Dems busted for election fraud

[30ashopper]

Two former leaders of the Oakland County Democratic Party are facing a total of nine felonies for allegedly forging election paperwork to get fake Tea Party candidates on November's ballot.

Former Oakland County Democratic Chair Mike McGuinness and former Democratic Operations Director Jason Bauer face up to 14 years in prison if convicted.

"Some of the people didn't even know they were on the ballot till they began receiving delinquency notices of filings that were required as a candidate," said Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard.

The sheriff says 23 statewide races had questionable Tea Party candidates on the ballot and the investigation may go beyond Oakland County.

"It was learned that a scheme was developed by a party leader in Lansing to place on the ballot people pretending to be Tea Party activists and that this was going to be a statewide effort," Bouchard said.

Two Charged in Tea Party Election Fraud

I wonder how many races across the country experienced this type of fraud, and I wonder how many democrat party leaders were involved. I'd be willing to bet this was planned high up in the party's leadership. If I remember correctly, some of the state wide races in Florida had fake Tea Party candidates too.

 

[DuneAHH]

I don't get it... what would be the point / possible gain to any party for putting faux candidates of another party on the ballot?

 

[Will B]

They were doing this in areas that did not have Tea Party names on the ballot. Their hopes were that they could split the Republican vote enough so that it would give the majority percentage of the votes to the Dem candidate.

I can't think of any instances where it worked, though.

 

[scooterbug44]

Reason 465 why "party leadership" is dumb. :roll:

Though IMO anyone so dumb they vote for someone who isn't even a candidate deserves what they get.

 

[Teresa]

Cheaters never prosper! Sounds like these stupidos need to go to jail.