https://news.yahoo.com/gop-election...8.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr The Republican elections board commissioner in upstate Rensselaer County was arrested Tuesday on charges of carrying out a brazen ballot scheme that allowed him to cast votes in voters’ names. Jason Schofield applied for absentee ballots for voters who did not want to vote, and, in some instances, personally pushed voters to sign absentee ballot envelopes, positioning himself or his associates to commit voter fraud in primary and general elections in 2021, according to court papers. The 12-count indictment charging Schofield said ballots were counted from at least four voters who were instructed to sign ballot envelopes but were not allowed to complete them. “Schofield was able to vote — or have other people vote — in the RVs’ names,” said the court papers, using an acronym for registered voters. The nine-page indictment was filed last Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York. Schofield, 42, of Troy, N.Y., faces up to five years in prison on each of 12 counts of unlawful possession and use of a means of identification, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Albany. “He maintains his innocence,” Danielle Neroni, his lawyer, said by phone Tuesday afternoon. The Albany Times Union reported that Schofield was arrested by the FBI on Tuesday morning outside his home, and entered a not guilty plea at court in the afternoon. Schofield was released pending a trial scheduled before Judge Mae D’Agostino. He declined to comment as he left his arraignment hearing, according to the Times Union. The Times Union reported that he was subpoenaed earlier this year in connection with a sweeping ballot probe that has also led a Troy city councilwoman to plead guilty to a count of identity theft. The Rensselaer County Board of Elections did not immediately return a request for comment. The elections board is located in Troy, about seven miles northeast of downtown Albany. Rensselaer County, a swing county, went for former President Donald Trump in the 2016 election and President Joe Biden in 2020.
It's amazing the MAGA crowd keeps squawking about election fraud and then being caught doing it. GOP Candidate Allegedly Voted Illegally Multiple Times While Serving A Felony Conviction https://dailyboulder.com/gop-candid...iple-times-while-serving-a-felony-conviction/ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on Monday that Brian K. Pritchard, a prominent conservative voice in North Georgia who is currently running for an open seat in the state legislature, has been accused by the state of voting illegally nine times while he was still serving out a felony conviction for forgery and theft in Pennsylvania. His campaign is now faced with accusations from the Georgia attorney general’s office stating Pritchard broke state law each time he voted before his sentence was completed. According to the report, Pritchard who has used his platform to complain about election fraud, “allegedly voted illegally nine times while serving a felony sentence in a $33,000 forgery and theft case.” “Pritchard pleaded guilty in 1996 to three felonies, including two counts of forgery and one count of theft by failure to make a required disposition of funds, according to court records from Allegheny County, Pennsylvania,” the AJC is reporting before adding, “After Pritchard registered to vote in Georgia in 2008, he voted in nine elections before his felony probation sentence ended in 2011, according to the attorney general’s office.” Pritchard issued a statement following the accusations, saying: “I will not be intimidated.” He did not address the allegations. The Journal-Constitution’s Mark Niesse added, “Pritchard has said on his show that the 2020 presidential election was ‘stolen,’ though recounts, court cases and investigations have repeatedly debunked those claims. He has criticized Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and Republican Attorney General Chris Carr for being ‘complicit’ in Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in Georgia.”
Records Show Republican Georgia Congressman Voted Illegally Three Times In 2022 https://secondnexus.com/republican-georgia-congressman-voted-illegally