‘A crime on every citizen:’ Shaker Heights lawyer who donated to Trump headed to prison in election fraud case https://www.cleveland.com/court-jus...-headed-to-prison-in-election-fraud-case.html CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A judge on Monday sentenced a Shaker Heights attorney to three years in prison for illegally voting in the last two general elections. Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Andrew Santoli called 56-year-old James Saunders’ actions “purposeful, intentional and cavalier” in handing down the maximum sentence. Santoli also fined Saunders $10,000. “You violated a fundamental right of this country that every person speaks with one vote and one voice,” Santoli said. “I can think of no greater crime of a felony of the fourth degree than a crime perpetuated against every single person in this country.” (More at above url)
Alabama discovers some of that election fraud. By a Republican lawmaker. Madison County lawmaker David Cole arrested on illegal voting charge https://www.al.com/news/2023/08/madison-county-lawmaker-arrested-on-illegal-voting-charge.html Alabama State Rep. David Cole of Madison was arrested Tuesday on a charge of voting at multiple or unauthorized locations. Cole, 52, was booked into the Madison County jail Tuesday afternoon on the charge, which is a Class C felony. Cole was charged with violating Code of Alabama 17-17-28, which says, “Any person who knowingly presents false identification in order to vote at a polling place where he or she otherwise would not be qualified to vote, or who knowingly votes at a polling place where he or she has not been authorized to vote, or who knowingly votes at more than one polling place in the same election on the same day shall be guilty, upon conviction, of a Class C felony.” (More at above url)
Some follow-up... Former Alabama lawmaker pleads guilty to voter fraud charge for using fake address to run for office A former Alabama lawmaker has pleaded guilty to a voter fraud charge after he rented a closet-size space in a home to fraudulently run for office in a district where he did not live https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...er-pleads-guilty-voter-fraud-charge-103876282 MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- A former Alabama lawmaker on Tuesday pleaded guilty to a voter fraud charge that he rented a closet-size space in a home to fraudulently run for office in a district where he did not live. Former state Rep. David Cole, a Republican from Huntsville, pleaded to a charge of voting in an unauthorized location. A judge sentenced Cole to serve 60 days at the Madison County Jail. The remainder of a three-year sentence was suspended, and he will be placed on probation for that time, according to the terms of the plea agreement with prosecutors. Circuit Judge D. Alan Mann ordered Cole to report to jail by Oct. 17 and pay $52,885 in restitution. Cole resigned from the Alabama House of Representatives in August after agreeing to plead guilty. Cole, who was elected in 2022, signed a lease in 2021 to pay $5 per month for a 5-by-5-foot (1.5-by-1.5-meter) space in a home in order to run for office in House District 10, according to the plea agreement. Cole had some mail sent there but never “stepped past the entry foyer” on the two times he visited the location he claimed as his residence, it said. Alabama law requires candidates to live in a legislative district for one year before they run for office. Cole signed the lease for the space two days after a redistricting plan was enacted that placed the home where he had lived since 2014 in another House district. He provided an altered version of the lease — which specified he was renting a house and not a smaller space — when media questions arose about his residency, prosecutors wrote in the plea agreement. Cole signed another lease in 2022 for an apartment in District 10, but he continued to claim a property tax break from the county by saying he resided at his house, according to the plea agreement. Cole is a physician and military veteran. “Dr. Cole admits and takes full responsibility for the mistakes he made in the political process. He entered the process to serve his community. (He) has lived a life of service including serving for 22 years in the Army with tours in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Egypt,” Bill Espy, a lawyer representing Cole, said in an August statement. Accusations that Cole did not actually live in the district had been ongoing since his campaign. Another Republican asked the Alabama Republican Party to investigate claims that Cole did not live in the district, and Elijah Boyd, the Libertarian candidate in the district, had filed an election challenge in civil court arguing that Cole did not live in District 10 and was ineligible. Cole is the third Alabama lawmaker to face criminal charges this year and the second to resign. Rep. Fred Plump Jr., a Democrat from Fairfield, pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and obstruction of justice. He resigned in May. And sate Rep. John Rogers, also a Democrat, was indicted last month on charges of trying to obstruct a federal investigation into the possible misuse of state grant money.
Let's see what is up with the MAGA nutcase in Tennessee. Surprise, Surprise: Failed MAGA Candidate Gabrielle Hanson Cries ‘Election Fraud’ https://news.yahoo.com/surprise-surprise-failed-maga-candidate-215522056.html Gabrielle Hanson, the MAGA mayoral candidate in Tennessee who was sent packing last week, has unsurprisingly pulled a page out of Donald Trump’s playbook—decrying her resounding loss as election fraud. Hanson, whose campaign was marked by a litany of scandals including an old arrest for promoting prostitution and cozying up to white supremacists, didn’t concede defeat on Election Day, and has not yet addressed supporters on her official social channels. But she appeared on a podcast over the weekend to peddle bizarre ‘stolen election’ theories alongside two election deniers: far-right activist Lyle Rapacki and failed Arizona Secretary of State candidate Mark Finchem. The trio brought up a number of wacko claims that just don’t add up. Among them, Hanson insisted that the similarity in vote totals between her and a cohort of conservatives who lost their aldermen campaigns was somehow suspicious—despite the quartet all being endorsed by the right-wing Williamson Families PAC and regularly campaigning together. The election in Franklin, a Nashville suburb, wasn’t a close one. Hanson earned a measly 20 percent of the vote, keeping longtime incumbent, Ken Moore, in office another four years. Hanson suggested that wealthy Franklin residents were afraid of her uprooting the city’s status quo, despite providing no evidence. “Outside of Donald Trump, I don’t think there’s anybody that’s running for office that’s been as persecuted as I was,” she said. Finchem then suggested that officials in Franklin, a city of 85,000 that’s home to several country music stars, had somehow conspired to keep Hanson out of office before a single vote was cast. Hanson didn’t push back against his suggestion. “What you’re describing, madam, is not an election. It’s a selection that was preset before anybody ever walked into that election booth,” he said, without elaborating on what the supposed conspiracy was and which officials were supposedly involved. Nashville Suburb Roundly Rejects Scandal-Scarred MAGA Mayoral Candidate Citing a phrase coined by the ex-Trump adviser Michael Flynn, Finchem tried to claim that Hanson was the “fifth-generation warfare,” suggesting an opponent was funding a media smear campaign against her. “What they are doing is they’re publishing bullshit, trying to make people think that it is legitimate,” he said. “And then they recycle it and they recycle it and they recycle it again.” He appeared to be referring to local TV station News Channel 5, which broke several bombshell stories about Hanson, perhaps none more viral than a Sept. 27 article that revealed that Hanson—who, as an alderman, fought to block a Pride event in Franklin this year—had once supported her husband wearing nothing but a Speedo at a Chicago Pride event in 2008. The story was accompanied by a photo of her husband at the parade. Hanson tried to claim that the News Channel 5 was “paid a lot of money” to publish negative stories about her. She offered no proof, nor did she dispute the accuracy of the stories which were, for the most part, backed up by photos and Hanson’s own words. The controversies came hard and fast after the Speedo story. That same day, Hanson’s supporters were filmed barricading a door to keep a News Channel 5 crew out of a campaign forum. At another forum, reporters arrived to find the building flanked by white supremacist members of the Tennessee Active Club, a recognized hate group. Hanson, who was reportedly escorted inside by a member of the group, never disavowed their presence. She then solidified her alliance with the Active Club last month—grinning in a photo alongside the hate group’s leader, Sean Kauffmann, who has described himself as being an “actual literal Nazi.” Then, on Election Day, Hanson made a series of posts on Facebook alleging that voting machines were malfunctioning despite election officials saying Hanson had likely just misunderstood how the voting process works. In one rambling post, she told voters to snap a photo of their ballot—an illegal act in Tennessee. Meet ‘Nashville’s Nosiest Bitch’—the Scourge of Corrupt Pols Hanson had been posting daily in the run up to Election Day, but has been silent ever since on social media. She made clear in the weekend’s podcast, however, that she believes the election was stolen. In a grasp for proof, she suggested that Franklin’s record voter turnout last week was somehow tied to voter fraud. Hanson did not consider the possibility that voters turned out in record numbers to reject her. “We had three-and-a-half times the normal turnout for an election,” she said. “So to see it flip like that, after all the calls that myself and the other three aldermen running got, just seems very questionable.” Hanson also took aim at a poll worker who she deemed to be a suspicious member of “antifa.” The man in question was Joshua Patrick, the secretary of the Williamson County Young Democrats who, according to News Channel 5, worked as a poll watcher at one precinct on Election Day. Hanson claimed Patrick worked “for the new self-described socialist mayor in Nashville,” adding that she identified him with the help of “a group that we were working with to identify antifa members in the community.” That group appears to be the Tennessee Active Club, as Hanson said previously that the group was an “anti-antifa” organization who came to her aid because the “dark web” had turned up evidence of “massive antifa activity” in Franklin.
Democrats have been cheating for a long while, all these years. Project Veritas in hidden videos has Democrats admitting to cheating and saying, why should they stop when they have been doing it for years and getting away with it. Of course, with the pandemic excuse and 100% mail in ballots which are not even checked for signatures, ballots being stolen and voted, dead voters voting, etc. November 8, 2020 was the most fraud ridden election in the US. The Arizona audit and the 2000 Mules movie exposed the various ways of cheating in a large scale. RINOs in Arizona and Georgia aided and abetted the Democrats to remove President Donald Trump instead of going after the cheaters.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/16/media/oan-smartmatic-settlement/index.html OAN and Smartmatic settle election defamation case By Marshall Cohen and Oliver Darcy, CNN 2 minute read Updated 1:00 PM EDT, Tue April 16, 2024 Voting technology company Smartmatic and the far-right network One America News said Tuesday that they had settled a defamation lawsuit stemming from the outlet’s lies about the 2020 election. “The case has been resolved pursuant to a confidential agreement,” OAN attorney Chip Babcock told CNN. Both parties declined to share details about the settlement. The case against OAN was one of a spate of lawsuits filed against right-wing outlets in the aftermath of the election. In the wake of the 2020 presidential contest, pro-Donald Trump outlets spread lies wrongfully suggesting President Joe Biden had not been legitimately elected president. Smartmatic filed its lawsuit against OAN in 2021, alleging that the right-wing conspiracy network “victimized” the company and spread lies about its role in the 2020 election to “increase viewership and revenue.” The development comes one year after Fox News reached a massive settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, another voting technology company that was similarly smeared in 2020. Fox News paid more than $787 million to end that lawsuit, becoming the largest publicly known defamation settlement in US history. Smartmatic still has pending lawsuit against Fox News, the smaller conservative channel Newsmax, and several pro-Trump figures who also pushed lies about the election. OAN has established itself as perhaps the most extreme of the pro-Trump cable news outlets. And its reporters have sometimes crossed the line into right-wing politicking. The little-watched network has regularly given airtime to baseless conspiracy theories that support Trump, most prominently about the 2020 election. The channel worked closely with Russian operatives on a propaganda-style documentary during Trump’s first impeachment in 2019 over allegations he pressured Ukraine to investigate his political rivals. One of its correspondents, who is also an attorney, even worked with Trump’s legal team to subvert the 2020 election results. OAN settled a defamation suit in September with former Dominion executive Eric Coomer, whose case revealed how the network worked with former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell and others to lie about the election. DirecTV dropped the far-right network from its lineup in 2022, dealing a significant blow to the outlet, hitting the network’s viewership and revenue.
Republicans are rife with election fraud. GOP lawmaker ends re-election bid after complaint he forged signatures Far-right Arizona state Rep. Austin Smith is ending his re-election bid after being caught forging petition signatures to qualify for the ballot. According to Yvonne Wingett Sanchez of The Washington Post, "State Rep. Austin Smith (R) — who was senior director at Turning Point Action, the campaign arm of Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA — was accused by a Democratic activist of submitting petition sheets with rows of voter names, addresses and signatures that 'bear a striking resemblance' to Smith’s handwriting, according to a complaint. Smith 'personally circulated multiple petition sheets bearing what appear to be forged voter signatures,' the complaint said." After the complaint was submitted to the Arizona secretary of state and attorney general, "Smith submitted his resignation to Turning Point Action on Thursday.