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BUSTED: GOP Congressman Voted from Three Different Mail Addresses and Now Faces 3 Felonies

As we are sure you know, Trump has been telling anyone that will listen that mail-in ballots will lead to a “rigged” election. In one tweet he questioned whether 20% of the vote may be rigged – 20% of the votes would equate to over 25 million illegal votes. In the last two weeks, law enforcement has caught two GOP operations attempting to manipulate the vote. One person – a mail carrier, manipulated eight, total, primary vote ballots, and now below, a Kansan U.S. Congressman voting (and living) in the wrong district, to file at most three votes:

From Rawstory:

On Tuesday, KSNT reported that Rep. Steve Watkins (R-KS) is being charged with three felonies, including providing false information to law enforcement, voting without being qualified, and unlawful advance voting.

“Watkins came under investigation by the Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office after allegations that he listed a Topeka UPS store for his address when voting in the 2019 general election,” said the report. “The investigation was delayed significantly due to the coronavirus shutdown, Kagay said. But his office maintained constant contact with the sheriff’s office and received regular updates on the gathering of documents and statements.”

Yeah, listing a UPS store as a residence can be problematic when it comes to voting, to be sure. It is one of those things called “a tell.” Do keep in mind, he’s charged with three felonies for voting in the wrong district, (likely as a means to “prove” he lived in that district) and he’s a member of Congress!

News of the arrest came at a very “unfortunate” time:

Watkins was scheduled to attend a primary debate held by KSNT tonight, and the news dropped within a half hour of the debate’s scheduled start.

Now, having seen one person arrested for eight votes manipulated, and three charges to another resulting from a wrong address provided to voters, Trump wants us to believe that the Chinese are going to flood the country with twenty-five million illegal votes to “rig” the federal election?

Nahhh. It will get harder and harder for Trump to pull this off as the basis of the “rigged” thing.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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