Applauding The Supreme Court
"New Mexico
02.29.08
A Sunland Park Municipal Judge candidate has been charged with vote
fraud for allegedly voting twice in the 2004 election. Questions have
also arisen as to whether Horacio Favela actually lives in New Mexico.
According to a criminal complaint, the Doña Ana County Bureau of
Elections opened an investigation when it received anonymous
information indicating that Favela may live in El Paso. A search of
voter records showed Favela allegedly voted in El Paso County in 2002
and 2004 and in Doña Ana County in 2000 and 2004. The complaint further
alleges that Favela voted twice by absentee in 2004. Favela allegedly
told investigators that he stays in El Paso on the weekends to visit
his grandchildren and did recall voting twice in 2004. He faces one
count of false voting, a fourth-degree felony punishable by up to 18
months in prison. The Las Cruces Sun-News has more on the story here.
02.27.07
The state Attorney
General's Office has secured indictments against two Rio Arriba County
men implicated in an alleged vote-buying scheme in the city of
Española's 2006 municipal elections. The vote-buying allegations came
to light in a Rio Grande Sun report published in February 2006. The
newspaper quoted unnamed Española public housing residents as saying
political operatives working for mayoral hopeful Floyd Archuleta's
slate were buying votes. The Archuleta camp denied the charges.
Archuleta and the other members of his slate all went on to lose in
their respective races. (“2 indicted in alleged vote-buying scheme,
suspects facing fine, prison time,” The Albuquerque Journal, 02/27/07)"
In the meantime, 25+ states can insure their voting process by requiring photo ID;
"Twenty-five states require some form of ID, and the court's 6-3 decision rejecting a challenge to Indiana's strict voter ID law could encourage others to adopt their own measures. Oklahoma legislators said the decision should help them get a version approved.
The ruling means the ID requirement will be in effect for next week's presidential primary in Indiana, where a significant number of new voters are expected to turn out for the Democratic contest between Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama."
This is probably not good news in Shrillary's camp, as many of her supporters are illegal aliens. tsk tsk




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