On a related note: "Vop Osili" is a spectacular name.

It's like rain on your wedding day.

qorkfiend: On a related note: "Vop Osili" is a spectacular name.

Wasn't he a member of the Max Rebo band?

FTA: White was indicted after using his ex-wife's address while living with his girlfriend. He is said to have done it because the girlfriend did not live in his city council district.

Truly, history's greatest monster.

qorkfiend: On a related note: "Vop Osili" is a spectacular name.



"Give us a ping, Osili."

Republicans do exactly two things well: projection and paranoia.

I thought voter fraud didn't ever actually happen.

qorkfiend: On a related note: "Vop Osili" is a spectacular name.

He's Nigerian. Countdown to the "seekrit Nigerian mooslim" conspiracy emails in 3, 2...

Well, I for one would love for the guys in last night's Scott Walker thread defending voter ID laws and how they will protect everyone from the ultra-prevalent threat of voter fraud to come in and explain this one.

But...but...New Black Panther Party!

Bucky Katt: GanjSmokr: I thought voter fraud didn't ever actually happen.

Technically, this is electoral fraud, not voter fraud.

Shh! Don't piss in the Cheerios.

Charlie White is ineligible to serve as Secretary of State and should be replaced by Democrat Vop Osili, the second-highest vote-getter in the November 2010 election, a Marion County judge ruled today

It will also be interesting to see if the pressure increases for White to step down and if Mitch Daniels will try to appoint his own replacement before Vop can get sworn.

Not that I wouldn't be suprised to see someone try to pull this, but if Daniels puts somebody new in the office, wouldn't the judge just toss that guy out on his ass as well?

Now that we've cleared that up, I'm sure the swing state elections will be quite safe in the hands of Diebold voting machines.

Not that I'm in any way, shape or form defending him, but if his trial hasn't started yet, how can he already be deemed ineligible on account of being a felon? Is registering in the wrong district not one of the charges he's going on trial for, or did he already plead guilty to that? Or is he ineligible because it was an election rules violation, not actually because he's a convicted felon (yet).

/confusing article is confusing
//entirely possible it's just me

DarwiOdrade: I love it - more evidence that the reason the GOP believes voter fraud is rampant is that they're the perpetrators.

Meanwhile, in the State of New York...

Officials Plead Guilty in New York Voter Fraud Case

Democratic officials and political operatives
have now pleaded guilty to voter fraud-related felony charges
in an alleged scheme to steal a New York election.

 


/oblig

In wisconsin, we all know that most of the voter fraud is created by conservative republicans

The actual IndyStar article (new window)

Even more fun: since, per Indiana law, automatic ballot access is restricted to parties getting 2% or more of the vote in the Secretary of State race ^ , there's now controversy over whether the Republican party will automatically be on Indiana ballots from now until 2016. After all, if Republicans didn't run a legal candidate, they can't legally have gotten any votes, much less 2%.

/always votes Libertarian for Sec State, just to keep the third party in the mix

Bucky Katt: GanjSmokr: I thought voter fraud didn't ever actually happen.

Technically, this is electoral fraud, not voter fraud.

Well that's OK then.

Meatzilla: Meanwhile, in the State of New York...

Interestingly enough, that case is about forging absentee ballots Something that voter ID laws can absolutely protect us against!

steveGswine: After all, if Republicans didn't run a legal candidate, they can't legally have gotten any votes, much less 2%.

Isn't it a thing of beauty?

The worst part is this shiat was know before he as elected. Indiana can be a scary authoritarian farking state. The fact Fark has decided to make an egregious Fark troll from Indiana a moderator doesn't help things.

The Osili man keeps putting the White man down.

Meatzilla: DarwiOdrade: I love it - more evidence that the reason the GOP believes voter fraud is rampant is that they're the perpetrators.

Meanwhile, in the State of New York...

Officials Plead Guilty in New York Voter Fraud Case

Democratic officials and political operatives
have now pleaded guilty to voter fraud-related felony charges
in an alleged scheme to steal a New York election.

 

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/oblig

From your article: Former Troy Democratic City Clerk William McInerney, Democratic Councilman John Brown, and Democratic political operatives Anthony Renna and Anthony DeFiglio have entered guilty pleas in the case, in which numerous signatures were allegedly forged on absentee ballots in the 2009 Working Families Party primary, the political party that was associated with the now-defunct community group, ACORN.

Still doesn't make a case for voter ID.

/Only amateurs steal elections on election day.

Bucky Katt: GanjSmokr: I thought voter fraud didn't ever actually happen.

Technically, this is electoral fraud, not voter fraud.

Well, it is voter fraud if he voted in the district he was illegally running in. That's pretty likely because every politician loves to have the local media photograph them casting their ballot for themselves, for whatever reason.

But Rush Limbaugh said that because black people have TVs they should not be able to vote. TVs they don't even deserve should be good enough for them.

LouDobbsAwaaaay: The WI GOP (a.k.a. the Koch Brothers party) solved that problem by sending out fake absentee ballots directing voters to send them to a private PO box instead of their polling place, two days after the election. All in the name of stopping voter fraud, of course.

Well, to be fair those were applications to receive absentee ballots, you know. No room for error there whatsoever! You send in the application, you receive an absentee ballot back that you send to the county election board. No problem! I mean, if some things just happen to get lost in the mail...well, that's what you get for trusting in a federal Obama government office, socialist.

And the election date thing was just an unfortunate, unfortunate typo. And since the election date is so well publicized anyways, there's no real point to making bones about it is there!

Damnit Acorn

that bosnian sniper: steveGswine: After all, if Republicans didn't run a legal candidate, they can't legally have gotten any votes, much less 2%.

Isn't it a thing of beauty?

If the Republican party is smart (in a political sense), they'll just go through the formal process of getting on the ballot next time around to remove any legal questions on the subject. Although to be honest I doubt it'll be considered a serious issue.

Non-evil Monkey: that bosnian sniper: steveGswine: After all, if Republicans didn't run a legal candidate, they can't legally have gotten any votes, much less 2%.

Isn't it a thing of beauty?

If the Republican party is smart (in a political sense), they'll just go through the formal process of getting on the ballot next time around to remove any legal questions on the subject. Although to be honest I doubt it'll be considered a serious issue.

Yeah, about that....

Non-evil Monkey: If the Republican party is smart (in a political sense), they'll just go through the formal process of getting on the ballot next time around to remove any legal questions on the subject. Although to be honest I doubt it'll be considered a serious issue.

That said, I'd lay money on them, instead of owning up to having Seriously Farked Up, start screeching on a national scale, replete with "why does Indiana hate common sense conservatives? They even voted for 0bummer in 2008!" crap on Fox News, and eventually force the state to back down and (illegally) automatically put them on the ballot anyway by prosecuting them in the court of public (stupid) opinion.

That is if anyone at all makes political hay about this, and the Indiana state government's politically competent and willful enough to faithfully execute the law. It's vastly more likely the state government, populated by conservatives as it is, conveniently overlooks this whole mess in terms of faithful execution of the law. Then, if the democrats -- not that they're any better in this damn state, it's only through gritted teeth and hateful exhortation toward whatever higher power may actually exist that I throw my anti-Republican protest vote their way -- make noise about it, cue aforementioned screeching and wailing.

Sabyen91:

This is Charlie White.

White people ruin everything.

It's racist to try to prevent people who are not american citizens the right to vote in american elections and violates their basic human rights.

/I have no problem with this guy going to jail for voter fraud
//but Dems protest too much when they scream people should not have to provide a government photo ID to vote
///those IDs would be free if we didn't have to spend so much on the welfare state

White has two professional pictures for his new ID:

One like this.......one this way.

DarwiOdrade: I love it - more evidence that the reason the GOP believes voter fraud is rampant is that they're the perpetrators.

Projection is pretty much all they do. If Republicans accused the Democrats of sacrificing puppy dogs and kittens, I'd start looking for corpses -- at the Republican headquarters.

DarnoKonrad: The fact Fark has decided to make an egregious Fark troll from Indiana a moderator doesn't help things is par for the course for Fark.