Daytona commissioner (D) arrested for ballot fraud

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Daytona commissioner (D) arrested for ballot
fraud

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Published: Oct 27, 2010
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Daytona Beach City Commissioner Derrick Henry and
his campaign manager were arrested Wednesday, charged with committing
absentee ballot fraud during Henrys 2010 re-election campaign.

The arrest of Henry and Genesis Robinson comes a little more than two
months after Volusia County Supervisor of Elections Ann McFall requested
an investigation into irregularities in absentee ballot requests coming
into her office.

McFall brought her concerns to the Volusia County Sheriffs Office in
August, prompting the Sheriffs Office and the State Attorneys Office to
immediately launch a joint investigation that ultimately led to the
filing of a dozen felony charges against both defendants.

The investigation revealed that Henry and Robinson devised a strategy to
boost Henrys re-election bid by obtaining absentee ballots for numerous
people, most of whom never requested the ballots. By law, residents are
only allowed to request absentee ballots for themselves, immediate family
members or for someone for whom they’re acting as legal guardian.


McFall filed the complaint on August 11 after her office received a large
number of requests for absentee ballots that were all initiated from the
same e-mail address. Based on the e-mail address, it appeared that the
requests came from someone with an interest in the Daytona Beach City
Commission Zone 5 race. Henry, the Zone 5 incumbent who was locked in a
three-way primary, was re-elected on August 24.

The subsequent investigation revealed that between the two of them, Henry
and Robinson had requested a total of 92 absentee ballots through the
elections offices web site. Four of the absentee ballots were found at
Henrys house when investigators searched it on Sept. 23. Investigators
also recovered absentee ballot applications and receipts for some of the
absentee ballots along with handbooks outlining Florida election laws.
The four absentee ballots were found under a computer keyboard.

Investigators from both the Sheriffs Office and the State Attorneys
Office interviewed many of the 92 people for whom absentee ballots were
requested. And what they heard was a variety of stories. For instance,
one resident said she received an absentee ballot in the mail even though
she hadn’t requested one. A few days later, she said one of Henrys
campaign workers showed up at her house and asked if she had received her
ballot and had filled it out. The resident said she got the ballot while
the campaign worker waited. Then she filled it out, sealed and signed the
ballot and turned it over to the campaign worker.

In another case, a resident said that Henry offered to get him an
absentee ballot and the resident agreed. But when the ballot arrived at
the mans house, it came with a second ballot for a former resident who
had moved away in 2007.

In yet another instance, two requests that were made in the name of a
resident were subsequently rejected by the elections office because the
resident’s voter status had been classified as inactive. So investigators
sought out the man to see if he knew why the absentee ballot requests had
been made on his behalf. But after investigating, officials discovered
that the man didn’t request the ballots and hasn’t lived or voted in
Florida in more than two decades.

Henry also had requested an absentee ballot for his niece, listing her
address as a home registered to Henry that was located within Zone 5. But
investigators discovered that even though the niece used the absentee
ballot to vote in the Zone 5 race, she actually lives at a different
location in the city, outside of Zone 5. Investigators also spoke to
several others who confirmed that they hadn’t asked for an absentee
ballot and had no idea that the Henry campaign had requested a ballot for
them.

During an interview with investigators, Robinson acknowledged coming up
with the strategy of applying on-line for absentee ballots, saying that
Henry had approved the idea back in April when Robinson presented it to
him. Robinson said it was done in an effort to increase voter turnout and
improve Henrys chances of re-election. Henry was re-elected in the
municipal election with 65 percent of the vote, beating his nearest
competitor by nearly 600 votes.

Henry, 41, is charged with two counts of absentee ballots and voting
violations, nine counts of being a principal to absentee ballots and
voting violations and one count of conspiracy to commit absentee ballots
and voting violations. Robinson, 21, is facing 11 counts of being a
principal to absentee ballots and voting violations and one count of
conspiracy to commit absentee ballots and voting violations. All of the
charges are 3rd degree felonies.

Late Wednesday morning, both men surrendered to investigators with the
Sheriffs Office and the State Attorneys Office and transported to the
Volusia County Branch Jail in Daytona Beach on $6,000 bond each.


Comments...

Henry and Robinson devised a strategy to boost Henrys re-election bid by obtaining absentee ballots for numerous people, most of whom never requested the ballots. By law, residents are only allowed to request
absentee ballots for themselves, immediate family members or for someone
for whom they’re acting as legal guardian.

Henry, 41, is charged with two counts of absentee ballots and voting violations, nine counts of being a principal to absentee ballots and voting violations and one count of conspiracy to commit absentee ballots
and voting violations. Robinson, 21, is facing 11 counts of being a
principal to absentee ballots and voting violations and one count of
conspiracy to commit absentee ballots and voting violations. All of the
charges are 3rd degree felonies.

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Henry, 41, is charged with two counts of absentee ballots and voting violations, nine counts of being a principal to absentee ballots and voting violations and one count of conspiracy to commit absentee ballots
and voting violations

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Daytona Beach City Commissioner Derrick Henry and
his campaign manager, Genesis Robinson, were arrested Wednesday, charged
with committing absentee ballot fraud during Henry’s 2010 re-election
campaign, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office said.

Henry is nonpartisan, which means he has no party affiliation.


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Black-American Democrats are the most corrupt politicians of earth. They
happen to be cheating 100% of their own constituency, of which 95% do not
seem to mind.

I can NOT imagine having to deal with families and friends of which the
ratio opposing your sanity and rational thinking is over 9-to-1.


FRAUD, thy name is The Democrat Party. No wonder they have no problems
murdering the unborn.