The first case of voter fraud in New Mexico this election has been confirmed by the Rio Arriba County Clerk's Office.
According to the Rio Arriba County Clerk's office, a voter trying to cast an early ballot in Espanola Saturday was told he had already voted three days prior.
The man told poll workers he hadn't voted. He was then shown the signature of the voter, but he says it wasn't his signature.
Officials say they were able to confirm that the signature on the original ballot did not match the legal voter's signature on file.
http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S3607...FazasstB9A
Wait, I thought we didn't have things in place to catch voter fraud?
(11-03-2014 11:03 AM)Redwingtom Wrote: [ -> ]Wait, I thought we didn't have things in place to catch voter fraud?
It got caught, but if you had actually read the article you'll see that the actual voter's vote very well may not count but the fraudulent one will
Quote: Officials say they were able to confirm that the signature on the original ballot did not match the legal voter's signature on file.
Poll workers allowed the man to vote on a provisional ballot, but election officials will have to determine whether the provisional ballot can be counted. Elections officials have no legal means of actually verifying signatures or confirming identification of a voter.
"The poll workers and the Rio Arriba County Clerk’s office did a good job in responding to the situation, following all the procedures available to them," said Bobbi Shearer of the Secretary of State’s office Saturday, "I have nothing, but praise for their efforts to try to ensure integrity in the election. It is just that under current law there are no means available to poll workers to help them determine if a voter is actually the person he says he is."
Shearer said the fraudulent voter's vote has already gone through a tabulator and cannot be identified or separated from all the legitimate ballots in the machine.
So the ability of this citizen who did absolutely nothing wrong to exercise their Constitutional right to participate in the electoral process comes down to the whim of the election officials. And you just want to make jokes. Speaks volumes about you.
(11-03-2014 11:03 AM)Redwingtom Wrote: [ -> ]Wait, I thought we didn't have things in place to catch voter fraud?
We also have things in place to deal with illegals - how's that working?
(11-03-2014 11:03 AM)Redwingtom Wrote: [ -> ]Wait, I thought we didn't have things in place to catch voter fraud?
Only because the guy actually came in to vote. What if he didn't want to vote this year? Are you okay with someone else voting in place of him? Nobody would have known it wasn't him voting if it weren't for him coming in to vote himself.
(11-03-2014 11:03 AM)Redwingtom Wrote: [ -> ]Wait, I thought we didn't have things in place to catch voter fraud?
We don't and we didn't.
If you read the article, the fraudulent voter got away with it.
It's the legitimate voter that is having the problem.
If they would ask for ID's this wouldn't have happened.
