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Scuba

(53,475 posts)
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 11:02 AM Jun 2014

We finally found some voter fraud! Republican caught voting multiple times in multiple states.

http://bloggingblue.com/2014/06/republican-caught-voting-multiple-times-in-multiple-states/

Most of the alleged illegal voting occurred during the recall elections in 2011 involving Gov. Scott Walker and GOP state Sen. Alberta Darling of River Hills, but Monroe is also accused of voting multiple times in the 2012 presidential election. While Monroe claimed to be so disinterested in politics that he had not voted twice in the past 20 years, investigators obtained records using search warrants for his cell phone and computer that paint another picture.

A text message sent from Monroe’s phone on Aug. 4, 2011, urged a woman: “Election is next Tuesday! U better show up. If out of town go to city hall and vote early. Alberta Darling is name to check.” On May 21 another text read: “Are u and your family ready to vote June 5? I am driving my kids to make sure they cast their votes. Every vote counts.”

...

During the 2012 recall election of Walker, Monroe voted at least six times: once from a Shorewood home he shares with his girlfriend; once from a home in Milwaukee that is part of a family trust; once from each of those addresses using absentee ballots, and voting absentee using the name of his son and his girlfriend’s son.

Monroe also allegedly voted multiple times in the 2012 election from Milwaukee and Shorewood then driving to Indiana, where he voted using a home he owns there as his residence.
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We finally found some voter fraud! Republican caught voting multiple times in multiple states. (Original Post) Scuba Jun 2014 OP
sometimes the bogus claims we make against others are the things we do ourselves? KittyWampus Jun 2014 #1
And sometimes they always are. Orsino Jun 2014 #15
Yep. catrose Jun 2014 #26
Masters of Projection PeoViejo Jun 2014 #34
K & R !!! WillyT Jun 2014 #2
Oh snap! JustAnotherGen Jun 2014 #3
A few years ago an investigation in the Kansas City area into voter fraud SheilaT Jun 2014 #4
Figures!! riversedge Jun 2014 #32
Then there was the woman, a Republican, of course, who got caught tblue37 Jun 2014 #38
The ice crystal on the tip of the iceberg. Baitball Blogger Jun 2014 #5
yes with e voting & counting questionseverything Jun 2014 #8
I hope we can expose their pattern to stop it from spreading. Baitball Blogger Jun 2014 #21
It's always projection with repukelicans. If they're accusing people of doing it, republicans are Ed Suspicious Jun 2014 #6
+ infinity. n/t NRaleighLiberal Jun 2014 #10
And in any of these cases would voter ID laws have stopped them? caraher Jun 2014 #7
As far as I can tell, it's No to all of them. Jim Lane Jun 2014 #29
$10 says this gets traced back to the Koch traitors. Initech Jun 2014 #9
A skunk always smells his own hole first randr Jun 2014 #11
I haven't heard that in years. lol nt Mnemosyne Jun 2014 #24
Did you mean "smells up"? nt tblue37 Jun 2014 #39
Ann Coulter Bickle Jun 2014 #12
actually horse whipped would be more appropriate dembotoz Jun 2014 #20
Ah! No WONDER they claim to know so much about voter fraud. They wrote the book. DFW Jun 2014 #13
you sell banksters short n/t reddread Jun 2014 #23
Who said a banker can't rob his own bank? DFW Jun 2014 #30
What about snowbirds? KT2000 Jun 2014 #14
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel is all over this story--NOT dragonlady Jun 2014 #16
The Walker recall vote never passed the "smell test" to me. Botany Jun 2014 #17
"The Walker recall vote never passed the "smell test" to me." Gee, why not? Scuba Jun 2014 #19
A woman in Vegas busted for voting Republican more than once said, "Why do Dems get to do it?" Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2014 #18
Republicans are always guilty of what they accuse others of doing. GoCubsGo Jun 2014 #22
K Cha Jun 2014 #25
still, G_j Jun 2014 #27
Something seems wrong... The Road Runner Jun 2014 #28
where, oh where onethatcares Jun 2014 #31
Plugging his ears and putting a scarf over his eyes. riversedge Jun 2014 #33
And it's too late to do anything about it. Repukes don't care tho. hue Jun 2014 #35
voter fraud is about blacks, not whites 1Greensix Jun 2014 #36
REC Number Ninety Eight--Two more and this beauty cracks a hundred!!!! MADem Jun 2014 #37
 

KittyWampus

(55,894 posts)
1. sometimes the bogus claims we make against others are the things we do ourselves?
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 11:07 AM
Jun 2014

Didn't Ann Coulter also fall afoul of voting laws?

catrose

(5,059 posts)
26. Yep.
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 11:01 PM
Jun 2014

Ann Coulter voted in the wrote precinct because she didn't want to stand in line or she hadn't changed her voting registration or something.

 

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
4. A few years ago an investigation in the Kansas City area into voter fraud
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 11:38 AM
Jun 2014

turned up two or four who'd voted on both sides of the state line. They were all Republicans.

tblue37

(65,227 posts)
38. Then there was the woman, a Republican, of course, who got caught
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 08:30 PM
Jun 2014

trying to vote twice in 2012. She claimed she just wanted to "prove" how easy it is to do so. All she proved was how easy it is to catch such efforts and prevent them from succeeding.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/28/roxanne-rubin_n_2566297.html

Roxanne Rubin, Nevada Republican, Accepts Plea Deal After Committing Voter Fraud

A Nevada Republican arrested for voter fraud in the 2012 election, after claiming she was trying to test the system's integrity, pled guilty and accepted a plea deal Thursday, forcing her to pay almost $2,500 and promise to stay out of trouble.

Roxanne Rubin, 56, a casino worker on the Las Vegas Strip, was arrested on Nov. 3, 2012 after trying to vote twice, once at her poling site in Henderson and then at a second site in Las Vegas. The poll workers at the second site said that she had already voted, but Rubin said that she hadn't and insisted on casting a ballot, which the poll workers refused to allow her to do.

Rubin said that she was trying to show how easy it would be to commit voter fraud with just a signature. "This has always been an issue with me. I just feel the system is flawed," she told the AP Thursday. "If we’re showing ID for everything else, why wouldn’t we show our ID in order to vote?”

<snip>

Democratic Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller, who has called for a photo ID law, slammed Rubin in a statement. "If Ms. Rubin was trying to demonstrate how easy it is to commit voter fraud, she clearly failed and proved just the opposite," he said.

questionseverything

(9,645 posts)
8. yes with e voting & counting
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 01:08 PM
Jun 2014

10,000 votes can appear or disappear with the click of a button

but if they set the program too high the results show impossible numbers (100 ballots cast but 150 votes)

so they resort to voting from multiple sites and/or restricting access to voting with either id laws or long lines

so while this is just the tip of the ice berg,it is a tip we can prove and my colleges will continue looking for "multiple voters" , especially in wealthy vacation areas

<smiles> for the people of wisconsin who simply do not give up!!!!!

Ed Suspicious

(8,879 posts)
6. It's always projection with repukelicans. If they're accusing people of doing it, republicans are
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 12:35 PM
Jun 2014

doing it.

caraher

(6,278 posts)
7. And in any of these cases would voter ID laws have stopped them?
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 01:03 PM
Jun 2014

If he voted in Indiana that's one definite "No..."

 

Jim Lane

(11,175 posts)
29. As far as I can tell, it's No to all of them.
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 01:35 AM
Jun 2014

In many cases he voted in his own real name. He had simply registered in more than one jurisdiction where he had a claim to residence.

When he voted in other people's names it was by absentee ballots. More than one election protection expert has said that absentee ballots are where the real serious fraud is, and of course voter ID makes no difference there.

Bickle

(109 posts)
12. Ann Coulter
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 01:36 PM
Jun 2014

Has been caught not once, but twice. Nothing of course has happened to her. She should have been arrested and frogmarched,

DFW

(54,291 posts)
13. Ah! No WONDER they claim to know so much about voter fraud. They wrote the book.
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 01:41 PM
Jun 2014

No one knows more about bank robbery than a bank robber, after all.......

DFW

(54,291 posts)
30. Who said a banker can't rob his own bank?
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 04:00 AM
Jun 2014

A suit, a tie, a laptop and a password, and you can do a hundred times better than three guys in balaclavas with AK-47s.

KT2000

(20,568 posts)
14. What about snowbirds?
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 01:56 PM
Jun 2014

I have always wondered if they are also voting in two places - their summer home and their winter home.

dragonlady

(3,577 posts)
16. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel is all over this story--NOT
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 01:58 PM
Jun 2014

Nothing on the home web page, nothing from a search on the name "Robert Monroe," nothing on the All Politics blog. Is the muckraker Bice on vacation?

Botany

(70,447 posts)
17. The Walker recall vote never passed the "smell test" to me.
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 01:59 PM
Jun 2014

But I doubt that anything will be done.

GoCubsGo

(32,074 posts)
22. Republicans are always guilty of what they accuse others of doing.
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 03:32 PM
Jun 2014

I'm guessing this is just the tip of the ice berg.

G_j

(40,366 posts)
27. still,
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 11:07 PM
Jun 2014

Except for a few slips of the tongue, they always claim their voting restrictions are non partisan, a means of addressing ALL voter fraud.
I'm not sure if this helps in the fight against voter suppression.

The Road Runner

(109 posts)
28. Something seems wrong...
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 11:18 PM
Jun 2014

...when the Republicans can win their own argument for the need for voter ID by perpetrating the very offense that they are simultaneously trying to legislate against! They are basically saying: "We require legislation to stop ourselves from cheating! Look!!! We're doing it now!" Makes it hard to argue with them!

It is rather brilliant in its own twisted way, as long as they don't mind looking like idiots- which clearly they don't.

hue

(4,949 posts)
35. And it's too late to do anything about it. Repukes don't care tho.
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 10:50 AM
Jun 2014

Who is gonna stop them!!

Thanks Scuba for the exposure!!

1Greensix

(111 posts)
36. voter fraud is about blacks, not whites
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 10:53 AM
Jun 2014

When Republicans talk about voter fraud, they're talking about a black woman on welfare, living in government housing, on food stamps, using an expired drivers license for identification. They DON'T mean rich white men using each of their multiple homes as their legal residence and voting multiple times in one election. Why, that would be stupid wouldn't it?
How else can a rich white man have more of a voice in government than a poor woman if he can't vote more times than her in an election? If he has more money, why shouldn't he have more privileges than a poor woman, especially if that poor woman is Black?
I'll bet that Monroe's name doesn't come up once the next time a Republican talks about voter fraud. What do you think?

MADem

(135,425 posts)
37. REC Number Ninety Eight--Two more and this beauty cracks a hundred!!!!
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 10:57 AM
Jun 2014

Funny how they who smelt it most certainly dealt it!!!!

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