Indiana Republican SOS Indicted On 7 Felony Charges Relating To Election Fraud

[Corey_Baker08]

Source: Wish TV Indianapolis, Indiana

The state of Indiana's chief election officer has been indicted on multiple charges, including voter fraud.Indiana Secretary of State Charlie White was been indicted Thursday by a Hamilton County grand jury on seven felony counts related to a special prosecutor’s investigation into allegations of voter fraud.Special Prosecutor Daniel Sigler tells WISH-TV White faces a Class C Felony charge of fraud against a financial institution relating to his mortgage application.

White also faces six Class D Felony charges stemming from the investigation:

Voter fraud: filing fictitious registration
Voter fraud: voting where not registered
Voter fraud: raudulent registration
Written perjury: written statement on registration
Written perjury: applying for marriage license
Theft: taking salary from Fishers while living outside his district

White was registered at his ex-wife's home when he voted in the May primary even though he lived at a new townhouse on the other side of Fishers. He admits the mistake but denies an effort to deceive calling the incident “an honest mistake.”

White turned himself in on Thursday afternoon and was seen leaving jail shortly after. He released a statement promising to cooperate with the process, though hinted that he won’t follow the governor’s urging to step down from his post.

The statement said:

"While disappointed in the Grand Jury's decision, I will cooperate fully in the upcoming judicial process. I have confidence in the system and I believe the evidence will prove that I did not intentionally break any laws. But more importantly, I will continue to do the job I was elected to do and carry on serving the needs of Hoosier taxpayers through the Secretary of State's office. I am humbled by the outpouring of support. The important work on behalf of Hoosiers will not be derailed by this process." State Democratic party leaders began calling for an investigation into White's voting record back in September. If White is found guilty of a felony, he will lose his position as the state's election officer.

Indiana GOP Chairman Eric Holcomb suggested White take time off while the case works its way through court. "What we learned today is disappointing," Holcomb said in a statement. "We think it's appropriate Secretary of State Charlie White take a leave of absence from his official duties until the legal process reaches a conclusion."














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1. Dirty rotten republicans

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2. Voter fraud only happens with Republicans

California Republican Arrested for Voter Fraud
Yesterday the Los Angeles Times reported on the Republican voter registration outfit who had allegedly been illegally changing thousands of registrations from Democratic to Republican.

Last night the head of that GOP backed group, Mark Anthony Jacoby of Young Political Majors (YPM), was arrested by the California State Election Fraud Taskforce and the Oxnard Police.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/103690/california_republican_arrested_for_voter_fraud/

http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_Republican_Voter_Registration_chief_arrested_for_Fraud

http://www.totalcapitol.com/?people_id=8226

[Corey_Baker08]

6. I Agree n/t

[Corey_Baker08]

7. UPDATE: Indiana Secretary of State Indicted & Arrested on 7 Felony Charges for Election Fraud!!!

Last week, Indiana indicted its Secretary of State Charlie White on seven felony counts, including three counts of "voter fraud" and charges of theft and perjury. Independent special prosecutors have accused White of intentionally voting in the wrong precinct during the May 2010 Republican primary and lying about his address in order to maintain his seat on the Fisher City Council even after he moved out of the district.

White was released from Hamilton County Jail Thursday after being arrested,processed and paying a $10,000 cash bond. He had no comment for reporters as he left the jail. Dan Sigler, the special prosecutor appointed to the case, says White "engaged in a course of conduct to deceive the voters, the Town of Fishers, the people who were going to elect him and by the story he has given, it's somewhat of a moving target as to where did he live and when did he live there."

White's indictment should be an embarrassment to Republicans, but also offers an opportunity to pierce the veil of so-called "voter fraud." The term voter fraud is used to describe any number of improprieties at the ballot box, including voter impersonation, double voting, mistakenly completing registration forms, or voting without proper eligibility. As White's indictment shows, voter fraud is already a crime, punishable by up to five years in prison. In part because of this deterrence, voter fraud is exceedingly rare. After a five-year effort to find whether "voter fraud" was a systemic problem, the United States Department of Justice in 2007 declared that it found virtually no evidence of any organized effort to skew federal elections. The small number of people that were charged by DOJ mostly misunderstood eligibility rules or mistakenly filled out registration forms.

Two weeks ago, home video caught Charlie White and his father in a dispute with two Noblesville lawyers. The lawyers felt White was standing too close to the grand jury room as it heard evidence against him. White denied doing anything wrong.

The counts are as follows:

Fraud on a financial institution - Class "C" Felony,

Theft - Class "D" Felony

Procuring a fraudulent ballot - Class "D" Felony

Voting outside of precinct residence - Class "D" Felony

2 counts of Perjury - Class "D" Felony

Felony Fraudulent voter registration - Class "D" Felony

Indiana Governor and potential Republican Presidential candidate Mitch Daniels issued the following statement:

"This news is sad and regrettable, but the only course of honor is for Mr. White to step down from his duties, at least during the duration of these proceedings until a verdict is reached. It would be neither credible nor appropriate for the state's top elections official to continue to perform his duties while contesting criminal charges, some of them under the very laws the Secretary of State implements. I have consulted with each of the other statewide elected officials and our judgment about this is unanimous."

Indiana was the first state to implement a strict photo ID requirement at the polls, where only narrow forms of government-issued photographic identification are acceptable on Election Day. Even student identification cards at Indiana Wesleyan University or Payton Manning's employee ID from the Indianapolis Colts would not suffice.The hypocrisy of Charlie White's claim that he would protect the integrity of the vote while simultaneously committing fraud himself has not escaped even his foremost supporters, among them Governor Mitch Daniels and Congressman Todd Rokita, his immediate predecessor as Indiana Secretary of State. Both men have issued calls for White to step down, but their attempts to distance themselves from their wayward protégé would be more authentic if they used this occasion to reconsider the reality of voter impersonation and their position on strict government-issued photo ID laws.

The following link shows the Indiana SOS' mugshot after being indicted on 7 felony charges relating to election fraud as well as several other
charges relating to theft,lying and falsification of his of residency.

http://www.wthr.com/story/14181585/indiana-secretary-of-state-indicted

[Thor_MN]

3. Finally found ONE case of voter fraud and it's a Rethug...

[Jackpine Radical]

5. There's been more than one.

Ann Coulter comes to mind.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. SOS=

Shit On a Stick.

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8. WOW! Fox has been salivating about voter fraud for a couple of years

I'm sure they'll be on this story like white on rice, right?

Ooh listen: Crickets!