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LonePirate

(13,424 posts)
Tue Dec 3, 2019, 09:57 PM Dec 2019

Another Republican facing voter fraud allegations




Sherman Smith @sherman_news

U.S. Rep. Steve Watkins faces allegations of voter fraud and perjury after listing UPS store in Topeka as home residence on voter registration. He actually lives in Overbrook but cast ballot in last month's Topeka elections #ksleg #ks02 via
@TimVCarpenter


https://www.cjonline.com/news/20191203/us-rep-steve-watkins-tangled-in-voter-fraud-perjury-allegations-for-listing-ups-store-as-residence
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Takket

(21,573 posts)
3. maybe they all decided to commit voter fraud since their attempts at supression
Tue Dec 3, 2019, 10:00 PM
Dec 2019

for fraud have fallen flat because.... well.... there just isn't any voter fraud.

mokawanis

(4,441 posts)
4. Sorry everybody, I thought I resided in a UPS store in Topeka
Tue Dec 3, 2019, 10:08 PM
Dec 2019

turns out I reside on Overbrook. Got the two confused I guess.

salin

(48,955 posts)
7. So he was homeless (and only had a PO box at aUPS store) or committed fraud (still lived in Alaska.)
Tue Dec 3, 2019, 10:42 PM
Dec 2019

His political career should be toast - but in this era - laws only apply to the non-connected/wealthy/overclass.

Book mark this. When 2020 approaches and "election fraud" becomes the GOP go-to excuse before the election, to de-legitimate results in advance (as Trump did in 2016), and use bring this story back. Compare a documented case (who is still in Congress), to the insinuations that are tied to now documented cases.

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