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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| Minnesota | Margaret Schneider | F | 2012-08 | Primary | 2013 | Multiple voting | In person | 1 | 1 | Margaret Schneider was charged by the Nicollet County Attorney’s Office with a felony for voting twice during the 2012 primary election. She voted once with an absentee ballot on July 13 and again at her polling place August 14. Schneider, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and dementia, said she walked to the polling place to vote on her own and didn’t remember she had already voted absentee. Investigators found the letters “A.B.” next to Schneider’s name in the voter roster book, indicating that an absentee ballot already had been cast, causing officials to question why the election judge allowed Schneider to sign the book and vote again. All parties agreed to pre-trial intervention, allowing the charge to be dismissed after no further infractions through November 2014. | Pre-Trial Intervention: Charge dismissed after no further infraction through November 2014 | http://www.mankatofreepress.com/news/local_news/year-old-st-peter-woman-charged-... | http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2013/04/02/woman-86-due-in-court-tuesday-in-voter-... | ||||||||
| Florida | Christiana Phillip | F | Non-citizen voting | Christiana Phillip was one of 15 noncitizens charged with voting in various elections. Pleaded guilty. (United States v. Phillip; 9:04-CR-80103) | 3 months of probation | http://www.eac.gov/assets/1/workflow_staging/Page/61.PDF | |||||||||||||||
| Texas | Jose Rene Gomez | Oralia Frausto Oscar Rios Maria Gonzalez (aka Dolores Gutierrez) | M | 2006-03 | Democratic primary | D | 2006-06 | Registration fraud - fake | Absentee/Mail | Multiple voting | 1 | 1 | Jose Rene Gomez pleaded* guilty to one count of illegal voting for voting twice in the 2006 general election (TEC 64.012). Oralia Frausto, Oscar Rios, and Maria Gonzalez (aka Dolores Gutierrez) - Starr and Hidalgo county political operatives - were also indicted for voter fraud in a large-scale effort to submit mail-in ballots for imaginary people in 2006’s March Democratic primary election. The four were indicted by a grand jury in Brooks County on charges related to the scheme, which involved registering fake voters to vacant lots in Starr County and having mail-in ballots sent to several Hidalgo County addresses. | *Plea deal: 2 years deferred adjudication/community supervision, $300 fine | http://www.jpattitude.com/FraudDocs/FiveIndicted_StarrCountyTexas.pdf | Starr/Brooks: 07-05-09743 CR | |||||
| Ohio | Daniel "Tate" Hausman | Amy Little Yolanda Hippensteele | M | 2008 | General | D | Ineligible district voting | Absentee/Mail | 1 | 1 | Daniel "Tate" Hausman (New York native, staff member for Vote Today Ohio, and out-of-state campaigner for Barak Obama) was one of several people who came to Franklin County, Ohio, registered to vote after 30 days and voted, eventhough he did not intend to remain a resident of the county and state. He and his co-defendants chose to vote in Ohio over their home states, because Ohio is a swing state and Obama was expected to easily win in their home states. Charged with a violation under Title 35 of Ohio Code, casting an absentee ballot despite not meeting residency requirement. Pleaded guilty. (Case #09-CR-04-2466, Franklin County) | 60-day suspended jail sentence, 1 year of probation and a $1000 fine | http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2009/04/29/three_voters.ART_ART_04... | http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/396676-ohio-franklin-county-daniel-hausma... | |||||||
| West Virginia | Ernest J. Stapleton (former commander of a Veterans of Foreign Wars post) | M | Ernest J. Stapleton was indicted with others for a conspiracy to control county government in Lincoln County by buying votes, keeping some supporters’ property taxes low, controlling county and state government jobs and rewarding supporters by ensuring their roads were repaired. Siphoned $35,000 from the post's raffles to buy votes. Charged with mail fraud. Pleaded guilty. | http://www.ejfi.org/Voting/Voting-71.htm | http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/396135-eac.html | ||||||||||||||||
| Texas | Ester Sandoval Martinez-Moreno | F | 2010-03 | Primary | In person | Ballot tampering | 1 | 1 | Ester Sandoval Martinez-Moreno pleaded* guilty to one count of tampering with a government record after being accused of unlawfully accepting a voter, unlawfully permitting the deposit of a ballot, and illegal voting in the 2010 primary election. | *Plea deal: 1 year probation | Bexar: 2010-W-0375 | ||||||||||
| Washington | Dawn Johnson | 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... | ||||||||||||||||
| Texas | William Berntsen (former candidate for RUD board) | M | 2010-05 | Woodlands Road Utility District | 2012-03 | Ineligible district voting | Registration Fraud | William Berntsen was one of seven voters indicted for voting outside their district. The group planned to vote in a district where they did not reside in order to elect three of their members to the board of directors of The Woodlands Road Utility District. The group illegally registered in the district by using the address of a hotel in the district as their home address of their voter registration application. Pleaded guilty. | http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/woodlands/news/seven-indicted-for-voter-fraud-in-... | http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/woodlands/news/the-woodlands-rud-voter-fraud-case... | |||||||||||
| Texas | Margie Hodges | F | 2007 | School bond | Margie Hodges was investigated as part of the Valley Mills ISD 2007 bond election case. Hodges was mailed a letter. No new violations were reported. Statue of limitations expired. | ||||||||||||||||
| Texas | Robert William Sanders | M | Case declined for prosecution. Robert William Sanders was mailed a letter. No new violations were reported. Statue of limitations expired. |
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