Indiana Police Investigate Apparent Election Fraud In County With History Of Democrat Ballot Crimes

[DadSmith]

IN Cops Probe Apparent Election Fraud In County With History Of Ballot Crime

St. Joseph County Clerk Amy Rolfes and her staff discovered hundreds of potentially fraudulent petition signatures and addresses.

thefederalist.com

Will anything come of this or a slap on the wrist?

 

[Ingomike]

IN Cops Probe Apparent Election Fraud In County With History Of Ballot Crime

St. Joseph County Clerk Amy Rolfes and her staff discovered hundreds of potentially fraudulent petition signatures and addresses.

thefederalist.com

Will anything come of this or a slap on the wrist?

“Falsifying campaign petitions, declarations, or certificates in Indiana is a Level 6 felony, which carries a maximum prison sentence of 2 1/2 years and up to a $10,000 fine.”

If they can I suspect they will get a conviction on this. This is not a battle over the presidency, it is a side show candidate and they will use this to show off how tough they are on election cheating…

 

[DadSmith]

“Falsifying campaign petitions, declarations, or certificates in Indiana is a Level 6 felony, which carries a maximum prison sentence of 2 1/2 years and up to a $10,000 fine.”

If they can I suspect they will get a conviction on this. This is not a battle over the presidency, it is a side show candidate and they will use this to show off how tough they are on election cheating…

I hope they do. Any kind of vote related fraud needs to be hammered. Maximum sentence every time.
Help keep election integrity.

 

[DadSmith]

"local Democratic Party leader was convicted a decade ago on a petition forgery scheme."

Why am I not surprised?

 

[Ingomike]

"local Democratic Party leader was convicted a decade ago on a petition forgery scheme."

Why am I not surprised?

I think we need to come up with a new idea to replace the BS petition, a vestige of a far past era. Not sure what, but something. The petition gathering process has attracted a lot of unsavory characters, methods, and literal crimes so candidates can get on the ballots.

It is also used for political dirty tricks as well. Parties try to keep others off the ballot by rejecting signatures. In Michigan the top two republicans for governor to challenge nitwitmer stupidly used a petition gathering firm that the dems got to somehow and many the signatures that were paid for were illegitimate and rejected leaving both candidates off the ballot.

It went to court but courts ruled they did not have legitimate signatures by the deadline and were not eligible to be on the ballot. So millions of republicans were denied the right to vote for the best republican candidates.

 

[Hookeye]

A gallows might help keep things legit

 

[EricG]

Imagine your fringe ideology being so unpopular, you'd have to rig elections. That has to be an awkward feeling.

 

[KellyinAvon]

St Joe County? I had Lake County in the pool.

 

[printcraft]

I was told this is impossible. And even if it were, it would make no difference.

 

[Shadow01]

IN Cops Probe Apparent Election Fraud In County With History Of Ballot Crime

St. Joseph County Clerk Amy Rolfes and her staff discovered hundreds of potentially fraudulent petition signatures and addresses.

thefederalist.com

Will anything come of this or a slap on the wrist?

Seems the consensus across the country is if it wasn’t bad enough to actually change the outcome of the election, then it doesn’t matter.