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Iowa Refers 80 Cases of Vote Fraud
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<blockquote data-quote="SnowCal" data-source="post: 65093663" data-attributes="member: 300913"><p>Hmm. So far Iowa's managed to land 5 convictions and 5 dismissals on the 16 charges of voter fraud it's taken to court. Here are the convictions (all plead guilty):</p><p> </p><p>3 were felons who thought their right to vote was restored when they finished their sentence. That would've been true as recently as 2011 but the new Republican governor signed an executive order eliminating that practice on his first day in office. Felons now need to petition his office for a restoration of their voting rights. A couple dozen have succeeded in doing so. These three clearly didn't.</p><p> </p><p>The other two are pathetic. A mother whose daughter had gone off to college in another state got a call from her daughter that she'd missed the registration deadline in that state. Mom checked the boxes on her Iowa absentee ballot so her daughter could vote in Iowa instead. Turned out that the daughter was wrong and did manage to vote in her new state. Mom turned herself in to local authorities. The judge ignored the possibility of a felony sentence with years in jail and instead gave her a $150 fine.</p><p> </p><p>The last was a guy who got a DUI, lost his license, and stole his dead brother's identity so he could keep driving. Did he vote twice? No. Was he ineligible to vote? No. Did he vote under his fake identity? You betchya.</p><p> </p><p>Given that the whole purpose of this 'voter fraud probe' was to provide political cover for Republican voter license requirements, it's a shame that none of the convictions are cases where voter ID would even be useful.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SnowCal, post: 65093663, member: 300913"] Hmm. So far Iowa's managed to land 5 convictions and 5 dismissals on the 16 charges of voter fraud it's taken to court. Here are the convictions (all plead guilty): 3 were felons who thought their right to vote was restored when they finished their sentence. That would've been true as recently as 2011 but the new Republican governor signed an executive order eliminating that practice on his first day in office. Felons now need to petition his office for a restoration of their voting rights. A couple dozen have succeeded in doing so. These three clearly didn't. The other two are pathetic. A mother whose daughter had gone off to college in another state got a call from her daughter that she'd missed the registration deadline in that state. Mom checked the boxes on her Iowa absentee ballot so her daughter could vote in Iowa instead. Turned out that the daughter was wrong and did manage to vote in her new state. Mom turned herself in to local authorities. The judge ignored the possibility of a felony sentence with years in jail and instead gave her a $150 fine. The last was a guy who got a DUI, lost his license, and stole his dead brother's identity so he could keep driving. Did he vote twice? No. Was he ineligible to vote? No. Did he vote under his fake identity? You betchya. Given that the whole purpose of this 'voter fraud probe' was to provide political cover for Republican voter license requirements, it's a shame that none of the convictions are cases where voter ID would even be useful. [/QUOTE]
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