Oklahoma City Manager Arrested on 11 Felony Voter Fraud Charges After Falsifying Registration Applications With Other People’s Names

The city manager of a tiny Oklahoma town has been arrested and charged with 11 felony counts of voter registration fraud after investigators say she submitted applications using other people’s names and forged their signatures.

Shonda Lou Barnes, city manager for the Town of Mannsville in Johnston County, was taken into custody at her home Monday afternoon on a warrant charging her with 11 counts of false affidavit in voter registration. She was booked into the Johnston County Jail, KXII reported.

The Johnston County Election Board flagged the applications in late May.

The forms had been submitted from the Mannsville area just before the voter registration deadline so the names could vote in the June primary.

Investigators found multiple applications bearing matching signatures that did not belong to the people whose names were on the forms. Authorities then traced those applications to Barnes.

Johnston County Sheriff Gary W. Dodd did not mince words:

“As one of Oklahoma’s 77 constitutionally elected sheriffs, it is our duty and the duty of every Sheriff’s Office in this State to protect the integrity of our elections — one of the most sacred rights of citizens of this country.”

This is not some abstract “voting irregularity.” This is a sitting city official allegedly manufacturing voters by stealing identities and forging signatures so those names could participate in a primary election.

And it is not Barnes’ first tangle with public money and public records.

In 2017, while serving as Mannsville town treasurer, Barnes was charged with felony embezzlement after a state audit found nearly $80,000 in mismanaged funds between 2011 and 2015. Court documents at the time alleged she obtained a state grant under false pretenses.

The same audit documented unauthorized overtime, scrap-metal sales with no deposits, an unauthorized inmate commissary fund, unsupported food purchases, and missing receipts. Her nephew was serving as fire chief during part of that period.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/oklahoma-city-manager-arrested-11-felony-voter-fraud/

Appeals Court Restores Bowe Bergdahl’s Desertion Conviction — Rules Federal Judge Had No Authority to Erase Court-Martial Judgment

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Tuesday that a federal district court had no authority to overturn former Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s military conviction for desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.

Remember Bowe Bergdahl?

He’s the Army soldier who walked off his post in Afghanistan in 2009, left his brothers in a war zone, and triggered a desperate search that cost American lives.

Bergdahl abandoned his post in Afghanistan on June 29, 2009, without authorization. He was subsequently captured by the Taliban-linked Haqqani network and held for nearly five years.

His disappearance triggered a massive search-and-rescue operation that placed other American service members in danger and resulted in several injuries, according to the court.

The six U.S. Army soldiers commonly cited as having died during operations allegedly connected to the search for Bowe Bergdahl were:

Staff Sgt. Clayton P. Bowen

Pfc. Morris L. Walker

Staff Sgt. Kurt R. Curtiss

2nd Lt. Darryn D. Andrews

Pfc. Matthew M. Martinek

Staff Sgt. Michael C. Murphrey

In 2014, Barack Obama approved an outrageous prisoner exchange that released five Taliban detainees from Guantanamo Bay in return for Bergdahl. Obama then staged a celebratory Rose Garden appearance with Bergdahl’s parents.

Bergdahl ultimately pleaded guilty in October 2017 to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.

Military prosecutors requested a 14-year prison sentence. Instead, military judge Col. Jeffrey Nance sentenced Bergdahl to a dishonorable discharge, reduction to the Army’s lowest enlisted rank, and forfeiture of $10,000, without a single day in prison.

President Trump blasted that lenient punishment as a “complete and total disgrace to our Country and to our Military,” as The Gateway Pundit reported.

In 2023, Judge Walton vacated the conviction after concluding that Nance should have disclosed his application for a Justice Department immigration-judge position. Nance had submitted his ruling rejecting one of Bergdahl’s claims as the sole writing sample accompanying that application.

But the D.C. Circuit did not decide whether Nance’s undisclosed application created an appearance of bias. Instead, it ruled that Walton never possessed jurisdiction to vacate the military judgment in the first place.

Bergdahl had already pursued his case through the Army Court of Criminal Appeals and the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. Both military appellate courts upheld the conviction.

He then attempted to use a civilian district court to obtain what amounted to another direct appeal.

On Tuesday, the D.C. Circuit finally put an end to Bergdahl’s latest legal stunt.

A three-judge panel ruled that federal district courts have no authority to vacate a military court-martial judgment. Senior U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton’s 2023 order wiping out Bergdahl’s conviction is vacated. The case goes back to Walton with orders to dismiss it for lack of jurisdiction.

Bergdahl’s military conviction for desertion and misbehavior before the enemy stands.

Circuit Judge Robert Wilkins wrote the opinion. Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan and Judge Gregory Katsas joined. Wilkins put it in plain English:

“Because Bergdahl seeks to have his court-martial conviction declared expunged and without effect … he effectively asked the District Court to vacate the military judgment. However, the authority to vacate a court-martial judgment belongs to tribunals exercising direct appellate review, not district courts conducting collateral review.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/appeals-court-restores-bowe-bergdahls-desertion-conviction-rules/

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Truth be told, most all of USA is run by puppet picks by ("elected" officials) who are allowed to operate at the consent of the local mafia.

The same can be said for the EU and much of the world