Posted on 08/02/2024 7:20:21 PM PDT by simpson96
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced the arrest of Terry Andrew Heflin, a Democrat running for District 5 of the Clay County Commission, on 7 felony counts of voter fraud Wednesday.
Heflin, 45, a resident of Clay County, was charged with 7 counts of unlawful use of absentee ballots, according to AG Marshall’s office. Specifically, the indictment alleges that Heflin falsified applications to vote absentee for multiple people and then used those people’s names to vote for himself by absentee ballot. Each count of unlawful use of an absentee ballot is a Class C felony punishable by 1 year and 1 day to 10 years in prison.
Heflin turned himself in to the Clay County Sheriff’s Office, and is currently being held at the Clay County jail. The case is being prosecuted by the Attorney General’s Special Prosecutions Division.
After the announcement of Heflin’s arrest, Speaker of the House of Representatives Nathaniel Ledbetter reflected that legislation passed earlier this year by the Alabama Legislature cracking down on ballot harvesting was a necessary and effective decision.
“I’m proud of the Legislature’s efforts to safeguard the integrity of Alabama’s elections,” Ledbetter (R-Rainsville) said. “We have a very important election coming up in November, and I have full confidence that it will be safe and secure in the great state of Alabama.”
But...but... Voter fraud is merely a right wing conspiracy theory. / Massive sarcasm for those who doubted.
VP material for that communist POS bitch...
Voter fraud should be a capital punishment.
Doesn’t finding fraud mean that the Alabama AG is an election denier?
I thought that’s what good citizens are supposed to believe.
least 5 years in prison IMO.
Every illegal vote cast cancels out a legal voters vote. Nothing could be more undemocratic
Many decades ago....had a family member jailed for stuffing the ballot box. Yes, Democrat. Was running for office.
He died in jail of cancer. They wouldn’t let him out to die at home.
Back in the days when the laws meant something.
Aww. He looks so honest and upstanding, too.
“Alabama Democrat candidate arrested for 7 felony counts of voter fraud .... and in other news scientists confirm the sun will come out tomorrow, details at 10.”
How can this be??? There is NO voter fraud according to the DIM and their DIM-witted allies in the mal-media. Stop persecuting this wonderful fellow!
Alabama law makes offering, receiving compensation to gather mail ballots a felony
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/08/22/Alabama-law-mail-ballots-gathering-felony/9971724262744/
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