Ordinarily, I’m content pretending [tag]Ann Coulter[/tag] doesn’t exist, but one item jumped out at me that I considered too entertaining to ignore.
Coulter, you may recall, ridiculed voters in Palm Beach, Fla., after the 2000 presidential election, when thousands of votes were miscast due to the infamous “butterfly ballot.” Coulter suggested those who are too stupid to vote properly shouldn’t count anyway.
Coulter may want to rethink that whole approach.
[tag]Palm Beach County[/tag]’s elections supervisor has given Universal Press Syndicate columnist Ann Coulter 30 days to explain why she voted in the [tag]wrong precinct[/tag], according to a Wednesday piece by Palm Beach Post columnist [tag]Jose Lambiet[/tag].
Lambiet had first reported on Coulter’s Florida voting problems last month. In his Wednesday follow-up, Lambiet wrote: “This time, claiming she doesn’t even live here — as GOP pundit Ann Coulter has been doing on this spring’s college speaking tour when she’s questioned about her February election meltdown on Palm Beach — isn’t going to cut it. …”
The Lambiet piece continued: “In a registered letter scheduled to be sent to her this week, Coulter is asked to ‘clarify certain information as to her legal residence,’ elections boss Arthur Anderson said. ‘We want to give her a chance,’ Anderson said. ‘She needs to tell us where she really lives.’ Or else? He could refer the case to State Attorney Barry Krischer for criminal charges, Anderson said.”
Lambiet cited an official incident report from a poll worker who found Coulter trying to vote in two precincts on the same day, in the same election. As for the possible legal penalties, Lambiet noted that it is a third-degree felony to vote knowingly in the wrong precinct. What’s more, lying on a voter’s registration can cost up to $5,000 and five years in jail.
For that matter, as August J. Pollak noted, Coulter has now been suspected of voter fraud twice.
Schadenfreude was made for times like this….