I see that Matt Schultz's little voter fraud witch hunt has hit a snag.

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Iowa voter fraud cases may hit roadblock of intent

OWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A state push to bring felony charges against noncitizens who voted in recent Iowa elections could run into two key roadblocks: local prosecutors who do not want to pursue the cases and jurors who may find no criminal intent.

The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation announced Thursday that three Council Bluffs residents — a husband and wife from Canada and a Mexican citizen living legally in the U.S. since 1986 — were arrested and charged with election misconduct for illegally voting. They were the first, and likely not the last, charges brought under an unusual two-year, $280,000 contract Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz's office signed with the DCI to investigate voter fraud, his signature issue.

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In Linn County, home to Cedar Rapids, County Attorney Jerry Vander Sanden has declined to bring charges against a few persons who mistakenly voted twice during recent elections. The county auditor sought prosecution, but Vander Sanden replied in emails that those voters had "no criminal intent" to cast absentee ballots and vote a second time at the polls. He said they cherished their voting rights and had "a good faith belief" that their absentee ballots hadn't been received.

"I am not going to charge someone with a felony because they made an innocent mistake," he wrote in July. "It is not so much a matter of cost as it is fairness and the proper exercise of prosecutorial discretion."

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http://www.necn.com/09/23/12/Iowa-voter-fraud-cases-may-hit-roadblock/landing_nation.html?&apID=ffe1c840bedb4d0ba66dd7e614fff5b7

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1. Didn't they find a couple of Canadians in Florida, too.

Guess they'll have to start profiling them. Good for those prosecutors.