Posted on 11/29/2022 5:58:26 AM PST by Red Badger
William Chase. Image: Lookout Mountain District Attorney's Office.
WALKER COUNTY, Ga. — A 62-year-old Walker County man is facing 25 years in prison after being convicted of voter fraud, according to District Attorney Chris Arnt.
The DA says William Chase filled out another Walker County resident's absentee ballot in the January 2021 runoff election after it was sent ton a PO box at an old address by mistake.
When the husband of the original owner of the ballot got his and she did not, the DA says she called the Walker County Elections Office to inquire about it.
The Elections Office found out that it has already been accepted, but not yet counted, and that it appeared to have her signature, the DA says.
The resident went to the Elections Office and pointed out that it was not her signature.
The DA says the Elections Office cancelled the forged ballot and had a new ballot sent to the resident’s current address.
The Elections Office then requested the Secretary of State Office investigate the forged ballot.
The DA says they learned that Chase was the current owner of the PO box, but he had already submitted a ballot for the election.
The DA says they matched fingerprints on the forged ballot with Chase's.
The DA says Chase is convicted of forgery in the first degree, illegal acts regarding election documents, unlawful acts regarding elector's vote, and repeat voting in same election.
Chase is sentenced to 25 years, with the first 15 years to be served in the Georgia Department of Corrections without the possibility of parole, the DA says.
The DA says Chase is no stranger to fraud and forgery as he has several felony convictions including: bankruptcy fraud, theft by shoplifting, forgery in the first degree, stealing public documents, and financial identity fraud.
Voter fraud should be a capital crime.
Small potatoes. I guess this shows that voter fraud only exists in a few, small cases. (Sarc.)
Twenty-five years for stealing one vote. Absolutely nothing for stealing 10’s of thousands of votes and entire elections.
EXACTLY!
“If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Must have been a Republican vote…
If it had been a republican vote, it would have been the headline and it would have been a lead story on all the MSM.
Steal ONE ballot, get 25 years.
Steal Gubernatorial or Presidential elections and nobody gets any punishment.
Agreed. It’s a direct attack on the entire body politic and cannot be tolerated in any way, shape, or form.
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“The DA says Chase is no stranger to fraud and forgery as he has several felony convictions including: bankruptcy fraud, theft by shoplifting, forgery in the first degree, stealing public documents, and financial identity fraud.”
A felon can vote in GA?
If he served his time and parole, and paid all fines for that laundry list of felonies, then the sentences must have been short.
EC
If states started giving these sentences consistently, you would see voter fraud cease to be a hobby.
Had to read all the way to the last sentence to understand what happened.
This guy has been convicted on multiple fraud charges in the past.
So, they dumped a bunch of new fraud accusations on him, and then asked for consecutive maximum sentences.
Looks like he is in poor health.
Minimum 15 year sentence?
Great idea - now we will have to spend a couple hundred thousand dollars a year to keep him alive until 2037!
Well in a few yrs he’d be on Medicare, so it govt healthcare either way.
Good.
Now ... prosecute the election OFFICIALS who tamper with voting machines, manipulate the count, create fraudulent ballots, accept registrations from addresses that don’t exist ....
This guy sentence seems reasonable, provided that it wasn’t part of a ‘group’ or coordinated effort. Coordinated voter fraud should be PUBLIC HANGING.
“The DA says they matched fingerprints on the forged ballot with Chase’s.”
I’m surprised GA put the effort into it.
And Ruby Freeman is still waddling around free after changing thousands of votes?????
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