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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| Washington | Rhett Fulwider | M | Registration Fraud | 1 | A charge of registration fraud against Rhett Fulwider was found to have Insufficient evidence to pursue. | http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/368706-washington-clark-county-response-w... | |||||||||||||||
| Connecticut | Loretta Sarro | F | Absentee/Mail | Illegal assistance | Loretta Sarro admitted to soliciting absentee ballot applications from Shaw's Supermarket employees and not signing her name to the applications. | $500 fine | http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Absentee-ballot-fraud-has-long-history-in-223... | ||||||||||||||
| Mississippi | Cecile Lorraine Seal | M | 2009-08 | Multiple Voting | Cecile Lorraine Seal was charged on 8/12/09 with double voting according to the Public Integrity Division Case View PI-09-00076. | http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/370944-mississippi-2nd-cases.html | |||||||||||||||
| New Mexico | Mary Ann O'Brien | Luz Vargas | F | 2012-03 | Sunland Park municipal | 2012-06 | Ineligible district voting | 4 | 1 | Authorities say 56-year-old Luz Vargas registered El Paso, Texas, resident Mary Ann O'Brien to vote in Sunland Park's municipal election in March. They were charged with false voting, conspiracy to commit false voting, registration offenses, falsifying election documents and false swearing. | http://krwg.org/post/two-more-charged-voter-fraud-sunland-park | ||||||||||
| Connecticut | Alexandra Penfold | F | 2009-11 | Ineligible district voting | A complaint was brought against Alexandra Penfold alleging that she was not a bona fide resident when she voted in North Haven in 2009. The Connecticut Elections Enforcement Commission investigation concluded that Penfold had legitimate, significant, and continuing connections to the claimed residence even while transiently relocating as she intended to return, and did return. | Dismissed | http://seec.ct.gov/e2casebase/data/fd/FD_2009_158.pdf | ||||||||||||||
| Connecticut | Warren Blunt (former city councilman) | F | 2000-03 | Democratic primary | D | Absentee/Mail | Illegal assistance | Warren Blunt admitted to being present while individuals voted by absentee ballot and then taking possession of their ballots cast in the March 2000 Bridgeport Town Committee Democratic primary, in which Blunt was a candidate for re-election. | $2,500 fine, resigned from the Democratic Town Committee, barred from seeking elected office for 2 years | http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Absentee-ballot-fraud-has-long-history-in-223... | |||||||||||
| Washington | Harline Hai Lien Ng | Winnie Wing Yee NG | F | 2004-11 | 2005-06 | Multiple Voting | Absentee/Mail - Impersonation | Forgery | 1 | 1 | Harline Hai Lien Ng and her daughter, Winnie Wing Yee NG, allegedly signed and sent her deceased husband's absentee ballot. Pleaded and the sentence was deferred. Charged with repeat voting and received a deferred sentence and a fine. | 1 year in jail (suspended) and $5,000 fine (suspended $4,900) | http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/395994-washington-king-county-cases.html | http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20050622&slug=vote22m | |||||||
| Kentucky | Hugh Melvin Perkins | M | Registration fraud - ineligible felon | Perkins, a convicted felon, was allegedly wrongfully registered to vote from 1992 to 2010. Charged with wrongful registration. Pleaded guilty. (10-CR-00001, Lawrence County) | One-year sentence with a pre-trial diversion of 4 years. | http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/373976-kentucky-ag-response-with-cases.ht... | |||||||||||||||
| Texas | Rolando Medrano | Frank Medrano III Racquel Medrano Ricardo Medrano Sr. Sylvia Medrano Robert Edward Medrano Carlos Medrano | M | 2010-03 | Democratic primary | D | 2011-09 | Perjury | 6 | Rolando Medrano pleaded* guilty to two counts of aggravated perjury after being charged with six counts of perjury related to a voter fraud scheme in the 2010 Democratic primary involving six members of the Medrano family, one of Dallas County’s most influential Democratic families, and another associate, who were all indicted in the case. Carlos Medrano was found guilty of illegal voting. | *Plea deal: 45 days in jail, 4 years community supervision, $5000 fine, $219 court costs | Dallas/Rockwall: 2-11-416 | |||||||||
| Rhode Island | Robert Costa | M | 2004 | Primary | Ineligible district voting | 1 | Keith and Robert Costa, father and son, were each charged with one count of fraudulent voting when they allegedly did not use their actual address when they voted in a primary. | http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/368319-rhode-island-2nd-response.html |
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