Kansas Rep. Steve Watkins Charged With Felonies Over Voter Registration At UPS Store

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Republican Rep. Steve Watkins faces multiple charges over registering to vote using the address of a UPS storefront. That allowed him to vote in a different city council district race — one that was decided by 13 votes.

Just weeks before his first primary to defend his congressional seat, U.S. Rep. Steve Watkins is facing multiple charges stemming from him registering to vote using the address of a UPS storefront.

on his voter registration. The congressman listed his official residence as a UPS Store in Topeka on a change-of-address form for voter registration in August 2019. Then, he signed an application for a mail-in ballot in October.

 

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Hyp0crltus But it's the Dems who want to commit voter fraud......

What? Another republican chested at voting? That’s impossible!! 🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨

zen4ever2us This is just how GOPs roll. LockEmAllUp

Is this voter fraud?

This is the 4th or 5th case of voter fraud this year and each time it's been the GOP that has committed voter fraud. For all their talk that TheDemocrats have been breaking the law only the Republicans have done so. The Democrats seem to be the ones fighting for voters only.

MAGA idiots: 'Well, that's because the DUMB-o-crats are too stupid to get caught! I mean, too smart to do it and always get caught! No, I mean, they don't cheat because they are so dumb, they always get caught! Right? Did that make sense?'

Oh look, it's another Republican involved in election fraud.

dismisstrump1 Don’t drop the soap in prison.

Lock him up !

VOTER FRAUD!

GOP will use their own instances of voter fraud to prove voter fraud is a thing.

Trump will pardon his criminal ass too.

Once again for the people in the back: BECAUSE THE GOP CAN’T WIN IF THEY DON’T CHEAT.

This guy is an absolute charlatan. This is one of many instances of his misconduct.

Maybe there should be Republican voter suppression this time around? Are they the new 'Welfare Queens?'

Isnt this what the democrats wanted?

GridironSchol91 You know ....Republican voter fraud Again

realDonaldTrump this one belongs to you

Every time I hear about voter fraud it is always some republican politician or someone doing it to benefit the republican party in some way.

GOP voter fraud. We saw that on N.C. 2018 mid terms too. TrumpIsANationalDisgrace

If he did that? How many others did too. He doesn’t look like the kind that acts on his own.

Oh come now, Republicans don't commit voter fraud.

A republican cheating Old news. They can’t win without cheating.

I thought only the Democrats can’t be trusted.

How very Republican Party of him.

Yeah GOP realDonaldTrump The election is going to be corrupted by Democrats and their mail in ballots. Yeah, right, I hear ya.

Oh no!!! U don’t say a government official caught doing something illegal? Say it ain’t so!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

This re enforce what we been hearing from Republicans, there is voter fraud, they know it, I see how they know, well they keep getting caught

Republican = cheater.

Lock him up

Uh oh....truth comes out!

That's what they've been doing and continue to do these people are criminals

I notice it’s always Republicans accusing Dems of voter fraud, when it’s typically the GOP types who are actually doing it. projection

Man...those Democrats and their voter fraud. Oh wait.

5thCircAppeals Another Republi-con.

I guess that's what's called 'taking one for the team' in the trump admin. Now SupremeLoser can boast that there is fraud.

“For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit” - Noam Chomsky

Lock him up

Another honest republican politician

Hey realDonaldTrump is this the voter fraud you are looking for

White privilage on display

It takes just 1 to ruin it for EVERYONE else!

The CrookedGOP is very good at VoterSupression and stealing elections RacistGOP VoteBlue2020

I'm beginning to notice a pattern

The GOP: Who needs a chicken in each pot?! We have lying, cheating, corruption, hypocrisy for every heart!

Republican voter fraud.

That's why all GOP screams voter fraud. What a POS representing American people

But, but, the democrats......

Voter fraud at an all time high, OR it’s always been this way and now they’re getting caught 🤔

Oh Republicans!

Suddenly there were no democrat cheats,only the letter R. Like a bunch of children(squirrel) 😂

Why is it, when I see the words 'voter fraud', I always think, 'Republican'?

Republicans.

Trump changed his home address to Mar-A-Largo which was stated to never be used as a home address for tax purposes. He moved from New York. Can’t vote in DC. If he votes is he committing fraud?

Finally. Trump's rampant voter fraud. A republican

He must step down! Corruption by the GOP this is what Trump is talking about! Fired!

Looks like realDonaldTrump was right all along about voter fraud - all republicans

BUSTED!!!!!!!!!

Sounds like the Preston Sturgis movie. The Great McGinty! Where people were paid to vote often as other people!

If there is voter fraud - it usually is a republican - because the party ONLY cares about winning

But there isn't any voter fraud.. .

CorruptGOP Rethuglicans theycantwinunlesstheycheat VoteThemAllOut2020

cheaters gonna cheat

Wait ?! Tell me again who’s cheating on elections! A republican?! Lmao

Sounds like a wannabe 'mini-trump' in the making. He has all the qualifications (money from daddy, whiteness maleness, arrogance, feigned ignorance of intentional actions)

mydoggyruss ALWAYS THE REPUBLICANS!!!! They are always the ones cheating the vote!! Because it's the only way they can win!!!!! TRUMPUBLICANS ARE THE LYING,CHEATING VOTERS OUT THERE!! BEWARE! realDonaldTrump EricTrump DonaldJTrumpJr

The crooked Trumpublicans are everywhere!!! Trump needs to look into his own party if he is concerned about voter fraud.

Last two prominent cases of voter fraud ... 1. North Carolina (Republican) 2. Kansas (Republican)

Did I hear him say Pardon?

Shady👿

Lock him up!!

Arrest him.

Vote early and often

But those radical leftist with their voting fraud.

Well, there are unsavory creeps on both sides. Did you think only republicans were dishonest? Believe me, there are too many on both sides. You can stop patting yourself on your back.

chadloder And this is why Republicans think everybody else cheats because they are a hollowed-out party of cheaters and thieves and Trump enablers

reghud GOP realDonaldTrump here’s that voter fraud you’re always accusing Democrats of.

mollypitzer

And no stories about the many democrats arrested for fraud, mail fraud, voting the dead, dead cats, or 6 people in a 1person household? CorruptMedia DefundNPR

reghud This is why the GOP is so convinced there's an epidemic of voter fraud: because it's always THEM DOING IT!

Thank goodness, he didn't use mail-in ballots.

Cheating seems a way of life for the GOP these days.

Lol party of law and order

More Republicans trying to cheat with mail in voting and getting caught. Seems like it’s pretty secure to me.

Another example of Republican voter fraud and yet they continue to wring their hands about Democrats.

Republicans afraid of voter fraud : it takes one to know one

See, it doesn’t require mail in voting to cheat!

Now we know who’s really cheating. It’s not real Americans, not Democrats, but GOP Like the Postal Worker, POTUS PressSec Fraud? Only on the Right. Conmen know to blame opponents first of your own crimes, before you get caught. Naive & gullible fall for this con.

realDonaldTrump

Well look at that. Voter Fraud.

This is what VoterFraud looks like GOP

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'... then the general election with the help of advertising funding from his father.' Yet another self made politician gets voted in office with help from Daddy only to use his privilege to screw up so Daddy can bail him out.

ProfGWhiz It's as if Republicans do this so they can claim voter fraud to curtail voting rights when it's mostly just them.

Lol... when they don’t think we notice

The GOP platform for 2020: Fear, hate, racism, and lies. They could have gone with: incompetence, ignorance, and corruption, but it didn’t poll as well.

romania007 Of course he’s a Republican

The GOP keeps on winning!

Presidential pardon and a new AUSA are forthcoming, I’m sure.

Damn liberals and their mail in voting scams

Another case of Republican voter fraud.

No, not a Republican... Bad career move

It’s a damn shame that we don’t have PaulDavisKS in that seat... 😭😭😭

Lock him up!

Conservatives: THERE'S SO MUCH LIBERAL VOTER FRAUD OUT THERE! THEY'RE CHEATING!! Also conservatives: So if i file that as my address i can voter fraud and no one will know? Also conservatives: LIBERALS ARE STEALING THE NEXT ELECTION!!!!!!

I guess that’s why republicans are so convinced there’s voter fraud - they seem to be the ones doing it

They have no shame but accuse everyone else of cheating

This makes liberals want capital punishment back

Not really sure how he even got elected. Who doesn’t understand the difference between mailing address and living address?

Am I wrong, or has every election fraud in the past 4 years been perpetrated by Republicans?

Let the cheating begin

It's the only way they can win! Cheat, steal, voter suppression.

realDonaldTrump yeah it was the mailman. Right.

globalcitizenln Jeeze. Criminal defendants used to do that when I worked for Adult Probation. Loser move

Here’s all that voter fraud I keep hearing about

Huh. Actual voter fraud. How long shall we wait for other Republicans to clutch their pearls over this?

The rabbit hole runs deep.

Republicans cheating while accusing others of the same. Who’d have thunk it?

Gdad1 But I thought only Democrats are guilty of voter fraud

His new outfit will match Trump. Orange jumpsuit.

realDonaldTrump we found the voting fraud you’ve been warning us about!

Republicans will argue that in this case, it’s not voter fraud.

I live in NC. We had widespread Republican voter fraud here last year. You know what’s funny about cheaters? They all think the other side is cheating, too. That’s how they justify it to themselves.

How much do you want to bet that this dude accused Democrats of voter fraud.

So that's why Republicans are apposed to mail in vote? Because they want the loopholes for themselves?

I'm shocked. /s

Ohhhh more hypocrisy. Cool.

Resign.

I sense a Trump pardon coming.

To recap: - NC Republican gathers mail-in ballots from a heavily Democratic area & destroys them - WV Republican mailman changes Democrat ballot requests to Republican - Republican CONGRESSMAN commits voter fraud to vote in an election he was ineligible for I see a pattern...🤔

Trumps voter fraud guy

Men’s bathrooms and voter booths, Republicans just can’t handle them.

Voter fraud? It is always Republicans

I’m waiting for this:🍿🍿🍿

Voter ID.

Republicans are now synonymous with corruption and fraud. What a fall for the GOP.

THEY are always cheating!

Every time that I read about actual (as opposed to hypothetical) voter fraud it's always politicians, republicans at that, committing such acts.

Lock him up

GOP gonna GOP

Wow, it's like the entire party is just one big projection.

While your here, support Michelle4Kansas !!

another example that the GOP has to cheat to win.

But Trump will keep saying 'Democrats are trying to commit voter fraud!!!' before mailing in his ballot.

Lock him up !

Better check someone who has a palacial home in NJ but is registered in NY. All a game and we're being played

What's this?!? He's an R? That's so...sooo...expected.

they project their crimes unto others....

More Republican voter fraud, interesting

Another republican felon

Voter fraud once again by a Republican. Amazing.

First term congressman, world class conman.

isn't that called voter fraud? and is a felony? and should result in them losing their position?

This is why the should not let political parties get involved in politics

We’ve found the voter fraud, Mr. President. It’s a republican. Again.

I have seen the voter fraud, and it is on the right!!!

It's gonna be funny as shit if he was someone who advocated for harsh sentencing for this sort of occasion.

Wow. Just wow

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