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struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)
Sat Oct 13, 2012, 06:52 PM Oct 2012

Candidate voted twice in same elections, records show

By Joe Holley
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Updated: Thursday, October 11, 2012 11:44am

A Republican precinct chairman running for a seat on the Fort Bend County Commissioner's Court has cast ballots in both Texas and Pennsylvania in the last three federal elections, official records in both states show.

Bruce J. Fleming, a Sugar Land resident running for Precinct 1 commissioner, voted in person in Sugar Land in 2006, 2008 and 2010 and by mail in each of those years in Yardley, Pa., according to election records in both states.

Fleming, who owns a home in Yardley, voted for Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 2008 presidential primary in Texas. His wife, Nancy Fleming, who is listed as a resident of Yardley, voted by mail in both places in the 2010 general election, records show.

"The less said is better," Bruce Fleming said when contacted by phone late Tuesday afternoon. "Until we can determine the situation, I can't really comment" ...

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Candidate-voted-twice-in-same-elections-records-3937458.php

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Candidate voted twice in same elections, records show (Original Post) struggle4progress Oct 2012 OP
Is it any wonder Sekhmets Daughter Oct 2012 #1
GOP is right about there being voter fraud. They're doing it. nt SDjack Oct 2012 #2
Well who knew!! Lebam in LA Oct 2012 #3
It would be hard to enforce where people have houses in more than one state treestar Oct 2012 #4

Lebam in LA

(1,345 posts)
3. Well who knew!!
Sat Oct 13, 2012, 06:58 PM
Oct 2012

There really is voter fraud, but it just happens to be coming from the republican. Now we know why they were all so sure.. Oops

treestar

(82,383 posts)
4. It would be hard to enforce where people have houses in more than one state
Sat Oct 13, 2012, 07:01 PM
Oct 2012

There's no mechanism to enforce a one vote only situation. Granted, it is not common. But after all the hullabaloo about driver's licenses, you'd think maybe there would be a central set of records on who votes where.

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