Attorney: Fake Democrats in Wisconsin Committing Criminal Election Fraud

[Hissyspit]

Source: Raw Story

Attorney: Fake Democrats in Wisconsin committing criminal election fraud

By Eric W. Dolan
Thursday, April 5, 2012 19:07 EDT

Six fake Democrats running in upcoming recall primaries to push back the election date in Wisconsin are violating the law, according to an election attorney.

“Among the requirements for running as a candidate in a partisan primary, one is required to file with the (Government Accountability Board) a ‘Declaration of Candidacy,’ form GAB-162. That form specifically requires a candidate to state that their candidacy is ‘representing’ the political party for which the primary is to take place. This statement must be made under oath,” attorney Jeremy P. Levinson said in a memo (PDF) to We Are Wisconsin.

“Clearly, a candidate running in a Democratic primary for the purpose of disadvantaging that party and giving electoral advantage to the Republican Party and the Republican incumbent the Democrats seek to recall can do so only by falsifying his or her declaration of candidacy.”

The fake candidates are committing felony election fraud, according to Levinson, a crime punishable by up to three and half years in prison.


Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/05/attorney-fake-democrats-in-wisconsin-committing-criminal-election-fraud

[hue]

1. Awesome news!! n/t

[Scuba]

2. Damn right. Thanks for posting. More...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10841938

[TroglodyteScholar]

3. K&R

But we all know that Republicans don't know how to take an oath seriously.

[Kingofalldems]

4. Repubs cheat? Never.

[ellenfl]

5. more repub election fraud? really? who could know? eom

[MrSlayer]

6. Ok but is anyone going to do anything about it?

It's all well and good to point this out but if no one acts, what good is it? Someone must act.

[HereSince1628]

8. You'd have to be able to prove they are fake to invoke the law.

This may be uninforcable.

[MrSlayer]

9. Ok so we know we're getting fucked.

They know they're fucking us but no one can do anything about it. Great. I'm beginning to wonder what the point of all this is.

[gratuitous]

18. Sometimes the point is just to do the right thing

I don't rate the odds very high of a Republican in Wisconsin being held accountable, but filing a complaint against them at the very least shows that people are onto them. The results are not guaranteed, and indeed are out of one's hands, but the filing of a complaint is within one's control.

[sybylla]

10. At least one of them has run several times before as a Republican - as recently as 2010.

It may not be as hard as you think. Either they were lying then or they are lying now.

[HereSince1628]

13. How do you prove they didn't change affiliation?

Even if they go back to being r's they can say, they changed their minds again.

You'd really have to find evidence that they are claiming to be republicans while simulataneously running as democrats.

I'm not sure at all that'd be so easy.

It would require an extensive investigation into personal and party records. Such investigations require money,
as well as cooperating attorneys general, and courts. I'm not sure the jurisdictions with the fakes have those
sorts of assets. I'm doubtful the state under republican control would carry out such an investigation.

[Ellipsis]

14. There is a smoking gun... the GOP wrote checks for them.

I can't find the link I read it yesterday.

[HereSince1628]

15. A smoking gun is needed...I couldn't find anything on that via google news...

any idea if you saw it on line?

[Ellipsis]

16. Found it at One Wisconsin now.

One candidate received an in-kind contribution of over $5,200 for a phone bank from the St. Croix County Republican Party and five of the "fake" candidates only source of campaign funds was the Republican Party of Wisconsin, and their only expenditure was to the Republican Party for printing and postage. Three letters authorized and paid for by fake candidates say: "Please help maintain our Republican legislative majority today! We can't stress enough how important it is to have (CANDIDATE NAME) on the ballot today to combat the shady maneuvers of Madison liberals and their out-of-state allies."

http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/press/fake-candidates-real-consequences.html

[HereSince1628]

20. That sure smells like gunsmoke...

now I guess the question is finding a state's attorney that will act on that

[mysuzuki2]

7. same old, same old

IOKIYAR

[Marie Marie]

11. Bet ACORN was behind this chicanery.

[Aerows]

12. It's completely irrelevant

If no one prosecutes them for it. I won't be holding my breath. It seems you are welcome to break the law these days as long as you are in politics.

[dpbrown]

17. Who is charging them????

It's all good to point this out, but until the district attorney brings charges, it's just talk.

[starfox172]

19. IRONIC or HYPOCRITICAL

that the party that is so f*cking worried and screaming the sky is falling when it comes to election fraud... is doing it themselves