[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 15 (Tuesday, February 22, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: February 22, 1994]
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      RACE-BASED VOTER FRAUD IN PENNSYLVANIA STATE SENATE ELECTION

  (Mr. WELDON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WELDON. Mr. Speaker, with all the furor over Ed Rollins and the 
unsubstantiated allegations of electoral shenanigans, I thought our 
colleagues might be interested to learn that the only proven case of 
race-based voter fraud in America last year occurred in the 
Pennsylvania State Senate election in Philadelphia.
  The word from the court has come down, and its results are explosive. 
A Federal district court ordered the results of the election 
overturned. The judge found that the campaign of Democrat Bill Stinson 
engaged in massive ballot fraud, deception, intimidation, harassment, 
and forgery.
  In fact, the judge ruled that Stinson and his Democrat party hacks 
had stolen the election by misleading Latino Americans into filing 
hundreds of fraudulent absentee ballots.
  The judge ruled that Republican Bruce Marks be declared the winner, 
and seated in the State senate today, giving Republicans control of 
that body.
  Unlike the Rollins fiasco, this is real life, not just the self-
congratulatory musings of a victorious consultant. Bill Stinson and his 
cronies deliberately duped Philadelphia Latinos in order to further 
their own political careers.
  The smell of rank corruption is heavy in the air. It might be nice if 
even a few of those who were so outraged by the Rollins allegations 
were to stand up today and applaud the courageous decision of Judge 
Clarence Newcomber. He found the facts, he applied the law, he brought 
justice at last to this tawdry tale.

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