Tag Archives: election fraud

Ex-WI Election Official Found Guilty Of Ballot Fraud

Wisconsin Public Radio reports: A Milwaukee County jury found a former election official guilty of election fraud involving absentee ballots Wednesday afternoon. Kimberly Zapata, the former deputy director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, was also found guilty of misconduct in public office, a felony, after she admitted to using fake names to request military absentee ballots on her work laptop …

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Kansas Charges No Labels Worker With Election Fraud

Topeka’s NBC affiliate reports: A man arrested in Florida is at the center of an election fraud case involving a newly approved political party in the state of Kansas. The office of the Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach [photo] issued a press release on Monday, Feb. 19 regarding the arrest of a 30-year-old man hailing from Dade City, Florida. This …

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Source Ratted Out Cultists In Michigan Tampering Probe

Bridge Michigan reports: A private investigator retained by Stefanie Lambert and Matt DePerno [photo] later cooperated with authorities and testified before a grand jury that indicted the pair for their role in an alleged voting machine tampering scheme, according to new court records. Recent disclosures in the high-profile case also reveal a secret informant shared additional information with Special Prosecutor …

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Wisconsin Republican Charged With Election Fraud

Milwaukee’s ABC affiliate reports: Waukesha County prosecutors have charged a former Hartland Lakeside school board member with election fraud. John Harter, 28, faces three misdemeanor charges. Investigators say Harter didn’t list his own address when running for office but used his father’s residence in the town of Delafield on his school board candidate forms. The address on the criminal complaint …

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Florida Appeals Dismissals Of Election Fraud Cases

Florida Politics reports: The state has filed notices of appeal in two voter fraud cases that were dismissed after Miami judges ruled that the state did not have the ability to bring felony charges against two Miami area men. Ronald Lee Miller and Robert Lee Wood are among the 20 defendants whose arrests for voter fraud and false swearing were …

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Michigan Elections Worker Charged With Two Felonies

Reuters reports: An election worker in a western Michigan town has been charged with two felonies after allegedly inserting a flash drive into a computer containing confidential voter registration data during an election in August, local officials said on Wednesday. At the Aug. 2 primary, an election worker was seen inserting a USB drive into the computer used to administer …

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Georgia To Toss Voting Machines Breached By Cultists

The Hill reports: Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) announced on Friday that the state will replace voting machines in Coffee County after a forensics team linked to former President Trump handled the equipment last year. “To allay the fears being stoked by perennial election deniers and conspiracy theorists, we’re replacing Coffee County’s election machines,” Raffensperger said in a …

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Videos Show Cultists Handling GA Voting Machines

The New York Times reports: Newly released videos show allies of former President Donald J. Trump and contractors who were working on his behalf handling sensitive voting equipment in a rural Georgia county weeks after the 2020 election. One such incident took place on Jan. 7 of last year, the day after supporters of Mr. Trump stormed the Capitol, when …

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Republican New York County Elections Commissioner Arrested By FBI On Absentee Ballot Fraud Charges

The Albany Times-Union reports: Jason T. Schofield, the Republican Rensselaer County Board of Elections commissioner, was arrested outside his residence Tuesday morning by the FBI and charged with fraudulently obtaining and processing absentee ballots last year using personal information of at least eight voters without their permission, according to an indictment unsealed in U.S. District Court. Schofield was led into …

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Special Prosecutor To Investigate GOP MI AG Nominee

The Associated Press reports: A special prosecutor in Michigan has been appointed to investigate whether the Republican candidate for attorney general and others should be criminally charged for their attempts to gain access to voting machines after the 2020 election. The office of Democratic attorney general Dana Nessel last month asked the Prosecuting Attorneys Coordinating Council, a state agency, to …

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Michigan GOP Trains Poll Workers To Violate Laws

CNN reports: While volunteer partisan observers have always been trained by political parties and non-profit groups in Michigan, the Wayne County GOP had also invited poll workers — people hired and paid by the local clerk’s office. They are in charge of running the election, and their responsibilities can include checking voter IDs, counting ballots, and even securing voting equipment …

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Video Shows Fake Elector Leading GOP Operatives Into Georgia County Election Office On Same Day Of Breach

CNN reports: A Republican county official in Georgia escorted two operatives working with an attorney for former President Donald Trump into the county’s election offices on the same day a voting system there was breached, newly obtained video shows. The breach is now under investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and is of interest to the Fulton County District …

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Michigan Dominion Voting Machine Sold On eBay

The Detroit News reports: Michigan State Police are investigating how a piece of election equipment was sold on eBay after being donated to a Goodwill Industries thrift store in Cadillac. Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s office said in a statement that someone tried to sell a voter assist terminal, a device used to help voters with disabilities mark their ballots. …

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Wisconsin Cultist Charged With Felony Voter Fraud

Law & Crime reports: A Wisconsin man who bragged on Facebook and even took to the airwaves in the state’s largest media market to vet his grievances about absentee ballot procedures in the Badger State has been charged with two felonies and two misdemeanors. Harry E. Wait, 68, of Union Grove, Wisconsin, is accused of two counts of election fraud …

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Five GOP Candidates For Michigan Governor Are Now Disqualified For Submitting Forged Petition Signatures

The New York Times reports: Five Republican candidates for Michigan governor were disqualified by a state canvassing board on Thursday for submitting nominating petitions that officials said had contained thousands of forged signatures. The decision sent the race, in a key battleground state, into chaos and dealt a serious blow to the party’s plans to challenge Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, the …

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FL County GOP Chairman And State Senate Candidate Arrested On Multiple Counts Of 2020 Election Fraud

Florida Politics reports: Seminole County Republican Party Chair Ben Paris [photo], political consultant Eric Foglesong and former independent candidate Jestine Iannotti have been arrested and charged with multiple counts of election fraud related to the 2020 election in Senate District 9. Iannotti had run in the SD 9 election as an independent candidate in a contest that critics had alleged …

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Two PA GOP Staffers Fired For Alleged Ballot Harvesting

Salon reports: C.J. Parker, 24, and Shamus O’Donnell, 27, and were both sacked after allegedly sending dozens of ballots to a P.O. box associated with a Republican political action committee known as the Republican Registration Coalition. The PAC’s chairman, Billy Lanzilotti, told the Inquirer that he had intended to hand deliver the ballots to voters himself. The incident is just …

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Man At Center Of GOP Election Fraud Case Dies

The Associated Press reports: Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr., the key player in a North Carolina absentee ballot fraud probe that led to a do-over congressional election, has died. His daughter, Andrea Dowless Heverly, wrote that her father “passed away peacefully” Sunday morning, according to a social media post. The political operative was set to go on trial this summer on …

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Criminal Voter Registration Fraud Probe Underway Over Party Affiliations Changed By Florida GOP Canvassers

The Miami Herald reports: A team of reporters visited eight locations where voter registration data showed unusually high numbers of voters switching from one party to another last year. The reporters knocked on every door where someone’s party affiliation had changed. Four out of every five voters who spoke to the Herald — 141 in total — said that their …

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Hundreds In Florida May Have Unknowingly Had Party Affiliations Changed To GOP By Republican Canvassers

Gainesville’s PBS affiliate reports: Signatures of some voters in apartment buildings and high-rise towers in South Florida whose registration was changed to Republican appeared noticeably different than on paperwork those same voters signed earlier, according to a new review of voting records. The signature comparisons, performed this week in Miami as journalists from the University of Florida College of Journalism …

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