Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Name that party--Election fraud in Texas

AP/Houston Chronicle:

A Refugio County commissioner pleaded guilty today to felony election fraud charges and will be jailed for three months, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said.

Precinct 4 Commissioner Raymond Villarreal, 57, will also plead to an associated misdemeanor charge next week, according to a written statement from Abbott.

Under the plea agreement reached today, Villarreal will serve 90 days in jail, be placed on five years' probation, resign from the Commissioners Court and pay a $1,500 fine.

Villarreal pleaded guilty to one count of tampering with a governmental record, a state jail felony, and will also plead guilty to possessing the ballot of another person, a Class B misdemeanor. He will pay an additional $1,000 fine on the misdemeanor charge.

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The story does not give his party identification but the race he was trying to rig was in the Democrat primary. Refugio is in south Texas and would probably be considered a Democrat area.

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