Remember, though -- if you listen to the Dems, it's the GOP that's always involved in election highlinks ... y'know, "stealing elections."
AN ELECTION-fraud prosecution in Erie, pursued by the state Attorney General's Office, is sending tremors into Philadelphia, where two state House members and a state Senate candidate submitted scores of apparently bogus signatures on recent nomination petitions.Attorney General Tom Corbett announced last week that he was filing criminal charges against former state Rep. Linda Bebko-Jones, 61, a Democrat who had represented Erie in the state House for 14 years, and her former chief of staff, Mary Fiolek.
A state grand jury alleged that when Bebko-Jones was running for re-election in 2006, she and Fiolek sat in their Harrisburg offices and forged dozens of signatures on her nominating petitions, using an Erie County phone book and the lawmaker's personal address book to find the names.
Bebko-Jones gave up her re-election bid when the charges surfaced two years ago. But Corbett pushed the case anyway, spurred by a complaint from former Democratic state senator Anthony "Buzz" Andrezeski, who said the signature of his 87-year-old mother was among those forged on the Bebko-Jones petitions.
In Philadelphia, two incumbent House members - Tony J. Payton Jr. and Thomas W. Blackwell, both Democrats - are accused by opponents of turning in petitions with dozens of forged signatures, among other problems.
The same charge is leveled against Lawrence M. Farnese Jr., one of four Democratic contenders for the state Senate seat now held by Vincent Fumo. (Link.)
Elsewhere, so-called "undocumented immigrants" are getting people to "speak for them" in a rather ... unusual way:
Jose Ruiz is like many college students.He's outspoken. He's politically active. And, most importantly, he wants to make sure as many people as possible hit the polls come Election Day.
Why? Because he can't. Ruiz is an illegal immigrant.
Buoyed by Super Tuesday's record Latino voter turnout, a San Jose State University student group — made up of both legal and illegal residents — is planning a widespread, grass-roots campaign to register voters, especially those who can speak for them at the polls. (Link.)
As they say, folks, "Only in America."