GOP voter fraud

4/22

includes some dirty tricks, INCLUDING RESIDENCY LIES

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NOTE 8 26 MULT DOJ ATTEMPTS TO PROVE, ILLEGals, vote machine etc

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Brendan Hartnett @ The Bulwark: Top GOP Operative Let Out-of-State Voters Vote From His PA Home

Legal experts say Scott Presler’s houseguests could run afoul of election law.

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A loyal supporter of President Donald Trump has been convicted on nine counts of election fraud, the *San Francisco Chronicle* reported Monday.

Gaea Powell, a Moms for Liberty activist, ran for a county clerk-recorder spot in a small California town, promising that she could improve "election integrity." As the Chronicle reported, "it turns out this conservative candidate wasn’t following election laws herself."

A county jury found Powell guilty of nine felony counts, including lying about her residence, unlawfully registering to vote and fraudulently voting.

It comes from both the 2022 and 2024 elections, when Powell ran for mayor of Arroyo Grande. She claims that she didn't know or attempt to commit fraud.

“I respect the jury’s role. But I am deeply disappointed by today’s verdict,” Powell’s statement said. “I have maintained from the beginning, and I maintain today, that I did not knowingly deceive anyone and did not act with fraudulent intent.”

Powell represented herself in court rather than hire a lawyer. She claimed that there was evidence that could have vindicated her, but that it was "excluded during the trial," the report said.

She claims she'll appeal.

As the report explained, it isn't the first time a conservative candidate who pledged to create strict voting laws has also been found guilty of breaking existing laws.

Trump supporter Tina Peters, a former Colorado clerk, tampered with voting machines and then claimed fraud in the 2020 election. She was commended by President Donald Trump.

Another is Chad Bianco from Riverside County, who was the sheriff at the time and was running for governor when he claimed voter fraud was a huge problem. He then seized hundreds of thousands of ballots. The case went all the way to the California Supreme Court, which ultimately ruled he broke the law.

The justices even went so far as to write that Bianco exposed the ballots to “alteration or tampering” when he illegally seized them.

The heavily Republican senior community in Florida, The Villages, had a small group of four residents caught voting twice in 2020. They voted in Florida in person and in a previous state by absentee ballot.

The Villages conspiracy made the cases politically notable because reports of their activity came as Trump claimed that Democrats had committed widespread fraud to steal the 2020 election.

In 2020, Republican Donald “Kirk” Hartle voted twice in Nevada: once for himself and again under his late wife's ballot.

A 64-year-old Republican woman even went so far as to use the "everybody does it," excuse when she cast a ballot in her deceased mother’s name in 2020. Reporting said she did so because she believed Democrats were committing widespread fraud.

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A Republican state senate candidate in Wisconsin is facing accusations of multistate voting after records emerged indicating that she voted in both Wisconsin and Georgia in recent years. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, online voting records show that Republican candidate Michele Magadance Skinner “voted absentee in Wisconsin in the Nov. 3, 2020, general election. Then, just 15 days later, she registered to vote in Georgia using the address of her family's four bedroom lake house in the town of Dawsonville,” Wisconsin.

As the Sentinel reports, “Records show Skinner voted on Jan. 5, 2021, in Georgia's high-stakes federal runoff election. That month, Sen. Raphael Warnock and Sen. Jon Ossoff, both Democrats, won Georgia's U.S. Senate runoff elections, giving Democrats control of the U.S. Senate. In order to register to vote in Georgia, a person needs to be a U.S. citizen, a legal resident of the county, not be serving a sentence for a felony conviction involving moral turpitude, and not have been found mentally incompetent by a judge.”

Skinner went on to vote in Wisconsin the following year, in the April 5, 2022 spring election. She cast her ballot in person at the Washington Town Hall in Eau Claire, according to records. She has continued to vote in Wisconsin elections ever since.

According to the Sentinel, “Under state law, a person can no longer vote in Wisconsin once they permanently move to another state or vote there. At that point, one can vote in Wisconsin again only by re-establishing residency, which requires living at a Wisconsin address for at least 28 consecutive days before an election.” The paper reports that “Skinner's race has attracted heavy spending from both state parties, with control of the state Senate potentially hanging in the balance and Republicans viewing the seat as a possible pickup for the party in November.”

Revelations of Skinner’s multi-state voting come as Republicans and President Donald Trump level wide-ranging claims about voter fraud, frequently pushing debunked claims that it is common among noncitizens and Democrats. Will Karcz, a spokesman for the State Senate Democratic Committee, declared, "Michele Magadance Skinner has disqualified herself from holding elected office in Wisconsin. MAGA Republicans in Wisconsin would be foaming at the mouth if this had been a Democrat but are stunningly silent when it’s one of their own."

With the Senate majority at stake, this controversy adds intense pressure to an already tight race.

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Red state's noncitizen voter list hits more Republicans than Democrats

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GREGG P 3 STATES

According to media reports, five Trump family members or top administration officials also were registered to vote in two states during the 2016 election -- chief White House strategist Stephen Bannon; Press Secretary Sean Spicer; Treasury Secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin; Tiffany Trump, the president's youngest daughter; and Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and a senior White House adviser.

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Republican lawyer busted for illegally voting out of state and encouraging others to commit fraud

The Georgia Election Board fined a Florida lawyer $3,500 after he attempted to register to vote in Georgia and encouraged other Republicans to follow his lead.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports Panama City, Florida resident Bill Price submitted an application to register at his brother’s house in Paulding County, Ga., so he could vote in the U.S. Senate runoffs in early 2021 for Republican incumbents Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue.

Price posted a Facebook video on Nov. 7, 2020, instructing Bay County Republican Party members how to register to vote for Republican politicians in other states, which is illegal in Georgia.

“We have to do whatever it takes. And if that means changing your address for the next two months, so be it. I’m doing that. I’m moving to Georgia, and I’m going to fight and I want you all to fight with me,” said Price, who is an attorney with enough familiarity with U.S. law to pass the Florida bar exam.

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“It can be done online, or you can request your ballot at your new address in Georgia by mail. But you just go to the secretary of state’s website—for the state of Georgia—and register to vote there,” Price told his audience of Bay County GOP members in an hour-long instruction video.

Price deleted the Facebook video days after it was posted in 2020.

Election officials in Paulding County received Price’s illegal voter registration application the day after he posted the video, but the Georgia AG said officials halted processing his application after seeing media reports of Price’s video. Price agreed to the Georgia Election Board’s unanimously-approved fine in a consent order this week, without further comment.

Despite Price’s effort, Democratic U.S. Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock won the runoffs.

Read the full Atlanta Journal Constitution report here.

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hey sis did they see missing ballots?

On Tuesday, October 29, Indiana Republican Larry L. Savage Jr. was arrested on theft charges for allegedly stealing or destroying voting ballots.

Savage, now 51, was among the Republicans who, earlier this year, sought the GOP nomination in his U.S. House district.

The alleged theft, according to Kansas City Star reporter Mike Stunson, occurred during a test of voting equipment in Madison Country, Indiana on October 3.

"The charges follow the testing of election equipment in Madison County as part of the Voting System Technical Oversight Program, according to an October 29 state police news release," Stunson reports. "People invited to attend the public test, which included Savage, a precinct committeeman, run pre-marked ballots through the machines to make sure they are properly working and counting votes correctly….. The testing was livestreamed online, and the footage showed Savage fold up two of the ballots and put them in his pocket, authorities said."

Savage, according to Stunson, "is also heard whispering to a Republican auditor candidate about the count of the ballots being wrong, according to court documents obtained by the Indianapolis Star."

"State police said they later found the missing ballots in Savage's vehicle," Stunson reports. "Savage told an investigator he took the ballots because he was told they weren't real, but the surveillance footage showed a woman overseeing the test telling attendees that they were 'live election ballots,' according to the Indianapolis Star."

Madison County prosecutor Rodney Cummings told Indianapolis' WISH-TV, "The ballots weren't there because he took them himself. He creates a controversy that never existed in an effort to undermine confidence in our election process.”

*Read the Kansas City Star's full report at this link.

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In Arizona, far-right State Sen. Austin Smith has often accused Democrats, without evidence, of trying to steal elections. The MAGA Republican, a leader of the Arizona Freedom Caucus and a prominent figure in radio host Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA, has repeatedly called for "election integrity" and accused Democrats of opposing it.

But according to Arizona's KJZZ-FM — a National Public Radio (NPR) station in Phoenix — a complaint filed in the Maricopa County, Arizona Superior Court alleges that Smith forges signatures needed to qualify for the ballot in 2024 and run for reelection.

KJZZ's Camryn Sanchez reports that the complaint "alleges that nine pages of signatures Smith gathered appear to be written by the same person and look like Smith's own handwriting."

"According to state law," Sanchez explains, "candidates found guilty of petition forgery are no longer eligible to seek election, or run for any public office for no less than five years…. Smith needed 527 signatures to qualify for the primary ballot in Legislative District 29 and collected 826. However, if Smith is found guilty of petition forgery, the complaint argues that under state law, all his petitions — not just those he personally collected — should be disqualified."

The plaintiff in the complaint is James Ashurst, a voter in Goodyear, Arizona.

Ashurst, in an official statement, said, "It's deeply concerning that Smith has so little respect for Arizona voters. This is a betrayal of his constituents and all Arizonans and I hope Smith will be held accountable."

Ashurst isn't the only Arizona resident who is lambasting the 28-year-old Smith.

In a scathing op-ed published on April 16, the Arizona Republic's Laurie Roberts finds the allegation against Smith ironic in light of how quick he has been to accuse Democrats of trying to steal elections.

Roberts argues, "The lawsuit includes sworn declarations from the two voters, Bruce A. Bell and Daniel Hernandez, declaring that they did not sign Smith's nomination petition. If true, that's a stunner. Smith, after all, is a leader in the hard- right Arizona Freedom Caucus — a guy who sees a Democratic plot to steal elections under every bush…. What would be more conspiratorial than a supposed warrior for election integrity forging signatures on his own nominating petitions?"

Arizona State Sen. Priya Sundareshan, who chairs the Arizona Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, is also speaking out.

"For years," Sundareshan told the Arizona Republic, "Smith has helped to perpetuate false election claims and conspiracy theories. Now, it may prove to be true that Smith is the one undermining our election integrity by committing fraud. If that's true, shame on him."

READ MORE:['No peace': Meghan McCain slams Kari Lake’s attempt to retract insult to her father

*Read KJZZ's full report at this link and Laurie Roberts' Arizona Republic op-ed here.

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Michigan US Senate GOP candidate running on local roots exposed as legal resident of Florida - Alternet.org

WISC SENATE? LAGUNA BEach? OC

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Trump-supporting ex-IRS attorney jailed on two felony counts of voter fraud - Alternet.org

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Wife of Iowa Republican primary candidate convicted on 52 counts of voter fraud from 2020 election - Alternet.org

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Three Florida Republicans have been charged with multiple counts of election fraud relating to the 2020 cycle.

A dozen charges against "Seminole County Republican Party Chair Ben Paris, political consultant Eric Foglesong, and former independent candidate Jestine Iannotti from Senate District 9 came down through indictments sought by the State Attorney for Florida’s 18th Judicial Circuit after a Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) investigation," *Florida Politics*reported on Tuesday. "The investigation began in July 2021 after JC 18 State Attorney Phil Archer requested the FDLE look into the election."

Prosecutors allege that Iannotti ran as an independent “ghost candidate” to funnel votes away from Democrat Patricia Sigman in favor of Republican Jason Brodeur, who ultimately prevailed with 50.3 percentof the vote over Sigman's 47.5 percent. Iannotti, meanwhile, received 2.1 percent.

“Some NPA candidates, commonly referred to as ‘ghost’ candidates, have been used by political parties as a way to close elections or siphon off votes. While not illegal per se, many have questioned the ethics of the practice. However, when the candidate and the partisan political operatives involved violate election finance laws by illegally funding those races and filing false reports, it is the responsibility of government to act," Archer said in a press release. “Today’s actions represent our commitment to ensuring the integrity of Florida’s election process and holding those who violate state campaign laws accountable.”

FDLE Acting Commissioner Mark Glass's office explained in a statement that "Iannotti ran as an independent candidate for Florida State Senate District 9 in the 2020 election. The investigation showed that Iannotti illegally accepted a $1,200 cash donation from Foglesong in support of her candidacy. Agents found that Iannotti and Foglesong falsely used the names of other individuals as contributors in official campaign finance documents reported to the Florida Department of State to skirt Florida laws on campaign contributions. Agents say that Paris provided the name and address of one of the individuals Iannotti and Foglesong falsely used in their official campaign reporting, even though Paris knew the individual had not contributed to the campaign."

Glass added that "elections are the cornerstone of our democracy, and we must do everything we can to ensure they are fair and transparent. Protecting the integrity of our elections is a top priority in Florida, and that includes making sure candidates follow the laws.”

Arrest warrants have been issued for Foglesong and Iannotti, who are out on $4,500 and $10,000 bond, respectively, and have been ordered to surrender by May 25th.

The story continues here.

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youngkin son?

yet another gop eg

https://www.alternet.org/2022/04/donald-trump-adviser-voted-twice/

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Which is a shame. Because Philly has guys named Joe Cheeseboro registered to vote with a home address that is, in fact, a 7-Eleven. (Mr. Cheeseboro is listed as living in apartment No. 711, a witty touch). Philadelphia has voters whose addresses are vacant lots. A former judge of elections recently was convicted of taking bribes to stuff ballot boxes on behalf of Democratic patrons.

That wasn’t ancient history—that was May. https://www.inquirer.com/news/voter-fraud-philadelphia-ward-leader-judge-of-elections-domenick-demuro-guilty-plea-20200521.html

max 50 votes in judge elections?]

Bad things happen in Philadelphia. Here’s U.S. Attorney William McSwain on that corrupt judge of elections, Dominick Demuro: “DeMuro fraudulently stuffed the ballot box by literally standing in a voting booth and voting over and over, as fast as he could, while he thought the coast was clear.” He sold this service for as little as $300 in some cases.

Bad, dumb, low-rent things happen in Philadelphia.

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11/20 lt gov texas? offer big reward, claimed by dem lt gov, welshed

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pennsylvania man charged with voter fraud after voting under his dead mom's name. Take a wild guess who he voted for

Meaghan Ellis

December 22, 2020

For several weeks now, President Donald Trump has been circulating baseless claims of widespread voter fraud simply because he lost the election. From Dominion Voting Systems conspiracies to claims about mysterious ballot dumps and dead people voting,

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https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/a-republican-congressman-just-got-charged-with-3-felonies-including-voter-fraud

https://www.alternet.org/2020/02/something-really-rotten-heres-the-evidence-of-extensive-voter-suppression-in-georgias-notorious-2018-election/

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