A SAMPLING OF ELECTION FRAUD CASES FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY

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MINNESOTA MINNESOTA William Allen Ondracek CONVICTED: 2009 Ineligible Voting David Richard Hofmann CONVICTED: 2008 Ineligible Vote William Allen Ondracek pleaded guilty to knowingly voting while ineligible in Deer River, Minnesota. He was sentenced 365 days’ local confinement, which were later stayed. He was also fined $3,000 and ordered to serve two years’ probation. Hoffman was a felon who had signed a probation agreement acknowledging he couldn’t vote, but then voted again in 2008. He was one of 113 individuals convicted of voter fraud in Minnesota during the 2008 election. SOURCES http://www.electionintegritywatch.com/documents/2011-Report-Voter-Fraud- Convictions.pdf http://thf-legal.s3.amazonaws.com/2015/MN73.pdf heritage.org SOURCES http://www.electionintegritywatch.com/documents/2011-Report-Voter-Fraud- Convictions.pdf heritage.org

MISSISSIPPI MISSISSIPPI Rhonda Wilhite Dowdy CONVICTED: 2015 False Registrations Mack Charles West, Jr. CONVICTED: 2015 False Registrations While serving as a deputy circuit clerk, Rhonda Dowdy changed the address of a non-resident to an in-county address so that the individual could vote in a local election in which Dowdy’s uncle was a candidate for sheriff. In exchange for manipulating voter records, Dowdy received a pledge that the voter would vote for a particular candidate. Dowdy resigned from her post and pleaded guilty to a criminal information charge. Mack Charles West, Jr. pleaded guilty to misdemeanor voting out of district of legal domicile in the 2013 mayoral race in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. When West was arrested on January 28, 2015, he was on probation on a felony shoplifting charge. The voting fraud charge violated that probation, and West was booked into jail. On March 12, 2015 in Forrest County Circuit Court, West received a suspended sentence of six months and was fined $200 and ordered to pay $220.84 in court costs. SOURCES http://newalbanygazette.com/2015/11/12/county-officials-discuss-problemshosting-city-court-in-law-enforcement-center/ heritage.org SOURCES http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/story/news/local/hattiesburg/2015/04/01/ man-pleads-guilty-voter-fraud/70787186/ heritage.org

MISSISSIPPI<br />

MISSISSIPPI<br />

Rhonda Wilhite Dowdy<br />

CONVICTED: 2015<br />

False Registrations<br />

Mack Charles West, Jr.<br />

CONVICTED: 2015<br />

False Registrations<br />

While serving as a deputy circuit clerk, Rhonda Dowdy changed the<br />

address of a non-resident to an in-county address so that the individual<br />

could vote in a local election in which Dowdy’s uncle was a candidate<br />

for sheriff. In exchange for manipulating voter records, Dowdy received<br />

a pledge that the voter would vote for a particular candidate. Dowdy<br />

resigned from her post and pleaded guilty to a criminal information<br />

charge.<br />

Mack Charles West, Jr. pleaded guilty to misdemeanor voting out<br />

of district of legal domicile in the 2013 mayoral race in Hattiesburg,<br />

Mississippi. When West was arrested on January 28, 2015, he was<br />

on probation on a felony shoplifting charge. The voting fraud charge<br />

violated that probation, and West was booked into jail. On March<br />

12, 2015 in Forrest County Circuit Court, West received a suspended<br />

sentence of six months and was fined $200 and ordered to pay<br />

$220.84 in court costs.<br />

SOURCES<br />

http://newalbanygazette.com/2015/11/12/county-officials-discuss-problemshosting-city-court-in-law-enforcement-center/<br />

heritage.org<br />

SOURCES<br />

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/story/news/local/hattiesburg/2015/04/01/<br />

man-pleads-guilty-voter-fraud/70787186/<br />

heritage.org

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