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Alabama lawmaker arrested on voter fraud charge

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  1. G8tas

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    HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama legislator was arrested Tuesday on felony voter fraud charges accusing him of voting in a district where he did not live.

    Republican Rep. David Cole of Huntsville was arrested on charges of voting in an unauthorized location, according to Madison County Jail records. The details of the charge were not immediately available in court records, but the arrest comes after accusations that Cole did not live in the district in which he was elected.

    Cole, a doctor and Army veteran, was elected to the House of Representatives last year.

    Voter fraud is a Class C felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison. The Alabama attorney general’s office is prosecuting the case against Cole, a spokeswoman confirmed.

    Alabama lawmaker arrested on voter fraud charge
     
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  2. G8tas

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    Another arrest from the usual suspects
     
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  3. tilly

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    Why would you risk so much over one vote? These idiots get what they get.
     
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  4. GatorJMDZ

    GatorJMDZ gatorjack VIP Member

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    He was running in that district. He should have just moved or bought a second house there.
     
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  5. Trickster

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    A felony?
     
  6. tampagtr

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    Ridiculous. But they probably made it a felony to use against people that don't look like him
     
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  7. VAg8r1

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    His vote was most likely the result of an unintentional error and the guy should not be prosecuted. That being said unintentional error did not prevent the prosecution of the legal immigrant in Texas who incorrectly thought that her green card gave her the right to vote or the Black woman in Tennessee who was actually advised her county voter registrar that her right to vote had been restored after she lost it following a felony conviction. Fortunately for the Tennessee woman her conviction of voter fraud was later reversed and the state decided not prosecute her a second time although she should have never been prosecuted in the first place.
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    Charges Dropped Against Tennessee Woman Who Was Jailed Over Voter Fraud (Published 2022)
     
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  8. Gatorrick22

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    Oh look... they caught one dumb-azz voter cheating. Lol... I'm sure that will change the outcome of the vote.
     
  9. orangeblue_coop

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    It’s been way more than one person who they’ve caught cheating, bubba
     
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  10. gatorchamps960608

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    The things republicans scream about are always the things they are guilty of.
     
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  11. WarDamnGator

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    Agreed. They totally bought into the "the libs" are cheating and passed laws to make casting a single vote a felony if you do it at the wrong precinct, not thinking they'd only be catching their own, mostly...
     
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  12. Gatorrick22

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    Comparing Pub anecdotes to democrat instigated, massive, institutionalized voter fraud is something only a school kid would believe to be equal in scope and scale.
     
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  13. ursidman

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    Bug Tussle NC
    Or just rent a trailer in the woods that you never visit like Mark Meadows
     
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  14. sierragator

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    Hoisted on his own petard.
     
  15. ursidman

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    And yet the evidence for DIMIVF is ……………?
     
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  16. mrhansduck

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    More importantly I think: (1) Many Republicans demonized mail-in ballots as being unsecure and unreliable and have since been working to make sure Republican voters feel comfortable using it; and (2) Telling people that elections are rigged isn't the best way to get them to turn out the vote, particularly in mid terms or special elections when voters are less motivated.

    Another example of Trump putting himself before not only the country but his own party.
     
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  17. GatorJMDZ

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    Except that (democrat instigated, massive, institutionalized voter fraud) is a figment of your hyper active imagination.

    Correct. Trump still lost the 2020 election in a LANDSLIDE.
     
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  18. channingcrowderhungry

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    The Jacksonville Sheriff resigned last year after it was discovered he didn't actually live in Jacksonville.
     
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  19. jhenderson251

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    Every accusation is a confession.
     
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  20. orangeblue_coop

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    Aka MAGA mental illness
     
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