Mississippi NAACP leader sent to prison for 10 counts of voter fraud

[whitehall]

Voter fraud is easy since there is little scrutiny regarding registration. The criminals register real people including the homeless who have no intention of voting or the dead or underage, felons and illegal aliens. Once the real or fictional people are registered at the voting precinct it's easy to vote in their names if no I.D. is required.

 

[Truthseeker420]

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[Sarah G]

This is just one individual that got caught.... this is a very hard crime to prove due to the fact that our vote is kept relatively private.

Cleaning the voter rolls is the best way to clean it up, and we MUST require an ID.... we just have to.

Sorry, no to corrupt voter ids.

 

[Publius1787]

While NAACP President Benjamin Jealous lashed out at new state laws requiring photo ID for voting, an NAACP executive sits in prison, sentenced for carrying out a massive voter fraud scheme.

In a story ignored by the national media, in April a Tunica County, Miss., jury convicted NAACP official Lessadolla Sowers on 10 counts of fraudulently casting absentee ballots. Sowers is identified on an NAACP website as a member of the Tunica County NAACP Executive Committee.

Sowers received a five-year prison term for each of the 10 counts, but Circuit Court Judge Charles Webster permitted Sowers to serve those terms concurrently, according to the Tunica Times, the only media outlet to cover the sentencing.

“This crime cuts against the fabric of our free society,” Judge Webster said.

Sowers was found guilty of voting in the names of Carrie Collins, Walter Howard, Sheena Shelton, Alberta Pickett, Draper Cotton and Eddie Davis. She was also convicted of voting in the names of four dead persons: James L. Young, Dora Price, Dorothy Harris, and David Ross.

In the trial, forensic scientist Bo Scales testified that Sowers’s DNA was found on the inner seals of five envelopes containing absentee ballots.

This wasn’t Sowers’s first run-in with the law. Sowers previously had her probation revoked for disturbing the peace at a junior high school library, the Commercial Appeal of Memphis reported in 1990. During a hearing at that time, Sowers played the race card. She claimed to be the victim of “an attempt by powerful whites to silence” her, the newspaper reported. It didn’t work. She was ordered back to prison to complete the remaining two years of a three-year sentence she received for check forgery.

The NAACP has had other problems with voter fraud. The NAACP National Voter Fund registered a dead man to vote in Lake County, Ohio, in 2004. That same year, out of 325 voter registration cards filed by the NAACP in Cleveland, 48 were flagged as fraudulent.

But the NAACP’s voter fraud record doesn’t approach that of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. At least 54 individuals employed by or associated with ACORN have been convicted of voter fraud.

Voter fraud, sometimes called electoral fraud, is a blanket term used by lawyers that encompasses a host of election-related improprieties including fraudulent voting, voter registration fraud, perjury, forgery, counterfeiting, impersonation, intimidation, and identity fraud.

And ACORN, which filed for bankruptcy last November, was itself convicted of voter fraud in Nevada in April. Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 10 in Las Vegas. ACORN was also banished from Ohio in 2010 when it settled a state racketeering filed against it by the 1851 Center for Constitutional Law, a project of the Buckeye Institute. Under the settlement ACORN, which is now reorganizing its state chapters under different names, agreed never to return to the state.

Election experts say voter fraud is fairly common, but progressive activists typically insist that the crime is virtually nonexistent. Republicans, they say, routinely exaggerate claims of voter fraud in order to whip their political base into a frenzy and push for voter ID laws. Liberals say such laws are unfair, and claim that they discourage minorities and the poor from voting.

The NAACP’s Jealous said Monday at the group’s 102nd annual convention in Los Angeles that photo ID laws are part of an attempt to disenfranchise minorities through some “of the last existing legal pillars of Jim Crow.” Such laws stem from “the worst and most racist elements” in conservative Tea Party groups, he said.

Stephen Colbert, the liberal comedian who portrays an overbearing conservative Republican on his cable TV show “The Colbert Report,” broadcast a segment this week ridiculing Republicans for treating voter fraud as a serious problem.

Some Democrats, however, aren’t laughing. The office of District Attorney Brenda F. Mitchell, a registered Democrat who serves Mississippi’s 11th Circuit Court District, successfully prosecuted Sowers. Mitchell was appointed to the post by Republican Gov. Haley Barbour in January 2010 after the previous DA resigned. She’s now seeking the Democratic nomination for the office in a primary election scheduled for Aug. 2.

Mitchell doesn’t appear to be a conservative. She served as a legal consultant to the far-left, New York-based public interest law firm the Center for Constitutional Rights. That firm represented ACORN in an ultimately unsuccessful lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a federal law defunding the activist group. Mitchell didn’t return calls seeking comment for this article.

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota Democrat, is also no conservative. But she won a conviction against Joshua Reed for voter registration fraud in 2004 when she was the Hennepin County, Minn. Prosecutor.

“It was very important for the public integrity of our electoral system that somebody, if they do something like this, gets charged, gets convicted and gets consequences,” Klobuchar said at the time.

Democrats, including Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, Pittsburgh District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr., and Miami, Fla., State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle, have all vigorously prosecuted voter fraud cases.

Mississippi NAACP leader sent to prison for 10 counts of voter fraud | The Daily Caller

Well I guess we can make the connection to as why the NAACP doesen't like voter ID laws.

 

[PredFan]

While NAACP President Benjamin Jealous lashed out at new state laws requiring photo ID for voting, an NAACP executive sits in prison, sentenced for carrying out a massive voter fraud scheme.

In a story ignored by the national media, in April a Tunica County, Miss., jury convicted NAACP official Lessadolla Sowers on 10 counts of fraudulently casting absentee ballots. Sowers is identified on an NAACP website as a member of the Tunica County NAACP Executive Committee.

Sowers received a five-year prison term for each of the 10 counts, but Circuit Court Judge Charles Webster permitted Sowers to serve those terms concurrently, according to the Tunica Times, the only media outlet to cover the sentencing.

“This crime cuts against the fabric of our free society,” Judge Webster said.

Sowers was found guilty of voting in the names of Carrie Collins, Walter Howard, Sheena Shelton, Alberta Pickett, Draper Cotton and Eddie Davis. She was also convicted of voting in the names of four dead persons: James L. Young, Dora Price, Dorothy Harris, and David Ross.

In the trial, forensic scientist Bo Scales testified that Sowers’s DNA was found on the inner seals of five envelopes containing absentee ballots.

This wasn’t Sowers’s first run-in with the law. Sowers previously had her probation revoked for disturbing the peace at a junior high school library, the Commercial Appeal of Memphis reported in 1990. During a hearing at that time, Sowers played the race card. She claimed to be the victim of “an attempt by powerful whites to silence” her, the newspaper reported. It didn’t work. She was ordered back to prison to complete the remaining two years of a three-year sentence she received for check forgery.

The NAACP has had other problems with voter fraud. The NAACP National Voter Fund registered a dead man to vote in Lake County, Ohio, in 2004. That same year, out of 325 voter registration cards filed by the NAACP in Cleveland, 48 were flagged as fraudulent.

But the NAACP’s voter fraud record doesn’t approach that of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. At least 54 individuals employed by or associated with ACORN have been convicted of voter fraud.

Voter fraud, sometimes called electoral fraud, is a blanket term used by lawyers that encompasses a host of election-related improprieties including fraudulent voting, voter registration fraud, perjury, forgery, counterfeiting, impersonation, intimidation, and identity fraud.

And ACORN, which filed for bankruptcy last November, was itself convicted of voter fraud in Nevada in April. Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 10 in Las Vegas. ACORN was also banished from Ohio in 2010 when it settled a state racketeering filed against it by the 1851 Center for Constitutional Law, a project of the Buckeye Institute. Under the settlement ACORN, which is now reorganizing its state chapters under different names, agreed never to return to the state.

Election experts say voter fraud is fairly common, but progressive activists typically insist that the crime is virtually nonexistent. Republicans, they say, routinely exaggerate claims of voter fraud in order to whip their political base into a frenzy and push for voter ID laws. Liberals say such laws are unfair, and claim that they discourage minorities and the poor from voting.

The NAACP’s Jealous said Monday at the group’s 102nd annual convention in Los Angeles that photo ID laws are part of an attempt to disenfranchise minorities through some “of the last existing legal pillars of Jim Crow.” Such laws stem from “the worst and most racist elements” in conservative Tea Party groups, he said.

Stephen Colbert, the liberal comedian who portrays an overbearing conservative Republican on his cable TV show “The Colbert Report,” broadcast a segment this week ridiculing Republicans for treating voter fraud as a serious problem.

Some Democrats, however, aren’t laughing. The office of District Attorney Brenda F. Mitchell, a registered Democrat who serves Mississippi’s 11th Circuit Court District, successfully prosecuted Sowers. Mitchell was appointed to the post by Republican Gov. Haley Barbour in January 2010 after the previous DA resigned. She’s now seeking the Democratic nomination for the office in a primary election scheduled for Aug. 2.

Mitchell doesn’t appear to be a conservative. She served as a legal consultant to the far-left, New York-based public interest law firm the Center for Constitutional Rights. That firm represented ACORN in an ultimately unsuccessful lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a federal law defunding the activist group. Mitchell didn’t return calls seeking comment for this article.

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota Democrat, is also no conservative. But she won a conviction against Joshua Reed for voter registration fraud in 2004 when she was the Hennepin County, Minn. Prosecutor.

“It was very important for the public integrity of our electoral system that somebody, if they do something like this, gets charged, gets convicted and gets consequences,” Klobuchar said at the time.

Democrats, including Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, Pittsburgh District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr., and Miami, Fla., State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle, have all vigorously prosecuted voter fraud cases.

Mississippi NAACP leader sent to prison for 10 counts of voter fraud | The Daily Caller

Well I guess we can make the connection to as why the NAACP doesen't like voter ID laws.

That was never in any real doubt.

 

[Freewill]

Voter fraud by blacks is rampant in places like Mississippi. And the Obama Justice Dept will not prosecute any instance, no matter how blatant or well attested. Their attitude is, Blacks in MS were discriminated against under Jim Crow and now it's payback time.
**** them. Defeat Obama.

I wonder if this attitude is driven by the guilt of the democrat party, since it was their party that drove poll taxes, Jim Crow and the KKK to attack Republicans especially black Republicans.

 

[DiamondDave]

Just want to see TDM backpedal

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Just want to see TDM backpedal

She'll spin it.

Probably something bush did that allowed him to do that

 

[g5000]

Willl one of you dimwits please explain two very simple things for me?

1: Show me one person here who has ever said there is no voter fraud.

2: Explain how a Voter ID would have prevented or caught the absentee voter fraud in the OP.

Look up that witch Truthmatters...

As far as whether it would have stopped her... no one knows

Yes you do. You know damn well Voter ID would not stop absentee voting fraud. It just kills you to admit it.

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, but can you explain why it hurts to require an ID?

Can you explain how it hurts to require singing Happy Birthday to vote?

You want more government regulations and government intervention in the exercising of your constitutional rights, don't you believe you should prove the necessity of it? Or are you selective in that belief when it suits you?

[
Regardless... there are a ton of other liberal members here who have said there is no voter fraud...its all made up and in our heads.

Can you link to those claims by the ton of people who say there is NO voter fraud? Should be a piece of cake as there are a TON of them!

Because I think you are making THAT up in your head.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

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[kwc57]

Who would have ever guessed the head of the Mississippi NAACP was a Republican!

 

[NLT]

Kinda funny that all those illeagal mexicans can show up with required proof and documentation for the Obamas dream act, but asking them to show ID to vote is racist.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

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[g5000]

Kinda funny that all those illeagal mexicans can show up with required proof and documentation for the Obamas dream act, but asking them to show ID to vote is racist.

Asking an American citizen to produce ID to exercise their constitutional right has not been proven to be necessary.

We have been voting for over two centuries, and suddenly we need ID?


It is absolutely stunning how alleged "conservatives" are drinking Olympic swimming pool quantities of partisan bongwater and demanding the government place more regulations and interventions on their constitutional rights.

And it never occurs to them to ask for evidence of the necessity. Instead, people like you invent fantasies which have no basis in fact to justify your mad cow desires. Gotta stop them Mexicans from swinging elections!



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[Truthmatters]

07/29/2011

that is the date on this story.

That means her crimes were in the latest studies on voter fraud and her crimes have been counted in the studies.

Guess what?


That doesnt make this crime more frequent than the studies show.

Its an infentesimal amount of fruad like this in the nation.


Would you be willing to keep hundereds of thousands of legal voters from voting to stop one person from cheating?

 

[NLT]

Kinda funny that all those illeagal mexicans can show up with required proof and documentation for the Obamas dream act, but asking them to show ID to vote is racist.

Asking an American citizen to produce ID to exercise their constitutional right has not been proven to be necessary.

We have been voting for over two centuries, and suddenly we need ID?


It is absolutely stunning how alleged "conservatives" are drinking Olympic swimming pool quantities of partisan bongwater and demanding the government place more regulations and interventions on their constitutional rights.

And it never occurs to them to ask for evidence of the necessity. Instead, people like you invent fantasies which have no basis in fact to justify your mad cow desires. Gotta stop them Mexicans from swinging elections!


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Obama had two years with the house and senate to pass the dream act, but did'nt. He saved it for an election year mandate, to gain the hispanic vote. He also requires them to show proof of being in the US..look it up. Its ok to ask for ID when it fits the lefts agenda.

 

[Truthmatters]

Study finds voter fraud nearly nonexistent - KWCH




Study finds voter fraud nearly nonexistent





August 13, 2012|By Chris Durden | KWCH 12 Eyewitness News






(WICHITA, Kan.) — A new study finds in-person voter fraud is virtually nonexistent in the United States.

News21, a non-partisan project funded by the Carnegie and Knight foundations, conducted the study.



this national study contains her crimes and still came up with this result

 

[Truthmatters]

Sorry guys your lies about this being a big problem just dont comport with the facts

 

[syrenn]

 

[The Infidel]

Willl one of you dimwits please explain two very simple things for me?

1: Show me one person here who has ever said there is no voter fraud.

2: Explain how a Voter ID would have prevented or caught the absentee voter fraud in the OP.

Look up that witch Truthmatters...

As far as whether it would have stopped her... no one knows

Yes you do. You know damn well Voter ID would not stop absentee voting fraud. It just kills you to admit it.

Its a start A-hole..!!!

What is your solution?

(oh yeah... its not a problem to you)

but can you explain why it hurts to require an ID?

Can you explain how it hurts to require singing Happy Birthday to vote?

You want more government regulations and government intervention in the exercising of your constitutional rights, don't you believe you should prove the necessity of it? Or are you selective in that belief when it suits you?

Dont reply to my question with a question... answer mine first.

Why is it a bad thing to require an ID to do something that is one of OUR most precious rights....? Its our voice for Gods sake!!!!

Regardless... there are a ton of other liberal members here who have said there is no voter fraud...its all made up and in our heads.

Can you link to those claims by the ton of people who say there is NO voter fraud? Should be a piece of cake as there are a TON of them!

Because I think you are making THAT up in your head.

I refuse to go back and link to each and every thread where you retards say it never happens... yet you can not prove that every vote cast is legit.

How do you prove that someone didnt vote for a dead guy or YOU for that matter? If the offender knows the names of said dead people or just takes a shot in the dark to cast a vote in someone else's name.... how in the Hell do you stop them??? How are they going to be caught??