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Vote Early, Vote Often

Gail Arlene Gray, 66, of Grand Junction, Colo., allegedly admitted to investigators that she was very angry at her adult children “for not voting, none of them were voting” in elections. So in the fall midterms, when a mail ballot arrived at her house for her 25-year-old son who no longer lives with her, “I thought, ‘I am going to vote for him,’” she said. She has been charged with misdemeanor voter fraud. How did election officials catch the fraud? Her son indeed voted, and the duplication was flagged for investigation. It was not reported who his mother voted for. (RC/Grand Journal Sentinel) ...Well that’s obvious: the obliviot.
Original Publication Date: 17 February 2019
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 25.

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