Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Latest Election Fraud Cases Underscore Importance of Election Integrity

Hans von Spakovsky is a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, a former commissioner on the Federal Election Commission, and former counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Justice. He is a member of the board of the Public Interest Legal Foundation.

Election Fraud Cases

  • Kimberly McPherson, a member of the Troy, New York, City Council, pleaded guilty to one count of identity theft for casting absentee ballots in the names of two other people in the 2021 City Council election.
  • Michael "Ozzie" Myers was charged with over 13 felonies for orchestrating a scheme to stuff ballot boxes in Philadelphia for Democrat candidates he either favored or represented as a political consultant in local, state, and federal elections.
  • In his latest act of lawlessness, Myers bribed Domenick Demuro and Marie Beren, who managed several polling places in the city as "judges of elections," to add bogus votes for his favored candidates.
    1. The Heritage Foundation's Election Fraud Database has added more proven cases of impersonation, absentee ballot fraud, bribery, and illegal vote trafficking, demonstrating the many ways bad actors try to steal elections.
    2. With the latest cases of impersonation, registration fraud, absentee ballot fraud, bribery, and illegal vote trafficking added to The Heritage Foundation's Election Fraud Database, the database now contains 1,365 proven instances of election fraud.
      

https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/07/19/latest-election-fraud-cases-underscore-importance-of-election-integrity/ 

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