!


31 posted on 05/16/2021 3:17:51 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Fractal Trader
Trump’s false claims of election fraud

Only the mentally ill could hold conflicting thoughts of election fraud and no election fraud in their heads at the same time.

32 posted on 05/16/2021 3:30:14 AM PDT by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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To: Fractal Trader

Isn’t amazing how the Comm Post heralds a single illegal vote for Trump, while totally ignoring the 15 million illegal votes for resident Biden.


33 posted on 05/16/2021 3:50:38 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: Fractal Trader

Wow, they found one.

Meanwhile, millions went the opposite way


34 posted on 05/16/2021 5:11:59 AM PDT by Pollard
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To: Fractal Trader
Sounds like a good reason for all the states to launch forensic ballot audits to me. We can't let those fraudsters get away with their crimes.

Of course they may be surprised what those audits come up with.

35 posted on 05/16/2021 7:05:49 AM PDT by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: Fractal Trader

Liberals think the unlawful vote is a worse offense than the murder, I’m sure.


36 posted on 05/16/2021 12:36:55 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: Fractal Trader

The fist Vote for a Republican by a Dead Voter in recorded History.


37 posted on 05/16/2021 12:39:20 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

38 posted on 05/17/2021 6:53:06 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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