Politiquieras

What a great word. It's made up, political (prefix) + anytime. Sounds like quieres, wants. Wikipedia, the only fast definition, says, "in the USA is an individual who is paid for by an election campaign to knock on doors to issue fliers and encourage people to get out and vote in favour of the candidate. Candidates who generally lack the grass root volunteers who normally do this job, resort to politiqueras to achieve the goal. Use of politiqueras in southern regions of Texas during the democratic primary on March 4, 2008 by Hillary Clinton campaign is one such example."

Oh, is that all they do? Nice deflective defensive rearguard action there too. Deft. If that's all that happened then fine. Goodbye, have a nice day.

Except the number of registered voters exceeds the number of legal-age eligible residents. American Civil Rights Union sued to clean up dirty rolls while Battleground Texas were inflating voter rolls in advance of 2016 election. NPR (the radio station we keep saying we can do without) exposed FBI investigation into fraud in the region including the widespread use of politiquieras to gather mail-in ballots and pay people to vote.

Justice Department convicted more people in 2013 in South Texas than in any other region. One of the practices looked at is vote-stealing.

It's a time-honored tradition down in the land of grapefruit orchards and Border Patrol checkpoints. If a local candidate needs dependable votes, he or she goes to a politiquera.

In the town of Donna, NPR reported, “five politiqueras pleaded guilty to election fraud. Voters were bribed with cigarettes, beer or dime bags of cocaine. In neighboring Cameron County, nine politiqueras were charged with manipulating mail-in ballots.”

A Republican is dogging a Democrat from the area to confess his association with this practice.

The NPR report prompted Republican Party of Texas chairman Tom Mechler to state that Texas Democratic Party chairman Gilberto Hinojosa “needs to come clean with the people of Texas" about whether he "personally participated in the corrupt practice of using politiqueras to commit voter fraud,” according to the Houston Chronicle.

American Thinker, Robert Knight