One Fraud Guilty Of Another?

Gosh, it seems like those pesky little voting troubles for little Annie Coulter just refuse to go away, don’t they? As noted here...

(The Palm Beach Post's Jose) Lambiet wrote that the sheriff's office "punted a voting fraud probe in April" but "the Florida Elections Commission now is investigating" the February 2006 incident in which Coulter -- who's also an author and lawyer -- allegedly cast her ballot in the wrong precinct in a Palm Beach election after registering with an address that wasn't hers.

"The Coulter voting saga is now known as FEC Case No. 07-211," Lambiet continued. "The investigator assigned, Tallahassee's Margie Wade, wouldn't confirm she caught the case; FEC complaints are supposed to be confidential. Still, [I'm] told Coulter already has been notified she's under investigation.

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'I actually saw her vote at St. Edward's (Church), and she looked in a hurry,' [Campaign consultant] Richard Giorgio, whose stable of candidates includes mostly Democrats, said (Giorgio filed the charges). The church is reserved for voters from the north side of the island, while Coulter lives south near Worth Avenue.

"'I didn't realize that she had tried to vote somewhere else and was turned back. This was willful. Anyone else would have been prosecuted.'"

Indeed (the E&P story links to The Brad Blog, which has the latest on this I’m sure, and Lambiet’s original Palm Beach Post story).

Despite all of this, it sounds like the worst that could happen would be that Coulter’s case ends up in the lap of the Florida Elections Commission, all of whose members were appointed by former Repug governor Jeb Bush, thus ensuring what would be a predicable result (love to be wrong on that, though).

But for now, as long as Coulter seems to be trying to tread legal water here, let’s send her a life saver (I mean the candy, not the flotation device, a la Groucho in “Horsefeathers”) and let Henry Rollins take one more shot, complete with bad words.