Cedarburg woman charged with voter fraud
Bruce Vielmetti
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A Cedarburg woman has been charged with voter fraud after prosecutors say she
submitted an absentee ballot close to Election Day for her life partner who
died in July.
Christine Daikawa, 48, faces two counts — making a false statement to obtain
or vote an absentee ballot, a misdemeanor, and election fraud by
impersonating an elector, a felony.
According to the criminal complaint:
Cedarburg City Clerk Tracie Sette told investigators that when election
workers tried to log an absentee vote that had been dropped off on Election
Day, records showed the voter, Elizabeth "Lizzy" Larson, was deceased. The
vote, therefore, was not counted.
Larson, 56, had requested an absentee ballot for the Nov. 3 election back in
March. She died July 9.
But the ballot envelope had been signed and dated Sept. 16. Daikawa had
signed as the witness, listing an address in Thiensville. From Larson's
obituary, detectives learned Daikawa had been her partner.
Cedarburg officials knew the ballot was put in a drop box at City Hall on
Nov. 3, but couldn't say for sure if it was dropped by someone independently
or via the postal service. So they could not be 100% sure what day Daikawa
actually deposited the ballot.
When confronted with the absentee ballot envelope on Nov. 11, Daikawa said, “
I did, but I didn’t mean to” and then said that she'd committed voter fraud
and was going to jail.
Her initial court appearance is set for Dec. 14 in Port Washington.
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如标题
威州有一名妇女被指控帮死去配偶投票并已认罪
没意外的话至少会被关几年
这只是刚好被发现
而且认罪干脆的
不知道还有多少类似例子