Congressman Joe Garcia’s chief of staff implicated in phantom absentee-ballot requests scheme
BY PATRICIA MAZZEI
Congressman Joe Garcia’s chief of staff abruptly resigned Friday after being implicated in a sophisticated scheme to manipulate last year’s primary elections by submitting hundreds of fraudulent absentee-ballot requests.
Friday afternoon, Garcia said he had asked Jeffrey Garcia, no relation, for his resignation after the chief of staff — also the congressman’s top political strategist — took responsibility for the plot. Hours earlier, law enforcement investigators raided the homes of another of Joe Garcia’s employees and a former campaign aide in connection with an ongoing criminal investigation into the matter.
Jeffrey Garcia, 40, declined to comment. He also worked last year on the campaign of Democrat Patrick Murphy of Jupiter, who unseated tea-party Republican congressman Allen West. Murphy has not been implicated in the phantom-requests operation.
The raids marked a sign of significant progress in the probe that prosecutors reopened in February, after a Herald investigation found that hundreds of 2,552 fraudulent requests for the Aug. 14 primaries originated from Internet Protocol addresses in Miami. The bulk of the requests were masked by foreign IP addresses.
“Historically, absentee voting is the source of all voter fraud,” she said in an interview, crediting The Miami Herald for its investigation.
Golly Gee - didn't Hickenlooper recently sign legislation which provides for same day registration/voting and requires that every registered voter receive a ballot in the mail? I wonder why Democrats are so interested in voting by mail, don't you?
PrintSmith wrote: Golly Gee - didn't Hickenlooper recently sign legislation which provides for same day registration/voting and requires that every registered voter receive a ballot in the mail? I wonder why Democrats are so interested in voting by mail, don't you?
Which of course has nothing to do with the latest "outrage" involving absentee ballot requests.
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PrintSmith wrote: Golly Gee - didn't Hickenlooper recently sign legislation which provides for same day registration/voting and requires that every registered voter receive a ballot in the mail? I wonder why Democrats are so interested in voting by mail, don't you?
Which of course has nothing to do with the latest "outrage" involving absentee ballot requests.
Which of course has nothing to do with the latest "outrage" involving fraudulent absentee-ballot requests. (there... fixed that for you).
PrintSmith wrote: Golly Gee - didn't Hickenlooper recently sign legislation which provides for same day registration/voting and requires that every registered voter receive a ballot in the mail? I wonder why Democrats are so interested in voting by mail, don't you?
Which of course has nothing to do with the latest "outrage" involving absentee ballot requests.
Really? Really? You don't see any connection between making it easier to register and vote helping to make it easier to vote illegally?
You are either lying or very naive.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
I do believe in adequate safeguards to prevent illegal voting, like requiring people be registered for six months in the district before being allowed to vote.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
