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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-05 08:03 AM
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9. here they are--


....The warrant filed for Lilly says she was addicted to crack cocaine when the alleged fraud happened, and that she handed in "approximately 75 fraudulent voter registration cards," using names taken from the phone book, made-up birth dates and Social Security numbers, then had her 15-year-old daughter sign each card. She turned in no valid registrations, the warrant says, and is charged in connection with nine registrations for people who didn't vote in the November presidential election. Lewis's warrant says he was fired by Project Vote for submitting a registration card in the name of a dead person, but before he did that, he allegedly turned in duplicate cards for the same voter on "numerous" occasions. He admitted turning in multiple entries for some family members, the warrant says.

Lilly and Lewis were charged with five felonies each: three counts each of forgery, one count of election fraud and one count of misconduct in public office, since they had been sworn in as deputy voter registrars for the registration effort. If convicted as charged, each could face a maximum possible sentence of 25 years in prison.

The charges came a day after McCann and U.S. Attorney Steve Biskupic announced that their probe into election irregularities in the City of Milwaukee had turned up clear evidence of voter fraud.

The probe, launched in January after reports by the Journal Sentinel detailed widespread election problems, found more than 200 felons who illegally voted in the city, while still on probation or parole, and at least another 100 cases where people voted twice, or used fake names, false addresses or the names of dead people to vote......
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