Charlie White, Indiana Election Chief, Found Guilty Of Voter Fraud
INDIANAPOLIS — While Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels held off Saturday on appointing a permanent replacement for the state elections chief convicted early that morning of voter fraud, Democrats said they planned to move quickly to wrest control of the politically powerful office from the GOP.
A jury from Hamilton County, just north of Indianapolis, deliberated for 13 hours before convicting Republican Secretary of State Charlie White on six felony charges. Among other things, White was accused of lying about his address on voter registration forms.
Indiana law does not allow felons to hold statewide office, and Daniels quickly appointed White's chief deputy, Jerry Bonnet, as interim secretary of state. But the governor said he was holding off on naming a permanent replacement because a judge could reduce the charge to a misdemeanor, allowing White to regain the office.
Still No Voter Fraud in South Carolina Posted: 31 Jan 2012 06:00 AM PST
A top South Carolina election official disputes Republican claims that 950 people who voted in recent elections could actually be dead. Of the six names State Election Commission director Marci Andino was allowed to examine, all were eligible to vote. The Columbia Free Times reports, "One allegedly dead voter on the DMV's list cast an absentee ballot before dying; another was the result of a poll worker mistakenly marking the voter as his deceased father; two were clerical errors resulting from stray marks on voter registration lists detected by a scanner; two others resulted from poll managers incorrectly marking the name of the voter in question instead of the voter above or below on the list."
oh no, the inhumanity of it all, lying about his address, clearly a felony, like when Geithner lied about his taxes but became US treasury secretary anyway.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
