Tuesday, May 29, 2012
5 term Republican/ Teabagger caught in voter fraud
Ole' Thad McCotter a 5 term Republican/Teabagger and member of the House Committee on Financial Services apparently coldn't count beyond 244 legitimate voters on the nominating petition needed to get on the Michigan primary ballot.
Rep. Thaddeus McCotter turned in 2,000 petition signatures to get on August primary ballot, but all except 244 have been deemed invalid because of rampant duplicated copies, the Michigan Secretary of State found.As usual he denied having any part in the fraudulent petition and blamed someone else for what he was his responsibility. He says he will run a write-in campaign, if he can put up with the ridicule he so richly deserves.
A review by The Detroit News of the petition signatures found full copies of a sheet of signatures that were photocopied once and in some cases two times and mixed in with the 136-page stack of signatures. In some cases, a different petition circulator's name was signed to the duplicate copy.
The overt copying is "frankly unheard of," said Chris Thomas, Michigan's director of elections, as he thumbed through the stack of petitions. "It's amazing when you sit and look, and it starts to dwell on you what they've done."
The Secretary of State's office has turned over its preliminary findings to the state Attorney General's office, which would take up a potential criminal investigation of violations of election law.
McCotter has accepted the finding that he will not make the ballot and announced in Tuesday's Detroit News he will launch a write-in campaign.
"Having promised people I would seek another term in the United States Congress and, thereby, give them the chance to vote for, or against me, the only way to clean up my mess is to run a write-in campaign for the Republican nomination for Michigan's 11th Congressional District," McCotter wrote in the column.
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