Tag Archives: voter fraud

Iowa Public Radio reports: A jury spent about five hours deliberating before convicting Kim Phuong Taylor on 52 counts of voter fraud in federal court Tuesday in Sioux City. Taylor faces up to five years in prison on each count. A sentencing date hasn’t been set. Prosecutors say Taylor took advantage of other Vietnamese immigrants by illegally filling out election …

Huntsville’s NBC affiliate reports: House District 10 Representative David Cole (R-Huntsville) has resigned and signed a plea agreement following his arrest for voting fraud. According to Gov. Kay Ivey’s office, the District 10 seat will remain vacant until a future special election can be scheduled. That date is unknown at this time. Cole was charged with fraud-voting at multiple or …

Huntsville’s CBS affiliate reports: Madison-area State Representative David Cole was arrested Tuesday afternoon and charged with voter fraud, according to Madison County jail records. Cole, a Republican, won 52% of the vote in the House District 10 race in November 2022. But Elijah Boyd, the Libertarian candidate who finished third in the race filed a lawsuit on Nov. 22 alleging …

The Cleveland Scene reports: James Saunders, the 56-year-old Shaker Heights tax attorney convicted last week of voting multiple times in the last two general elections, was sentenced to three years in prison, a judge decided Monday morning. Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Andrew Santoli coupled Saunders’ sentence with a $10,000 fine, a punishment, as Santoli detailed in last week’s hearing, …

Cleveland’s ABC affiliate reports: An attorney from Shaker Heights was found guilty of two counts of election fraud for voting twice in the 2020 and 2022 general elections, according to the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office. James Saunders, 56, was found guilty by a Cuyahoga County jury Tuesday, Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley announced in the news release. “Mr. Saunders is the …

The Associated Press reports: A Michigan attorney involved in multiple efforts around the country to overturn the 2020 election in support of former President Donald Trump has been charged in connection with accessing and tampering with voting machines in Michigan, prosecutors announced Thursday. The charges against Stefanie Lambert come days after Matthew DePerno, a Republican lawyer whom Trump endorsed in …

Cleveland.com reports: A Shaker Heights attorney accused of illegally voting in the last two general elections should be acquitted, in part, because he cast ballots in two states by accident, his attorney argued to a judge. James Saunders, a 56-year-old former lawyer for the Internal Revenue Service, did not mean to commit a crime when he cast ballots in both …

Denver’s NBC affiliate reports: Six people are accused of forging signatures in attempt to get a Republican candidate on the primary ballot for the 7th Congressional District (CD7), according to the Colorado Attorney General’s office. According to court documents, the charged individuals — Alex Joseph, Terris Kintchen, Patrick Rimpel, Jordahni Rimpel, Aliyah Moss, and Diana Watt — were paid circulators …

The Orlando Sentinel reports: A Republican state attorney last May declined to prosecute six voter fraud cases that involved circumstances strikingly similar to the cases later brought against 20 ex-felons by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ election police unit and statewide prosecutors. The office of State Attorney Bill Gladson confirmed six convicted sex offenders in Lake County had voted in the 2020 …

The Texas Tribune reports: Alan Vera, an influential Republican voter-fraud activist who pushed controversial election bills in Texas, died Thursday at the Texas Capitol as he was preparing to testify on election legislation. He was 75. The news was announced suddenly during a Texas House Elections Committee meeting Thursday morning as the committee heard public testimony on one of about …

Dayton’s NBC affiliate reports: An attorney from Ohio is indicted for voter fraud, accused of casting a ballot twice in both the 2020 and 2022 elections. Prosecutors say Shaker Heights Attorney James Saunders voted in Cuyahoga County and Broward County, Florida. An indictment accuses the 56-year-old Saunders of two counts of election fraud, both fourth degree felonies. Saunders is accused …

Florida Politics reports: A Hawthorne man has been arrested by the Department of Justice for illegally voting. Daniel John Pernini surrendered himself to the Alachua County Jail, according to the Alachua County Sheriff’s Department. He faces charges of fraudulent voting by an unqualified elector and perjury. Circuit Judge James Colaw issued the warrant and set bond at $50,000. Pernini remains …

Click Orlando reports: All four residents of The Villages charged with voting twice in the 2020 election have now admitted to the crime, court records show. John Rider, 62, recently entered into a pre-trial intervention program that will allow him to avoid potential prison time if he successfully completes court-ordered requirements and refrains from violating the law. Three other residents …

The Des Moines Register reports: Federal prosecutors say a Woodbury County woman committed widespread voter fraud to support her husband in two 2020 electoral races. The U.S. Department of Justice announced charges Thursday against Kim Phuong Taylor, 49, of Sioux City. According to a DOJ press release, Phuong Taylor faces more than 50 felony charges, including 26 counts of providing …

The New York Times reports: A former upstate New York election official pleaded guilty on Wednesday to federal identity theft charges arising from his fraudulent use of voters’ personal information to apply for a dozen absentee ballots in 2021. In entering his plea in U.S. District Court in Albany, the former official, Jason Schofield, admitted to requesting the bogus ballots …

The Associated Press reports: Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff to President Donald Trump, won’t face voter fraud charges related to his 2020 registration and absentee vote in North Carolina, the state’s attorney general announced Friday. Meadows drew the attention of government attorneys when details that he was simultaneously registered to vote in North Carolina and two …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: U.S. Rep. Drew Ferguson, a Republican from west Georgia who has raised concerns in the past about election fraud, voted three times this year in Troup County. But Ferguson no longer lives at the address where he’s registered to vote after he sold his house in April and moved in with his wife two counties away. …

The Hill reports: North Carolina’s probe of voter fraud allegations against former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has been completed and sent to the state’s attorney general, who will decide whether to press criminal charges. The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (NCSBI) announced Tuesday that the Meadows case file had been completed and submitted to Attorney General (AG) …

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports: A criminal case brought against a South Florida resident for allegedly voting illegally in the 2020 election is now the third case to be dismissed in Miami-Dade County, just months after Gov. Ron DeSantis announced a slew of statewide arrests and that prosecutions soon would be coming. Ronald Lee Miller, 57, of Miami, was one …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: Conservative North Georgia talk show host Brian K. Pritchard, a candidate for the state House who rails against election fraud, allegedly voted illegally nine times while serving a felony sentence in a $33,000 forgery and theft case, state officials say. The Georgia attorney general’s office wrote Thursday that Pritchard broke state law each time he voted …