DISCUSS: 86-year-old woman with dementia charged with voter fraud

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Updated: 3/08 3:13 pm
MINNEAPOLIS -- An 86-year-old Minnesota woman who suffers from dementia is facing felony voter fraud charges because she accidentally voted twice.

The woman voted with an absentee ballot back in July, but forgot. So, she went in person to vote in August at a community center.

Here is where this gets frustrating. The voting roster was marked that she already voted, but the election official let her vote again anyway. That person isn't facing charges, but she is.

If convicted the woman faces 5 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

The prosecutor has said, however, she doesn't expect the woman to spend a day in jail.

DISCUSS: What you do think? Does it matter if she changed her vote? Should the election official face charges? Join the conversation on our Facebook page or add your comments HERE.


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5PMCharlie - 3/10/2013 12:51 PM
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Pastor Boob, So God is white...Your statment just confirms what I've thought for quite awhile, you racist little troll!

Bigsalmg - 3/10/2013 6:34 AM
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F * 8 * it send her to jail!! all who voted for this clown!! yinge su marre!!!!

preexisting - 3/9/2013 3:53 PM
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The defendant suffers from dementia, so it seems highly unlikely the prosecution will be able to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the defendant intentionally or knowingly voted twice in the same election. A highly questionable charge, and a seeming wasted of bureaucratic time, effort and money.

Lervia - 3/9/2013 9:49 AM
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Pretzel, as I said, race has no valid place in this discussion, unless YOU choose to interject it, and you have. I could have mentioned that the lady that has admitted to voting 6 or 7 times is black, but I chose not to inject race. Now, SHOOooo. I've got a busy day ahead and no time for your foolishness.

twister - 3/9/2013 9:39 AM
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Congratulations, Lervia, you made some great comments about why innocent voting errors occur. I wonder why you don't make those great arguments when the errors impact hispanic or black people. I wonder why, when there is a black or hispanic voting error, the immediate accusation is deliberate voter fraud without any assumption of innocence until proven guilty. "Why do you observe the splinter in your brother's eye and never notice the great log in your own?" MT 7:3

Lervia - 3/8/2013 10:30 PM
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Now, to address twister.....it seems that you are he11bent on starting a fight, and only a day after being banned, then coming back in a seemingly much more calm and polite persona. An 86 year old woman with dementia should not be facing any charges for voting twice. The mistake was made when she went in to vote and the roster showed that she'd already voted early. She was "allowed" to break the law, as were so many others around the country (either allowed or admittedly worked at it). There are numerous cases of voters being investigated that have admitted to voting 6 or 7 times, yet those stories have a hard time finding air time with the MSM. There are two reasons for the outrage: One being the fact that an 86 yr. old lady with dementia was allowed to vote a second time when it was known at the time she'd already voted. She's not at fault due to her mental health issue, and because she was allowed to cast a second vote with full knowledge of the voter "monitors". Second being that she should never have been charged with voter fraud for the above reasons. To the prosecutor's credit, she has stated that she didn't want to file the charges but was legally bound to or risk losing her job. She's in a Catch 22 situation, but neither she, nor the 86 yr. old lady should be in the positions they are in. Voter fraud is running rampant, and the liberals (like twister) will do anything and everything to prevent ANY measure to stop or prevent it because it benefit their party and cause and IDOL!!!!! Just ask Chris Matthews, who just called Obama the prefect American. Oh, and twister, race has no valid place in this discussion, unless YOU choose to interject it for your nefarious purposes.

Lervia - 3/8/2013 10:14 PM
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"DISCUSS: What you do think? Does it matter if she changed her vote? Should the election official face charges?" Okay, now I'm confused. The article says nothing about the lady changing her vote, yet the "DISCUSS" feature suggests that she did. So, what's the truth? And, if she voted twice, differently, one vote cancelled out the other, at least on "what she changed her vote on".

Oilfield trash - 3/8/2013 9:48 PM
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Exellent job, Twister. Picking on the weak or handicapped. You have done an excellent job of showing what the Left stands for. And I haven't even mentioned yet, what a racist bunch you Barrack Hussein lovers are.

Carmelos - 3/8/2013 9:06 PM
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twister, I would think the only one who would be truly upset would be BACKTOYOU cause you stole his anti-white thunder. Guess there are no old white Democrats out there either, Pelosi, Reid, Clinton, ad nauseum ......

twister - 3/8/2013 8:59 PM
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Why are people so upset? If this person was Hispanic, we would assume she was an illegal immigrant trying to vote themselves amnesty. If she was black, we would assume she was committing fraud to keep a brother in the White House. Why are you so upset that I make positive assumptions about the Republican voting base: old white people?
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