CORALVILLE, Iowa --- After a couple of "hiccups" getting started, a state investigation into voter fraud is "moving in the right direction" and Iowans will begin seeing results soon, according to Secretary of State Matt Schultz.
A former southeastern Kentucky judge and five others have been released from prison until they are retried in October on federal charges that they engineered a vote-buying scheme that stretched across three election cycles.
RALEIGH -- An NBC affiliate TV station says that "only" 121 vote fraud cases from 2012 show that vote fraud is not an issue: "One of the more compelling arguments for voter identification is the suppression of voter fraud. But for North Carolina, the number of cases of voter fraud reported by the state Board of Elections is minimal. In 2012, nearly 7 million ballots were cast in the general and two primary elections. Of those 6,947,317 ballots, the state Board of Elections said 121 alleged cases of voter fraud were referred to the appropriate district attorney's office.
A Frederick County woman has been charged with illegal voting in the 2012 presidential election, the Office of the State Prosecutor announced Tuesday. Elsie Virginia Schildt, 46, was indicted by the Frederick County grand jury for charges of impersonating another person in an attempt to vote, attempting to vote under a false name, and attempting to vote more than once in the same election. Each charge is punishable by up to five years imprisonment and a fine of $2,500.
Beavercreek resident Virginia McMillan, who was sentenced to 20 days in jail after being convicted in June of election falsification last November, told local officials her intent was to "test the system," according to court records obtained by Media Trackers.
LITTLE ROCK - A judge has sentenced a former east Arkansas legislator convicted of election fraud to three years of probation, including nine months of home confinement. Former Democratic Rep. Hudson Hallum pleaded guilty in September, along with his father and two campaign workers to charges of bribing voters and using absentee ballots to commit fraud in the 2011 election for his seat. He was sentenced on June 20.
With the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling today in Shelby County v. Holder, the way is cleared for more states to adopt laws requiring photo IDs and other measures that ensure election integrity, the (ACRU) said in a press release.
LITTLE ROCK -- A former Arkansas lawmaker and his father were each sentenced June 20 to three years of probation, including nine months of home detention, and fined for conspiring to commit election fraud in a scheme that included destroying ballots and exchanging money and food for votes.
Speaking at Netroots, the annual gathering of left wing bloggers, NAACP President Benjamin Jealous said voter ID laws should be abolished because they put transgendered Americans at a disadvantage.
Over just a few days last July, at least two groups of schemers used computers traced to Miami, India and the United Kingdom to fraudulently request the ballots of 2,046 Miami-Dade voters. Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/15/3453770/online-ballot-fraud-marks-the.html#storylink=cpy