Yep, it happened here in Iowa, and she was caught and charged. 

On both of the national news programs I watched tonight, they seemed to (very carefully?) state on purpose: "she TRIED to vote a second time.  Emphasis on the tried.  So my question is, and I am sure the answer will come along from some direction, did she SUCCEED, or was she caught BEFORE she could actually cast that second ballot?  Here in Maryland, she would have been caught PRIOR to her actually getting into a voting booth.  I am not attempting to quarrel with you;  I just listened very carefully and found that is what both ABC and NBC said.  So naturally I am wondering.

From what I can find, she voted twice,  but it was caught immediately, and the police were called

https://jontrouten.blogspot.com/2016/10/des-moines-ia-woman-voted-twice-for.html

I wonder if she went from one site to the next immediately?  She's been a big Trump supporter....pictures of her out holding signs, etc.

Here, they put a big X by your name in the book where you vote, but I don't know how they do it in Polk County {Des Moines' county }

In Fairbanks, there is a printed double line that both you and an election official signs and marks off that you showed the proper ID and were given a ballot. There is also an electronic machine that you sign as well, similar to a UPS delivery.

That was someone's personal blog, Jane.  I will be eager to see what the newspapers have to report that the officials on the spot said as to precisely what took place.  In this nation, things tend very rapidly to pick up a lot of assumption and speculation as the kernels of news roll along from place to place and persons to persons. 
I could be dead wrong in this case, and wind up with egg on my face, but my bet is that she TRIED to vote the second time and they caught her and had her arrested FOR THE ATTEMPT, but that actually no second vote was RECORDERED.  That is how much faith I have in our system.

Recorded.  The word is recorded.  Sorry about that.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/well/live/going-flat-after-breast-cancer.html?emc=edit_th_20161101&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=25673289&_r=0

any comments?

S Bubble, I had a lumpectomy that took a good size portion of my breast. I was told I had the option to have reconstruction, but I was 61 yrs old and felt that a bra with a prosthesis was much simpler. My daughter has said she couldn't understand why I didn't want reconstruction, but with a year of treatments, having another year of reconstruction didn't appeal to me.  If I had had a double mastectomy, I might have considered it, but probably not. I say people should do whatever they are comfortable with.

In SC I think voting twice would be very difficult. Lots of checks to prevent it. NC had their voter ID law thrown out though because the courts deemed it racially biased.  I think it should be a national law that everyone who votes has to have a govt. issued ID.

I had to take JOhn to an eye appt this morning. Because of the dialation, he couldn't drive home.  Now they want him to go to Duke eye center to have some tests on his good eye. It seems that there is a black spot in it that they can't identify. Could be a cancerous tumor!  His appt is Nov 15 and we will have to go up the day before for his 7:15 AM appt.  Please think good thoughts for him.   One never knows what a new day will bring.
Sharon

Quote from: so_P_bubble on November 01, 2016, 08:56:58 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/well/live/going-flat-after-breast-cancer.html?emc=edit_th_20161101&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=25673289&_r=0

any comments?

As Sharon said, it's an individual decision.  I'm flat on one side as a result of a modified radical mastectomy...was offered reconstruction many times by my surgeon, but I elected not to. I was 48 at the time.  Too many horror stories of people who have had it done..in those days with saline balloons inserted and then expanded with injections of more saline...or those who had silicon and then it leaked.  I'd had enough surgery and treatment (chemo) to last me a lifetime.  Give me my prosthesis and I'm good.

MaryPage...I don't know at what point she was caught...it sounds as if she got the second one cast, but was then caught.


I tried to find local coverage, MaryPage, but I don't have an online subscription to the Des Moines Register, so couldn't look there.  I'll try again the CR paper, but I may run into the same roadblock. There is a lot of national coverage.


http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/10/iowa-woman-arrested-after-voting-for-trump-twice.html

" The Des Moines Register reports that 55-year-old Terry Lynn Rote was charged with first-degree election misconduct on Thursday after authorities discovered that she had cast early-voting ballots at two different locations in Iowa."

I've searched the Des Moines Register for Terri Rote (which is how it was spelled here) and Terry Lynn Rote and "woman votes twice" and get NO results.  I find this very odd.

I Googled, Iowa woman votes twice.

https://www.google.com/search?q=iowa+woman+votes+twice&oq=iowa+woman+votes+twice&aqs=chrome..69i57.12816j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Yes, there are a lot of national sites.  I was hoping to find the Register's story, since it's a Polk County paper and the largest paper in the state.  However, I don't have an online subscription, so can only get today's story.

If more comes up in the local...ie. Iowa press, I'll post a link.

Iowa Public Radio says:

http://iowapublicradio.org/post/des-moines-woman-says-she-voted-twice-trump-because-polls-are-rigged#stream/0

This whole issue of voter fraud is crazy anyway. I read a Forbes article last year and one at Snopes saying it is rare, extremely so. 99.9% of election fraud has been found at the county or state level and a few times with the election workers. Other than Ms. Rote who believed her candidate's assertions,voter fraud is rare enough to be almost nonexistent.

Now I don't think that Donald Trump will agree with that if he looses.

Trump has made several inflammatory statements, always saying he couldn't be at fault if such or such happened. I am not a fan of either candidate, but this is certainly not the place for a political discussion.

I didn't have breast cancer. Out of the five of us, four had colon cancer and my mother had breast cancer. She had a total mastectomy and reconstruction, but a year later came down with Alzheimers. It was a very dark period in our lives.

I think the going flat is the most sensible choice, albeit you could not bribe me with a million $ to pose for a photograph.  Nor would I opt for tattoos.  I have NO objection to anyone choosing tattoos, it is just that I find them totally masculine and primitive.  Okay for everyone else, but just too, too unlovely.  Like Sharon, I had a lumpectomy, but unlike hers, you can barely tell with mine.  If you were invited to have a look (which you won't be) you would, having been TOLD, be able to pick out which breast is slightly smaller than the other.  Otherwise, you would never notice. 
As for the going flat, I decided that way back in 1981, long before my breast cancer showed up (2012).  One of my employees had to have a whole breast removed, and she was wildly distraught.  So I took her to the doctor myself, fearing for her driving in the state she was in, and he showed her the little bags of silicon and explained the whole procedure.  I had to fight to keep from losing my own lunch, all the while trying to soothe her.  Again, I decided right there and then that that would Never be my choice.  But Betty went ahead with it.  Ick!  Some years later, I began to read about disastrous leakage, etc.  Made me sorry I did not at least attempt to talk Betty out of it.  As for the bra inserts, I totally approve.  They make your clothes look better, and if you are wearing something fulsome, as opposed to fitted, then you don't have to bother!  That would work for me!

I've always had small boobs and my surgery reduced my cancerous one a bit more.  I also had to have the lymph nodes removed on my right side and have a sort of cavity there.  However, I am so happy to be cancer free since 1996.  I realized that no one has ever disliked me because of my small breasts and really didn't notice that the right one was still smaller.  I would never pose for a bra-less photo, and I'm glad they still make bras that are small enough for people like me--although they are harder to find now.  Girls as young as 4th and 5th grade need to wear bras now!

I've been reading most of the day.  I have to present the November selection to the book club.  The book is BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Robin Wall Kimmerer.  She is a botanist, professor, and a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.  The book is interesting, but lengthy and often "teacherly".  She teaches Environmental Biology and is active in the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.  She lives in Fabius, NY, which evidently is in the far north of that state.  I volunteered to review the book (without knowing about her topic).  I thought it was about the Gullah and Geechee ladies who wove baskets in coastal areas near Charleston, SC.  It is scholarly and well researched, but not an easy read.  I have a small basket collection, but none are made with Sweet Grass.  One interesting basket I have was handmade by my mother-in-law's youngest brother with pine needles.  I'll take it and a few other small baskets to display.

Not much else going on here today.  I took my morning walk and have done some laundry as well fixing and eating breakfast, lunch (which is my larger meal when home) and supper.  Now I'm going to watch the World Series.  I think the Indians might win as they are playing at home.  It's just started, so will watch the game.

I hope all are well.  I'm trying to decide who I'll ask to take me to vote.  My next door retired neighbors are out of town and the young couple on the other side both work long hours.

Have a nice evening, Buddies.
Sue

SCFSue.  I bet their are people that are Volunteers at the place you vote will come out and get you and bring you home.  They do it all over the city here.  Want to make sure everyone registered gets there.

I will be so glad when the election is over! I dislike both candidates but finally bit the bullet and voted for one and mailed my absentee ballot. I wish I had had the option of writing in a name.  Sue, I think Jeanne is right that there are many volunteers that will come take you in to vote. Check the paper or call your party's campaign office.

I have a load of laundry in and have filled the bird bath and hung up some clothes that I washed yesterday and now plan to relax.

Sue, I think small boobs are the style now.  Look at some of the stars.

I am so worried about John's eye. He only has vision in that eye and if something were to happen to it, he would be blind. I have no idea how he would live with that.  Well, we'll find out something the 15th. God willing, it is nothing important.  Sharon

If you check out our HOME PAGE you'll see a lovely graphic made by GinnyAnn!

Hi everyone...Sharon praying for your Johns eye....my son is the same way..has lost vision in one eye...my DIL who recently was D.C. With Brest cancer....has had the lump removed and has made the decision to have mastectomy with reconstructive surgery...not sure how the results will be...but her decision...hope everyone is having great day..Darlene

So scary about John's eye, Sharon.  I do hope all goes well. 

I've been making progress, but very slowly.  I went to the surgeon this afternoon.  He thinks I should be doing more, but....  And he's concerned about the breathing problems I've been having.  I'm going to get something set up with my PC to get some investigation done for that problem.  No specific date for leaving here.  Between PT sessions and doctor visit, I'm pretty well shot today.

I had a lumpectomy, with not enough tissue removed to make much difference.  But I'm pretty sure, even if I'd had a mastectomy, I wouldn't have gone for reconstruction.  (Sorry to hear about your DIL, Darlene - I hope all goes well for her)

The voting process in TN - in person, absentee, or early-in-person - is relatively easy (with gov't photo ID), and an incredibly secure process.  There's no way the entire state could be compromised - each county has it's own system of mechanical voting (none on-line, though), so there's no one entry into the system.  We've voted early in every election since it was instituted.  That way if we were going to be traveling or something else, we knew we had plenty of time to have our votes counted.  Like others, we were election officials.  I started as a "permanent registrar" in the 1964 presidential election and did the job until we moved to Chattanooga in 1986.  John started later as "officer of elections" and was head of the precinct by the time we moved.  It made for a long, hard, and satisfying day - for very little pay ($6.00 for my first time - 18-20 hours - LOL).

That's great, Ginny Ann!  You have a real talent, and I am in awe.

Mary, I hope you don't have COPD, which is what I was just diagnosed with.  But the inhaler is a once a day thing that just takes a minute, so that is not a bad thing.  Also, it might just be a temporary condition that was brought on by your time under anesthesia.

Sharon, I am praying just awful hard here.  Will be for as long as it takes.

Neither would I go for reconstructive surgery...Mary Z...But it's a personal decision...she is a kindergarten teacher..will have surgery on 15... be off work till Jan....appreciate prayers for success and speedy recovery...Darlene

Beautiful GinnyAnn.  Doesn't feel like November here at the moment but we are not getting a bad storm with 50 miles wind.

MaryZ. Not going to tell daughter that you are still in there.  She is still thinking she will be going home next day. It will be worth going through with it.
Hope you start improving enough to go home soon.

Sharon. Hope they can take care of Johns good eye.  Wouldnt want him to have to give up his Bridge playing. Amazing what they can do now.

Candy. it seems like Breast Cancer is hitting women younger now and so many.
People are thinking that the Birth C. Pill has a lot to do with it.  Some took them for 20 years.

I'm watching the baseball game and the Cubs just went ahead, 2-1 in the 4th inning.  Tim was over for a short while this morning.  He'll take me for my Dexa scan on Monday and to see a lawyer about revising my will on Tuesday.  Not much else going on here.  I read more of the book I must present on the second Monday to our book club.  It's a little more interesting now as she is writing about her gardening and other activities I find interesting.  Still lots of scientific lingo, though.

Mary, I'm sorry about the breathing problems and the difficulty with walking.  Take it easy and carefully.  I'm pulling for your full recovery.  Big Hugs!

Hi to everyone.  Sleep well, Buddies.
Sue

Some photos of Creamers Field, a wildlife, and bird sanctuary.

http://www.seniorsandfriends.org/index.php?topic=11.msg58510#msg58510

WOW Angel!

GinnyAnn, lovely!  and why don't you do more???

Sharon....hope John's eye problem is an easy fix.  They can do remarkable things now, we found, with Ray's cornea transplants.

GinnyAnn....WOW...beautiful graphics work.

Candy....good thoughts and prayers for your DIL.

Sue....we watched until midnight when the rain delay came in.  Although from Ohio, I think it's neat the Cubbies finally won.  Lots of Cubs fans here.

Maryz...hang in there, Dear Friend!

MaryPage...you're looking and sounding good this morning.   

Jeanne....beautiful here, too, and weatherman says mild through the month....I hope so.


Angelface...another WOW...thank you.

Bubble...always good to see you here.

JeanneLee...thanks for the info on our GA and her graphics.

Dentist visit went well....nothing to go back for....and I was introduced to new fellow....handsome young man...who'll probably be my toothman when Gordy retires.  I've been his patient since the first week he opened his practice here.