Officials Found Guilty In Obama, Clinton Ballot Petition Fraud

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A jury in South Bend, Indiana has found that fraud put President Obama and Hillary Clinton on the presidential primary ballot in Indiana in the 2008 election. Two Democratic political operatives were convicted Thursday night in the illegal scheme after only three hours of deliberations. They were found guilty on all counts.

Former longtime St. Joseph County Democratic party Chairman Butch Morgan Jr. was found guilty of felony conspiracy counts to commit petition fraud and forgery, and former county Board of Elections worker Dustin Blythe was found guilty of felony forgery counts and falsely making a petition, after being accused of faking petitions that enabled Obama, then an Illinois Senator, to get on the presidential primary ballot for his first run for the White House.

Morgan was accused of being the mastermind behind the plot.

According to testimony from two former Board of Election officials who pled guilty, Morgan ordered Democratic officials and workers to fake the names and signatures that Obama and Clinton needed to qualify for the presidential race. Blythe, then a Board of Elections employee and Democratic Party volunteer, was accused of forging multiple pages of the Obama petitions.

“I think this helped uphold the integrity of the electoral system,” the prosecutor, Stan Levco told reporters.

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  1. To Mr Levco – How does this uphold the integrity of the electoral system? It upholds the penalties for fraud, but the fraud did, in fact, occur. Many people voted for an ineligible candidate, and there are no ways to undo that.

  2. This story should be plastered on the front page of every newspaper in the State of Indiana.

    Instead, a search of indystar.com produces no story about the actual conviction, and the Evansville Courier&Press buried an AP article about the conviction on page A-8 the day after the conviction.

    If this had been Republican party officials the story would have been on the front page for the entire course of the trial. With weekly updates by Eric Bradner.

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