Florida woman simultaneously voted in multiple different states in 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2020 elections; Man votes in multiple elections after using fake birth certificate; Indiana poll worker pressures voters on how to vote
In past elections, it has been estimated that tens of thousands of people have voted simultaneously in multiple states.
Leslie is facing two third-degree felony charges of casting more than one ballot in an election, FDLE said, after she voted in the 2020 federal and state primary elections in both Florida and Alaska. She voted in Alaska by mail and voted early and in person in Palm Beach County.
Leslie told investigators she works as a physician assistant at a senior care facility in Loxahatchee, and her job requires her to travel to multiple states.
Investigators found Leslie had also voted in both states in 2014, 2016 and 2018, FDLE said. She is currently only facing charges for the 2020 votes, Gretl Plessinger, an FDLE spokesperson, said in an email Friday. . . .
Leslie’s arrest brings the total number of Floridians arrested by [Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s Election Crime]’s unit since August to 19. . . .
In another case in Florida, a man with seven different aliases used a counterfeit birth certificate from New York City to register.
. . . Alfred Samuels voted in two Broward Special Elections this year, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE). He registered to vote there in March 2021 under the alias Alford Nelson using a counterfeit birth certificate from New York City, according to police.
Samuels has gone by at least seven different aliases, according to the Department of Corrections, and has previously served prison time in prison for 11 felonies, including cocaine possession, selling/purchasing drugs within 1,000 feet of a school, resisting arrest with violence and trafficking cocaine.
Samuels faces five years in prison and a $5,000 fine for two counts of voting as an unqualified elector. . . .
If a poll worker can pressure in-person voters to vote a particular way, why don’t people believe that can happen with mail-in or absentee ballots?
. . . the inspector had learned of two separate incidents that may constitute electioneering and election interference. The poll worker, first identified by Chalkboard Review executive director Tony Kinnett as James Zheng, is now reportedly being investigated by the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office, and Sheller says she hopes to see Zheng prosecuted.
The first incident took place early Thursday evening as a group of education activists stood outside the Carmel polling place and advocated for pro-parent school board candidates. Sheller says the worker spoke with a pair of black voters who entered the polling station and urged them not to vote for the pro-parent candidates, arguing that the activists outside were “racist.”
That pair of voters then cast their ballots and approached the activists outside, informing them of what the poll worker had told them. The activists, which included a campaign worker for one of the candidates, then raised the issue with the workers inside.
The inspector then learned of a second incident, this one involving potential election interference. Sheller said the poll worker was assisting a voter with an electronic ballot and pressed the “straight Democrat ticket” option during the explanation. She said the voter was then confused about how to change the selection and raised the issue with another nearby poll worker. That worker resolved the issue, allowing the voter to cast a legitimate ballot, and then informed the polling inspector of what happened, Sheller said. . . .
