COMPLAINT
TO:
Robert Clark Corrente
District of
50 Kennedy Plaza, 8th Floor
Complaint
by
IN REGARDS
TO: Candidates, Elections and Voter Fraud in
COMPLAINT
Comes now the undersigned candidates and voters of the Providence Eighth Ward who ask the US Attorney to consider this along with a complaint previously filed by Wilbur W. Jennings Jr., and David B. Talan jointly and separately, both in their official capacity as Republican and Democratic ward chairmen and as individual registered voters.
I. MAYORAL ABUSE OF
OFFICE
1. Mayor David
N. Cicilline openly recruited Tejada to make a last minute “move” to Ward 8 and
file for the city council race.
Once he announced for the race, Cicilline openly endorsed and supported
him over the endorsed choice of the Ward 8 Democratic Committee and the other
three candidates in the race with deep roots in the ward. These candidates, at least the ones most
likely to win had all made it clear that if elected they would support John
Lombardi as Providence City Council President.
2. Council President John J. Lombardi, President Pro Tem Balbina A. Young, Majority Leader Luis A. Aponte, and council members Miguel C. Luna, Patrick K. Butler and Rita M. Williams have said publicly that Cicilline and Democratic city chairwoman Joan Badway actively recruited candidates, salted the ward committees to deny endorsement and actively campaigned against them. Cicilline wanted control of the Council they had said.
3. Without Tejada winning, Cicilline has no chance to control the city council.
4. Mayor
Cicilline knows that Tejada does not live in the ward as Cicilline director of
neighborhood services, Gonzalo Cuervo is also Tejada’s campaign manager (also
now his treasurer) and actively controls the campaign. Tejada used Cicilline’s campaign
headquarters and phone bank.
Mayoral office personnel actively assisted Tejada in his GOTV effort
during the primary. Cicilline
recruited Tejada, then endorsed him, supported him, and appeared with him in the
neighborhood on a number of occasions.
It is unreasonable to believe that they do not know that Tejada does not
live at
5. Mayor Cicilline refuses to acknowledge the allegations above, and continues to support an illegal candidate in order to control the city council.
6. Complainants allege that there is an enterprise as defined in the U.S. Code 18, Section 1961(4), that there may be predicate crimes involved, that they believe this behavior can influence interstate commerce, and that this pattern is ongoing.
II.
VOTER MACHINE FRAUD
7. During the Primary, disenfranchisement occurred due to voting machines and administrative error. Not one of the voting machines in Ward 8 had a tally count that matched the number of people who actually voted. Many ballots forced to vote provisionally were not counted. Other ballots were voted at city hall by poll workers, yet disappeared. Some mail ballots were picked up but not delivered to the Board of Elections, then two weeks after the election, during a hearing on the ward 8 election, the Board found missing ballots, somehow, AFTER the fact.
8. According to Attorney Keven McKenna during the hearings, the only quick and reasonable safeguard against ballot stuffing is to subtract the number of ballots remaining unused from the total ballots delivered to a polling place. That difference MUST equal the number of ballots voted on the machine. Instead the unused ballots were destroyed immediately by the private contractor handling the election machines before they could be counted. The Board of Elections refused to hand count even a small sample and instead relied on machine counts that did not match the number of voters in EVERY precinct in ward 8.
Wherefore:
Complainants request the US Attorney and FBI investigate their complaint, and review if there are "predicate acts" for the purposes of RICO or other actionable offenses involved that are actionable by the US Attorney in the interests of justice.
Complainants request such action as the US Attorney finds
just and meet to protect their rights and franchise to hold elections in the
8th ward of this municipal corporation called
Complainants request that the US Attorney enforce election law, and/or take such steps as needed to ensure that a candidate must reside in the 8th Ward to run for office there, and if necessary compel state officials to take action and remove the unqualified Mayor- endorsed and mayor-supported candidate from the race.
Complainants request the US Attorney oversee the election in the 8th Ward to ensure there is not a repeat of the Primary results where disenfranchisement occurred in every precinct.
Complainants request the US Attorney have the FBI investigate all voters who allegedly migrated from the 9th to the 8th ward since Tejada announced for office, and that they be charged appropriately if they do not legitimately live in the 8th Ward.
Complainants request such other action as the US Attorney finds just and meet.
Signed and Dated this _____ of November, 2006
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