Should voters in Montgomery or Harris County-area districts gird their loins for subsequent prosecutions for not having a residence in the district? On May 23, 2014 The Courier of Montgomery County reported the sentencing of Adrian Heath to three years in prison and a $10,000 fine after a Montgomery County jury convicted him of “knowingly” voting in the May 8, 2010 election of The Woodlands Road Utility District Board of Directors.
Heath changed his residential address to 9333 Six Pines Drive –the location of The Residence Inn:
From The Courier of Montgomery County:
After being found guilty of voter fraud late last year, Adrian David Heath was sentenced Wednesday to three years behind bars and fined $10,000.
Also sentenced were Sybil Doyle and her daughter, Roberta Cook. Each received a three-year sentence, probation for five years and a $5,000 fine. Doyle and Cook were convicted of voter fraud April 1.
Heath, Doyle and Cook all changed their residential addresses to 9333 Six Pines Drive – the location of a Residence Inn in The Woodlands – to vote in the 2010 RUD election. They won by a 10-2 margin, but that election was overturned by the incumbents in a lawsuit
Heath, a resident of The Woodlands, was convicted of illegal voting Nov. 1. The jury decided Heath, 56, knowingly voted in the May 8, 2010, election of the RUD Board of Directors despite not having permanent residence in the district.
Has The Courier failed to pay its Internet service bill? Why didn’t they use their “pen and phone” to contact Congressman Kevin Brady—or former State Senator Tommy Williams for a fact-check?
A simple Yahoo! search with the keywords The Woodlands RUD, Adrian Heath returned, in the second search result, a link to this BJP story where I wrote “according to HB 879, the Texas Secretary of State was authorized to omit the term “permanent” on an official voter registration application”:
Ironically, 1991 was also the year Steve Ogden authored HB 879, removing the word “permanent” from residence address on a voter registration application. Section 3 (b) of HB 879 reads:
“The Secretary of State shall omit the term “permanent” preceding the term “residence address” on an official voter registration application form that is prescribed on or after the effective date of this Act.”
But I digress.
My original question was “should voters in Montgomery or Harris County-area districts gird their loins for subsequent prosecutions for not having a residence in the district?”
Surely someone wants to press charges against the individual who voted in the 11/06/2012 Conroe ISD and Montgomery County elections for using 9333 Six Pines Drive as his address –the same street address Heath used.
Will the individual who voted in the 11/2/2010 Conroe ISD Trustee election be prosecuted for “knowingly” using a one-acre tract of land with a property address on Sawdust Road, Spring, TX as his “residence”? This individual has a homestead exemption at an address in the Harris County section of Tomball in Klein ISD.
How about prosecuting the woman who voted in the 11/6/2012 Conroe ISD election for “knowingly” using a 7.5 acre tract of land with a property address on Robinson Road in Conroe as her residence?
Perhaps a prosecution of the man who voted in the 11/6/2012 Conroe ISD election using a Rayford Road, Spring address as his “residence” might be forthcoming. Harris County Appraisal District records reflect taxing authority on his single family home in Klein ISD.
It is not a “scheme” or “conspiracy” for citizens of the United States to petition their government for redress through legal means at the voting booth or running for elected office—and I am HIGHLY doubtful that Jim Jenkins, Adrian Heath and The Woodlands RUD voters “knowingly” violated Texas law prior to voting in the 2010 Woodlands RUD election.
BTW — Jenkins v. State, No. 14-13-00662-CR was set for oral argument on Wednesday, May 21, 2014 at 1:30 p.m.—stay tuned.
Adrian Heath says
There is now a useful Official Quotes page related to the RUD defendants
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