This one's for you *****!

[reni]

Tiffany Edwards Hunt has been charged with voter fraud, according to the office of the Hawai’i County Prosecuting Attorney.

http://bigislandnow.com/2016/02/24/voter...candidate/

[pohaku_uli]

Auwe! must be an election year....

[leilanidude]

That sure took a long time! I have a renewed faith in the system now.

[Punatic007]

Geez, the maximum is pretty harsh for little 'ole Pahoa, out here in the middle of nowhere.

Hopefully she gets off with a slap on the wrist. If she owns the building in Pahoa which technically is a converted house, I can see the where she made the jump in judgment. Too bad, she seemed to have good intentions.

Doesn't surprise me though, government scamming is a way of life with too many here i.e. the lifetime food stamp entitlement mentality. Not saying Tiffany gets food stamps, I don't know, but it sure is a prevalent mentality around here.

[Frank]

"If she owns the building in Pahoa which technically is a converted house, I can see the where she made the jump in judgment."

i can't see it...this scam = class C felony and it's not to harsh

[leilanidude]

If she owns the building in Pahoa which technically is a converted house,
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"She" doesn't own it according to the public tax records...

15-2883 Pahoa Village Road
Pahoa, Hawaii 96778

http://qpublic9.qpublic.net/hi_hawaii_di...0110100000

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

"If she owns the building
...
"She" doesn't own it according to the public tax records...

You don't have to own a building to vote in a particular district, for instance renters vote. You do have to live there, however.

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." -Annie Dillard

[Chunkster]

There were also allegations of tax violations, i.e., claiming owner-occupancy for a home while living elsewhere. That might have been resolved by simply paying the tax differential with penalty and interest. A Class C Felony for voting fraud would seem to be a much bigger problem. As I understand it, the period in question was not when Edwards Hunt was running for the council. That begs the question of why it was so important to be registered in a district in which she didn't live. Any ideas?

[Punatic007]

Any ideas?

Much of modern Puna was built by illegal Marijuana growers who had/have a penchant for welfare scamming. As if that gave them a legitimate alibi for not working while being busy growing and smuggling weed? What's next on that list?

It takes a criminal mentality to grow pot when it is illegal with felony consequences. Sorry to those who disagree with this reality.

I'm not insinuating Tiffany grew weed, I don't know. I'm simply commenting on a mentality that ran Puna for a long time.

[damien007]

Moral of the story: "what comes around, goes around" let it be known!