4 Indiana Dems charged with election fraud in 2008
By Eric Shawn
Published April 2, 2012 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.
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. Morgan, the County Democratic Chairman, allegedly "instructed Mr. Burkett, Pamela Brunette, Beverly Shelton, and Dustin Blythe to forge ballot petitions for presidential candidates," and that "all of them agreed to follow these instructions" by copying names and signatures from old election petitions.
According to affidavits, Burkett told investigators it was his job to "forge petitions for candidate Barack Obama," Shelton "was assigned to forge petitions for candidate Hillary Clinton" and Blythe "was assigned to forge petitions for candidate John Edwards." When Edwards dropped out of the race at the end of January 2008 and Burkett refused to continue the forgeries, Morgan allegedly ordered Blythe to then forge petitions for Barack Obama.
Again... no "dead" voter came to the polls... No illegal voter voted... no one voted more than once... This is a typical case of "fraud" but not really VOTER FRAUD... It's actually fraud by election officials, similar to the case in Troy NY.
All the attempts to limit minority Democrats from voting in the next election that are passed off as protections against "voter fraud", would have made no difference in the case above.
Conservatives should help pass laws against this very real issue of ELECTION FRAUD, and leave the present voter laws alone.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
4 Indiana Dems charged with election fraud in 2008
Funny but all of the voter fraud emerging are all from the lefty wackos.....including our very own Troy-let!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
Kentucky: ~ 8 Republicans Convicted of Voter Fraud In Kentucky http://drudgeretort.wordpress.com/2011/05/15/kentucky-republicans-convicted-of-election-fraud/ *The sentencing of all eight is as follows... *Freddy Thompson, 47, Republican Clay County Clerk, Chairman of the Board of Elections, (12 1/2 years) *Cletus Maricle, 67, Clay County Circuit Court Judge, (26 1/2+ years) *Douglas C. Adams, 59, Clay County School Superintendent, (Almost 24 1/2 years) *Stanley Bowling, 60, former Magistrate, (15 years) *Paul Bishop, 61, Republican Precinct Judge (3 years) *William E. Stivers, 58, Board of Elections Officer, (24+ years) *Charles Wayne Jones, 71, Board of Elections Commissioner (20 years): *William B. Morris, 52 (20 years)
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
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