根据 Business Insider的新闻报导
宾州检察官起诉了 70岁的布鲁斯 巴特曼
原因是巴特曼 使用了他过世的母亲的名义去登记选票
"抱歉刚刚写成岳母 原因是因为巴特曼事实上用了他过世的母亲跟岳母的身分去注册
结果岳母被标注为已过世 但是他母亲没有"
他拿他母亲的这张选票盖给了川普
这是美国多起疑似死人投票控诉中 目前唯一一个被确定起诉的案件
今天是川粉们胜利的一天 总算是证明了有死人投票这件事情
虽然他投的人是川普
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Officials finally found a case of a dead person voting, accusing a Republican
of pretending to be his dead mom to vote for Trump
Officials have found a case of a dead person voting.
Bruce Bartman has been charged with unlawful voting and perjury over
allegations that he pretended to be his dead mother to cast a ballot in the
November election for President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania.
Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer announced the charges in a
press release Monday. Bartman was arraigned Friday and released on $100,000
bail, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. If convicted on all charges, the
70-year-old Bartman could spend up to 19 years in prison.
"This is the only known case of a 'dead person' voting in our county,
conspiracy theories notwithstanding," Stollsteimer said in a statement. "
Further, the prompt prosecution of this case shows that law enforcement will
continue to uphold our election laws whenever presented with actual evidence of
fraud and that we will continue to investigate every allegation that that
comes our way."
Prosecutors said Bartman registered two dead people — his mother, Elizabeth
Bartman, and his mother-in-law, Elizabeth Weihman — as Republican voters in
August. He used the state's online voter-registration portal, which allows
residents to register to vote using their driver's license number or the last
four digits of their Social Security number, prosecutors said.
He used his mother-in-law's Social Security number to register, which was
flagged in the state system as belonging to someone who is dead, prosecutors
added, but the software sent a letter addressed to her to confirm whether she
was alive. Bartman lied on the form and pretended to be Weihman, prosecutors
said, but ultimately did not request an absentee ballot in her name.
Bartman also registered his dead mother to vote and ultimately successfully
cast a ballot for Trump and other Republicans in her name, prosecutors said.
Voter fraud is extremely rare in the US. A database maintained by the
conservative Heritage Foundation found only 193 convicted cases of voter fraud
between 2000 and 2020, during which about 250 million votes were cast.
Republicans frequently make baseless claims that voter fraud has a larger scope
and scale, while pushing for laws that would make it harder for people to vote
.
"For all the conspiracy theorists out there, this case today does not represent
widespread voter fraud," Stollsteimer told The Philadelphia Inquirer. "This
case was evidence that one person committed voter fraud by casting an improper
and illegal ballot."
President-elect Joe Biden won Delaware County by about 78,000 votes and won the
overall popular vote by about 7 million votes. Trump and his political allies
have filed 40 lawsuits challenging election results — some of them alleging
fraud — and none of them have succeeded.
In Delaware County, a task force composed of prosecutors, detectives, and other
investigators has looked into voter-fraud complaints made to the board of
elections.
Out of the hundreds of tips it received, Bartman was the only one that was
substantiated, First Assistant District Attorney Tanner Rouse told The Inquirer
.
"In the hundreds of calls we received and the hundreds of visits we made, we
only found one instance of malfeasance, and that was Mr. Bartman," Rouse said.
"And he will be prosecuted."
Samuel Stretton, Bartman's lawyer, told The Inquirer his client took
responsibility for his actions.
"In his political frustration, he chose to do something stupid," Stretton told
The Inquirer. "And for that he is very sorry."