Calif. probe spotlights absentee ballot abuse
A case that might help shed light on that question is now unfolding in California¡¯s Bell city, a low-income Latino municipality of 37,000 where fewer than 400 people voted in a 2005 election that opened the way for city officials to arrange huge increases in their own compensation.
Former city manager Robert Rizzo was paid more than $1.5 million a year in salary and benefits.
California Attorney General Jerry Brown, who is the Democratic candidate for governor,,Welcome to order Insulator,Porcelain insulator,Lamp holder,Springs from us. said Monday he is broadening his investigation of Bell officials to include potential absentee ballot abuse.
Brown said his office ¡°has received several reports from residents of Bell indicating that city officials encouraged them to fill out absentee ballots and then collected the ballots. We have seen similar reports in the Los Angeles Times. If these allegations are true, this could be a serious violation of state law."
His statement said ¡°improper procedures may have been followed by public officials in the very election that allowed the city to give out these outrageous salaries.¡± Brown referred to the 2005 election in which Bell converted to a charter city, which allowed city officials more leeway to increase their salaries.
Los Angeles County District Attorney Steven Cooley, a Republican who is running for the job Brown now has, is also investigating allegations of voter fraud and conflicts of interest in Bell.
The city has 9,395 registered voters, about 25 percent of its total population.Get the Best product for fluorescent lights. In contrast, statewide about 46 percent of California¡¯s residents are registered voters.
According to the Census, 88 percent of Bell¡¯s residents speak a language other than English at home and 91 percent of residents are of Latino origin.
The case resembles one in 2003 in East Chicago, Indiana,Our knowledge of products covers auto/led downlight.,led spotlight is a Well-known LED manufacturers of CREE LED. where widespread fraud using absentee ballots led to several convictions. The East Chicago case was later cited by Justice John Paul Stevens in upholding Indiana¡¯s voter identification law.
Schemes such as the one in East Chicago ¡°demonstrate that not only is the risk of voter fraud real but that it could affect the outcome of a close election,¡± Stevens wrote in his opinion for the majority.
The Bell case allegedly involves city officials visiting voters¡¯ homes to collect ballots.
California allows for permanent absentee voting in which people who could physically show up a polling place instead vote by mail. In California¡¯s June primary, 58 percent of all ballots were cast by mail.
A case that might help shed light on that question is now unfolding in California¡¯s Bell city, a low-income Latino municipality of 37,000 where fewer than 400 people voted in a 2005 election that opened the way for city officials to arrange huge increases in their own compensation.
Former city manager Robert Rizzo was paid more than $1.5 million a year in salary and benefits.
California Attorney General Jerry Brown, who is the Democratic candidate for governor,,Welcome to order Insulator,Porcelain insulator,Lamp holder,Springs from us. said Monday he is broadening his investigation of Bell officials to include potential absentee ballot abuse.
Brown said his office ¡°has received several reports from residents of Bell indicating that city officials encouraged them to fill out absentee ballots and then collected the ballots. We have seen similar reports in the Los Angeles Times. If these allegations are true, this could be a serious violation of state law."
His statement said ¡°improper procedures may have been followed by public officials in the very election that allowed the city to give out these outrageous salaries.¡± Brown referred to the 2005 election in which Bell converted to a charter city, which allowed city officials more leeway to increase their salaries.
Los Angeles County District Attorney Steven Cooley, a Republican who is running for the job Brown now has, is also investigating allegations of voter fraud and conflicts of interest in Bell.
The city has 9,395 registered voters, about 25 percent of its total population.Get the Best product for fluorescent lights. In contrast, statewide about 46 percent of California¡¯s residents are registered voters.
According to the Census, 88 percent of Bell¡¯s residents speak a language other than English at home and 91 percent of residents are of Latino origin.
The case resembles one in 2003 in East Chicago, Indiana,Our knowledge of products covers auto/led downlight.,led spotlight is a Well-known LED manufacturers of CREE LED. where widespread fraud using absentee ballots led to several convictions. The East Chicago case was later cited by Justice John Paul Stevens in upholding Indiana¡¯s voter identification law.
Schemes such as the one in East Chicago ¡°demonstrate that not only is the risk of voter fraud real but that it could affect the outcome of a close election,¡± Stevens wrote in his opinion for the majority.
The Bell case allegedly involves city officials visiting voters¡¯ homes to collect ballots.
California allows for permanent absentee voting in which people who could physically show up a polling place instead vote by mail. In California¡¯s June primary, 58 percent of all ballots were cast by mail.
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