Jose Barrientos, Person of Interest in West Dallas Vote Fraud Investigation, Says He Isn't That Jose
The whole thing, Jose Barrientos says, comes down to his running his mouth. If he hadn't shot off about how someone could go about stealing the election for Dallas City Council District 6, he says, he wouldn't be in the trouble he is now.
But he did tell Sidney Williams, another hanger-on of Dallas' political periphery, about stealing votes from incumbent City Council member Monica Alonzo with help from some harvested absentee ballots. Barrientos didn't know that Williams was recording the conversation on his Pleasant Grove porch.
"I know it doesn't look right, but it's just bullshitting," Barrientos told the Dallas Observer. "If the investigators do their job, I'll be cleared."
Barrientos, according to Williams, is Jose Rodriguez, the shadowy figure who helped request about 700 ballots that were impounded by the county on Election Day. Williams, according to the Dallas County District Attorney's Office, is also a person of interest in the investigation.
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