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TexasTowelie

(116,876 posts)
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 02:18 AM Jul 2017

Iowa woman charged with voting twice for Trump pleads guilty


Terri Rote


DES MOINES (AP) — An Iowa woman charged with voting twice for Donald Trump last fall pleaded guilty to election misconduct and is scheduled to be sentenced next month.

In exchange for Terri Lynn Rote’s guilty plea to the felony charge, prosecutors agreed to drop a perjury charge, court records show. Judge Michael Huppert accepted her plea on June 27 and set sentencing for Aug. 15.

Rote is a registered Republican and a Trump supporter. She was arrested on Oct. 21 after she showed up at a Polk County election satellite office and tried to cast a second ballot for the November election.

She told police that she believed Trump’s claims that the election was rigged and thought that her first ballot would be changed to a vote for Hillary Clinton. Trump easily beat Clinton in Iowa to win the state’s six electoral votes in the Nov. 8 election.

http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/iowa-woman-charged-with-voting-twice-for-trump-pleads-guilty/article_14441069-c8da-558b-a57e-bef7099ee65c.html
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Iowa woman charged with voting twice for Trump pleads guilty (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2017 OP
Does this mean Trump is right? That the election was rigged, that there was rampant fakery? Midnight Writer Jul 2017 #1
Bigly! TexasTowelie Jul 2017 #2
That was my first thought, too, LOL Rhiannon12866 Jul 2017 #3
Not yet. :) This was just attempted voter fraud. Hortensis Jul 2017 #4
Damn! Rhiannon12866 Jul 2017 #5
Oh, she reportedly was! And very obviously is not. Hortensis Jul 2017 #6
She looks very unhappy. Rhiannon12866 Jul 2017 #7
VERY possible. Our son once dated a girl so ultraconservative, Hortensis Jul 2017 #8
Yikes! Maybe she'll sign up with Newt Gingrich on his flight to Mars Rhiannon12866 Jul 2017 #9

Rhiannon12866

(222,483 posts)
3. That was my first thought, too, LOL
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 02:33 AM
Jul 2017

Here's the case of "voter fraud" that Trump keeps yammering about. He can relax now, they found her!

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
4. Not yet. :) This was just attempted voter fraud.
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 02:50 AM
Jul 2017

This stupid (and, gee, why do I suspect the typical maliciously hostile?) idiot was arrested when she tried.

Anyone want to bet a penny her experience will make her realize voting twice wouldn't be all that easy for Democrats either?

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
6. Oh, she reportedly was! And very obviously is not.
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 02:58 AM
Jul 2017

Just hope any cellmates are her own type. Imagine being locked in with an angrily defensive that.



Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
8. VERY possible. Our son once dated a girl so ultraconservative,
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 03:27 AM
Jul 2017

and so stupidly paranoid apparently, that she believed the TV show The X-Files was engaged in getting secret warnings about our government out to the people. Secret. Uhuh.

Shiver when I think she could have gotten pregnant. She had a hostile dislike for most people, which she didn't realize, and also didn't like children, which she also certainly didn't realize. And that was the young, dewy-eyed version of her 17 years ago. Fortunately, she followed her bigoted, prepper-for-end-of-world parents to West Virginia (97% white at that time), so we don't run into her.

Rhiannon12866

(222,483 posts)
9. Yikes! Maybe she'll sign up with Newt Gingrich on his flight to Mars
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 03:34 AM
Jul 2017

That was my long time job, writing descriptions for network shows for the newspapers, both The Simpsons and The X-Files were my shows, I worked with FOX (Network) and CBS. Maybe I inadvertently sent her messages!

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