Jun 19 2008
Sunland Park judge pleads not guilty to voter fraud charges — so how do Dems and Reps handle the issue of voter fraud?
From the Houston Chronicle, the Las Cruces Sun-News …and the Republican National Committee webpage:
A suspended Sunland Park municipal judge accused of voter fraud pleaded not guilty.
Horacio Favela, 48, was arraigned Monday on six charges including false voting, falsifying election documents and falsely swearing in a municipal election.
State District Judge Stephen Bridgforth allowed Favela to remain free on his own recognizance. New Mexico law prohibits convicted felons from holding elected office, but Favela hasn’t been convicted.
Favela is accused of voting twice by absentee ballot in the 2004 general election — once in Texas and once in New Mexico. He also is accused of living in El Paso, Texas, not Sunland Park, making him ineligible to run or hold the judgeship that he won in the March municipal election.
Favela was sworn in as a judge; however, the New Mexico Supreme Court suspended him without pay on March 27 pending the outcome of the case.
Google brought me to the GOP page on New Mexico voting fraud, which shows two stories about Favela as I write this, one dated 5/30/08, the other dated 2/29/o8. Going beyond New Mexico, I took a closer look at the GOP’s listing of voter fraud stories around the nation. This state-by-state roster, which goes back to 2006, offers each update on an ongoing story as a new listing, so each new development in a case ratchets up the total number of stories; it also includes stories about voter ID, e.g., the voter ID law in Indiana, not just as a national story but as a state story.
Totting it all up: That’s 112 entries total, going back to 2006, over 50 states, counting duplicates and national stories. More on this in the next post.
Over in the Democratic Party’s pages, they’re talking about a different set of voter frauds, especially the way Rush Limbaugh encouraged Republican voters in Texas and Ohio to cross party lines in the primaries and vote for Hillary Clinton. Unfortunately, that appears to be a minor felony in Ohio; in Texas apparently some people forgot they could only vote once, which is also a criminal offense. And then they’re remembering the Rovian strategy of replacing non-compliant federal prosecutors in states where Republicans faced tight election contests.
Interesting to see how the approaches differ.
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