True the Vote Election Crimes Database
A nationwide compilation of election crimes prosecutions
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| State | Defendant | Co-Defendants | Sex | Date | Election | D/R | Charged | Convicted | Type1 | Type2 | Type3 | # Charges | # Fraudulent Votes / Election Margin | Description | Sentence | Source1 | Source2 | Source3 |
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| Kansas | Steven Gaedtke | M | 2010 | General | R | 2015-10 | Absentee/Mail | Multiple voting | Ineligible district voting | 3 | 1 | Steven Gaedtke pleaded* guilty in Johnson County District Court to one misdemeanor count for double voting in both Kansas and Arkansas in 2010. Two other counts were dismissed as part of the plea agreement. Charges against his wife Betty were dismissed. | *Plea deal: $500 fine, court costs | http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article47634575.html | http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article38915277.html | ||||||
| Oregon | Lafayette Frederick Keaton | M | Absentee/Mail | Impersonation | 2 | 2 | Lafayette Frederick Keaton was accused of using the names of his deceased son and brother to cast additional ballots and gain Social Security benefits. Charged with 2 counts of making a false statement under election laws, a Class C felony. Pleaded guilty to two counts of making a false statement in violation of state elections law. | 3 months in jail, 1 year post-prison supervision, 60 hours of community service and a $5,000 fine | http://oregoncatalyst.com/3510-Oregon-AG-gets-guilty-plea-voter-fraud-case.html | ||||||||||||
| Utah | Mildred Haslem | F | 2006 | Sheriff | Registration Fraud | Mildred Haslem, along with 50 other people in Utah's Daggett County, was accused in connection with a 2006 election for sheriff. All 51 were accused of fraudulent registration, and many were accused of living outside the county but registering to vote within the county. Haslem claimed that her identification was stolen and her signature was forged. | Dismissed | http://archive.sltrib.com/printfriendly.php?id=11064193&itype=ngpsid | |||||||||||||
| Wisconsin | Yadira Colon | F | 2008 2009 | D | 2009-11 | Absentee/mail | Ineligible district voting | Petition fraud | 4 | 1 | Yadira Colón pleaded* no contest to two counts of election fraud for forging signatures on nomination papers for Pedro Colón, then a Democratic member of the Wisconsin Assembly from Milwaukee, in 2009. Colón, a Voces De La Frontera volunteer, was also charged with illegally registering to vote and casting an absentee ballot in Milwaukee in 2008, listing an address in the city when she in fact resided in Oshkosh at the time. Prosecutors agreed to drop two charges, and Colón pleaded no contest to two others. Circuit Judge Dennis Moroney sentenced Colón to the 16 days she already spent in jail for one count, and to six months - suspended - on the second, with the condition of a year's probation, which he allowed to be transferred to Florida. | *Pea deal: 16 days in jail (time served), plus 6 months (suspended) and 1 year probation (transferred to Florida) | http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/174211971.html | ||||||||
| New Jersey | Jose E. Gonzalez | Rigo Rodriguez Lissette Rodriguez Juan Jimenez Belkis M. Cespedes Ana Vely-Gomez Lucia A. Guzman Inocencio Jimenez Jose Ramon Ruiz Dalila Rodriguez Octavio A. Dominguez Juana A. Gil Jose E. Gonzalez Loudes Inoa Ricardo A. Fermin-Cepeda Wilson A. Torres | 2010-05 | Paterson city council | D | 2010-12 | Absentee/mail | Ballot tampering | Jose E. Gonzalez of Paterson; Juana A. Gil of Paterson; Octavio A. Dominguez of Elmwood Park; Dalila Rodriguez of Paterson, Wilson A. Torres of Paterson, and Loudes Inoa of Paterson were charged with third-degree voter fraud and third-degree tampering with public records. Jose Ramon Ruiz of Prospect Park, Inocencio Jimenez of Paterson; Lucia A. Guzman of Paterson; Ana Vely-Gomez of Paterson; and Belkis M. Cespedes of Paterson were arrested on charges of second- and third-degree voter fraud and third-degree tampering with public record. Ricardo A. Fermin-Cepeda of Paterson, was charged with second- and third-degree voter fraud and third-degree tampering with public records but is currently a fugitive. The defendants all allegedly acted as bearers/messengers for mail-in (absentee) ballots. The complaint summonses allege that the defendants tampered with mail-in ballots and/or voted mail-in ballots on behalf of voters who did not receive the ballots or who did not authorize them to vote for them. | http://www.nj.gov/oag/newsreleases10/pr20101202b.html | |||||||||||
| Connecticut | Eric Murillo (candidate for school board) | M | 2009-09 | Democrat Primary | Absentee Ballot Fraud | A complaint was brought against Eric Murillo alleging absentee ballot fraud. The Connecticut Elections Enforcement Commission investigation concluded that due to mitigating circumstances, Murillo was not guilty of the charges. However, the Commission ordered that in the future Murillo was to "strictly comply with the requirements" of the law. | http://seec.ct.gov/e2casebase/data/fd/FD_2009_087.1.pdf | ||||||||||||||
| Ohio | Christopher Hargrove | M | 2008-09 | Registration fraud | 3 | Christopher Hargrove was charged with 1 count voter registration fraud, 1 count theft and 1 count misuse of credit cards. Pleaded guilty to voter registration fraud, felony, and theft, felony. Other count dismissed. (Case #08-09-2992, Summit County) | 18 months incarceration (suspended), 1 year of probation, 80 hours of community service and $500 fee | http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/395896-ohio-summit-county-with-cases.html | |||||||||||||
| Mississippi | Prentiss Harris | Ann Reed Margie McNair Dona Jones Prentiss Harris Gloria Smith | F | 2015-11 | State General | 2015-11 | Illegal assistance | Voter intimidation/coercion | In February 2016, the Mississippi Attorney General's Office took over the prosecution in a voting fraud case filed against five Franklin County pollworkers charged with election fraud during the Nov. 3, 2015 general election at the Bude precinct. Circuit Judge Forrest “Al” Johnson issued the warrants for their arrests. Prentiss Harris and Gloria Smith, both of Bude, were charged with breaking a state law that says an election officer who aids or influences a voter in preparing a ballot may be fined no less than $10 and no more than $200. All of the women were working the Bude precinct on Election Day. Anita Leonard and Carl Cupit, both Republican Party poll observers at the Bude precinct, filed the charges on Nov. 13. Leonard said she saw pollworkers going beyond what is allowed in helping voters and alleged that the pollworkers weren’t properly checking voters’ identification. Sen. Melanie Sojourner, R-Natchez, contested her close loss to former Sen. Bob Dearing in the Senate District 37 race. Dearing, a Democrat, won the seat back from Sojourner by a 62-vote margin. | Charges dismissed | https://mississippipep.wordpress.com/2015/11/23/franklin-county-poll-workers-arr... | http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/story/b113715bcd3745eca3352936439d5364/MS--Vote... | http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/story/24b8c1cc5dbd4ba38d83910a01f74b81/MS--Elec... | ||||||||
| Indiana ADDED SOURCE | Randy Morris (police officer) | M | 2003 | Democratic Mayoral Primary | Ineligible district voting | 1 | Randy Morris, a police officer, was charged as part of a fraud case brought by the Lake County Joint Voter Task Force that ultimately overturned the result of the 2003 East Chicago Democratic mayoral primary. Charged with 1 count voting in other precinct. All charges dismissed. | Dismissed | https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1N1-113B189B4A24F838.html | ||||||||||||
| Washington | Sarah Kerr | F | 1 | Records received from Snohomish County Washington did not indicate the specific accusation. From a list of almost 200 voter fraud cases that occurred since June 2007, only one person was charged. According to the prosecutor's office, the remainder of the cases were not prosecuted and no records were kept on the type of specific charge for the unprosecuted cases. | http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/394076-washington-snohomish-county-respon... |
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