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The FBI arrests Roxanne Rubin, who is charged with attempting to vote more than once in the same election, at the Riviera in Las Vegas on Friday, Nov. 2, 2012.
By Anjeanette Damon (contact) 
Friday, Nov. 2, 2012 | 4:34 p.m.
Investigators today arrested a Southern Nevada woman suspected of trying to vote twice this week at two different polling locations.
Roxanne Rubin was taken into custody as she arrived for work at the Riviera hotel-casino, investigators said. Rubin, 56, is a registered Republican who lives in Henderson, according to the Clark County Registrar.
Rubin allegedly cast a vote Monday at the Anthem Community Center in Henderson. Later that day, she tried to vote a second time at an early voting location on Eastern Avenue, investigators said.
When Rubin arrived at the second location, a poll worker conducted a routine database check and found Rubin had already voted. When confronted by the poll worker, Rubin denied having voted and claimed the database used by the poll worker was wrong.
Poll workers at the Eastern Avenue location blocked Rubin from voting and notified the county registrar's office, who forwarded the complaint to the Nevada secretary of state.
"There are two important points worth noting in this case," Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller said. "First, is that as we've said and demonstrated in the past, we take all elections complaints very seriously and investigate them thoroughly. Second, this demonstrates the integrity of the system. Someone thought that by going to two different locations they'd be able to cast two ballots. The system immediately caught that, the Task Force responded, and an arrest was made."
"It's also worth noting that the Task Force has at least one other case of voting or attempting to vote twice in an election presently under investigation," Miller said. "We will pursue all such cases and complaints aggressively."
Rubin was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on one felony count of voting twice in the same election.
The Elections Integrity Task Force is a multi-jurisdictional task force made up of state and federal investigators.
While allegations of voter fraud or faulty voting machines are common during a busy election, Clark County Registrar Larry Lomax said this is the first time in his 15 years on the job that a voter has been arrested for trying to cast two ballots.
During early voting, poll workers use a database to look up a voter's registration when the voter checks in at the poll. A card used to activate the voting machine is then programmed with the voter's information and the voter is logged as having cast a ballot. If the voter tries to check in a second time, an alert will flash on a poll worker's screen, Lomax said.
"When we pull you up, if you already voted, it says so right on the screen," Lomax said. "It says this person voted at this site, where and when they voted."
Daily audits are done at each early voting site to make sure the number of activated cards match the number of ballots cast. In Rubin's case, the card numbers matched the number of ballots submitted exactly, dispelling any concerns that Rubin may have received an activated card but never cast a ballot, Lomax said.
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This article should read "Republican woman engages in voter fraud."
The irony is flabbergasting.
Republicans have done nothing but obstruct our progress in moving forward. They have been holding up the line and it is time we call out this lazy mentality.
We need to move forward with or without them.
GOTV! Get out to vote! Obama 2012!
Don't hold back!
Wow, if convicted, she will never be able to vote republican ever again and a felony fraud record to explain to every employer. Just watch the judge make an example of her. I can't wait to hear her defence statement. I hope she gets a republican cell mate.
"Rubin was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on one felony count of voting twice in the same election."
As if databases are always right. And why are the feds involved, this is obviously a local matter. And why is this a felony? Who was at all harmed??
"Where once the criminal law might have stood as a well-understood and indisputable statement of shared norms in American society, now there is only a bloated compendium that looks very much like the dreaded federal tax code. The end results can be downright ugly: a soccer mom thrown in jail in a small Texas town for failing to wear a seatbelt; a 12-year-old girl arrested and handcuffed for eating french fries in a Metro station in Washington, DC; and defendants serving 25-year to life sentences in California prisons for, among other things, pilfering a slice of pizza." -- "Overextending the Criminal Law" @ http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/v...
First off, was it really her who cast the first vote? Assuming it was, why wasn't the political affiliation of the *other* case being reviewed given?
"First off, was it really her who cast the first vote? Assuming it was, why wasn't the political affiliation of the *other* case being reviewed given?"
boftx -- good point.
I would add "let she among you who is without sin cast the first vote."
"Show me the [voter] and I'll find you the crime." -- Lavrentiy Beria, chief of the Soviet security and secret police under Stalin
My guess is she registered as a Republican but is actually an Obummer voter.
Glad they caught her, assuming she's guilty. Our right to vote is one most precious and must be kept free of influence and illegality.
One good point and two bad:
Bad that she's a Republican as the left will try to spin an entire fairy tale from a few threads of web.
Good that folks have noticed the left has been biasing the voters for decades, IE. SEIU, etc., and bad that she chose such a foolish way to do it. I'd say she needs help.
Wow! those Romney~Adel$on sheeps will stop at nothing to get "R&R" elected, how shameful!!!!
Obama 2012!
What an amazing irony. The Republicans have been trying to supress the vote nationally a la Jim Crow style laws making it super difficult for minorities and young people to vote....and THEY have one of their own get caught with her hands allegedly in the cookie jar!! WHAT FRIGGIN CHUTZPAH!
I would guess it is a case of ID theft.
I would guess it is a case of ID theft.It's not
like this doesn't happen all the time in this
country!
It's shocking how stupid people are.
I really am amazed that someone would be so stupid as to try to vote twice in this fashion given that Nevada does check identity for just this reason.
In California, however, it is trivial to vote multiple times. All that is needed is for someone go to a polling place, give the name of a valid voter in that precinct, and then sign the roll. No ID is required, and if asked for the request can be refused. The poll worker MUST let you vote.
Given that there is usually about 40% of the population who do not show up, there are good odds you can pick a name from the rolls and get away with this.
Note that the issue of citizenship or being registered doesn't even come into play.
Vote early and vote often for the candidate of your choice must be the new slogan. This would be very funny if it was not probably an often occurance. Well it is still funny anyway.
Boftx - Where do you get that information regarding California voters? The website of the Secretary of State of CA says that all voters must show photo IDs if they vote in person: http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/hava_id_...
It was not her fault, she was probably forced to vote twice by dittohead Republicans or paid to do so. Mitt Romney should be questioned about this case.
"It was not her fault, she was probably forced to vote twice by dittohead Republicans or paid to do so."
Bwahaha. Maybe some tea party goons took her on a bus tour of precincts, forcing her to vote over and over again?
If this were a Democrat charged, we'd essentially hear that precise story, with "union goon" substituted for "tea party goon."
Also if this were a Democrat, Jim wouldn't be so quick to assume innocence, either.
Assuming Future will blame this all on ACORNZ!
fnielsen,
My wife and I lived and voted in California for many years, up until 2005. My wife refused to show ID (she is firmly opposed to voter ID laws) in every election and was ALWAYS allowed to vote. California will NOT prevent anyone from casting a ballot who can give the name and address of a registered voter.
Kevin,
Our legal system presumes innocence until proven guilt. Given the level of stupidity this act implies I have to wonder. Besides, one should never ascribe to malice what can be adequately explained by human stupidity.
Perhaps Roxanne Rubingrew up in Chicago where they learn to vote early and vote often...
Even Nevada doesn't require you to show ID when you go vote though, which is something I think people are missing. We don't have a Voter ID law here.
When I went to vote yesterday, I said my name, I gave my address and I signed in. That was it and then I voted. I was never asked for ID because it isn't required.
The point I'm making is this. Someone could have easily impersonated her (reasonable doubt for a jury) given that no ID is required to be shown.
Furthermore, if that did happen to any of you, what would you do? Would you argue with the poll worker?
Why would she argue with them? Is she somehow unstable? Did she really forget? Or was she really trying to vote twice?
It probably won't matter because any half good lawyer could get her off by showing that anyone can really vote for anyone if they know what they are doing. What would be the recourse to catch the imposter? Not a lot since there are no security cameras necessarily, they never showed ID to identify themselves, there are so many voters no poll worker would remember them specifically.
See the point? Voter ID would stop this from happening, and it would also ensure that if Roxanne Rubin really did try to vote twice there would be no doubt. Because they require ID then it's verified and she's definitely going to jail because she would have had to show ID the first time she voted, which means she definitely tried a second time.
@fnielson this is what is so tricky about these requirements. The link you sent only applies to those who are trying to register to vote by mail and those who haven't previously voted.
Also this section was on the page you linked to:
Is there any way a voter can avoid having to show ID when he or she votes?
Yes.
First, the requirement only applies to voters who have never voted in the county in a federal election. Persons who were already registered as of January 1, 2003, or who change address within the county and re-register, are not required to show ID to vote.
Second, voters who do not register to vote "by mail" are not required to show ID to vote.
Third, Section 303(b)(3) states that if the voter provides his or her driver's license number, or the last 4 digits of his or her social security number, on the form to register to vote, and the elections official can verify the number is correct, then the ID requirement does not apply.
What this means is that if someone wants to vote for someone else. All they have to do is pick a name from the registered voter information and use that information to go vote. Good chance you won't be asked to show ID because the person you picked falls under the criteria of not having to show ID. If they do fall under the criteria (they have never voted in the county, they registered by mail etc.) then you can just say you forgot your ID and walk out and try with a different name a different place.
However, as botfx said odds are you're probably not going to have a problem. It's an interesting concept and one that is easily possible. Does it happen often? Well there aren't any stats to prove that now are there?
Man does this smell of Obama's Gestapo tactics, of
course send in FBI storm troopers in swat gear to
arrest a Non Violent female at work in a crowded
casino, on suspicion of voter fraud. What that man
won't do to TRY and get relected!!!!! She will sue
their butts off and win!
Oh, and PS you call all the media in advance to
film it, talk about a set up!!
If she had voted democrat no one would of ever
heard about this!
Republicans are not accustomed to voting fraudulantly and get caught. Only the Democrats are good at it and have systems in place that allow them to flourish at it.Afterall ACORN was a Democratic voter fraud machine.
There's got to be more to this considering that news 8 is waiting outside of the Riv for everyone to come out. That quite a grandstand for the FBI to tell everyone that they are going to this woman's work and that are taking her away. Not saying either way if she did it, but seriously... all of this in front of all the tourist? she doesn't have a home to go get her at, in Henderson? No wonder the Vegas FBI branch is for misfits.
<<Perhaps Roxanne Rubingrew up in Chicago where they learn to vote early and vote often...>>
In Chicago, I had to show photo ID AND a voter's registration card. If no photo ID, they check the registration card and verify if you are eligible to vote. Because of my last name, I was ALWAYS in the last column near the bottom of the names in that particular precinct.
"My guess is she registered as a Republican but is actually an Obummer voter."
"Bad that she's a Republican as the left will try to spin an entire fairy tale from a few threads of web."
"Perhaps Roxanne Rubingrew up in Chicago where they learn to vote early and vote often..."
"Man does this smell of Obama's Gestapo tactics,"
"Republicans are not accustomed to voting fraudulantly and get caught. Only the Democrats are good at it"
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Nevada Romney republicans, WooT LoL
Looks like an ACORN trained BHO voter...
"Responsible people with legal authority are monitoring for illegal activity at the polls"
"Looks like an ACORN trained BHO voter..."
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Actually she looks like a republican Sharron Angle voter to me. . . .
@tallison46..
Highly unlikely that she was a BHO voter since she is Republican !
@BOFT - before I moved from California, I was, for many years, a Judge at the polls. I was required to know, understand, and apply election laws at a polling place. While it is true that no one will be refused a chance to vote, if a signature of a voter does not match the one on file, that person must cast a provisional ballot. The provisional ballot is not processed along with the automated votes. Checking and validation is done after the election, and it will be caught if a person tries to vote more than once. If I am not mistaken, the exact same process is used in Nevada. I always present my ID at my polling place. I think it would go a ways on cutting out confusion. Just because I can legally do something (not show my ID) doesn't mean it is not wise to do so. Have a good one, my friend.
"But yer honor, I was exercising my right as a citizen of the United States of America. I wasn't in my right mind when I mistakenly tried to vote twice. The answer is simple. A clearcut case of Romnesia, yer honor...."
She just passed her audition to become a pundit for Fox News. Move over Sarah Palin. You got competition for Nutball Newswoman of the Night.
O.K. it works like this if you are thought to have voted else where you are still allowed to vote but that ballot is put in the PROVISIONAL box.
Also Voter fruad and voter registration fruad are two animals, If you were engaged in voter registration fruad then you have not cast a bllot if you cast a ballot then it is voter fruad.
And they also don't know how she voted the reports are she is a registered Republican.
It also seems that most of the comments here are an attempt to muddy the water.
Bottom line there should only be one day to vote. This early voting thing just opens the door for things like this, You have three years and 364 days before the next time to vote make arrangments to be there.
Except that the GOP Sec'y of State, Charlie White, has been convicted of ACTUAL voter fraud and the same thing is going on in Virginia right now.
Serious question for all you Republicans whining about ACORN - Where were you can Gingrich did the exact same thing and why wasn't he shut down instead of being allowed to shrug it off as a mistake?
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Glad to see the system works...wonder if it works for Democrats as well....just saying
Gosh, @janus, Let's see - ACORN dismantled for the same things Gingrich shrugged off and continued his moon-based campaign? Florida GOP tightening voter registration laws to the point where much of it was deemed illegal? Ohio disallowing early voting in Democratic districts?
Yup. Works for Democrats.
KillerB:
It is a felony because the law says voter fraud is a felony (a serious crime).
The Feds are involved because this election cycle includes voting for Federal officeholders (in case you missed that minor detail).
And this REPUBLICAN got caught RED-HANDED.
She should spend the next DECADE breaking rocks in JAIL.
Handcuff that deranged woman! The ghost of Joe McCarthy and Tricky Dick Nixon lives on.
Unhinged, crazy right-wingers will do anything -- ANYTHING -- even commit a felony as this whackjob did, to try and stop the reelection of President Obama.
Willard Romney: the ideal candidate for his party of liars, cheats and thieves.
Lucky for us we have a Dem watching for fraudulent activity
How trivial will the Chameleon Party go folks?
The attempted felony happened Monday, four exhausting days later with the juvenile media in tow armed FBI agents finally locate and apprehend the elusive middle aged female. I have a two part question for Ross Miller
a. How stupid do you think people of Nevada are?
b. Have you no shame?
Without casting any allegations, I'm quite amazed at the early voting procedure I experienced. I had the sample ballot which was mailed to me, along with my voter registration card which I had received back in February. All the poll worker wished to examine was the barcoded sample ballot. No ID or anything else to verify that I was the person named on the sample ballot. After providing a signature which was hopefully compared to a previous signature I was allowed to vote. Now if I had dumpster dived for discarded sample ballots and presented them as proof of voting eligibility, what safeguards would have prevented me or any other person from committing voter fraud? My signature? What if I had discarded my sample ballot and someone else used it to vote impersonating me? Could I have been arrested on suspicion of vote fraud were I to walk into a polling place and attempt to cast my legitimate vote? The thought is a little frightening.
First of all, if true, her acts are reprehensible and she should be appropriately punished. However a couple of things about this case doesn't sit well with me.
If the reporter is correct, and if she was charged with voting twice, the DA might have a problem. She never voted the second time. The poll workers wouldn't allow it. BTW, the system worked. Everyone should be pleased about that.
Second, why is the FBI involved? The conduct of elections is within the purview of the states. While I'm pleased that the authorities take voter fraud seriously, perp walking a senior citizen with a Gman seems a lot like showboating.
The wife and I voted (once, ;-)) last week. My complements to the poll workers. Each one was helpful and professional.
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Right wing media has been telling their faithful for years that voting fraud is easy and rampant. Problem is that it is neither rampant nor easy; it is rare and difficult. While there will always be a few bad apples on both sides, the right has shown this election cycle a pattern of election fraud. The Republican voter registration company, Strategic Allied Consulting, has criminal investigations and charges against them in multiple states. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/25...
While we all have a laugh and assume Roxanne Rubin is guilty as charged... Roxanne Rubin is innocent until proven guilty. Time will tell who is responsible for this alleged voter fraud...
I love the conspiracy theories. You have to know someone's name and address AND be able to sign their name. Most of the general population is bad at forgery. So yes, you probably could get away here and there with taking someone's ballot and going to vote 'for' them. If 40% of the population doesn't vote you might have a 40% chance of picking who won't vote. In a Presidential election 80% to 90% of the registered voters go to the polls. Your odds just got worse. Good chance you'd be caught. Do you all have lists of all the voters lying around your house? Do you know how to download one? Do you even know what it takes to get permissions to download one? Studies have shown there is very, very little real voter fraud. The fraud is when groups of people try to prevent other groups of people from voting. With scare tactics and closing down early voting. Or sending out ballots with the wrong date. Etc. Etc.
Nicely said. LV. The right seems to be able to embrace the most implausible rationale for their theories. The likelihood that someone will get caught far outweighs the chance of getting away with it.
The chance of a republican her age risking imprisonment to vote for Obama is near impossible.
Lets get the obstructionists out. Lets hope the deranged anti Obama ppl eventually mellow and gain some tolerance and temperance.
I'm always surprised that people interested enough in news and politics to post comments here can be so ignorant of Nevada news and politics. First: the ACORN mess was not about "voter" fraud. ACORN was about voter REGISTRATION fraud - much of which was so transparent as to be ridiculous. After all, how many county clerks would really enter a registration in the name of "Micky Mouse?" Even if one did so, someone else would have to know the registration was out there and then vote using it. Second: No voter ID legislation would have caught Ms Rubin. She appears to have made no attempt to change her identity when voting the second time. With an ID law she would have simply flashed the same ID a second time. Third: From a fraud perspective, multiple voting is so wasteful! Why pay each of 1000 people $100 dollars for an additional vote (total $100,000 for 1000 votes). It would be so much cheaper, and much safer, to spend perhaps $50,000 to insure that selected vote tallies simply disappear. Can't happen? No one has yet explained what happened to the tallies from 8 precincts from the Iowa Republican primaries - nor have they ever reappeared.
I guess there will be a job opening at the Riviera on Monday.
Can someone tell me why the sample ballots that are mailed out have instructions on how to use the electronic voting kiosks....it says you can hit the button to "print" out your selections...however this is not true. After I voted I asked about this and was told you can NOT print out your selections. Was I told the wrong info?
Will they take her first vote for Romney and erase it?
PURGATORY, you might have missed this paragraph the reporter so cleverly tried to hide from you in the article. Here it is again:
"Poll workers at the Eastern Avenue location blocked Rubin from voting and notified the county registrar's office, who forwarded the complaint to the Nevada secretary of state."
Doesn't mention the dastardly Harry Reid anywhere in the article, and the FBI is the appropriate agency to whom one would report a federal crime.
I am in wonder if there is video to show it was her at both polling places. Someone else I know, was placed in provisional ballot cause someone else had voted in his name.
You lefties might want to put your pitchforks back into your purses until we know more about this woman. She is in a union, so there is a good chance she is a liberal who shows up as a "registered Republican" only because - as many union people are instructed to do - she signed up as an R to sabotage the primaries.
Brian D: The machine prints a paper backup on the left-hand side that you check over to ensure that your votes were recorded properly. Then, you press the button to cast your final ballot and the paper ballot scrolls up so that it cannot be seen by anyone else. It is not an actual printout that you receive to take home with you.
Larry Bee,
I read the whole story - kinda my point. How do you suppose all those media were made aware? How do you suppose that such a lengthy story -- with people on the record -- was immediately available? With pictures? Good reporting? The Secretary of State?
...pahleeeezzz...
Thanks for the attempt at schooling me. They are always appreciated.
Purgatory
Thank you ShannonK...that answers my question..the sample ballot had me thinking I could print out a paper copy.
Rush Limbaugh told people to vote twice. Hopefully the new Limbaugh Movie will expose his treachery> http://india.nydailynews.com/newsarticle...
Just recently in Virginia a incumbents son explains to an undercover reporter how to vote with somebody's utility bill. So yes it is possible somebody else did vote with her name. Also which party was the other accused vote fraud affiliated with ,you neglected to mention that. Why isn't there any outrage against the attorney generals office for dropping the voter intimidation case against the black panthers in 2010.It looks to me like you are just reporting what suits your cause. How about some bipartisan reporting .
@Carolyn Singer There is no permission to get one. Do You know where to download it? http://www.clarkcountynv.gov/Depts/elect... It's easy. It wasn't a conspiracy theory it was an analysis of how the system could be circumvented quite easily.
And lets be real. I went to vote, God bless the 80 something veteran for volunteering, but if he was going to judge the signature I'd be worried.
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The amount and intensity of groundless blaming going on here is really amazing. We know next to NOTHING about who did what here, yet so many members of BOTH parties are so desperate to have their opinions- their PARADIGMS- shored up, they're actually ARGUING as if they - and they alone, know what they're talking about. That's... sad? Pathetic, perhaps? Disturbing, actually. We DON'T KNOW at this point. Face that fact. Try to accept the reality. Speculate about the weather or sports if you're compelled to BS. In short: grow UP.
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Looks like the the newspapers were "tipped off" so they could see the perp walk and take pics for public consumption as it happens? What are the chances? This is nothing more than a piece of propaganda.
I love how people are trying to make excuses for this. And by love, I mean hate.