West Virginia Sheriff, Clerk Snared in Vote Fraud Investigation

February 4, 2012 | Filed under Big government,corruption,Democrats,Virginia Politics,Voter Fraud | Posted by

A Lincoln County, West Virginia Sheriff and Clerk are to plead guilty to charges of vote fraud in the 2010 Democrat primary after the pair were arrested during an election fraud investigation conducted by state and federal authorities.

Sheriff Jerry Bowman and Clerk Donald Whitten were caught in a scheme to file fraudulent absentee ballots in an effort to get Whitten elected Circuit Clerk. Whitten will also pled guilty to lying to an FBI agent hired by WV Secretary of State Natalie Tennant to investigate the false absentee ballots.

Sheriff Bowman, who is at the tail end of a second term and is term-limited from running again, conspired with Whitten and a thus far unidentified candidate for county commissioner to help Whitten win a close election with the fraudulent absentee ballot scheme.

“The Candidates further agreed that they would complete absentee ballot applications for voters,” the agreement documents said. “The Candidates also agreed that on those applications they would state certain reasons that voters were legally eligible to vote absentee, regardless of whether those reasons were true.”

In 2004 several Lincoln and Logan County officials were convicted of vote fraud in a federal vote-buying case. Convicted included Lincoln County Circuit Clerk Greg Stowers and county Assessor Jerry Weaver. Amazingly, Weaver is now running for county sheriff.

But, remember… left-wingers and Democrats say there is no vote fraud in the USA.

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_R7FMXY3DZP7JF7SGSPIOSLLXNE Stephen

    Here come the broad brushes… cause GOPers never do this kind of stuff.

    Let the circle jerk begin…

    • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EU5DQWQTTHTPO4A4ZYSL3AAV2U Adjoran

       No, they don’t – at least not with a tenth of the frequency Democrats do.

      Why is it you love circle jerks with yourself in the middle so much?  Never mind.

    • http://profiles.google.com/jinxmchue Jinx McHue

      Let’s see… scads of proven examples of Democrats committing voter fraud of all sorts over the last dozen years or so and you have… what, exactly?  “cause GOPers never do this kind of stuff” is a pretty empty statement without evidence.  Even with evidence, it’s still a pretty empty statement if it doesn’t come anywhere close to the level of fraud the Democrats have engaged in.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EU5DQWQTTHTPO4A4ZYSL3AAV2U Adjoran

    I knew something was odd when “Democratic” came up in the lede – then I realized it is Fox, and they don’t play the “Name That Party” game.

  • ackwired

    First Indiana, and now Virginia.  Let’s clean out the other 48.

  • GarandFan

    Amazing that jerk-offs like Stephen have a problem with people showing ID when they vote – because VOTER FRAUD NEVER HAPPENS.

    So if it NEVER HAPPENS, why are they worried about people having to show ID?

    • http://profiles.google.com/jinxmchue Jinx McHue

      Because it does happen and is intended to get Democrat candidates elected.  But you knew that already.

    • jim_m

       Because they say it’s discriminatory and apparently it is ok to discriminate when selling guns or alcohol or cigarettes or health care services or any of a zillion things where you have to show positive identification like giving blood etc.  Leftists don’t care if minorities can’t get any of those.

  • http://www.wizbangblog.com David Robertson

    In both cases, the voting fraud took place during Democratic Party primaries, which means that the victims of the fraud were Democrats.

    • http://wizbangblog.com/author/rodney-graves/ Rodney G. Graves

       Which just goes to show that the Democratic Establishment doesn’t trust the Democratic electorate.  I’ll bet that just warms the cockles of Democratic voters everywhere.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/NLDVHVBNBKSUODWOIAFHQBAHII Stan

    Cook County (Chicago) is the best example of voter fraud. Guess what, it is run by DemocRATs. There hasn’t been a Republican mayor in Chicago in several decades. Even the graveyards empty out when election day comes around and vote DemocRAT. I wonder what will happen when Obama doesn’t even carry the state of Illinois in November? Probably DemocRAT heads exploding.

    • http://www.wizbangblog.com David Robertson

      Chicago is in Cook County?

      I thought that Chicago was in Crook County.

      My bad.

  • Brucehenry

    Hey, didja hear the one about the Indiana Secretary of State, a Republican, being convicted of 6 out of 7 felony voter fraud counts TODAY? 

    Funny it wasn’t mentioned here, huh?

    And here’s the really funny part — GOP Gov. Mitch Daniels isn’t removing the guy from office. He’s only temporarily suspended (because these are felony convictions) but if the dude gets the judge to reduce them to misdemeanors, he will STAY IN OFFICE. Go ahead with your “If a Dem had done it” jokes.

    • jim_m

       Hey, here the one where the dem election commission in King Co Washington counted more votes than voters and won the election for governor by less than the number of fraudulent votes? 

      Or did you here the one about Marquette Univ students voting over and over again to secure the presidential votes for the dems in Wisconsin in 2000?

      The number of verified dem voting fraud instances way outnumbers the GOP.  Or perhaps we can talk about Holder’s DOJ which is refusing to prosecute ANY voter issues against minorities regardless of how much evidence here is against them.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_R7FMXY3DZP7JF7SGSPIOSLLXNE Stephen

      The corruption in the GOP is legendary, and this election we can add the fact that the primary process is rigged in favor of Mitt Romney, with the GOP elite pulling string after string to keep Romney on top.

      My favorite GOP election fix so far this primary season? Declaring Mitt the winner of the Iowa Caucuses and then taking 3 weeks to correct the results giving the victory to Santorum.

      Guffaw!

      If Santorum had been the announced winner it would have taken the wind out of Romney’s sails and given Santorum a huge boost…

      But the Republican elite lied for 3 weeks about who won the election. They literally announced the winner they wanted to win rather than who the citizenry wanted.

      They decided who would win, and then declared him the winner.

      And the rubes just suck it up and go on as if nothing happened…

    • EricSteel

      Bruce out of curiosity, how many articles does Daily Kos or Democratic Underground dedicate to voter fraud cases involving Democrats? Four Democratic officials recently plead guilty to voter fraud in Troy New York. How many articles are there at Daily Kos that even mention that case let alone denounce those officials?

      • Brucehenry

        I don’t know. I don’t read Daily Kos. Except for Tom Tomorrow’s cartoons.

        • EricSteel

          Well I do, and I can’t find any. There are plenty about Charlie White, but you won’t find anything about the NY Democratic offiicials who plead guilty to systematic voter fraud.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ILGI4GXDJTITS3GLVVQJGHAMCE Taqiyyotomist

    Ok, then — Brucehenry, you came up with one example of a Republican behaving in this very Democrat-like manner.

    Does Brucehenry have another?

    Because, as Adjoran said — “…not with a tenth of the frequency Democrats do.”

    Every one Bruce comes up with, I could easily — very easily — come up with 10.

    Same goes for: stealing whole stacks of free college and university and “alternative” newspapers which contain information which the thief finds disagreeable; defacing cars which contain conservative bumper stickers; stealing yard signs; hacking into email accounts; publicly wishing death upon conservative people; attacking conservatives physically including breaking their bones and biting off their fingers; camping out on the lawns of citizen’s homes and frightening their children; throwing items at conservative speakers on campus; disrupting and shouting down speakers on campus; calling for the Government to shut down disagreeable television networks and radio show hosts….

    Bring it, Bruce.  So-called open-minded “progressives” actually OWN the politically-related criminal activity in this nation.  I’d say the ratio is more like 50:1.

    Progressives, as they call themselves, somehow, are Fascists.  A bundle of sticks, from which phrase we get the word, as Mussolini pointed out, cannot be easily broken.  Better yet… it can be used as a weapon.

    • Brucehenry

      Just pointing out that Wizbang notices voter fraud when committed by Democrats, but mum’s the Wizbang word when a statewide GOP official is convicted of it, and the GOP governor decides to keep the guy in office in hopes the judge will go easy on him.

      You know, Taqqi, I’m sure if I surfed loony lefty websites and satellite radio stations all day long, I could find examples of stolen yard signs and newspapers, assaults, etc. And I could easily find you examples of conservative people wishing liberals, and even the President, harm or death. But I’m not interested in staying angry all the time.

       And we’re discussing reports of voter fraud here, not stolen newspapers or bitten-off fingers.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ILGI4GXDJTITS3GLVVQJGHAMCE Taqiyyotomist

        It’s all related, Bruce: criminal activity in support of a political ideology.

        It’s the idea that “it’s for The People at large” and that the end justifies whatever means are used to achieve that end, that is prevalent among the so-called “progressives”, miles and miles beyond that trait in self-identifying “conservatives”.

        The difference is stark.  Look at each and every “OWS” protest.  Look at the arrests for the over 6,000 arrests (so far) for illegal behavior.  Look at the deaths.  Look at the garbage left behind when they leave.  Then look at the TEA Party protests.  Permits were acquired.  The law was followed, except, of course, by a few union men who beat Ken Gladney, or the other union man who bit the finger off a protester.  The places were all cleaner when the TPers left than when they came.  The cops said, in every instance, that they would rather have 300k TPers than 3,000 “progressive” protesters.

        But, back to the voter fraud, election fraud, and registration fraud.

        You need to learn a bit about this thing called “perspective”.

        Basically it’s Mote vs. Log in the eye time.

        And, do yourself a favor: surf them both.

        http://polurls.com/red
        http://polurls.com/blue

        If you listen to NPR or watch a lot of TV, though, there’s not a whole lot on the /blue side that you don’t already “know”.

        • Brucehenry

          Wow, thanks for the lecture, and the lesson about what I need to learn. 

          Here’s one for you: try not to change the subject. The subject was voter fraud, and MY point was that Wizbang chose to ignore a conviction of a statewide GOP official while highlighting the case of a local sheriff and county clerk. That was my only point.

          Believe me, we’ve discussed at length at Wizbang the yadayada regarding Tea Party vs Occupy behavior. Also Gladney, stolen yard signs, blahblahblah.

          Thanks also for the link to the aggregators, although several of the sites, both red and blue, were already in my list of bookmarks. Kindly keep your laughable condescension, as a “well-informed conservative,” to yourself.

          • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ILGI4GXDJTITS3GLVVQJGHAMCE Taqiyyotomist

            Glad to help. :D

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ILGI4GXDJTITS3GLVVQJGHAMCE Taqiyyotomist

        Besides, Wizbang is filling a niche.  When you say, as if it’s an inherently bad thing, that Wizbang doesn’t notice Republican vote fraud cases, do you not realize the extent to which the rest of the “mainstream” media outlets in this nation attempt to bury any negative news about any Democrat?

        Somebody has to show the other side of the coin, right?

        If the dreams of many progressives come true, and Fox, Rush, and the conservative blogs are ever shut down — you will never, ever hear of Democrat voter fraud again.  Ever.  Even though it’s practice is more than ten times more frequent, and the same magnitude more egregious, you will never, ever hear of it again.

        PRAVDA from the early 80′s has nothing on the US mass media.

        Yet tiny little Wizbang (no offense, folks) is bad for, again, doing what the progressives do, on a much, much smaller scale.

        Seeing a pattern here?

        • Brucehenry

          Actually, Wizbang, to its credit, sometimes does call out Republican wrongdoing. Just not today.

          • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ILGI4GXDJTITS3GLVVQJGHAMCE Taqiyyotomist

            Well.  Criminy.  What the heck were you going on about in your indignant comment then??!

            Just pointing out…mum’s the Wizbang word when a statewide GOP official is convicted of it…

             and now they “sometimes” do comment on it, to their credit?

            Well, which is it?

          • Brucehenry

            LOL it’s both, hence the word “sometimes.”

            Wizbang can always count on me to be its conscience. I think that’s why they let me stay around.

            (That was a joke, for the humor-impaired among ye.)

          • http://www.wizbangblog.com David Robertson

            Bruce, sometimes a particular news story will not be featured at Wizbang! simply because the news story is not known to the bloggers here.

            When you accused the bloggers here of ignoring a particular story, you assumed that the bloggers knew about it. I, for one, did not know about it until you mentioned it

          • Brucehenry

            You’re welcome.

      • EricSteel

        Bruce, what I noticed is that Wizbang posted two stories about election fraud,one involving Republicans and one involving Democrats. In the story about the Republican several people including myself denounced the guy involved and said he should go to jail. In the thread about the Democrats none of the Left wing commenters yourself included denounced the Democrats involved. In fact, the Left Wing response could best be categorized as redirection. In Stephen’s case it could best be described as projection.

        So why is it so hard for Democrats to even acknowledge that voter fraud exists on their side? And why is it so hard to denounce it? Perhaps it is because it invalidates the metanarrative of opposition to voter id.

        • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_R7FMXY3DZP7JF7SGSPIOSLLXNE Stephen

           “In the thread about the Democrats none of the Left wing commenters
          yourself included denounced the Democrats involved. In fact, the Left
          Wing response could best be categorized as redirection. In Stephen’s
          case it could best be described as projection.”

          Since I didn’t comment at all on that post your comment claiming I did can best be described as made up bullshit and an ad hominem attack attempt at a straw dog red herring argument.

          In other words, in true conservative fashion, when reality didn’t match your construct you made up facts to suit your need, ignoring that they were fantasy…

          Thanks for demonstrating all of the “integrity” that you are unaccountably so proud of…

          • EricSteel

            Stephen, “Since I didn’t comment at all on that post your comment claiming I did can best be described as made up bullshit and an ad hominem attack attempt at a straw dog red herring argument.”

            Re-read what I said. I referred to this article, the one about the two Democrats who plead guilty to voter fraud. The one in which you have now posted three comments, including the very first comment.

            What I said was absolutely accurate. In the article about Democrats being involved in voter fraud, you still haven’t condemned it or denounced. All you have done is try to turn it into a commentary about Republicans. That is text book Projection.

            Thanks for demonstrating that you lack any integrity as well as basic reading or comprehension skills. I know those are big words… So use a dictionary.

          • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_R7FMXY3DZP7JF7SGSPIOSLLXNE Stephen

             “In the article about Democrats being involved in voter fraud, you still
            haven’t condemned it or denounced. All you have done is try to turn it
            into a commentary about Republicans. That is text book Projection. “

            Earth to Eric — Earth to Eric – for the 2nd time now — I didn’t comment on the article about democats at all — therefore I did not try to turn it into a commentary about Republicans!

            “Thanks for demonstrating that you lack any integrity as well as basic
            reading or comprehension skills. I know those are big words… So use a
            dictionary.”

            Spoken like a true moron, you arrogant, fat-headed slob. I didn’t comment at all on that article.

            What an idiot…

          • EricSteel

            Um Stephen, go to the top of this thread and tell me what it is about.

          • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_R7FMXY3DZP7JF7SGSPIOSLLXNE Stephen

            “In the article about Democrats being involved in voter fraud, you still haven’t condemned it or denounced. All you have done is try to turn it into a commentary about Republicans. That is text book Projection. “

            You claim I tried to turn the article about Democrats into “A commentary about Republicans”…I didn’t. Why can’t you admit that? Are you incapable of admitting a simple truth?

          • EricSteel

            Stephen,
            1) Okay here is your chance. The subject of this thread concerns Democrats pleading guilty to voter fraud. Here is your opportunity. In your opinion, did these Democrats do anything wrong?

            2) In the very first comment of this thread you said, “Here come the broad brushes… cause GOPers never do this kind of stuff.” Your second comment started off with, “The corruption in the GOP is legendary, and this election we can add the fact that the primary process is rigged in favor of Mitt Romney, with the GOP elite pulling string after string to keep Romney on top” and goes on to talk solely about the Republicans. This is a thread that is about Democrats committing voter fraud, and your first two comments only discuss the Republicans. So yes, you tried to turn it into a commentary about Republicans.

            Your comments speak for themselves. The fact that you try to deny that you even commented in this thread just shows that you are delusional and need to seek professional help.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ILGI4GXDJTITS3GLVVQJGHAMCE Taqiyyotomist

    OT

    First time commenting here.  Mr. Huston, I’ve been reading your work since you were posting at Gateway Pundit, and I admire it, and Publius Forum.

    (…I check out Wizbang every so often, too!)

    BTW, Got here today from http://polurls.com/red — it’s a pretty good aggregator containing about 20 blogs, most of which I like.  Whoever made it isn’t updating a couple of dead-link feeds, but overall, I like it.  It also has a /blue and /purple section, which contain the likes of Kos and Huffpo and quite a few other hives of insanity.

    Also consider linking the new Larwyn site:  http://badblue.com Badblue is the new conservative ba&tard-hybrid of Drudge and Google News…

    …and is amazing, so far.