[MIAMIHERALD] Everybody agreed: When Gladys Coego covertly filled in other people’s absentee ballots while working at the Miami-Dade elections headquarters, she chipped away at the integrity of the voting system.
But at 74, Coego is elderly, diabetic and depressed, her relatives told a judge on Wednesday.
She had no previous criminal record. And nobody -- not detectives, prosecutors or even Coego herself -- could say why she filled in the ballots. She had no known ties to any campaign, there was no evidence anyone paid her and she illegally filled only a few ballots before being spotted. Yet her small-time case
...that's an awful lot of protesting about so many things unknown. Perhaps someone should actually find out...
led to bigly national headlines, coming as then-candidate Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... railed about widespread national voter fraud.
"Emotionally, I am destroyed," Coego said in Spanish. "I have no explanation for what I have done. ... No one offered me anything in exchange for what I did."
For those reasons, a Miami-Dade judge on Wednesday declined to sentence Coego to jail, instead ordering her to serve two years of house arrest, plus three years of probation.
Circuit Judge Alberto Milián acknowledged that "there is a perception in this community that there is a lack of integrity in the election process, especially in the issue of absentee ballots."
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the reason for the perception of a lack of ballot integrity is the reality of a lack of ballot integrity
Posted by: lord garth ||
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A little jail time for Gladys Coego might cool the motivation of others for future ballot fraud.
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The problem is, the left is completely willing to obtain power by any means. The other side is waiting for some unknown outside force to impose fairness. It ain't gonna happen...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
08/17/2017 7:34 Comments ||
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The other side is waiting for some unknown outside force to impose fairness.
Waiting for the holy Constitution to smite blasphemers with lightning? :-)
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There was a poll tax in Texas back then; the Democratic Party 'helpfully' supplied the cash to certain prospective voters. I highly doubt that receipts were asked for, but they knew what the votes would be.
[Free Beacon] Robert Mueller has lost one of the members of his special counsel investigation into Russian tampering in the 2016 presidential election.
Experienced FBI investigator Peter Strzok has left the special counsel team and joined the bureau's human resources division, ABC News reports. It is unclear why Strzok decided to leave Mueller's probe.
The news has been rife with stories about Mueller's expanding probe into potential ties between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia, and Strzok's departure marks the only known exit among Mueller's principal team.
Mueller's probe has grown increasingly aggressive in recent weeks. The FBI raided former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort's home last month, and it also came out that he had impaneled a grand jury in Washington, D.C.
Posted by: Frank G on the Road ||
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Seems likely to me that Strzok was removed from the probe because he was not willing to follow orders, but Mueller did not want to take a PR hit by firing him, so he was transferred to somewhere in hopes he would quit. All the players are probably legally bound by non-disclosure laws.
[Wash Examiner] Former CIA Director John Brennan slammed President Trump for his comments Tuesday about the violence in Charlottesville, Va., calling them "a national disgrace" and warning the president is putting the country's national security and "our collective futures at grave risk."
"Mr. Trump's words, and the beliefs they reflect, are a national disgrace, and all Americans of conscience need to repudiate his ugly and dangerous comments," Brennan said in a note sent to CNN's Wolf Blitzer, which he read on air Wednesday. "If allowed to continue along this senseless path, Mr. Trump will do lasting harm to American society and to our standing in the world.
"By his words and his actions, Mr. Trump is putting our national security and our collective futures at grave risk," Brennan added.
Brennan, who was CIA director during the Obama administration, also called Trump's comments "despicable."
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In 1976, he voted for Communist Party USA candidate Gus Hall in the presidential election.
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Hmmmmm....Communists and Nazis fighting in the streets while an ineffectual central government simply marks time, along with local authorities supporting one of the groups whose aim is to take down that national government. I've seen this movie before. It didn't end well for the audience.
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The PC police got all over Trump's case because he told the truth. That tells me something. The focus of the Charlottesville story should not even be Trump. In fact, Trump should not even be a part of the story. It's all about commies and nazis doing what commies and nazis do and the police standing down to let it happen. For anyone to say any differently is a damn lie and I'm getting really sick and tired of all the lies.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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The questions about paid agitators and Kessler's involvement with Obama and the Occupy movement will NOT be investigated by MSM. They will not even be mentioned. Therefore, if anyone raises these questions in polite society they will be ridiculed as kooky conspiracy theories of the alt right. That's what they do with the Seth Rich story. That's how it works.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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Classic projection. Brennan is the 'national disgrace.'
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I didn't see anything in Trump's comments that could be construed as a "national disgrace."
A hundred or so neo-Nazis-- that's 100 people out of America's population of over 300,000,000-- put on a peaceful demonstration, and our entire political class goes ballistic? I smell a rat...
Posted by: Dave D. ||
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Only 100 Nazi protesters? Few of these accounts mention much about the role of AntiFa in their reporting. The lame stream media who report (or distort if you will) and amplify these events by putting them in the echo chamber to bounce around for awhile have a role in causing this riots. The MSM still have big megaphones. The small splinter groups who perpetuate the violence, say to themselves "That was successful, look how much publicity we got." Let's do it again. And thus, in a way, the media causes these events to happen again and again.
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[Wash Examiner] Former CIA Director John Brennan slammed President Trump for his comments Tuesday about the violence in Charlottesville, Va., calling them "a national disgrace" and warning the president is putting the country's national security and "our collective futures at grave risk."
