2016 Postmortem

misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts) Fri Oct 28, 2016, 09:10 PM Oct 2016

Registered Republican arrested for voter fraud in Iowa.

http://m.dailykos.com/stories/1588102

Registered Republican arrested for voter fraud in Iowa.
Oct 28, 2016 6:58pm CDT by MTmofo

A Des Moines woman has been arrested on suspicion of voting twice this month in the general election, police and court records show.

Terri Lynn Rote, 55, was booked into the Polk County Jail about 3:40 p.m. Thursday on a first-degree election misconduct charge, which is a Class D felony.

Rote, a registered Republican, reportedly cast an early voting ballot at the Polk County Election Office, 120 Second Ave., and another ballot at a county satellite voting location in Des Moines, according to a Des Moines police report.

Rote was one of three voter fraud suspects reported to police Wednesday by the Polk County Auditor's Office.

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Registered Republican arrested for voter fraud in Iowa. (Original Post) misterhighwasted Oct 2016 OP

She was just trying to brucefan Oct 2016 #1

Well there goes Trump's claim of Dems rigging against him. misterhighwasted Oct 2016 #3

Absentee ballot fraud is the kind of fraud that's common meow2u3 Oct 2016 #2

In Iowa if you use your real name and vote in your county rurallib Oct 2016 #4

Thanks for the info meow2u3 Oct 2016 #6

My guess, she was instigated by Trump's rhetoric. The other side is doing it .... Coyotl Oct 2016 #5

brucefan

(1,549 posts)

1. She was just trying to

Reply to misterhighwasted (Original post)

Fri Oct 28, 2016, 09:12 PM

Oct 2016

Make America great again

misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)

3. Well there goes Trump's claim of Dems rigging against him.

Reply to brucefan (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 28, 2016, 09:18 PM

Oct 2016

Really blows his after election plans for lawsuits.

meow2u3

(24,761 posts)

2. Absentee ballot fraud is the kind of fraud that's common

Reply to misterhighwasted (Original post)

Fri Oct 28, 2016, 09:14 PM

Oct 2016

where a voter votes absentee by mail and then goes to the polls and votes in person, thereby voting more than once. Yes, there is voter fraud, and no, it's not being committed by minorites who tend to vote Democratic; it's more likely to be committed by white Republicans, yet there's no law repukes are willing to pass to prevent absentee ballot fraud.

I wonder why.

rurallib

(62,406 posts)

4. In Iowa if you use your real name and vote in your county

Reply to meow2u3 (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 28, 2016, 09:41 PM

Oct 2016

they will have a record if you requested an absentee ballot.

In order to vote you must produce the unvoted ballot or you vote provisional and must produce the ballot within a specified time - I think it is by Friday of that week.

meow2u3

(24,761 posts)

6. Thanks for the info

Reply to rurallib (Reply #4)

Fri Oct 28, 2016, 10:02 PM

Oct 2016

I didn't know that.

I wonder how the absentee ballot fraudsters pull it off. Do they impersonate a recently deceased voter, just as the repukes accuse Democrats of doing?

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)

5. My guess, she was instigated by Trump's rhetoric. The other side is doing it ....