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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) 
Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012 | noon
Sun coverage
A Henderson woman accused of trying to vote twice this week said today that she is eager to tell her side of the story.
Roxanne Rubin, 56 and a registered Republican, was arrested Friday on a felony charge of voter fraud.
"I really want to talk to you because I am not crazy," Rubin said when reached by a Sun reporter on her cellphone — a number she provided to poll workers the second time she tried to vote Monday. "But I'm really unable to talk until I meet with my lawyer."
Rubin is accused of voting at an early-voting location in Henderson on Monday morning. She raised poll workers' attention there when she commented to another voter that she "signed differently and they didn't check my ID," according to arrest documents released today.
Poll workers described a petite woman in her 50s with striking red hair. According to arrest documents, Rubin's signature at the Henderson voting location matched her voter registration card, evidence used by investigators to back up their claim it was indeed Rubin who cast a ballot and not someone else.
Rubin then went to a second polling location on Eastern Avenue. When she attempted to sign in, poll workers were alerted by their computer system that she had already voted. Rubin complained that the poll workers at the first location had made a mistake and insisted she be allowed to vote.
Poll workers refused to let her vote. Rubin then gave them her cellphone number and asked them to call her when she was allowed to vote, according to the arrest documents.
Rubin was arrested Friday by the Election Integrity Task Force when she arrived to work at the Riviera.
So she will get her 15 minutes of fame with the networks throwing cash at her to "tell her story". I guess this is better than getting a job. Place a gag order on her and see where she shows up next, most likely the welfare line.
"I really want to talk to you because I am not crazy,"
I think Sharron Angle used to say that very thing.
Let's talk the truth here! If you people don't vote for Mr. Romeny we are going to continue to have partisan gridlock! We TeaPublicans are going to make sure that guy obama won't be able to accomplish anything in his second term just like we have been doing ever since obama took office! Just like Mr. Romney said: "if the President is re-elected, he will still be unable to work with the people in Congress".we may well be looking at another recession"! Our number one goal since the day obama took office was to make obama a one term president and we are going to succeed! So if you want America to move forward this next 4 years, you darn well better darn well vote for Mr. Romney! We TeaPublicans ARE taking America back".so hang on for a fantastic ride!
Republicans cry fraud - now it is Republicans having to pony up $ for this woman's defense.
Republicans have no shame. Despicable! Completely sick and twisted.
But why?
Sounds to me she wanted to "correct" her ballot.... And didn't communicate that to the poll workers. And it appears the poll workers didn't exactly make an effort to understand. I can't see her convicted of voting twice. She didn't actually vote twice and its gonna be hard as heck to prove intent for fraud. Why would someone leave a contact name and number if they were trying to commit fraud? And since when is the media notified in advanced of an arrest so they can all line up and make photos/videos?
I think that I would (as a poll judge) given her a provisional ballot, let her complete it, then write up the incident. IMHO there was no good reason to arrest her (based on what has been reported). It does seem so much like political grandstanding by Mr. Miller's group.
"We TeaPublicans are going to make sure that guy obama won't be able to accomplish anything in his second term just like we have been doing ever since obama took office!"
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Political party first! Nation second.
I think she has a case of "ROMNESIA"
"We TeaPublicans are going to make sure that guy obama won't be able to accomplish anything in his second term just like we have been doing ever since obama took office!"
if you can't win you'll take you ball and go home? lol. don't think that'll work this time around but say hey to Mitch McConnell for us when you see him.
Test_Guy nails it: It's only voter fraud if it's the Demoncrats! IOKIYAR.
Given that it is a current mantra of the Republican party that there will be rampant voter fraud this cycle it is possible that this individual is a "Breitbart" style plant to sting elections officials. Unfortunately [for her] she was caught. Throw the book at her!
Real Romney supporters are being shut out by the media. Please watch them unfiltered! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY0M7IdNl...
This is a plot by right wing bloggers, billionaires and talk radio people to do a "Breit Bart" style sing. All Republicans should be stopped from voting till they caninvestigate this situation next year.
Just to be clear: Bipartisanship does not mean voting for each candidate once.
acorn
"We TeaPublicans are going to make sure that guy obama won't be able to accomplish anything in his second term just like we have been doing ever since obama took office!"
Your party is going to LOSE seats in the Senate in a year when 23 of the 33 Senate seats that are up for elections are Democrat seats.
The Republican Party in its current state is done as far as national elections go. The demographic trends show this, and there isn't enough angry white men available to make it a majority now or in the future.
Get used to it.
Hey - where's the guy who said "Looks like another Obama supporter"? Looks like he lost one of his shoes... ewww - what are those... teeth marks?
This is another example of how the LV Sun and its biases will over report a story like this. How come when the Black Panthers threaghtened people voting in 08 this newspaper hardly covered the story, and the AG did zero about it?
This woman is innocent till proven guilty.
@mred: with thoughts like you have about Republicans, you should leave this country since you have no clue what our laws stand for.
As other people posting comments have noted,this could be a plant. This could have been done on purpose to make it look like Republican claims of voter fraud have credence. Republican claims of voter fraud have no credence.
This certainly smacks of the deceit I have come to associate with Republican politicians.
For instance at a campaign rally on August 17,2012 Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan said President Obama was 'promising' defense cuts:
"Now there's one thing we're going to have to deal with to make sure we protect jobs in Virginia and around America," Ryan said. "And that is these devastating defense cuts that president Obama is promising. That is the lack of leadership that he is providing. They call it sequester and all of that. Well, I tell you what. In the House, we already passed the bill to cut spending in other areas of government to make sure that these devastating cuts to defense never occur so we don't put Virginians out of work and so we have a strong national defense. That's extremely important."
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/201...
The defense cuts Ryan is talking about are part of the automatic budget cuts(sequestration) that Congress passed and the President signed. RYAN EVEN VOTED IN FAVOR OF THE BILL. When a President signs a bill he is not 'promising' anything. Ryan saying Obama is 'promising' cuts is a blatant and deceitful misrepresentation of the facts. And when Ryan says 'in the House, we already passed the bill to cut spending in other areas of government' the other areas of government he is talking about are programs like Obamacare! Ryan knows the Senate would never pass and the President would never sign a bill that cut Obamacare. Ryan is being deceitful.
Both Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan straight up lied at the Republican National Convention when they claimed Obama was cutting $716 from Medicare. The $716 billion they are talking about comes from savings in the Medicare programs,not cuts. There will be no cuts to the Medicare program itself:
'The Romney campaign says that President Obama's health care law has cut $716 billion out of Medicare. But that's a reduction in the future growth of spending over 10 years, not a slashing of the current Medicare budget. And the reduction extends the life of the Medicare trust fund'
http://www.factcheck.org/2012/08/cutting...
I'm a little slow. Is this right?
She goes to a Henderson location and votes. She decides the poll workers there "made a mistake". So, instead of going back to the location to attempt to correct the "mistake", she goes to another location on Eastern Ave to vote again. Is that right?
Hmmmm...
I guess I'm just stupid.
Looks like a plant for sure. Obamas welfare army at their best..
MUST BE A TERRIBLE MISTAKE!!
Absolutely mind-boggling! A registered republican caught attempting to vote twice in the same election???? You've got to be kidding. Only a democrat would commit such a dastardly deed. Must be a mistake. Or, maybe she's an undercover ACORN agent whose job it is to make republicans look bad. Yeah, that's it. You can tell by looking at her picture that she's innocent. Maybe her neighbor's cousin's brother-in-law told her that if President Obama was ahead in the polls with three days to go before the election, some republicans could vote twice to make it more even. Whatever, you might want to read some of the (obviously republican) comments. They could cause laughter if the situation was not so serious and their comments so transparent.
So, let me get this straight...if your signature doesn't match the signature when you signed up to vote, then chances are you won't be able to vote?
My signature varies during the day. For the most part the only name that stays the same is my first name.
I'm sorry, but I think she really did try to vote twice, maybe she "forgot" she already voted. She may not be crazy, but maybe her memory isn't what it used to be. Or maybe someone really did vote elsewhere under her name...who knows what really happened. I just find it ironic that with all the talk about "voter fraud" that we have this woman who tried (or supposedly tried) to vote twice.
Let me get this straight...a white woman is arrested with great pomp and circumstance for voter fraud but thousands of "undocumented" workers will vote with no consequence? Where are the cameras?
In our county in SE Texas (70-75% Republican), some clerks were demanding not just driver's license but two forms of ID before they would allow anyone to vote. That was short lived when they demanded such from the Chair of the county Demoratic Party.
Thereafter, letters were sent out to each early voting location where we had to each sign our knowledge that we were to only ask for "voter registration or some other form of identification," and we would accept the list of allowed proofs of ID. This county, even though highly R, seems to stick to the rules.
Some people were obviously thinking they could talk their way in to vote, believing the lies about people being able to vote multiple times. They didn't even want to vote provisionally--obviously testing the system.
All clerks in our location, though, did agree that a high number of voters in this this election's seemed to be highly angry. I encountered many who tried to talk politics and one made fun of an Hispanic worker's accent...the voter looked like a laborer, the worker is a CPA whose five children all graduated college. A shame that he had to endure such meanness.
"summerof69"---a "plant"? Why would a woman vote Republican in years past then be a plant and go to jail to make a point. That women thought she could get away with it because she believed the preachings of her party--that people can talk their way into voting 2-3 times.
It's hard to believe but apparently there really is widespread voter fraud in America, just as the GOP has long claimed. But honestly, how can anyone be stupid enough to commit a felony just to cast an extra vote or two, that in all likelihood would have absolutely no bearing on the final outcome of an election where thousands or even millions of votes are cast?
Sadly though, there are sick people willing to risk imprisonment to help a candidate win an election. And not surprisingly, it's the GOP, the party of Richard Nixon, that is trying to subvert our democracy through voter fraud.
It takes brass to accuse the other guy of the very things you're guilty of, but hey, that's the corrupt, hypocritical republican party for ya. Some things never change, I suppose.
Brouse- - - Yeah the camera crew just happened to be in the neighborhood. You can't be that ignorant.
The big question for me, as to her wanting to vote twice, is WHY? Did she think that one extra vote would make a difference and would it be worth it, in light of possible fraud charges?
@ - Launce (Launce Rake) --- I'm just someone with an opinion. I don't state anything in my post as "fact" ... and I certainly did not imply nor state that only democrats commit voter fraud. However, you've strongly implied, as a fact, that I'm a republican and that I think that only democrats commit voter fraud. I'm not a republican, and I didn't say what you wrote. Quit using others as a means to spout off on your own totally illogical conclusions. Thanks.
I'm not crazy. I'm not smart. I'm just a republican.
She voted only once in Colorado, Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, and Florida. Busy week for Roxy.