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Politics > 2004 Election Fraud, Part 6 (Missouri; Democrats)

Gateway Pundit has details of the trials of five St. Louis Democratic candidates and officeholders for election fraud.

Dannita Youngblood, who worked at city hall and for the city party, told a jury that her boss, Kelvin Ellis, informed Kern of the political realities in a conference telephone call, heard by others as well, within a week before the Nov. 2, 2004, election.

She said Ellis, a party stalwart and then director of regulatory affairs, told Kern he was perceived in the predominantly-black community as a "racist' and might need to spend $10 per vote to get support. She said Ellis described a need "to pay the voters to come out."

Ellis, party chairman Charles Powell Jr. and three others are on trial in federal court at East St. Louis. Neither Youngblood nor Kern, the former mayor of Belleville, was charged. Youngblood turned out to be an FBI informer. Kern did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment about her testimony...

...On Oct. 30, the St. Clair County Democratic Party provided $67,000 to Ellis and other East St. Louis Democrats to get out the vote. No county party officials are charged in the case.

St. Clair County is split into two separate election authorities. Kern trailed about 4,000 votes behind Republican Steve Reeb in votes tallied by the county clerk, but won by about 4,000 when the East St. Louis totals came in.

Ellis has been charged with murder for plotting to kill a witness to the scheme.

UPDATE June 29, 2005: Guilty verdicts for five defendants.

See also:

 - 2002 Election Fraud (New Hampshire; Republican)
 - 2004 Election Fraud, Part 1 (Wisconsin; Democrats)
 - 2004 Election Fraud, Part 2 (Ohio; Democrat)
 - 2004 Election Fraud, Part 3 (Illinois; Democrats)
 - 2004 Election Fraud, Part 4 (Missouri, Democrat)
 - 2004 Election Fraud, Part 5 (Wisconsin; Undetermined)

As always, if anyone has any substantiated claims of voter fraud by either party, send them in. No anecdotes, please, but I'll report factual findings from an election committe or arrests or prosecution by a district attorney.