Non American Citizen caught voting illegally 5 times

[Zomis]

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Wom...342158051.html

A Grand Prairie woman who is not an American citizen was arrested Friday on charges she voted illegally in Dallas County, prosecutors said.

Rosa Maria Ortega, 35, was booked into the Tarrant County Jail and was being held on $10,000 bond.


Ortega is married to an American and is living legally in this country, but is not a citizen and therefore, not qualified to vote, said Harry White, who supervises public integrity and white collar crime investigations for the Tarrant County District Attorney.

Ortega applied to vote in Tarrant County and acknowledged on the application form that she was not a citizen, White said. The county rejected her application and notified her she was not qualified to vote.


But five months later, she applied again and this time claimed she was a citizen, White said.

Ortega never did vote in Tarrant County, but investigators learned she had voted in Dallas County, he said.

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Dallas County Elections Administrator Toni Pippins-Poole said records showed that Ortega had voted a total of five times.

The first was in the Republican primary in 2004 and the most recent was the Republican primary runoff in May 2014, Pippins-Poole said.

Illegal voting is a 2nd-degree felony, punishable by two to 20 years in prison.

The investigation was conducted by the Tarrant County District Attorney's office and the Texas Attorney General's office.

Good thing voter fraud never happens, am I right?

[Aggrophobic]

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Good thing voter fraud never happens, am I right?

It's rare though.

[GennGreymane]

It's rare though.

And so far the only two cases that we have heard about got threads on here.

[derpkitteh]

voter ids should happen, imo. it's not racism, and to suggest otherwise is fucking idiotic.

just don't make them require money. go out to the place to get it, show some form of identification, get your picture taken, and bam, you get a voter id.

[alexw]

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Good thing voter fraud never happens, am I right?

My god. This one person will swing the election. Whatever shall we do?

[Captain N]

Did anyone catch the fact that she voted 5 times for Republicans?

The first was in the Republican primary in 2004 and the most recent was the Republican primary runoff in May 2014, Pippins-Poole said.


What will those Republican Law Makers do now that the second case of voting fraud has to deal with their voters?

[madethisfor1post]

So wait she was voting in primaries?

[the game]

Who'd she vote for

[Endus]

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Good thing voter fraud never happens, am I right?

In-person voter fraud is rare. And is the only type of fraud voter ID laws would act against. And this was not in-person voter fraud. This was registration fraud.

It's also important to note she voted 5 times in 5 separate elections since 2004, not five times in this election.

[Grym]

I would fake to be a US citizen to vote for Trump.

[Dr Assbandit]

I would fake to be a US citizen to vote for Trump.

That's nice dear .

[bmjclark]

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Wom...342158051.html



Good thing voter fraud never happens, am I right?

Well, she got caught so i'd say the system is working as intended

[Skroe]

Sometimes I feel there should be a mandatory statistics course with a minimum passing grade of B+ before gaining the privilege to post on internet forums.

[Zeta333]

It's rare though.

Is it rare, or rare that they are caught?

[Dr Assbandit]

Sometimes I feel there should be a mandatory statistics course with a minimum passing grade of B+ before gaining the privilege to post on internet forums.

You'll essentially eliminate 110% of posters.

Am I doing this right? You can totes trust me, I'm gud at stats (I'm abysmal at it, least pleasant part of medical boards).

[Kujako]

So that's ~0.000000016%? Clearly we need massive spending and voter disenfranchisement to stop it.

[Skroe]

Is it rare, or rare that they are caught?

Rare.

Empirically proven. Statistically insignificant. This point has been made a mind numbing amount of times. The body of research on this topic is enormous.

It comes down to this: the people pushing vote fraud are intentionally having a complicated relationship with statistics and the research that shows voter fraud is extremely rare and statistically insignificant. Because they are being dishonest.

[Dr Assbandit]

Rare.

Empirically proven. Statistically insignificant. This point has been made a mind numbing amount of times. The body of research on this topic is enormous.

It comes down to this: the people pushing vote fraud are intentionally having a complicated relationship with statistics and the research that shows voter fraud is extremely rare and statistically insignificant. Because they are being dishonest.

Or you can just frame it in a basic way that it's just another bogeyman topic.

[Drew79]

So I need ID to get ID to prove I'm who I say I am, but for some reason that first ID isn't good enough, except to get the second ID which is?

Sounds like a waste of everyone's time.

Why have ID's anyways?

[Zomis]

Sometimes I feel there should be a mandatory statistics course with a minimum passing grade of B+ before gaining the privilege to post on internet forums.

If you want to eliminate yourself from posting, you should just stop posting.

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I like that the fraudulent voter is apparently a Republican.



So I need ID to get ID to prove I'm who I say I am, but for some reason that first ID isn't good enough, except to get the second ID which is?

Sounds like a waste of everyone's time.

You need 2 forms of ID to get a photo ID, how did you make it this far in life without knowing this?