Pennsylvania Man Charged With Voter Fraud For Casting Ballot For Trump Under Dead Mother’s Name
The Republican said he voted illegally “to reelect President Donald Trump.”
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Pennsylvania Man Charged With Voter Fraud For Casting Ballot For Trump Under Dead Mother’s Name
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A supporter of President Donald Trump in Marple Township, Pennsylvania, has been charged with voting for the president under the name of his deceased mother, the Delaware County District Attorney announced Monday, becoming the third Republican to be prosecuted for voter fraud in the battleground state.
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Bruce Bartman, 70, allegedly registered his deceased mother and mother-in-law to vote using Pennsylvania’s online voter registration portal, both as Republicans, and subsequently requested and returned an absentee ballot on behalf of his late mother.
Bartman confessed to casting a ballot on behalf of his mother, the district attorney’s office said in a statement, and “explained that he cast a vote in the name of his deceased mother to reelect President Donald Trump.”
“For all the conspiracy theorists out there, this case today does not represent widespread voter fraud,” Delaware County D.A. Jack Stollsteimer said Monday, noting the case was an isolated incident and the only instance of voter fraud the county found after following up on “hundreds” of tips.
Bartman’s arraignment follows a Republican man in Forty Fort, Pennsylvania, who was charged in October for similarly filling out an absentee ballot application on behalf of his deceased mother.
A registered Republican in Chester County, Pennsylvania, was also charged for casting a ballot in person in the November election, and then returning to his polling place with sunglasses on in an attempt to disguise himself and vote on behalf of his son.
There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the November election.
Key Background
The Trump campaign and allies like attorney Sidney Powell have repeatedly made baseless allegations of rampant voter fraud in the November election as part of an effort to overturn Biden’s victory. The campaign and GOP’s lawsuits have repeatedly been struck down in court due to a lack of evidence, including allegations of widespread “dead voters” as in Bartman’s case. Though the Trump campaign has publicly alleged voter fraud in Pennsylvania, the campaign has shied away from actually making those claims in court, with Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani telling a federal judge in Pennsylvania that the campaign’s central legal challenge in the state was “not a fraud case.” The Trump campaign filed a petition in the U.S. Supreme Court Sunday that challenges Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting rules and attempts to challenge the presidential election results, but the campaign did not make any specific allegations or provide evidence of voter fraud.
