Update: Attorney Ed Blackmon is representing McNeil.
It's going down in Canton this morning. Several Canton officials have been indicted and arrested for voter fraud. Madison County deputies served indictments and arrested the following individuals:
Former Canton Police Chief and Alderwoman Vicki McNeil
Sherman Matlock (Convicted Felon)
Donnell Robinson (Convicted Felon)
Jennifer Robinson
Deputy City Clerk Desma King
Canton School Board Member Courtney Rainey
Ms. Rainey was also indicted for intimidating a witness.
*Sherman Matlock was convicted of manslaughter. He submitted an absentee ballot even though he is not eligible to vote. The grand jury indicted him for voter fraud and voting by an unqualified person.
*Canton Alderwoman Vicki McNeil was indicted for two counts of voter fraud. She is the former Canton police chief. She helped Stephanie Dallas and Robert Jefferson submit absentee ballots. The indictment alleges McNeil did so while a candidate for municipal office.
*Deputy Canton City Clerk Desma King helped Donnell Robinson submit an absentee ballot when she knew he was ineligible to vote.
*15 counts landed on Canton School Board member Courtney Rainey. She allegedly paid Emma Ousley to vote in the Canton municipal elections last year. She tried to get Ousley to "change her story" so she would not get caught. Another indictment charges her with giving a Walmart gift card to Louvenia Brown in exchange for her vote in the same election. She also paid her through the use of "flood relief" for her vote. The indictment charges her with conspiring with Andrew Grant to commit voter fraud.
The indictment alleges Rainey voted in several Canton municipal elections even though she didn't live in Canton. She helped Donnell Robinson vote in the 2017 elections even though she knew he did not live in Canton. Another count charges her with paying Marvin Cain, Montel Hardy, to vote in the same election.
*Donnell and Jennifer Robinson were charged with submitting absentee ballots for the 2017 Canton Municipal elections even though they did not live in Canton.
Stay tuned. The Street Committee says there is a second round of indictments on the way.
70 comments:
Cue the “Just the White man engaging in voter suppression,” apologists.
Ruh, roh. I wonder which candidate/s were benefitting from this fraud? There are definately some interesting text messages going back and forth in Canton right now.
That’s crazy
Interesting! I'll be watching for further developments.
These wouldn't by chance be all democrat votes?
Interesting that neither the local "newspaper" nor any of the television stations are reporting this. Kingfish grabs another story right out from under them. Good work KF!!
But, but, but Donner and Tom Head say there is no voter fraud in Mississippi.
You can bet the house @7:47 that the candidate beneficiaries are not Republicans.
ACLU should investigate.
Oh where o where are you M A G G I E W A D E and Howard buffoon???
Wow! Was there a conspiracy or were these separate “alleged” crimes?????
Dear Santa,
Please let the Blackmon's be caught up in this.
Signed,
Concerned citizen from SW Canton/Gluckstadt
@7:51 WJTV and WLBT both have it on their homepage!
Vickie 'The Wig' McNeil going down! My hope is that this isn't going to stop at voter fraud. CMU and the CMU board need to be looking over their shoulders along with Rudy 'The Warlock" Warnock.
THey'll be damn lucky to get Ready Eddie and Babbs
@8:55
7:51 here...they didn't when I posted! I checked all three stations and the CL. KF is the KF!
Heck, we knew this was going on, NOT only in Canton but many other places in the nation where poor people live! ///////////Just Saying.
8:39 AM - Best. Post. Ever.
Dear Santa:
Please have everyone learn spelling, punctuation and grammar before publicly posting on the world-wide internet.
9:47 AM
You should have a comma after "punctuation".
Here comes the race card in 3.....2.....1.....
I live in Canton. It is probably the most corrupt town in Mississippi! All democratic votes! Nothing ever changes!
Going by the clarion ledger article, it seems they are saying that almost 10 votes may have been fraudulent. This is exactly why Trump lost the popular election. If there are 10 votes in this one district, just imagine how many there were across the state, it could be in the dozens. I guess it may be overshadowed by the republican voter fraud in North Carolina since those were much larger numbers and actually changed the election result, but these few votes in a primarily black district should be enough for Trump to prove he was right all along and allow the republicans to pass more stringent requirement before allowing just anyone to vote.
10:10 AM - use of the Oxford comma, as you insist, is generally not used in writing, particularly in the US. It is generally a redundancy since you already have the separator with "and" in place.
Former Canton Police Chief and Alderwoman Vicki McNeil
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This thread has so much WIN!
Someone should have told these folks that if they are going to (allegedly) participate in voter fraud, they should do it in Jackson, where it is an accepted practice.
I guess this is just the tip of the iceberg and what they can prove right now. I hope the dominos continue to fall...
Per the Mississippi Supreme Court website as of today's date, the MISSISSIPPI CONSTITUTION ARTICLE 12, SECTION 241. STATES:
"Every inhabitant of this state, except idiots and insane persons, who is a citizen of the United States of America, eighteen (18) years old and upward, who has been a resident of this state for one (1) year, and for one (1) year in the county in which he offers to vote, and for six (6) months in the election precinct or in the incorporated city or town in which he offers to vote, and who is duly registered as provided in this article, and who has never been convicted of murder, rape, bribery, theft, arson, obtaining money or goods under false pretense, perjury, forgery, embezzlement or bigamy, is declared to be a qualified elector, except that he shall be qualified to vote for President and Vice President of the United States if he meets the requirements established by Congress therefor and is otherwise a qualified elector."
As I read the indictment, the stated reason is not that he took money to vote but that he registered to vote with a manslaughter conviction.
How in the hell is a person convicted of manslaughter disenfranchised under this Constitutional provision based upon the four corners of the page.
And more importantly, how would a person convicted of manslaughter be on notice that he cannot vote under this constitutional provision.
This indictment is prosecutorial misconduct and a legal impossibility given the wording of the constitution.
His lawyer needs to move for dismissal based upon legal insufficiency and then file a IIED lawsuit against the foreman of the grand jury that issued this sh*t.
Jackson Free Press is all about issues relating to voting in minority communities. So let’s see if JFP runs with this story. Or does it not fit their narrow minded agenda???
Band music intensifies....
Ah, America where you can be sent to prison for trying to vote with a prior conviction, but if you have enough money, you can be President/Senator/Congressman regardless of how many laws you've broken. And this goes for both sides of the aisle.
This is Canton. No one is going to be convicted and not going anywhere. The race card is already in the pipe line, the NCAAP is mobilizing forces and buckets of chicken and bottles of beer being ordered.
@10:10 a.m.: The Oxford comma is a source of contention. It is not a consensus rule of punctuation.
ED HAS TO DEFEND VICKIE!!!! If she removed from office ED & Barbara will be our of a job at CMU. ALL crooks.
As long as the race card is imminent, let's talk about the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' flag decision...
11:01 It will be covered in conjunction with their story on the nooses at The Capitol.
Mac Haik, you don't want to be part of Gluckstat, be careful what you ask for I am pretty sure you realize its one or the other.
You gotta love Mississippi. It's the ultimate irony. A state where officials from the governor to the dog catcher committed the ultimate voter fraud for over one hundred years, and nobody went to jail says, "I told you so" for a handful of jokers who might have committed voter fraud in a couple of elections. The shoe's on the other foot, only this time it's a black foot. We won't tolerate that.
Difficult for voters to have their votes count when votes are purchased. Every vote is important and every voting law must be seriously protected or anarchy will prevail.
1057, you need to go back and finish law school. After the first three weeks of your first year, which appears to be whereyou dropped out, they teach you that there is more to our laws and legal system than just the Constitution. There are things like statutes, AG opinions related to interpretations of those statutes and the constitution, and precedent from the courts.
Your quoting of the Constitution is nice, and we really appreciate it. But next time get the 'Rest of the Story'. There are 21 disenfranchising crimes today (including the 11 in your Constitutional reference) in MS, and manslaughter is defiantly one of them. And felons are made aware of this at their sentencing and during their incarceration. Also, it is included as a question on their application to register to vote.
Go by to your fryer now, lesson from week four of 1L is over.
ED AND BARBARA DONT LIVE IN CANTON WHERE THEY VOTED AND ARE ELECTED FROM!
12:15, glad you mentioned those nooses. I really want to know who did them. Security cameras anywhere?
As to conspiracy to fraudulently cast votes, nothing makes me angrier. Every time this occurs, it dilutes my vote. Every illegal immigrant or non-citizen who votes, dilutes my vote. Many fought and died so I could vote. I honor their sacrifice and deplore those who manipulate the vote. Prosecution is the beginning of an answer to stopping this practice.
HAHAHAHAHA *takes a deep breath* HAHAHAHAHA
While I sincerely hope Vickie is sitting on a stainless steel toilet soon, since when is 'helping someone to vote absentee' a crime?
Hey, boys and girls, how many of you can count the number of times voter ID worked to prevent the fraud in these allegations?
What's that, boys and girls? Zero, you say?
Yeah ... Zero.
@ 10:10 a.m. -
9:47 AM
You should have a comma after "punctuation".
That's not settled science. You're a believer in the Oxford comma. Many people are not. The late Charles Krauthammer, in his last book, noted that "commas are destroying the world." (I think it was in the introduction.)
On to the merits of the news, good on Bryan Buckley. Of all the ADAs in the Canton branch, Bryan's been on the scent of voter fraud in the city of Canton for a while now. Glad to see this will come to fruition.
LOL, @8:39!! Agreed:)
Actually, 7:42, that Matlock guy up there can't vote SPECIFICALLY because of a Nazitastic felony disenfranchisement law that Mississippi bigots dreamed up in 1890 to keep "certain people" from voting.
Them's the facts.
@4:22 PM, and those bigots who kept "certain people from voting" were democrats. The chickens have come home to roost.
Oh, the irony.
Small town BIG JOKE!
It's a Crime!
Did it change the outcome, if they were going to win anyway, the judge needs to add time for being dumb.
You mean them "Democrats" who became "Dixiecrats" in 1948,and then went GOP after Nixon, 4:32? Yeah, I'd say there's irony there, alright.
Obviously many racist Hyde-Smith supporters leaving comments. No wonder Mississippi is still at the bottom!! Too damn busy hating people because of their color. Probably descendants of poor non slave holders who were dumb enough to fight and die for rich slave holders. This ignorant mentality still exists today.
More to come. Popcorn.
Ok, you knuckleheads have had your say on the racial history of Mississippi. Back to the subject of the post.
Let us know @5:16 when you actually win a statewide election.
Kingfish - Have you been paying attention the past fifty years? There is no way to separate voter intimidation, vote buying, election tampering, arguments over voter ID, Delbert's efforts and previous arrests and convictions from RACE. All of those tie in directly with Mississippi's race-history. How in the world can you suggest otherwise?
Doesn't make a difference? Evidently you haven't been watching Canton City elections lately. Rodriguez Brown (yes, Brown, nephew of the infamous Ike Brown who along with the rest of his family were actively involved in the elections) won his city alderman race 10 years ago by two votes; four years later by four votes; then in 2017 by twenty-one votes. And the amount of voter fraud involved in that one ward exceeds all of the charges that have been indicted thus far. Its a target rich environment.
Amateurs go to North Carolina they are the pros
The DAs office will go after small people, but the BLACKMONS who have done the same as these crooks will be overlooked. This will be the downfall of the DAs case against these small folks. Double Standard Buckley won’t serve you well.
I just saw that Courtney Rainey is going to be represented by Khalaf & Nguyen.
Brian Buckley is blinded by political ambition.
John Wallace is a crook that was exposed by a recent investigation, BUT the DA overlooked his criminal acts because he is a white republican. FEDS need to investigate the DAs office.
This proves Voter ID is working! Is Delbert behind the indictments?
9:54 - Don't ask silly questions. When you reveal your sources, they dry up on you.
I found the answer to my question. McNiel (allegedly) committed a crime when she 'helped someone vote absentee' BECAUSE McNIEL WAS A CANDIDATE ON THE BALLOT and that is a crime.
I'm pretty damned sure if she 'helped' one, she helped 80.
Eric Giley is NEXT.
I hear with a couple of six-packs of 40s you can get elected mayor in Canton.
Don't overlook the previous (and a couple of present) election commissioners who managed to get themselves elected. They been up to no good for awhile.
This is small potatoes compared to what happened in a judge's race in the Ninth Judicial District for Chancellor. Wide spread voter fraud in the Delta. Why hadn't it been investigated by state officials?
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