Another Republican official convicted of voter fraud

Steve Curtis

The only thing Republicans harp on more than “illegals” and “unborn babies” is all that voter fraud that Leftists supposedly get up to. Which is a little ironic, considering the vast majority of people who get arrested for voter fraud are Republican officials. Today’s example:

The former chair of the Colorado Republican Party was sentenced to four years of probation and 300 hours of community service on Friday for committing voter fraud and forging his ex-wife’s signature on her 2016 ballot.

Steve Curtis, who chaired the state’s Republican Party from 1997 to 1999, has said in his defense that he filled out the ballot — and certified it with his ex-wife’s forged signature — during a diabetic blackout.

He added at his sentencing hearing Friday, as quoted by the Greeley Tribune, that “[i]t was a normal and customary thing in my house with my prior wife and with Kelly (Curtis), to fill out their ballots. … I didn’t know that was illegal.”

Funny, for some reason I don’t imagine he’d go easy on any Democratic voters who’d present that excuse:

In 2016, before charges were filed against him, Curtis notably argued on a talk radio show he hosted that “virtually every case of voter fraud I can remember in my lifetime was committed by Democrats.”

It’s too bad Trump’s voter fraud commission ended before it could determine which party actually breaks the law at the ballots more often, isn’t it? Oh, wait – that was an obvious sham intended to bolster Trump’s lies and justify Republicans’ efforts to discourage Democratic voters around the country. It takes remarkable chutzpah to pull every sleazy trick in the book to block your opponents from voting, from drawing ridiculously gerrymandered electoral maps to requiring unnecessary IDs to eliminating early voting to outright purging eligible voters from state databases – curiously, all moves pushed by Republican-controlled legislatures and that impact predominately Democratic voters – and then turn around and accuse them of cheating at the ballot box. But then, chutzpah is all Republicans have in lieu of actual policy.

(via Joe.My.God.)