Well, It Happened Again. VOTER FRAUD!
Another non-citizen voted in Texas.
A Grand Prairie woman who is not an American citizen was arrested Friday on charges she voted illegally in Dallas County, prosecutors said.
Rosa Maria Ortega, 35, was booked into the Tarrant County Jail and was being held on $10,000 bond.
Damn Democrats, stealing elections by voting all those foreigners.
Wait, you say?
Oh yeah, once again it’s Republicans cheating more than anybody buried on Boot Hill.
Dallas County Elections Administrator Toni Pippins-Poole said records showed that Ortega had voted a total of five times.
The first was in the Republican primary in 2004 and the most recent was the Republican primary runoff in May 2014, Pippins-Poole said.
When Republicans point a finger at me, I will bet you my best pair of pink boots that they are talking about something skanky that they themselves are doing.
For example, I know of three cases of voter fraud in my county. The first involved a Republican county commissioner stealing votes from elderly black voters with their vote by mail ballots. He voted them all in the Republican primary.
The second involved a Republican assistant county attorney that my newspaper boss and I chased into a bathroom when she ran from us.
The third was a Republican running for county commissioner who we caught red-handed voting by mail in one state and voting in person in another.
And, nope, none of them were prosecuted because we have a Republican wimpy weasel for a district attorney.
Republicans. Screw ‘um.
And was voter ID any help on any of those? Of course not…
1Why am I not surprised???
After the Selection of GHW Bush there was a trial with evidence showing stolen ballots with all the same handwriting on them and the thief not convicted. A Republican, of course.
Don’t trust the Diebold machines.
2More of that Republicon outreach, prosecuting a woman with a Latina sounding name who voted Republicon.
Should be an interesting trial. Seems she has been there at least 11 years and married to a citizen much if not all of that time. Is it that difficult for the spouse of a US citizen to become a citizen? Did her spouse want her to become a citizen? In fact, did he discourage her from learning enough English to understand her voting situation?
That she voted Republicon makes me very suspicious of her circumstances/safety. I don’t know about Texas, but there are plenty of controlling SOBs here in Nevada that marry to use that “green card” as a form of abuse and control.
Meanwhile, there’s no doubt that Republicons will paint this one instance as the norm and ignore any and all mitigating factors regarding Ms. Ortega.
Miss Juanita Jean can you ascertain if the hubby is a registered Republicon? Something about this case doesn’t pass the smell test.
3I was going to ask if there’s a higher authority that can be asked to look into these refusals to prosecute voter fraud, but in Texas I suppose that higher authority would be Republican too and see no problem with any of it.
Maryland has been taking some heat, and justifiably so, for our ridiculously gerrymandered districts (which I voted against accepting because Please). But there are a number of ridiculously GOP-gerrymandered states, and I don’t want to let them get away with it if we have to straighten up. One suggestion was to twin Maryland and Virginia in the redrawing of lines so there’s some balance, but we’d run out of Dem gerrymandered states to pair with GOP gerrymandered states before we could do that nationwide.
4Polite Cool Marxist .. marriage does not get you citizenship .. this has become a bit of a problem with the military marrying overseas .. doesn’t always mean their spouse can get citizenship .. some even have problems getting resident visas as even those are limited by country of birth.
Even being here 4-10 years with a green card working and paying taxes does not guarantee you a spot for citizenship .. even sometimes with a STEM degree.
5Rhea, let’s baffle the snacilbupeR with math and a straight line in all fifty states. Even let them pick whether to run the line N-S or E-W. Run the line until whatever the current # of population is achieved to be a district. That’s District #1. etc, until all the Congressional Districts are drawn for a state.
I don’t know which “pairing” plan would make me crazier; being thrown in with Utah or AZ. So yes, let’s district by the numbers and with straight lines.
While we are at it, let’s start over and reduce the size of the House by half or as close as we can and leave alone the states with only 1 representative. Nevada has 4, and we’d happily give up Amodei, Hardy and Heck. Bet we are not the only state that would be happy to take our crazy off the Congressional welfare roles.
6Melissa, thanks for your answer and continued proof we need immigration reform. Good people waiting for years in lines that don’t exist; yes, something needs fixing.
I still want to know who the Congressvarmints were who spirited Rupert Murdoch to the head of that imaginary line, along with a boatload of favors bending our laws so he could monopolize our media. We could talk about Cruz, Rubio and the past and future wives of T-Rump, too.
7PKM, the ungreat state of South Dakota, where I was born, raised, and escaped, ought to give up all 3 of its wholly Koch-owned Repugnant office holders to be replaced by real human beings.
Just sayin.
8One of my pet peeves is when people say “they should get in line” as if there were one rational line for all immigrants. Here’s a good article that shows some of the problems – http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/12/17709883-waiting-half-a-life-for-a-green-card-families-languish-in-immigration-line?lite
9OK. This happened. In 2008 or 2010 iirc. In Florida because OF COURSE in Florida.
A bunch of registrations – all Democratic – were found in a dumpster. The doofus who tossed them was your typical **ahem** human expletive deleted. It seems he hadn’t figured on the person who found them having something as erudite as a brain. That person contacted the police who got to the bottom of it pretty damn quickly.
The workers who had gone out on the date in question [the one on those pesky registrations] had been assigned to certain areas. It was simply a matter of checking the addresses on the registrations and connecting the dots.
Oops.
Whether anyone was prosecuted, I never heard. But hey, this is Rick Scott’s Florida – so probably not. If those ballots had been Republican, however . . . .
10And, you never consider the expense. I’m taking Mexican nationality (I’ll be a dual citizen), the costs over the last five years (including lawyers fees) being somewhere around 4 or 5000 dollars all told. My “gringo card” was 5000 pesos (about 400 dollars), the only additional expense being about 40 pesos (3 dollars) for the photos and about 15 cents to make copies of my documents. It cost 660 DOLLARS just to begin the process to APPLY for a green card.
11Immigration law has been my research bugbear for some years now at the office. Rupert Baby is an entrepreneur/investor. That alone qualifies him under certain laws. Ya know what else greases the citizenship process? A blatant upcoming world war. My father arrived stateside right after graduating high school and in five years was sworn in and not just cuz he was from an English speaking allied country. There were some real brains in D.C. who could see what Hitler was up to and knew there had to be a much larger cadre of eligible men to draft as well as to work in the defense industry. Not saying’ we should all start to hear a certain kind of drumbeat, but hey, that was dad’s history.
12Juanita, you said: Republicans. Screw ‘um.
Not even on a bet.
13The real fraud is that a Latina woman was voting Republican.
14What was she thinking??????????????
How to monitor voter suppression in Ft. Bend County?
15First, one out of how many? A percentage that small is pretty darned good.
16Second, do you realize that /none/ of the examples you cite would be detected by Voter ID? Meaning Voter ID is still a huge waste of money to stop a crime that, for all practical purposes, just doesn’t happen.