Posted on 06/26/2017 12:28:51 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
HARRISONBURG, Va. A man paid to register Virginia voters prior to the 2016 Presidential Election will spend at least 100 days in prison for submitting the names of deceased individuals to the Registrars Office.
James Madison University student Andrew J. Spieles, 21, of Harrisonburg, pled guilty Monday in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia. As part of the plea agreement, Spieles agreed to a prison sentence of 100 to 120 days.
Spieles worked for Harrisonburg Votes when he committed the crime, according to acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle.
Harrisonburg Votes is a political organization affiliated with the Democratic Party.
In July 2016 Spieles job was to register as many voters as possible and reported to Democratic Campaign headquarters in Harrisonburg, a U.S. Attorneys Office spokesperson said. In August 2016, Spieles was directed to combine his registration numbers with those of another individual because their respective territories overlapped. After filling out a registration form for a voter, Spieles entered the information into a computer system used by the Virginia Democratic Party to track information such as name, age, address and political affiliation. Every Thursday an employee/volunteer hand-delivered the paper copies of the registration forms to the Registrars Office in Harrisonburg.
Later that month, someone at the Registrars Office called police after another employee saw a name they recognized on a registration form.
The name was the deceased father of a Rockingham County Judge.
The Registrars Office discovered multiple instances of similarly falsified forms when it reviewed additional registrations. Some were in the names of deceased individuals while others bore incorrect middle names, birth dates, and social security numbers, the spokesperson continued. The Registrars Office learned that the individuals named in these forms had not in fact submitted the new voter registrations. The assistant registrars personal knowledge of the names of some of the individuals named in the falsified documents facilitated the detection of the crime.
Spieles later admitted that he prepared the false voter registration forms by obtaining the name, age, and address of individuals from walk sheets provided to him by the Virginia Democratic Party, fabricating a birth date based on the ages listed in the walk sheet, and fabricating the social security numbers. Spieles admitted that he created all 18 fraudulent forms himself and that no one else participated in the crime.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Harrisonburg Police Department investigated the crime.
Not just no such thing; there's absolutely no such thing. No evidence whatsoever.
The media will refer to this as an isolated incident. No, strike that. They won’t refer to it at all since it make the democrats look bad.
You win the award for my LOL of the day post. Nicely done.....
“Yew gotta purty mouth, boy.”
I agree. Penalty should be much stiffer. Interfering with our elections is a very serious crime against democracy and affects every aspect of our lives.
What are you in here for, kid???
He’s in big trouble.
Wonder how many of the dead folks voted?
The article states “at least 100 days”. With time off for good behavior, it could be just an “extended” vacation at a country club prison.
Anyone who willingly and knowingly tampers with the integrity of our election system needs more than this “consequence”.
I don't think this is the way the pros do it i.e., the professional Democrat fraudulent vote manufacturers.
Not to defend the kid, but the method he used does sound naive.
I've used Republican "walk sheets" when going door-to-door on behalf of Republican candidates. My walk sheets simply listed names and addresses of registered Republicans, grouped by street.
All the information in the walk sheets is compiled from registered voter databases, which is public information available from your County's board of elections.
While the lists might include the voters' ages (if the voter filled in his birthdate when he registered to vote), I don't believe Social Security numbers would be included
This kid fabricated both Social Security numbers and birth dates for his fake voters. Sounds like a sure-fire way to get caught.
Up side is he may get his first date is like forever...
Or, perhaps it was an extra-credit project for some lefty college course? What would be surprising is if he thought up all of the methods he employed completely on his own.
Will he be eligible to vote once he’s released?
LOL, I am STEALING that graphic!!!!!!
I bet he gets to keep the right to vote even though he plead guilty.
Check up on him in 2 years.....30 days, tops.
Otto got 17 years for stealing a poster.
How bout a nice even number, sayyyyy, 20 years.
Beat he’d sing like a bird
He knows better than to rat out any other Rats.
>>Up side is he may get his first date is like forever...
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True. That our citizenry gets its true justice having to rely on other convicted criminals says a lot about the state of our INjustice system. Better than nothing, I guess.
Sorry
Bet he’d sing like a bird
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