tom169

Grand Prairie woman gets 8 years for illegally voting twice | Tarrant County | Dallas News

Article reads:

Ortega testified that she did not understand the differences between the rights granted to citizens and the rights granted to legal residents.

She said she believed she did have the right to vote, though she received a letter in October 2013 from the Tarrant County elections office.

Pulaski

Didn't happen! Every elected Democrat said so.

Bob

One case...falls a bit short of the 5 million that we're expected to believe...and 5 million who voted, but weren't in key areas to get the win?

Leslie

She voted for Trump.

dc koop

That leaves 2,999,999.00 to be identified and prosecuted

scrubbedexpat091

And the women in Iowa charged with voting in the same election twice also voted for Trump.

tom169

Whoever a person illegally votes for, they deserve the long arm of the law to come and give them reality.

If not, it's a punch to the face of people that don't vote because they aren't US citizens - and respect the process.

Pulaski

But the courts have ruled multiple times that attempting to verify that people are who they, literally, say they are (walk in say "I am Adrian Smith of 22 Acacia Ave" and you will be handed a voting paper, no questions asked, so long as that name matches that address) and that they have a right to vote, is unlawful.

scrubbedexpat099

Her Mother was deported, seems her children are anchor babies, her brother said she was a LPR but I could not see any other reference. Lawyer said she would be deported immediately after serving her sentence so that suggests she is illegal.

If she is a LPR it would need an IJ to deport her and could find no mention of that.

If she said who she voted for also seen no mention of that.

old.sparkles

Reading the link posted above, it said she voted for Mitt Romney in 2012 and ken Paxton in 2014. She was indicted in 2015 so I wouldn't think she voted in the most recent elections.

Back to looking for those 3 million + illegal voters

scrubbedexpat099

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...59e42#comments

WaPo version

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/u...tion.html?_r=0

NY Times version, lots more out there with different details.

I do not know how anybody can know who she voted for, the only source is the Lawyer, not exactly a trustworthy source.

old.sparkles

Both those links agree with how she voted, whilst NYT added that she was a registered republican (not re-reading the other stories to see if they agree).

However, I agree. No-one can say for certain how she voted and this is likely anecdotal evidence from the lawyer. Whether or nor she is a registered republican though might be something that could be proved or disproved.

scrubbedexpat099

I know someone who is a Registered Republican, she is a Democrat.

tom169

I know a few examples of people registering and not voting that party.

Eventually when I become a US citizen I can't see myself as registering for a specific party. I really don't like how these things are publicly listed here.

old.sparkles

If there is no way of knowing who she voted for, is there also no way of knowing for certain that she actually voted? Is a person turns up to vote, and accepts a ballot paper to vote, there would still be no proof that they actually voted would there?