Monday, August 27, 2018

Voter fraud, and it's the Republicans doing it

Imagine that.
The alleged signature forgeries continue to pile up in Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District, where paid campaign staffers for Rep. Scott Taylor (R-VA) have now been credibly accused of forging at least four dead voters’ signatures, and dozens of others’, on petitions to get an independent candidate on the ballot.

The signature forgery scheme was an apparent effort to split the Democratic vote in half by getting the Democratic Party’s 2016 nominee for the district, Shaun Brown, on the ballot as an independent candidate beside the party’s 2018 nominee, former Navy commander Elaine Luria.

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A special prosecutor is looking into potential criminal violations.

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The [Virginian-Pilot] called voters whose purported signatures had been collected by Taylor staffers, asking if the signatures were valid. The staffers together collected nearly 600 signatures. Of the 115 voters the paper reached, 59 said their — or their relatives’ — signatures were fraudulent.

  TPM
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 9/6:  Judge rules Taylor's name be removed from judge's district's ballot.

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