Aha, here's that voter fraud the Republicans are always on about

Kansas GOP Rep. Steve Watkins was charged Tuesday with three felony counts of voter fraud related to the 2019 municipal elections, according to court records.

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Watkins was charged by Shawnee County District Attorney Michael Kagay with “Interference with a law enforcement officer, falsely report a felony intending to obstruct; voting without being qualified; and knowingly mark/transmit more than one advance ballot,” according to Shawnee County court records.

Watkins also faces a misdemeanor charge of failing to tell the Department of Motor Vehicles of his address change.

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Watkins has acknowledged that he used a UPS store in Topeka for his home address in order to register for a 2019 municipal election, according to the Topeka Capitol-Journal. The newspaper first reported that Watkins had signed the allegedly improper address on voter-registration documents. Watkins' office later said it was a mistake on his part.

  Politico

A mistake.

In addition to his legal troubles, Watkins could lose his committee assignments. GOP Conference rules require anyone who is indicted on felony charges carrying a potential prison sentence of two or more years to give up their committee posts. Watkins holds seats on the Education and Labor, Foreign Affairs and Veterans Affairs' panels.

Watkins downplayed the allegations during a previously scheduled debate appearance on Tuesday night.

Watkins called the charges "very suspicious" and "hyper political."

Pathetic.

A Watkins campaign spokesman also blasted Kagay's decision to announce the indictment only minutes before the debate.

Okay, that WAS kind of nasty.

But Watkins already faced a formidable primary challenge from [Jake] LaTurner, the state treasurer who abandoned a Senate bid to run for the House instead.

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LaTurner has already nabbed the endorsement from the powerful Kansas Farm Bureau and had banked more than Watkins by the end of the first quarter of 2020.

I have to assume the Kansas Farm Bureau was already aware of Watkins' "mistakes". And those of his family...

Watkins, an Army veteran and West Point graduate, won the eastern Kansas seat in 2018. He narrowly beat Paul Davis, a moderate Democrat and former state legislator, thanks to outside spending from a group largely run and funded by his father.

But his father, Steve Watkins Sr., told POLITICO in March that the Federal Election Commission is investigating him for giving thousands of dollars to his daughters, a home-building contractor and the contractor’s wife, which they then used to max out to his son’s campaign. Those types of donations violate campaign finance laws.

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