Texas sheriff won't investigate voter fraud allegations against Democrat candidate leveled in police bodycam video



A Texas sheriff won't investigate voter fraud allegations against a Democrat candidate for county judge that were leveled during a bodycam conversation between a Fort Worth police officer and a homeless man who had been arrested for voter fraud.

What are the details?

The Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office said because Democrat candidate Deborah Peoples is at the center of the allegations, and Sheriff Bill Waybourn already endorsed her Republican opponent Tim O’Hare — as well as other GOP candidates — Waybourn said it would be “inappropriate” for the sheriff’s office to investigate the matter, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported, citing a Monday evening press release.

Instead the sheriff’s office will pass the information to the state attorney general’s office, the Star-Telegram said, adding that representatives for Waybourn didn’t immediately respond to the paper's request for comment.

Conservative news website Gateway Pundit said it obtained the bodycam video dated Jan. 3, 2020 through open records requests. The outlet then included the video as part of a story earlier this month claiming Peoples engaged in ballot harvesting. In the video, the homeless man — Charles Jackson — tells the officer that Peoples paid him to help with that task, the Star-Telegram reported.

Here's a transcript of part of the conversation from the bodycam video in question:

JACKSON: "Each time I get someone to sign they gave me $200."
OFFICER: "To sign the absentee ballot?"
JACKSON: "Yeah, but that wasn't easy though ... those people were 65 and older you know ..."
OFFICER: "How many people you get to sign?"
JACKSON: "One day I got like $1,200 ... in like four hours ..."
OFFICER: "Did you fill out anything, or you have them fill it out?"
JACKSON: "No ... I filled it out while I was talking to them, and then ... let them sign it."
OFFICER: "So you voted everyone for them?"
JACKSON: "Yeah, yeah pretty much. You know, once you vote one just vote all Democrats ... and they wasn't intending to do that. Kind of leading 'em like ..."
OFFICER: "... Were you telling 'em you were doing that?"
JACKSON: "No, I was told to tell them what I told them."
OFFICER: "What would you tell them ... I mean, how would you get them to sign?"

Jackson then explains to the officer that he was told to tell his targets he was checking to see if their information in the system was correct, according to the video.

JACKSON: They said, 'Yeah,' and I said, 'Well, sign if it's correct.' Once it's signed, they voted ..."
OFFICER: “Dang. So was that paper ballot or on the computer?”
JACKSON: “Both ... I had a tablet, and I had paper as well.”

Jackson then tells the officer he earned between $900 and $1,200 a week for about six months through his activities, according to the video.

Now what?

The Tarrant County GOP addressed the controversy Sept. 16:

\u201cTarrant County Republican Chairman @rbarnesGOP statement regarding voter fraud and the connection to Deborah Peoples.\n\n#Tarrant #TarrantCounty #TarrantGOP #GOP #VoteRepublican\u201d
— Tarrant County Republican Party (@Tarrant County Republican Party) 1663331430

"In the video the individual explained to a police officer that Ms. Peoples directed him to target the elderly, steal their votes, and harvest those votes for specific candidates in the 2016 election," the statement from the Tarrant County GOP reads.

How did Peoples, other Democrats respond?

Peoples said last week Republicans were “disrespecting voters by leaning on false information from an outlet famous for spreading lies to serve an extreme agenda," the Star-Telegram reported.

Tarrant County Democratic chair Allison Campolo said "voters are ready for candidates who run professional campaigns and don’t resort to these gossip tactics while spreading wild, unsupported claims. We are glad to see the Sheriff’s office agrees. ..." the paper noted.

Campolo added to the Star-Telegram that Democrats welcome investigations into the “patently false” claims.

“We know what the sheriff’s investigation will find, which is that no fraud occurred, and Tarrant Republicans used an extremely right-wing source of misinformation to spread this lie,” Campolo noted, according to the paper. “When the sheriff’s office is prepared to formally expose this lie for what it is, we are ready to share their findings.”

Representatives from the attorney general’s office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment, the Star-Telegram said, adding that Peoples didn’t immediately respond to a phone call and text for comment.

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Glenn Beck: Biden set to ‘embolden’ drug cartels and fentanyl deaths in May

DPS has already seized enough fentanyl to kill every man, woman and child in America

Fentanyl. It’s become a word that sets off goosebumps down the back of your neck the instant it leaves someone’s mouth due to its aggressive developing association with drug cartels, violence, addiction, overdoses, and death.

Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn is all too familiar with the destruction that is fentanyl – in the Dallas/Fort Worth area alone, the narcotics teams have seized enough of the drug to give almost 800,000 people fatal doses, he says, while on the Texas border, DPS has seized enough fentanyl to kill every man, woman and child in America. These seizures are roughly estimated as being only a third of what gets to the border, with two-thirds of the drug actually making it across the border.

Fentanyl’s massive rise can be partly attributed to how cheap this synthetic heroin is, along with it’s being exponentially more addictive than its natural counterpart. Its distribution is also indiscriminate, hitting gated communities, at-risk areas, cities, suburbs – there is no one area it impacts more or less.

“We’re losing, at my last briefing, about 300 people a day. A jumbo jet a day of people going down, and dying from fentanyl. And often they’re first-time users,” Waybourn told Glenn Beck on his program this week.

“Fentanyl is going to be crack on triple steroids because there’s no room for error,” Waybourn added. “We believe that four out of 10 pills could be fatal.”

The other issue directing the massive influx of fentanyl is in its distribution. Waybourn explains that they believe the cartels use major highways to get to their hubs in Texas, which are Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston, then split off from there across the country. While some is said to come directly from China into the United States, the main course of entry is through the cartel routes in Mexico to take advantage of America's open border, an easy path for entry. The open border has incredibly empowered the drug cartels, adds Waybourn.

Title 42, the order created during the COVID-19 “pandemic-era”, allowed U.S. border officials to turn migrants away from the border, and back to their home countries. President Joe Biden is set to revoke Title 42 in May, but there are many who are opposed to this move which would open the border up even more, including Sheriff Waybourn.

“[Title 42] is the last arrow in our quiver,” said Waybourn. “I think that that will embolden them ... we will see more dope, more human trafficking, absolutely overwhelming our border counties.”

Watch this incredibly important interview in full below. Can’t watch? Download the podcast here.

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