Indiana Republican Secretary Of State Found Guilty Of Voter Fraud
Let’s admit it, we all saw this one coming. After passing restrictive voter ID laws to combat non-existent voter fraud, it turns out that so far, the only people really committing voter fraud are Republicans. During the New Hampshire primary last month, conservative journalist wannabe James O’Keefe committed voter fraud on camera. And now, the Republican Secretary of State in Indiana has been found guilty of committing voter fraud.
According to the Indianapolis Star, Charlie White was convicted of 6 felony charges, three of which involve voter fraud. Apparently, White claimed he lived on one side of the town of Fishers with his ex-wife, when he actually lived on the other side of town with his fiancée. In others words, he lied about his residency on his voter registration. Oops.
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White now faces up to three years in prison for each count but could serve the minimum six months per count. The judge could also reduce the felony conviction to a mere misdemeanor which is basically a slap on the wrist. If White was a poor Democrat, Republicans would undoubtedly be calling for the maximum punishment. But since White is a Caucasian Republican, Republicans want the judge to go easy on him. Governor Mitch Daniels actually intends to let White have his position back if the judge is lenient. So basically, Daniels wants a Secretary of State who commits voter fraud to be the guy that certifies elections in the state. For the time being, White’s chief deputy Jerry Bonnet is temporarily taking over as Secretary of State.
This is exactly the kind of hypocrisy that Republicans have been committing for years now. In an effort to prevent Democratic constituencies from voting in 2012, Republicans across the country have been passing or attempting to pass voting laws that require a state voter ID which many students, poor people, and senior citizens don’t have or can’t afford. Republicans claim that the new laws prevent voter fraud. But voter fraud is very rare in the United States and lately it seems that only Republicans are guilty of the crime. Indiana has had a strict voter ID law in place since 2005. It was even signed by Mitch Daniels. Republicans claimed at the time that it would prevent voter fraud. But apparently, it has failed.
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1:30 pm
Great piece, Stephen! Just want to thank you for sharing.
12:19 pm
Vindicating though it is to find out that members of the Homophobia Party AKA GOP turn out to have been guilty of assorted crimes commensurate with their mendacity and inhumanity, it is hardly reassuring and good for society.
Politics should not be so simplistically divisible between GoodEvil = DemocratsRepublicans.
While one would hardly wish to call for politicians to evince the antiseptic perfection of a robot, at least all candidates for the Presidency, for the Congress and for the Judiciary should be exemplary citizens, above reproach, and above all, human beings with a genuine love and compassion for their fellow man.
11:42 am
I’m shocked–SHOCKED, I tell you!–to learn that a repuglican politician would do something underhanded and illegal to influence an election. What in the name of Diebold is this world coming to? (The preceding was sarcasm, in case you happen to be a mouthbreathing Fox Noise viewer or a repugliteabagger. Sarcasm doesn’t always translate well online, so I wanted to spell it out for you. What this story reinforces is the fact that people get the government they deserve. If they’re foolish enough to vote for repuglican candidates, they shouldn’t be surprised when they’re on the receiving end of corruption, greed, and power grabs. It’s the repuglican modus operandi.)
11:01 am
That’s a bold and passionate statement, but what part of being at the mercy of a group of ignorant people who’ve been lied to, for years, by amoral professional thieves and liars, gives ME the government that I deserve?
I research the politicians in my area, and the state and federal ones as well, that I go out to vote for, and know that the ads attacking the ones with good voting records are paid for by lying scum with an agenda. But the thousands or millions of ignorant people who watch those ads and are taken in by the pretty pictures and the big letters and the subliminal messages and the moving soundtracks, and don’t do any research more comprehensive than watching Fox News, make it so that my researched vote means very little.
I still vote, and vote carefully, don’t get me wrong. But if an overwhelming landslide of sheeple elect Santorum in the next Presidential election, and he proceeds to dismantle what’s left of the Constitution and turn our country into the Ecclesiastic States of Amerikkka, how is that fair to me, or to you? I wouldn’t have the government I deserve, I’d have a living nightmare for the remainder of my undoubtedly short and unhappy existence. (I’m on Social Security, which he’s already said he would have cut years ago.)
No, I’m sorry, but that’s one of the sayings I don’t agree with. We may end up with government that billionaires have bought and paid for, or that the bad little fundamentalist “christians” finally managed to force down our throats, but neither of them will be what anyone deserves. In the words of Will Muney, from the movie “Unforgiven”; “deserve ain’t got nothin’ to do with it.”
God help us all.