Well, none that they want to talk about, anyway -- like this situation in the San Antonio area.

The investigation began after Bexar County Elections Administrator Jacquelyn Callanen purged hundreds of names from the county's roll of more than 860,000 registered voters.

In a review of the past six years, Callanen said 330 undocumented people had registered to vote, and that 41 of them had voted — even though they later acknowledged they were not U.S. citizens.

The 330 people had received jury duty summons cards because their names were culled from the county's voter registration rolls.

Callanen said 41 people admitted voting, some in multiple elections, between 2001 and 2007. Each one said they were unaware they could not register or vote.

It could not be determined when or how they registered, but Callanen said there was “nothing to indicate a systematic effort to register noncitizens. But clearly, those folks should not have voted.”

I'm curious -- did they actually look for something systematic, or di they just skim the obvious fraudulent votes/registrations off the top? After all, it seems that the list of non-citizen jury summons responses was the source of their evidence? How many other illegals didn't show were ignored (failure to report for jury duty is rampant in San Antonio) or showed and sat on the jury so as not to get caught? What would a systematic check of registration in Bexar County show?

Well, we won't ever find out.

Adrianna Biggs, head of the district attorney's white-collar crime unit who led the investigation, said authorities were unable to determine who registered the undocumented people to vote, many of whom had limited English proficiency and who appeared to be politically unsophisticated.

In at least two cases, the district attorney's office decided not to prosecute because of extenuating circumstances that would not “serve the interest of justice,” Herberg said.

He noted that Reed made a series of recommendations to Callanen that would tighten voter registration procedures and also make it easier to prosecute future instances of voter fraud.

But County Judge Nelson Wolff rejected those recommendations because “turning Jacqui Callanen into a law enforcement agent is not the goal. Enfranchising people and getting more people to participate in the electoral process is her goal.”

In other words, the head of county government in Bexar County does not see protecting the integrity of elections in Bexar County to be a worthy goal -- he would rather get more folks registered and voting, even if they are illegal registrants/voters. Anyone want to take a wild guess about County Judge Nelson Wolff's party affiliation?

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