JMU student gets 100-120 days in prison for registering dead people to vote
JMU student who worked for Democratic groups to plead guilty in voter registration fraud case
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21-year-old man who pleaded guilty last week to filing 18 phony voter registration applications in Harrisonburg will spend 100 to 120 days in prison, according to federal prosecutors in the Western District of Virginia.
Andrew J. Spieles of Harrisonburg admitted to filing the fraudulent registrations in August while working with Democratic-affiliated groups as a student at James Madison University ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
The fraud was discovered after local election officials noticed that some applications had been filed in the names of dead people, including the father of a Rockingham County judge.
The offense was punishable by a fine of up to $100,000 and up to a year in prison.
Spieles told investigators that he fabricated the applications to help a co-worker hit a registration “quota,” according to court documents.
There is no indication any fraudulent votes were cast in November’s election as a result of the improper registrations.
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Because the kid was stupid and used names that people knew. He got caught. How many have not been caught? At least this guy gets a criminal reocrd out ofthe deal.
Wait a minute...……
It can't be possible. There is no such thing as voter fraud ….. So I'm told.
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Virginia college student gets 100 days in jail for registering dead voters for Democrats
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As was made clear back then this was a case of voter registration fraud NOT voter fraud .
Registration fraud is usually done for profit, personal gain or just out of laziness, (not wanting to put the work in for legit sigs.), not in as some sort of misguided attempt to enable in-person voter fraud. Equating registration fraud with in person voter fraud is just dumb.
Seems this kid was just trying to impress some chick he knew by adding to her totals with his 18 bogus registration forms , (personal gain), not so he could jigger with an election.
Now thinking with his little head is going to cost him time in jail.
Just saw it come up via MSN today. Whatever the reason it is wrong and voter registration fraud can lead to voter fraud, right?
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