In 1988 the Dallas Morning News published an extensive news investigation about vote fraud and the Medrano political machine which directly linked Pauline Medrano and members her family to phony ballots, negligence, and misconduct in Oak Lawn Precinct 3303.  Pauline Medrano was ultimately removed as election judge.  The article has since been removed from the Dallas Morning News archives. I have been given a hard copy.

I am firmly on the record on this issue: I believe that Dallas voters (indeed all voters) have the Constitutional Right to participate in free and fair elections without fear of  intimidation or election manipulation. To accomplish this end it has become obvious to me that I must educate people to the brutal and devastating truth of the matter.  I recently have learned that my opponent has been directly linked to a past voter fraud investigation in which she was personally implicated as being involved and for which she was removed as an Election Judge. Given the current news here in Dallas this is incredibly damaging information.

I was recently given a copy of a Dallas Morning News Investigation which reported the brutal truth about voter fraud. The investigation was focused directly on the Medrano Family and their finding led directly to my opponent Pauline Medrano who served as the Election Judge at the precinct in question during her own brothers election.  I agonized about how to handle this information but I chose to hold back publishing and instead provided a copy to all local media outlets.  Recent news articles of vote fraud allegations only tell of recent felony charges and allegations of vote fraud.  It now seems  clear that history is repeating itself.

The Dallas Morning News investigated The Medrano Family’s ties to voter fraud in 1988 and you will find eerie similarities to the stories you have recently read about. In 1988 Pauline Medrano was an Election Judge in Precinct 3303. Her brother was the candidate. This exhaustive Dallas Morning News Investigation discovered that in that election  “1 in 10″ votes were fraudulent and reported that Pauline Medrano was “negligent” in her duties.    The story reports that Pauline Medrano neither prevented the fraud from occurring nor reported the irregularities after she learned of them; due to this investigation Pauline Medrano was ultimately removed as Election Judge in the Oak Lawn Precinct 3303.

Here is the article, you be the judge:  Medrano Voter Fraud Article

I understand that this Dallas Morning News Investigation is dated, but the definition of insanity firmly applies here.  The City of Dallas, Dallas County, and voter in District 2 simply cannot continue to do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result. This investigation shows that there was more that a shadow of impropriety back in 1988, the investigation detailed that their was impropriety and explained how it happens.

A grand jury is convened as I type in Rockwall and Texas Attorney General Gregg Abbot has already issued one indictment for felony voter fraud against a member of the Medrano family.  What is it going to take to get people to wake up to the fact The Medrano Family will do anything and everything to get a friend or family Member elected?

In an open letter to the Dallas City Secretary and Dallas County Elections Administrator I have asked that they immediately intervene to: 1) Move the polling location to Sam Houston Elementary School or any other location in the precinct other than Medrano Elementary School and 2) Immediately take steps to appoint an independent Election Judge to oversee voting at your chosen location on election day.

I have spoken to Dallas City Secretary Deborah Watkins today, she has met a number of times with the Dallas City Attorney Tom Perkins, and I have provided them both with this  information because of my concerns.  I am told that the decision should be made and announced sometime tomorrow.   I  hope for the sake of our democracy that these honest and hard working public servants will not let history repeat itself. I have asked them to act quickly and boldly to  make the only just decision, the Dallas City Secretary must move the polling location and appoint an independent election judge to oversee voting at the location they choose.

My opponent must end her silence on this issue and make a public statement.  I demand that she go on the record to address this issue and take the appropriate steps to remove the shadow of impropriety that looms over District 2.  She is an “elected” official and voters deserve to know whether she believes in free and fair elections or not. Pauline Medrano’s continued silence on this issue is seriously troubling.

Dallas voters indeed all voters deserve free and fair elections and I am willing to stake my life on it. Today I may have done just that, and so be it.  I my world, you don’t mess with democracy and get away with it.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail,  April 16, 1963