Three Arrested For Alleged Voter Fraud In Key Swing States
"... far from the first example of potential voter fraud."
Three individuals in three swing states were arrested and charged with voter fraud over the weekend.
In Virginia, Vafalay Massaquoi faces up to 40 years in prison for registering voters who did not even exist. As reported by the Washington Post, Massquoi worked for a “local advocacy group” and filed the applications with the City of Alexandria, who notified state officials.
Massaquoi is accused of falsifying applicants and forging voter registration forms that were filed with the Alexandria Office of the General Registrar. He was charged with two felony counts of forging a public record and two felony counts of voter registration fraud.
In Florida, Miami-Dade police arrested Gladys Coego, 74, after she was seen logging additional votes for Raquel Regalado, a mayoral candidate.
Investigators confirmed Coego had submitted two extra votes, but witness testimony suggested she’d sent in several more.
Coego willfully turned herself in to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Friday morning. She was charged with two felony counts of marking another person’s ballot and was released after posting a $10,000 bond.
Also in Florida, 33-year-old Tomika Curgil allegedly filled out five election forms without the voters’ consent. Curgil, who was working as part of United for Care, a campaign to legalize marijuana, also submitted at least 15 forms for people who apparently don’t exist — and several forms for people who are dead.
Police officers arrested Curgil at her Liberty City home Friday morning and charged her with five felony counts of submitting false voter-registration information. Her bond was set at $125,000.
The arrests are far from the first example of potential voter fraud, as the names of thousands of deceased individuals have been found on voter rolls, and one Young Democrat in Virginia registered 19 deceased to vote.
The three arrests come as Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has claimed the presidential election is “rigged” to favor Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton might benefit from vote manipulation, as Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe signed an executive order allowing over 200,000 ex-felons to vote — a move that many have criticized as an attempted boost for the Democratic party.
Trump has also pointed out the collusion within the Democratic National Committee that led to the demise of candidate Bernie Sanders.
While the jury is still out if voter fraud exists on a scale large enough to swing a presidential election, the trio of arrests around Halloween weekend confirm, if nothing else, that cases of perpetrated or attempted fraud exist.
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