But what about all the thuggery and cursing LaFaro reported on his blog? Parraz tells Wonkette it never happened. He said that Marin told him he'd been professional at all times. Marin even pointed out to LaFaro that the building was monitored by surveillance cameras, noting that if he were doing anything wrong, he'd be on tape. Marin also categorically denies using profanity toward LaFaro. "LaFaro made that up," said Parraz.
As Patrick Howell O'Neill points out at the
Daily Dot, if Marin had been trying to do fraud, he was one crappy fraudster, wearing a T-shirt identifying the nonprofit he worked for and walking into a lobby that he knew was monitored by video. Unlike
those Mississippi tea partiers who got themselves locked in a courthouse on election night, Marin came right through the front door during business hours and wasn't the least bit sneaky about anything, including going back to his vehicle to seal that one ballot that was open. (We're no election lawyers, but it seems to us that
maybe that one ballot should have just been turned in as is. Does sealing an unsealed ballot count as "tampering" with it? There is probably some case law on that somewhere.)