If You Can't Trust The State's Top Election Official To Vote Properly...

The big political story here in the tri-state is the indictment of Indiana Secretary of State Charlie White on seven counts related to voter fraud.  Yes, this means that the state's top election official has been busted for lying about his residency to cheat the voting system.

Secretary of State Charlie White, the top election official in Indianapolis, is facing seven felony counts, including voter fraud, perjury and theft, all connected to what a prosecutor said was an attempt to hold on to his seat on the town council even though he was living outside of his designated district.

White was indicted by a grand jury in Hamilton County on three counts of voter fraud for allegedly lying about his address when he voted in last year's Republican primary, the Courier-Journal reports. In addition he's facing charges of perjury, fraud on a financial institution (for lying about his address) and theft for keeping the salary he received as a member of his town council after he moved out of his designated district.

A special prosecutor announced the indictment on Thursday and White turned himself in at the Hamilton County Jail this afternoon, the Indianapolis Star reports. He was released after he posted $10,000 bond. The probe has been in the works since at least October.

White has already admitted that he voted in a district where he no longer lived. His registered address was a home he and his now ex-wife had shared on and off until 2009. 

There's stupid, and then there's this guy, figuring he could game the system he was in charge of to allegedly collect his town council salary on top of his Secretary of State salary and lie about it, figuring nobody would notice.

Meanwhile, the entire point of Indiana's Voter ID law that critics contend would disenfranchise poor and minority voters in Indiana was to stop a "flood of voter fraud".  Seems the only voter fraud Indianans have to worry about are Republican Secretaries of State.  Oh, and no, the Indiana Voter ID law didn't stop Charlie White at all, good old fashioned police work did.  And of course, when White allegedly did it, it was because of his "chaotic living situation".  Just one big mistake. Voter ID laws don't apply to Charlie White, see.

Because a Republican would never cheat the system, only Dirty F'ckin Hippies and Those People do that.

Hysterical.