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A Des Moines woman has been arrested and charged with voter fraud after she allegedly voted for Donald Trump a second time out of concern that her first vote for Trump would be counted for Hillary Clinton instead. The Des Moines Register reports that 55-year-old Terry Lynn Rote was charged with first-degree election misconduct on Thursday after authorities discovered that she had cast early-voting ballots at two different locations in Iowa.
I dont know what came over me, Rote told the Washington Post sometime after being released on $5,000 bond Friday. The registered Republican also told Iowa Public Radio that she was afraid that her first Trump vote was going to be somehow counted for Clinton. I wasnt planning on doing it twice, it was spur of the moment, she insisted, also repeating Trumps oft-made claim that the polls are rigged.
However, Polk County auditor Jamie Fitzgerald told the Register that it was the first time in 12 years that he could remember having to report voter fraud, adding that the incident shows that our voting system works in Iowa, that were able to catch it. Another official, Polk County attorney John Sarcone, remarked to Iowa Public Radio that Rotes transgression is maybe the third voting irregularity hes seen result in a criminal charge in more than 25 years. (If convicted of the Class D Felony, Rote will face up to five years in prison.)
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/10/iowa-woman-arrested-after-voting-for-trump-twice.html
lindysalsagal
(20,682 posts)We got ONE!
Maru Kitteh
(28,340 posts)Stellar
(5,644 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Looks like this illegal voting thing is not going to work out in his favor.