We’ve covered the proliferation of voter fraud via the work of politiqueras for several months, now, including the on-camera description of “vote harvesting” from an Alice, Texas, woman accused  of carrying the ballots of others.

The practice of filling out absentee ballots for others without signing as a witness or through pulling the ballot from the voter’s mailbox and filling it out without their knowledge has plagued elections in South Texas for years, but even a conviction for such a misdemeanor offense means little more than an adjudicated sentence and some community service.

In South Carolina, a single voter went to the polls in Dillon County last month and found that someone had filled out an absentee ballot for her. She alleged voter fraud. A political action committee is offering a $10,000 reward to anyone providing information leading to a voter fraud conviction, the WBTW TV station reports.

"The reward offer came after PAC members said they have been told someone was trying to buy votes for certain candidates to help them win their respective elections in the June 8 primary, said Bo McInnis, PAC co-chairman.”

It’s an interesting notion, this reward. We have not heard of citizens taking matters into their own hands like this in Texas, but it might be a partial answer to the problem here, considering the number of complaints we have heard about vote harvesting in South Texas.

Contact Steve Miller at 832-303-9420 or stevemiller@texaswatchdog.org.