McALLEN — A grand jury’s indictment of 10 people Wednesday, on charges related to a voting fraud probe of absentee ballots cast in the May city elections in McAllen and La Joya, may not be the final word on the investigation into this year’s elections.
"We haven’t finished with all of the complaints from the May elections. We still have some pending," Hidalgo County elections administrator Teresa Navarro said. "I can’t say if a new grand jury won’t have something to continue in January. It’s a possibility."
Navarro declined to say which additional elections are in question, but she said there are other irregularities with the La Joya city election that appear to be unrelated to Wednesday’s indictment of La Joya city secretary Julianita R. Sabala.
Sabala faces one count of tampering with a governmental record, after the grand jury found she had signed her daughter’s name to an application for a mail-in ballot.
Two of the mail-in ballots the ballot board rejected in the La Joya city election belonged to William R. Leo Jr., 24, and Leticia Leo, 22, son and daughter of La Joya Mayor Billy Leo, whose reputation for controlling the western Hidalgo County political machine has become local legend.
Navarro said questions arose around the Leo children’s mail-in ballots when the individual signatures on each of their mail-in ballot applications were compared with the signature on the carrier envelope.
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