Bruce Bartman, a Republican, has been arrested for allegedly
using his dead mother’s ballot to vote for President Donald Trump in last
month’s United States election.
He was charged with unlawful voting and perjury for
allegedly pretending to be his dead mother while casting his ballot in the
November election in Pennsylvania.
Prosecutors said the 70-year-old registered two dead people
– his mother and mother-in-law – as Republican voters in the buildup to the
election.
He was said to have used the state’s online portal that
allows residents to register to vote using either their driver’s license number
or social security number.
In a statement, Jack Stollsteimer, Delaware county district
attorney, said the indictment “is the only known case of a “dead person” voting
in our county, conspiracy theories notwithstanding.
“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,” he added.
Democrat Joe Biden won the presidential election, but Trump
has refused to concede after he and the Republican Party alleged foul play.
They had argued among other things, that many ballots
belonging to dead persons were counted in favour of Biden.
However, officials said the voter fraud detected in the
election is not enough to overturn Biden’s victory.
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