Rove sued for Voter Fraud in Texas

[UpInArms]

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/06/AR2005090601724.html

Rove's Voting Registration Disputed

Presidential adviser Karl Rove may live and pay taxes in Washington, but he's welcome to vote back home in Texas anytime he pleases, a spokesman for Texas Secretary of State Roger Williams said yesterday.

"As far as our office is concerned, we don't see any problem with his registration in Texas because he says he intends to return," spokesman Scott Haywood said. "If he intends to return, he would be fine."

Haywood's interpretation of Texas election law differs a bit from that of Elizabeth Reyes, an attorney in the secretary of state's elections division. Last week, Reyes told The Washington Post that Rove could be accused of voter fraud if he is registered at an address that is not his primary residence. Rove, who spends much of the year in a $1.1 million house in Washington, claims for voting purposes to live in a $25,000 rental cottage he owns in Kerr County, Tex.

Locals say they can't remember a time when Rove actually lived there. No matter, said Haywood. For one thing, Reyes "was not authorized to speak on behalf of the agency." And she was flat wrong, to boot, he said. Under Texas law, a residence is a "fixed place of habitation to which one intends to return after a temporary absence," he said. Doesn't matter if you ever lived there, you just have to intend to live there.

Still, a legal watchdog group yesterday filed a complaint with Williams's office, asking that Rove be prosecuted. "A man who lives in a $1.1 million mansion in Washington does not intend to move into an 814-square-foot cottage that he's rented out since 1997," said Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

[wakeme2008]

1. Gee cut Rove some slack....

He does spend a lot of time living in a trailer on the pig farm in Texas.... :evilgrin:

[snippy]

2. This is the least of his felonies. n/t

[zbdent]

3. Like Poppy Bush's apartment in Houston

a number of years back . . . despite the fact that, every chance he took, he went home . . . to Kennebunkport . . .

[UpInArms]

5. IIRC it was a vacant lot in a commercial district

will look for verification - but that was a long time ago.

I lived in Texas then and it pissed me off royally that he claimed "Texas resident" status to avoid paying state taxes to Maine.

on edit:

can't find anything about it through google - but I spent time inspecting properties in Houston during the late 80s and remember looking at the street address that poppy and the hag used - it was a vacant lot in a very commercial area (Houston does not have zoning ordinances - or did not at that time).

[WiseButAngrySara]

4. I thought you couldn't vote if you're in prison?...True in FL anyway...n/t