Nevada 'voter fraud' case hyped by Trump campaign exposed as criminal hoax by prosecutors
Source: raw story
October 21, 2021
A poll worker places vote-by-mail ballots into a ballot box at the Miami-Dade Election Department headquarters on October 14, 2020 (AFP)
On Thursday, The Nevada Independent reported that Donald Hartle, who last year alleged that his deceased wife's ballot was fraudulently cast, has been charged with voter fraud by prosecutors for allegedly casting that ballot himself.
"At a November press conference, Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Consevative Union, named Rosemarie Hartle as one example of the 'hundreds of dead people' he said had voted in the election in Clark County. The Nevada Republican Party also cited Hartle's interview with KLAS Channel 8 in their voter fraud allegations," reported Megan Messerly. "Hartle told the TV station, which first reported the lawsuit, that his wife died at 52 from breast cancer in 2017 and that no ballot ever came to his house, despite a ballot for her being issued and received by the county. 'That is pretty sickening to me to be honest with you,' Kirk told the TV station at the time."
According to prosecutors, however, Hartle himself was the one who illegally submitted his wife's ballot. He has been charged with two D felonies and faces up to four years in prison for each count if convicted...............................
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-campaign-voter-fraud/
Oink oink oink! Trumpsters will not believe this. nope
BootinUp
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(49,961 posts)I'll not hold my breath.
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...and they have been pulling this scam for years. And years.
Tom Rinaldo
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(22,665 posts)Always ratfuckery. Always conservative republicans.
If our penal code isn't revised to severely punish this type of behavior, it will only accelerate. Consequences after the election are acceptable losses for them.