Democrat Official Arrested For Rigging Election With Fraudulent Mail-In Ballot Scheme in Texas

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Four members of an illegal mail-in voter fraud ring have been arrested and charged with 134 different felony charges of election fraud and ballot tampering after they were caught rigging a Texas primary election for a Democrat candidate.

Officials announced charges Thursday in what they described as a vote-harvesting scheme during the Texas 2018 Democratic primary.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton confirmed that the Democrat candidate who won the primary race was one of the four people arrested.

The fraudulent mail-in voting scheme involved arranging to have people mailed absentee ballots even though they didn’t qualify, law enforcement officials revealed.

Other times, the fraud gang encouraged voters to claim disability — or marked the disability box themselves — to make sure the voters were sent an absentee ballot.

The accused then submitted these ballots without the voters’ consent, Paxton said.

Brown won the March 6, 2018 Democratic primary by just five votes. His victory was secured by 787 mail-in ballots cast in his precinct. Over one-third of those ballots were from individuals claiming a disability, The Longview News-Journal reported.

“The four individuals—Charlie Burns, Dewayne Ward, Marlena Jackson and Jackson’s husband Shannon Brown, a Democrat who was serving as Gregg County’s Precinct 4 commissioner—collectively stand accused of 134 different felony charges of election fraud and ballot tampering,” Newsweek reported.

“If found guilty, each individual could face six months in jail to 99 years in prison.”

The charges filed against the individuals included engaging in organized election fraud, illegal voting, fraudulent use of an application for a mail-in ballot, unlawful possession of a mail-in ballot, tampering with a governmental record, and election fraud, according to The Daily Wire.

“It is an unfortunate reality that elections can be stolen outright by mail ballot fraud,” Attorney General Paxton said in a statement.

“Election fraud, particularly an organized mail ballot fraud scheme orchestrated by political operatives, is an affront to democracy and results in voter disenfranchisement and corruption at the highest level.

“Mail ballots are vulnerable to diversion, coercion, and influence by organized vote harvesting schemes. 

“This case demonstrates my commitment to ensuring Texas has the most secure elections in the country, and I thank the Gregg County Sheriff and District Attorney for their continued partnership. 

“Those who try to manipulate the outcome of elections in Texas must be held accountable.”

The statement from the Texas Attorney General’s office said that a grand jury had returned indictments of 23 felony counts against Democrat Commissioner Brown, 97 felony counts against Jackson, eight felony counts against Burns, and six felony counts against Ward.

The statement said that in order to win, the group allegedly “targeted young, able-bodied voters to cast ballots by mail by fraudulently claiming the voters were ‘disabled,’ in most cases without the voters’ knowledge or consent.”

The news comes after federal law enforcement officials announced on Thursday that a handful of military ballots had been discarded in the swing state of Pennsylvania and that out of all the discarded ballots that were opened when they were discovered, all of them had voted for President Donald Trump.

“The FBI has recovered a number of documents relating to military ballots that had been improperly opened by your elections staff, and had the ballots removed and discarded, or removed and placed separately from the envelope containing confidential voter information and attestation,” U.S. Attorney David J. Freed said in a letter to Shelby Watchilla, Director of Elections of Luzerne County Bureau of Elections.

“Specifically, a total of nine (9) military ballots were discovered to have been discarded,” the letter continued.

“Seven (7) of those ballots, when discovered by investigators, were outside of any envelope.

“Those ballots were all cast for presidential candidate Donald Trump.

“One (1) of those seven (7) ballots was able to be identified to an envelope that was recovered and thereby potentially tied to a specific voter.

“Two (2) military ballots that had been discarded were previously recovered by elections staff, reinserted into what appeared to be their appropriate envelopes, and then resealed.

“Therefore, the votes cast on those two (2) ballots are unknown.

“Thus, is appears that three (3) of the nine (9) recovered ballots can be potentially attributed to specific voters.

“Six (6) of the ballots were simply removed and discarded, and cannot be attributed to a specific voter at this time.”

Baxter Dmitry

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16 Comments

    • All Democrats and all Neocons are willing and capable to commit voter fraud.

      The difference is one of scale.

      These peculiar Democrats were small time fraudsters.

      The bigger fraud is perpetrated by Democrat lawyers.

        • The rule of law in the US is supposed to be equal protection of the laws that are enumerated in the US constitution, not the will of the majority.

          You can’t comprehend this concept because you are hairy stupid ass.

    • Disqus moderates not the SIte Disqus moderates all of their sites .And theyre left wing progressive Democrats really,contrilled by Vanguard Corporation ,the 2 nd richest on earth . Vanguard was the big rocket disaster in the 1950s and was an english automaker .It means a ,often females movement a political movement.

  1. Now multiply this by a factor of around 100 for the real numbers involved in fraud! Mail-in-vote is Steal-the-vote plain and simple. The dead will vote and the elderly in nursing homes will have their votes stolen and cast for them.

    MAKE AMERICA GREATER AGAIN

    Stop Steal-the-Vote NOW!

    VOTE ALL DEMS OUT IN NOVEMBER!!

    TRUMP 2020!!

    Now more than ever!!

    • It goes much deeper than a superficial election outcome .It goes to the core if fundamental democratic ideology and legal integrity.Its basucally about the way elected representatives believe they have the right to impose their personal views into law , rather than to represent the views of the electorate . They believe they have been elected to do the thinking of their electorate for them ,not to represent their opinions ,unless they happen to happily overlap .Very democratically.

  2. The oil industry is Texan , the Bushs are texans ,wasnt LBJ texan, and didnt they all in it together really order the murder of both the Kennedys, actually JFK jnr too , ? And wasnt Jackie sort of in on it too ,after all she left JFK the day after Marilyns sudden death was announced .Wouldnt that comment drive the board at the ABC in a rage .They hate anything except their version of event’s and they push the mainstream Oswald dun it all alone story. They specialise really in childrens education programming .

    • Have to agree with you on this one. Read a book about who controlled the oil in the Middle East and it stated that a barrel of oil there could not be sold unless the Bush family OK it.

  3. Pelosi did more than tamper with an official document she tore it up publicly A ctim8nal offence that she should have gone to jail for but nothing. And why cant the republicans even talk about it ? Who is silencing them ? What authority are they afraid of ?

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