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Proof beyond a reasonable doubt is the job of the judge and jury. The prosecuter just needs to think there is a good case. And the *people* need to be reassured that *someone* bothered to undertake an investigation that would have found fraud and would have prosecuted fraud if it existed.
The voter registration stuff should probably be investigated by the state in some way, if nothing else to know who to send to the bill to for the extra expense to the clerks office. But if no one in the state is investigating, then someone needs to investigate *them*.
If Mr. Iglesias had worked as hard as he is doing now "protecting his reputation" when he was the U S Attorney he would still be U S Attorney and Manny and crew wouldn't be a cancer on the New Mexico body politic.
Where are those indictments Mr. Iglesias?
What does Mr. Aragon have on you, Mr. Iglesias?
Where are those indictments?
Mario,
This is proof that Iglesias failed? Do you know what the results of the actual investigation were with regard to that "evidence" of one person with two registration cards? Channel 13 might want to produce a spot about that particular "evidence." This report shows the possibility of suspicious activity. Look at the court records. Here is a quote from an attorney with first hand knowledge of this charade. He was personally involved in the litigation.
"The Republicans filed suit to try to get a state district court declaration that New Mexico’s very narrow voter i.d. statute (which applied only to first-time voters who had mailed in their voter registration applications) should have a much broader interpretation, under which most new voters would have to present i.d. at the polls. I represented the Democratic Party as an intervenor in the suit.
The Republicans attached to their complaint a few examples of what they alleged to be “clearly fraudulent” registration applications. This was to show how dire the situation was and how badly the state needed a more expansive interpretation of its voter i.d. law. Suffice it to say that we investigated the ostensibly fraudulent registrations and it turned out that they were clearly not fraudulent.
For example, one woman had signed two different registration applications, both of which were accurate. She signed one on a desk and one on her hand as she was walking across campus, with the result that her two signatures appeared different.
Another involved a couple who had registered at a voter registration drive table but had not received their registration cards. Worried that their applications has been lost, the husband returned alone to a registration table and filled out two new forms and, with his wife’s permission, signed her name.
These were “Exhibits A and B” to the Republicans’ allegations of rampant voter fraud. Only one of all the supposed examples was actually fraudulent. It was a registration application that a teenager had filled out as a prank. The testimony was clear that his name would never have appeared on the rolls because of the cross-checking that occurs with respect to every new registration, nor was there any indication that he would even have dreamed of trying to vote.
It was this evidence – if it can be called evidence - that the Republicans presented to David Iglesias when they demanded that he appoint a federal task force to get to the bottom of the “serious voter fraud problem” facing New Mexico. Iglesias understandably blew it off."
Can you, or Whitney, please post the video from Channel 13 that updates the previous story with the results of the investigation. Oops. Somehow I don't think Republican operatives called Channel 13 to get that story on the air. You know, the report with ALL the facts about a previous report.
As the great Steven Colbert said, "The facts have a liberal bias." Don't you hate it when that happens?
Well done Mr. Jacobs. Its not often you see a comment that is longer than the original blog posting, and filled with more accurate information.
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