LOS ANGELES (CBS) ” L.A. City Councilman Richard Alarcon and his wife, Flora, pleaded not guilty Friday morning in Los Angeles Superior Court to new perjury charges from the district attorney’s office.A judge on Thursday dismissed perjury and voter fraud charges against the Alarcons ” a move that District Attorney Steve Cooley called “inexplicable” ” and the same charges were refiled.The    .. more …

CAIRO, May 15 (UPI) — Cairo said there weren’t any serious concerns of voter fraud in the ballots cast for the presidential election by Egyptians living overseas.Egyptian expatriates were eligible to start voting last weekend.Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman Amr Roshdy said the expatriate vote was proceeding well and foreign embassies were reporting the vote was free and fair, the Egyptian    .. more …

With six months until Election Day, conspiracy theories are percolating on the Internet like bubbling mud pots at Yellowstone: Left-wing billionaire George Soros is going to rig the election for Barack Obama . Foreigners will oversee the nation’s entire vote-counting system. The fix is in, and all is lost.Before conservatives go all Michael Moore-moonbatty, let’s calm down and separate voter fraud    .. more …

The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports most of those cases have resulted in convictions, while 26 additional cases are still under investigation.In 2008, the state Board of Elections forwarded more than 400 allegations from 62 cities and counties to Virginia State Police for investigation. Board of Elections Secretary Donald Palmer says the complaints varied from voter registration issues to    .. more …

This post has been corrected. Please see the note below .A high-profile perjury and voter fraud case against Los Angeles City Councilman Richard Alarcon and his wife was dismissed Thursday morning by a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, but prosecutors may refile.”The case is not over in our mind by any stretch,” said Deputy Dist. Atty. Jennifer Lentz Snyder.Judge Kathleen Kennedy dismissed    .. more …

Charges of voter fraud and perjury against Los Angeles City Councilman Richard Alarcon were dismissed today by a judge who said prosecutors failed to provide a grand jury with evidence that could have favored the councilman’s case. The Seventh District representative was charged in August of 2010 with nine counts of perjury, seven counts of voter fraud, and two counts of filing false declarations    .. more …

Those being watched were not so pleased. The King Street effort resulted in numerous complaints about voter intimidation, particularly in minority neighborhoods, as well as a lawsuit filed by the Texas Democratic Party , an ethics complaint from the watchdog group Texans for Public Justice and an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. (Attorney General Eric Holder is the group’s bte    .. more …