WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Nov. 2, 2006

Did Ann Coulter Vote Illegally?

County Is Investigating Whether Conservative Columnist Voted In Wrong Precinct

  • For the past nine months, Palm Beach County election officials have been investigating whether Ann Coulter knowingly voted in the wrong precinct during a Feb. 7 town council election. Photo

    For the past nine months, Palm Beach County election officials have been investigating whether Ann Coulter knowingly voted in the wrong precinct during a Feb. 7 town council election.  (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

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(AP)  Conservative columnist Ann Coulter has refused to cooperate in an investigation about whether she voted in the wrong precinct, so the case will likely be turned over to state prosecutors, Palm Beach County's elections chief said Wednesday.

Elections Supervisor Arthur Anderson said his office has been looking into the matter for nearly nine months, and he would turn over the case to the state attorney's office by Friday.

Coulter's attorney did not immediately return a telephone message Wednesday and her telephone number in Palm Beach is unpublished. A message left for Tara Gilbride, a publicist for Coulter's publisher, The Crown Publishing Group, owned by Random House Inc., was also not immediately returned.

Anderson's office received a complaint in February that Coulter allegedly voted in the wrong precinct during a Feb. 7 Palm Beach town council election. Since then, Anderson said he has made repeated attempts to resolve the matter with Coulter and her attorney but has been rebuffed.

Anderson, a Democrat, said an initial letter was sent to Coulter on March 27 requesting that she clarify her address for the voting records "or face the possibility of her voter registration being rescinded."

Three more letters were sent to Coulter and her attorney over the next several months, but she has yet to respond with the information requested, Anderson said.

In July, Anderson said, he received a letter from Coulter's attorney, Marcos Daniel Jimenez D'Clouet. The letter said the attorney would only discuss the matter in person or by telephone because he complained Anderson had given details to the media. Anderson said the matter had to be discussed in writing.

Knowingly voting in a wrong precinct is a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison, said Mike Edmondson, a spokesman for the state attorney's office in West Palm Beach.

Edmondson said his office generally reviews such cases, then turns them over to local authorities for a full investigation that could result in an arrest if intent is proven.

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by mikemileage November 2, 2006 8:00 AM PST
Poor Ann; I bet it was those 911 women who conspired to get you! I hope they throw the book at you.
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by bluestardad November 2, 2006 8:00 AM PST
she is a political shock jock just like el rushbo
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by xccoach November 2, 2006 8:04 AM PST
Hey, let's play nice. She was just trying to help out her buddy Mark Foley.
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by macusweil November 2, 2006 8:10 AM PST
This media parasite is 100% scum so this does not surprise me at all.
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by rondumsfeld November 2, 2006 8:18 AM PST
I bet she voted twice, too!
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by meboard November 2, 2006 8:27 AM PST
Dito to what everyone on this Comment page has said...just wanted to put my two cents in! (I can't stand her...I wish they wouldn't have missed her with that pie!!!)
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by dsought November 2, 2006 8:29 AM PST
Vote early and as many times as possible!
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by dsought November 2, 2006 8:29 AM PST
Vote early and as many times as possible!
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by dsought November 2, 2006 8:31 AM PST
Vote early and as many times as possible!
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by blazercoach1 November 2, 2006 8:44 AM PST
Ann Coulter is about to hold a press conference in Seattle in which she will not apologize for voting illegally. What she meant to do was demonstrate a joke about how Democrats think you should be able to vote in Florida....early and often. She will blame this on those dispicable Democrats. She will point out that this is part of their typical ploy to change the subject from the issues that matter. She will state that the DA knows where she MEANT to vote. She will point out that they won't debate a real woman but only a straw woman.

Shouldn't that make everything OK?
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by robrob791 November 2, 2006 8:53 AM PST
If she can vote in the wrong place how many others do it???????????????????????????
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by blazercoach1 November 2, 2006 8:53 AM PST
Ann Coulter is about to hold a press conference in Seattle in which she will not apologize for voting illegally. What she meant to do was demonstrate a joke about how Democrats think you should be able to vote in Florida....early and often and anywhere you think your vote will have the greatest impact. She will blame this on those dispicable Democrats. She will point out that this is part of their typical ploy to change the subject from the issues that matter. She will state that the DA knows where she MEANT to vote. She will point out that they won't debate a real woman but only a straw woman.
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by blazercoach1 November 2, 2006 8:56 AM PST
rob....it's easy. Ask anyone who has overseen a polling location...from either political affiliation.

Do you think it's any coincidence that a Democrat Election Supervisor is brining this up NOW when he's been investigating it for nearly NINE months? Same thing with Foley. If it's been going on for so long.....why did the Dems wait until NOW?

Politics as usual...on BOTH sides...unless you are seriously naive..
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by kalatur November 2, 2006 9:08 AM PST
Who cares. Coulter could be a saint or a jerk. This story does not deserve any space.
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by houser123 November 2, 2006 9:17 AM PST
I agree with a previuos poster, this is not a news worthy story. First off, she deserves no attention whatsoever since her trashingof the 9/11 widows, and secondly, she will not do time or incur any fines. She is and always will be a dispicable and vile person.
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by angryliberal-2009 November 2, 2006 9:24 AM PST
is this the best rebutal you could come up with to John Kerry...lol.
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by angryliberal-2009 November 2, 2006 9:33 AM PST
This is the best counter to John Kerry you could find CBS?
Hell, looks like you arent even hiding your liberal bias anymore...lol.

They try to dig up some dirt on the republicans and the best they can do is writer Ann Coulter...come on, if thats the worst thing you can find about republicans....than you should look harder, I mean you already told us that they are all gay, but Ann coulter....who cares CBS, this is a Moveon.org story not a "respectable" news agency story...lol
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by bobgee_1999 November 2, 2006 9:50 AM PST
Interesting that you equate a U.S. senator exercising free speech with a political hack committing a felony. Incidentally, Fox is carrying the story too, does that make them liberally biased as well or just spin doctors for the GOP? And no, there are much worse things to report about the Repugnicans---but the AmPop has been asleep and hoodwinked for so long they don't really care anyway.
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by tkenny2 November 2, 2006 9:54 AM PST
Look up Ann Coulter in the dictionary and you will find the definition of the "C" word.....
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by remmeler November 2, 2006 9:57 AM PST
I hate her, but the authorities are making a mountain out of a molehill. It is possible that I could make the same mistake. In my county, I'm sure it would be caught because they look my name up on a list that they have. As long as there is no allegation that she voted more than once, they should agree to talk in person and to ease her fears of it being turned over to the press for political purposes because of the democrat that is looking into the charge. I think it was partly the county's fault for not catching the oversight.
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by rsoxfan1123 November 2, 2006 10:05 AM PST
Her and rush limbaugh need to get together. imagine the babies they'd create. Bill O'Reilly could deliver the child.
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by huskerarmy November 2, 2006 10:13 AM PST
So Angry(yes)Liberal(no),

Is Kerry the best rebutal you could come up with to Mark Foley and Rush Limbaugh?
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by blazercoach1 November 2, 2006 10:14 AM PST
Ann Coulter is about to hold a press conference in Seattle in which she will not apologize for voting illegally. What she meant to do was demonstrate a joke about how Democrats think you should be able to vote in Florida....early and often and anywhere you think your vote will have the greatest impact. She will blame this on those dispicable Democrats. She will point out that this is part of their typical ploy to change the subject from the issues that matter. She will state that the DA knows where she MEANT to vote. She will point out that they won't debate a real woman but only a straw woman.
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by grumpas November 2, 2006 10:16 AM PST
I guess it's a sign of times we are living in when a rude, foul-mouthed b.... is even taken seriously! I never could see what people derive from listening to this kind of slop? Other than to turn them into the same bitter, vicious kind of poor white trash she is! If they really enjoy this sort of venom daily! If they really believe all the lies that come out of that foul-mouth! I guess I always had more respect for myself than to be verbally beaten daily by the likes of her! The woman is an insult to civilized people's intelligence!
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by blazercoach1 November 2, 2006 10:21 AM PST
grumpas..what are your thoughts on Al Franken and his sordid network? Jon Stewart? Or are his fake stories ok just because he is funny? Should Ann Coulter instead try to emulate Nancy Pelosi or Hillary Clinton? Would that be ok with you?

I'm just wondering if you see this as a one-sided problem....
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by huskerarmy November 2, 2006 10:25 AM PST
"Jon Stewart? Or are his fake stories ok just because he is funny?"

Anyone with a half ounce of intelligence can watch the Daily Show and seperate fact from fiction. Fox on the otherhand, makes it very hard to tell.
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by huskerarmy November 2, 2006 10:33 AM PST
"As for comparing a misleading ad hawked by a celebrity to a senator dissing our military, well, as Ronnie would say..there you go again. What that shows is exactly where the liberal democrats stand on our military."

Then, asking the troops to lay down their lives for a lie and continuing to lie after the lies were exposed, pretending to support them while you underpay, under man, under equip them and ask them to do a job that you did not train them to do, pretending to care about them while simultaneously cutting funding for their healthcare when they get injured, bungling the planning and execution of the war and asking them to lay down their lives playing referee in a civil war, using this war as an opportunity to enrich yourselves and your friends with corrupt no-bid contracts and sending cronies to oversee the rebuilding, listening to pundits instead of the experts who told you that this would go exactly the way it has, pretending to know or even care what offends the troops and exploiting them for political gain and telling the troops they're coming home and keeping them there and or repeatedly sending them back says what about how much the GOP cares for the troops?
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by rsoxfan1123 November 2, 2006 10:35 AM PST
well said huskerarmy. you hit all of the nails right on the head.
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by morgansdg November 2, 2006 10:49 AM PST
I'm just curious. The article starts with "conservative columnist"...etc. Had this been, say, Maureen Dowd, would you have said "liberal columnist"? If Ann, or any other columnist made this error and is otherwise a legal voter, he/she should repent for the mistake, pay the fine and then everyone move on. If however this is a "witch hunt" because of Ann's conservative views, then shame on the prosecutors. Knowing of the crime situation in Palm Beach county, there are definitely bigger fish to fry.
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by adversario-2009 November 2, 2006 10:50 AM PST
Perhaps a reason that this story matters to some is the ruckus that many Republicans made in the last election regarding supposedly disproportionate Democratic voter fraud. Without backing it up, they accused (without backing it up) voters in Democratic (read: urban poor and minority) districts of voting in the wrong districts or voting more than once. In some cases they tried to place "poll-watchers" in these districts to perform some sort of vigilante policing of the other party's voters.

Personally, I have written off Ann Coulter as extreme to the point of being a disorder, so I don't really care. Anyone who routinely advocates things like "nuk[ing] North Korea right now just to give the rest of the world a warning," or "invad[ing] their countries, kill[ing] their leaders and convert[ing] them to Christianity," is someone whose opinion I am interested in only insofar as studying the minds of the deranged can often tell you something about the normal mind.

Blazer- Jon Stewart states openly and often that his show is "fake news." He claims only to be a comedian, (albeit a politically-charged one,) and not a source from which people should get the news. If Ann Coulter has made any such disclaimer, please inform me.
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by skalpakian November 2, 2006 10:50 AM PST
I'm no big fan of Coulter but I believe this is much ado about nothing. She didn't vote illegally (not registered, using false name, etc.) but voted legally but in the wrong precinct. Did she vote for someone that she was not allowed to vote for?

I really question Anderson's request that all communications be in writing, especially since he is the one speaking to the press.
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by clestes-2009 November 2, 2006 10:51 AM PST
Hummm, refuses to cooperate. This is going to be funny. I wonder what excuse she is going to come up with to blame others for her illegal activities. You know she will, of course. One of those poor excuses of a human being that can't accept responsibility for their actions.

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by huskerarmy November 2, 2006 10:53 AM PST
Ann Coulter once said, "My only regret about Timonthy McVey is that he didn't blow up the New York Times building."

So he killed the wrong people? She then accused the 911 widows for exploiting their husbands deaths for profit.

But hey righty, keep defending her and see how America responds come November 11.
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by nynative1340 November 2, 2006 10:54 AM PST
Ann Coulter, the goddess of hate, the alter-ego of Alan Colmes (in drag). The fake blond hair with the roots showing. Or is that her fried brains leaking out of her porous head?
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by bluestardad November 2, 2006 10:54 AM PST
Where is Mark Foley? Why is he not in Jail? He solicited underage children for fornication. Why has he not been charged? Why is he permitted to roam free after his 30 days in Rehab? Is there a different standard for child predators if they are from Congress? If he were on Dateline NBC he would have been arrested. Please let us know and take action, the American People are watching.
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by connapa November 2, 2006 10:56 AM PST
I don't know about you, but when I go to vote at my local polling place, they have a list of all officially registered voters, based on street addresses.
In order to vote, I need to show my driver's license, with the matching address, in order to vote in that specific district.
I guess, theoretically, you could own three houses near the intersections of three states and be registered in each of those districts (it would go to 4 if you lived near 4 corners national monument out in the west.) Unfortunately, I don't think that there is anything to stop you from doing that, since each state would have you registered in only one location per state. Unless states share voter registrationm information, there is nothing to stop you from doing that.
To quote the old saying, "Vote early and vote often."
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by jumkey November 2, 2006 10:59 AM PST
Much ado about nothing? Oh, I don't think so.

Coulter led the charge in 2000 berating all the Gore voters who had miscounted votes for being too "stupid" to know how to vote. Now that she's too stupid to vote, we're supposed to ignore it. Typical Republican hypocracy.

Or maybe there's more to it than that. Maybe it was actual fraud she was committing. Whatever, voting crimes are serious issues, and if she's guilty of illegally voting she should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
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by huskerarmy November 2, 2006 11:01 AM PST
CONNAPA,

Why load up buses and travel from state to state to vote when you can just hack the machines? If you want fair elections, ask the GOP majority why they won't let the bill requiring paper validation of electronic voting come up for a vote.
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by huskerarmy November 2, 2006 11:04 AM PST
"Coulter led the charge in 2000 berating all the (elderly) Gore voters who had miscounted votes for being too "stupid" to know how to vote. Now that she's too stupid to vote..."

Good point jumkey.
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by cathaleen November 2, 2006 11:06 AM PST
Why give her publicity? She loves all this attention and controversy. Why not just ignore her.
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by shingles1 November 2, 2006 11:07 AM PST
If ever a case called for waterboarding, this would be it.
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by adventurepa November 2, 2006 11:07 AM PST
Free speech allows idiots to voice there opinion even if we agree or disagree with what is said.
Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and the members of congress are all good examples.
The concern should be if it effect's us or not.
Such as laws or acts of vigilante policing or even religious doctrine based on opinion and not science or facts.
That should be the real concern.
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by tejasdemo November 2, 2006 11:12 AM PST
Her and Rush live in the same area. Probably see the same therapist and take the same drugs.

She is just another screwed up republican idiot trying to make a dollar anyway she can. No morals, no values, no conscious, no anything.
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by tricovb November 2, 2006 11:14 AM PST
I HOPE THIS DOES NOT END UP IN THE SAME CIRCULAR FILE IN THE PROSECUTORS OFFICE THAT THE "RUSH" DOPE BUY DID.

SEEMS TO ME THAT THESE TALKING HEADS SHOULD PAY THE SAME RESPECT TO THE LAW AS THE AVERAGE CITIZEN.

5 YRS IN THE CAN SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT FOR THIS HATE MONGER.

RICH HALL
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by processor2 November 2, 2006 11:23 AM PST
Just another attempt of liberals trying to suppress the opposition.

Liberals may preach tolerance & diversity, but they don't practice what they preach.

If you want to understand the definition of intolerance, all you have to do is disagree with a liberal, and then listen to the hatred spew.


example:

Yes, I'll listen to Rush Limbaugh; afterall, I don't want to close my mind to alternative ideas.
Is your mind open to alternative ideas,if so, listen to Rush.

.................
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by lewyoowy November 2, 2006 11:28 AM PST
Put that wacko in jail for something. Who cares what..just get her of the streets.

Coulter is the most vile vomit sack that ever lived, a thoroughly disgusting canker sore of puss. love to be locked in a room with her for couple days.

But the sad fact is......she will never even read my words
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by processor2 November 2, 2006 11:39 AM PST
Just another attempt of liberals trying to suppress the opposition.

Liberals may preach tolerance & diversity, but they don't practice what they preach.

If you want to understand the definition of intolerance, all you have to do is disagree with a liberal, and then listen to the hatred spew.


example:

Yes, I'll listen to Rush Limbaugh; afterall, I don't want to close my mind to alternative ideas.
Is your mind open to alternative ideas,if so, listen to Rush.

.................

another example:

the comment below this one

...............
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by fpaz8002 November 2, 2006 11:43 AM PST
So day people will understand the Laws of Cause and Effect. Whatever you do , comes back to you. We live in a world where the only thing some people do is try to destroy and try to make people fell that theyb are worthless if they don't think a certain way. You see them falling one by one, The Hammer among others. You can get away with it for a while, but it always comes back to you.
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by lewyoowy November 2, 2006 11:45 AM PST
processor2

I listen to Rush daily...I also listen to Public radio.
I watch Fox news and commentary...I also watch CBS, Cnn, CNBC and read the paper everyday. I have tried desperately to be fair.

But it always adds up the same......Rush and FOX are liars..haters...name-callers..and hypocrites
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by sangjmoon November 2, 2006 11:48 AM PST
We have bigger trouble getting people to vote at all, and this is what CBS concentrates on?
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