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A SAMPLING OF ELECTION FRAUD CASES FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY

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NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />

NEW JERSEY<br />

Adam Kumpu & Janine Kumpu<br />

CONVICTED: 2013<br />

Fraudulent Use of Absentee Ballots and Duplicate Voting<br />

Perth Amboy City Council<br />

CONVICTED: 2015<br />

Fraudulent Use of Absentee Ballots<br />

Adam Kumpu of Milford was fined $1,000 and his mother, Janine<br />

Kumpu of Milford, was fined $250 for committing voter fraud in the<br />

2012 election. Janine Kumpu obtained an absentee ballot in her son’s<br />

name, and he used it to vote in Milford last November. He also voted in<br />

person in Keene. The 2012 election was the first one in which photo IDs<br />

were required for voting in New Hampshire.<br />

Fernando Gonzalez won a seat on the Perth Amboy City Council by 10<br />

votes in an election where at least 13 illegal absentee ballots were cast.<br />

A Superior Court judge subsequently overturned the election results<br />

and ordered a new election be held in May 2015 for the seat.<br />

SOURCES<br />

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20140128/OPINION01/140129331<br />

heritage.org<br />

SOURCES<br />

http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2015/03/judge_orders_new_election_for_<br />

one_council_seat_in.html<br />

http://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/local/middlesex-county/2015/03/30/<br />

perth-amboy-democrat-face-voter-fraud-criminal-probe-gop-leader-says/70691020/<br />

heritage.org

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