Damning Tapes in ESL Voter Fraud Trial
The East St. Louis Democratic Voter Fraud Case continued today with the former Deputy East St. Louis Police Chief Rudy McIntosh taking the stand. Today the jurors heard tapes recorded by Rudy McIntosh where democrats discussed the amount they were planning on paying for votes in the November 2nd election. One of those charged, Kelvin Ellis, is also charged with attempted murder of a federal witness and running a prostitution ring from his office. Here is a recap of the damning evidence that the jury heard today:
The jury in the federal vote fraud case in East St. Louis heard undercover recordings today in which vote buying was discussed. The former deputy police chief for East St. Louis took the stand on Friday as a key prosecution witness.
Rudy McIntosh worked undercover for the FBI during the fall election campaign. McIntosh described a series of meetings he participated in with the five defendants, all members of the city's Democratic party organization. At the time McIntosh was a new precinct committeeman learning the political ropes.
He testified former city official Kelvin Ellis told him how to buy absentee votes for $5 a piece. Defense attorneys repeated objected to testimony. Several times Judge Patrick Murphy sent the jury out of the room to hear their arguments.
One undercover tape played for the jury had McIntosh talking to party leader Charles Powell. McIntosh said "Five dollars a vote ain't gonna get it." Powell responded, "I know what you're saying. Give them five dollars...ten dollars a vote."
During cross examination, Powell's attorney Bruce Cook tried to raise questions about McIntosh's testimony. At one point he accused him of lying. U.S. Attorney Mike Carr strenuously objected and the judge told the jury to ignore cook's statement.
The five defendants are charged with attempting to buy votes in East St. Louis during the election. The trial will resume on Tuesday.
Here are the previous posts on this trial:
East St. Louis makes Voter Fraud a Business
$5 for Non-Racists; Racists are $10
ESL Prosecution Witness Falters
posted by Gateway Pundit at 6/10/2005 05:17:00 PM
6 Comments:
This is the first time I've heard of this case.
That's because they were DEMOCRATS.
This would be front-page news if republicans had done it.
It's not like this is the first time Democrats have been on trial for voter fraud or intimidation. The grown sons of two prominent Milwaukee politicians - U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore and former Acting Mayor Marvin Pratt, were arrested and convicted of slashing tires on vans used by the Republicans to get voters to the polls. (see http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/jan05/295538.asp)
So, as you can tell, it's not really news, is it?
Now, if it were a Republican who was buying votes, that really would be news!
But Democrats running an illegal vote-buying scheme? Nah.
Ever wonder why the Democratic Reps and Senators never really got around to pushing for the voter-fraud investigations, like they threatened? It's because they are all too aware of what an impartial investigation would uncover.
The Gregoire case in Washington state is almost identical. Democratic party hacks stole the state election.
Here in California, a bill to require ID at the polls has died in committee for the las five years running. Who could possibly be against clean elections? perhaps those who benefit from fraud?
The election here in Washington and the events that followed were a complete fiasco. Many of us who voted for Dino Rossi were of the opinion that he should have let things lie back in December after the initial recounts.
The smart thing for him to do as a candidate, is to come back in the next election with evidence of voter fraud, but instead the republicans have chosen to file a lawsuit, which hasn't made many Rossi voters very happy. They'd rather see him take the high road.
This trial in St. Louis is very interesting in light of what's happened in Washington. It's most certainly worth watching, and if the Rossi team has evidence as damning as the evidence presented in this case maybe I'll change my mind with regard to how I currently feel toward the lawsuit here.
What happened in Washington was the same thing the Democrats tried in 2000 down here in Florida. Just keep recounting until you are ahead, then immediately stop recounting. How many recounts did they do in Washington, until the democrat was the "winner"? How many recounts were done after?
I had several links to stories of democratic voter intimidation etc. so rather than put them all here and type all those tags, I put up a quick post at my place
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