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| Ballot fraud won’t send elderly Miami woman to jail but she will lose right to vote | |
| 2017-08-17 | |
| [MIAMIHERALD] Everybody agreed: When Gladys Coego covertly filled in other people’s absentee ballots while working at the Miami-Dade elections headquarters, she chipped away at the integrity of the voting system. But at 74, Coego is elderly, diabetic and depressed, her relatives told a judge on Wednesday. She had no previous criminal record. And nobody -- not detectives, prosecutors or even Coego herself -- could say why she filled in the ballots. She had no known ties to any campaign, there was no evidence anyone paid her and she illegally filled only a few ballots before being spotted. Yet her small-time case
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... railed about widespread national voter fraud. "Emotionally, I am destroyed," Coego said in Spanish. "I have no explanation for what I have done. ... No one offered me anything in exchange for what I did." For those reasons, a Miami-Dade judge on Wednesday declined to sentence Coego to jail, instead ordering her to serve two years of house arrest, plus three years of probation. Circuit Judge Alberto Milián acknowledged that "there is a perception in this community that there is a lack of integrity in the election process, especially in the issue of absentee ballots." | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #11 Given inflation since then, you'd need a small semi. They use EBT cards now. That way they don't even have to use their own money! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2017-08-17 20:12 |
| #10 LBJ used to carry small bills in his car trunk on election day in Texas... Given inflation since then, you'd need a small semi. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-08-17 17:20 |
| #9 "Walkin around money." |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-08-17 15:45 |
| #8 There was a poll tax in Texas back then; the Democratic Party 'helpfully' supplied the cash to certain prospective voters. I highly doubt that receipts were asked for, but they knew what the votes would be. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-08-17 15:08 |
| #7 LBJ used to carry small bills in his car trunk on election day in Texas Everything is so expensive nowadays. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-08-17 13:28 |
| #6 there was no evidence anybody paid her LBJ used to carry small bills in his car trunk on election day in Texas... |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-08-17 13:22 |
| #5 Some friggin' PMITA jail time and hefty fines to discourage their cancelling out actual American Citizen's votes |
| Posted by: Frank G on the Road 2017-08-17 09:28 |
| #4 The other side is waiting for some unknown outside force to impose fairness. Waiting for the holy Constitution to smite blasphemers with lightning? :-) |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-08-17 07:46 |
| #3 The problem is, the left is completely willing to obtain power by any means. The other side is waiting for some unknown outside force to impose fairness. It ain't gonna happen... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2017-08-17 07:34 |
| #2 A little jail time for Gladys Coego might cool the motivation of others for future ballot fraud. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-08-17 07:27 |
| #1 the reason for the perception of a lack of ballot integrity is the reality of a lack of ballot integrity |
| Posted by: lord garth 2017-08-17 00:37 |