{"id":6002,"date":"2008-05-19T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6002"},"modified":"2013-09-30T19:57:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T02:57:34","slug":"despite-expensive-two-year-effort-to-root-out-epidemic-of-voter-fraud-tx-republican-ag-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6002","title":{"rendered":"Despite Expensive Two-Year Effort to Root Out ‘Epidemic of Voter Fraud,’ TX Republican AG Fails"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas’ Republican Attorney General has found that there’s little or no “voter fraud” of note down there either, despite a promise two years ago, according to the Dallas Morning News<\/i><\/a>, to “root out what he called an epidemic of voter fraud in Texas,” and his creation of a special unit which “tapped a $1.4 million federal crime-fighting grant” to expose the election stealing rascals.<\/p>\n

For all of his crime-fighting in those two years, across the big Lonestar State, TX AG Greg Abbott has prosecuted just 26 cases, “all against Democrats, and almost all involving blacks or Hispanics,” according to the Morning News<\/i>, most of which resulted in “small fines and little or no jail time.” <\/p>\n

Additionally, almost all of them (18 of 26) involved mail-in absentee ballots where elderly voters were “illegally” given assistance in mailing their ballots, versus in-person voter impersonation of the type that cynical GOP attempts to mandate draconian polling place Photo ID restrictions are purportedly<\/i> meant to deter. (In reality, they are meant to deter Democrats from being able to cast their legal ballots, so Republicans can more easily “win” elections.)<\/p>\n

Just eight of the 26 prosecuted cases, the Morning News<\/i> found, out of Abbott’s two-year effort, involved any kind of ineligible or manufactured votes — only 2 actually involved individuals casting fraudulent ballots<\/em> at the polls, the rest were registration fraud issues — and none of them revealed any larger conspiratorial scheme meant to effect the results of an election.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, critics charge Abbott has been ignoring complaints about Republican election skulduggery, and we’d be remiss if we didn’t point out that nobody has bothered to prosecute Republicanist Ann Coulter, for her several demonstrable voter fraud-related felony crimes in Florida<\/b> despite, dead-to-rights evidence as published by The BRAD BLOG<\/a> since early 2006.<\/p>\n

We’d also like to point out, that in addition to there not<\/i> being “an epidemic of voter fraud in Texas,” there is similarly no such epidemic among space aliens either. Though Ted Rall suggests<\/a> we may wish to implement some new measures there too…just in case…<\/p>\n

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Texas’ Republican Attorney General has found that there’s little or no “voter fraud” of note down there either, despite a promise two years ago, according to the Dallas Morning News, to “root out what he called an epidemic of voter fraud in Texas,” and his creation of a special unit which “tapped a $1.4 million […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,106,650,172,300,47],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ann-coulter","category-election-fraud","category-greg-abbott","category-photo-id-laws","category-republicans","category-texas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6002"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}