Dan Patrick Finally Pays Out a Voter Fraud Bounty – We’re laughing
You recall when Dan Patrick, pandering to His Orangeness, offered $1 million in bounties to anyone reporting actual voter fraud. Up until now, not a dime was paid, but now that’s changed. Patrick’s campaign has paid out a $25,000 bounty to a Pennsylvania poll worker, and DEMOCRATIC poll worker, for reporting a man voting twice in the general election, once for himself, and again in a disguise for his son. The poll worker, Eric Frank, denied the voter, 72 year old Trumpist named Ralph Thurman, who voted for himself and then asked to vote for his son. Frank turned him away, but he returned later wearing sunglasses and voted again. Frank reported it when he saw him and tried to confront the Thurman as he fled the building. Thurman was charged and later pleaded guilty to felony voter fraud. He got a slap on the wrist of 3 years probation and banned from voting for only 4 years instead of permanently.
Anyhoo, Patrick ponied up the $25k bounty for Frank catching Republican voter fraud, and I guess that’s something.
What I learned:
11) Dan Patrick did not take into account the possibility of unintended consequences
2) Voter fraud if judged by the penalty is not as serious a crime as Republicans make it out to be
3) Voter fraud if judged by the number of bounties paid out, is not as serious as Republicans make it our to be
Saw he declined to pay another bounty because
“only original tipsters whose information helped lead to a final conviction for fraudulent voting were eligible for the rewards — not politicians like [PA Lt. Gov. & Senate candidate] Fetterman.”
Dallas Morning News reported “Mark Jones, a political scientist at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, said this case underlines what we already know about voter fraud: It occurs but in small numbers that don’t have an effect on election outcomes. Patrick probably hoped to uncover widespread fraud among Democrats, Jones added, and one-off convictions of Trump supporters don’t fit that narrative.
“As long as he doesn’t have to make too many more payouts, he’ll probably say, ‘the positive public exposure I received is worth the $25,000 I paid,’” Jones said.”
So, encourage all those who witnessed voter mischief to write to Lt. Gov. Patrick. We want MORE publicity of this sort.
2A fool and his money……
3Paying a debt? That’s a betrayal of Trump’s basic principles!
4Here ya go: six felony charges of voting fraud. Yeppers, a Republican (formerly) in the state legislature and a staffer. Sounds like a criminal conspiracy to me.
https://www.alaskapublic.org/2021/06/10/former-alaska-rep-ledoux-and-her-aide-face-new-charges-of-felony-voter-fraud/
So, lessee . . . is Patrick paying $25,000 per conviction? ‘Cause that would be $150,000.
Please write the check to “slipstream.” Thanks, Dan!
5HOW BOUT THEM ASTROS!
6Unfortunately, the money will be paid by the taxpayer .
7Hey, slipstream, you might want to let whomever discovered it in on the offer. Maybe they will share it with you. I’d love to see that idiot in Texas pay out more.
8Being a repugnantican, if Patrick had to pay, he’d use campaign funds.
9Yes, great comeback by the Astros in the alcs. Still slim chance they’ll have a rematch of their last infamous WS showdown with my Dodgers. Their starters on offense and pitching are dropping like flys to injuries. I know no one else at the salon has much sympathy about that.
Naw.
10Danny ought take cough up some dough on this one as well. Another Republican.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/las-vegas-executive-faces-voter-fraud-charges-in-2020-election-2463915/
11“oughtta”
12Proof of voter fraud dead person’s hubby cast her ballot) in Nevada. Send this to Texas and collect the full million.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX9-qA0ydGs
Send me just enough to buy a slightly newer used Jeep Cherokee with a hundred thousand miles, an inline 6 cyllinder (4 liter) and 4 wheel drive. Mine is a 1995 model with 230k miles and rusty with dents and dings. keep the rest and thank you.
13My apologies Umptydump for the repeat. I missed your post when I posted mine. You can have a Jeep as well.
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