Starr County Election Fraud Scheme

From Ballotpedia

Four Starr and Hidalgo county political operatives were indicted for voter fraud in a large-scale effort to submit mail-in ballots for imaginary people in 2006’s March Democratic primary election. The people indicted were Jose Rene Gomez, 33, who is also charged with voting twice in the election, Oralia Frausto, 49, Oscar Rios, 37, Dolores Gutierrez, 58, and Maria Gonzalez. Investigators suspect that Gutierrez and Gonzalez are the same woman, but brought indictments against both names nonetheless.^[1]

Fake Voters

According to a press release from the Attorney General’s office, the four were indicted by a grand jury in Brooks County last week on charges related to the fraud scheme, which allegedly involved registering fake voters to vacant lots in Starr County and having mail-in ballots sent to several Hidalgo County addresses. At the time of the report, only Rios had been arrested.^[1]