Posted on 10/16/2022 6:54:03 PM PDT by lightman
An Arizona Democrat has been sentenced to 30 days in jail because of her involvement in a local ballot harvesting scheme during a 2020 municipal election.
Guillermina Fuentes, a 66-year-old school board member and former mayor of the border town of San Luis, was ordered Thursday to turn herself in to the Yuma County Jail, according to the office of Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich. She was also placed on two years of probation.
Fuentes, alongside her associate Alma Juarez, earlier this year pleaded guilty to one count each of ballot abuse. She was accused of illegally collecting early ballots from four individuals who were not her family members during the August 2020 primary. Investigators reported at that time that she was using her position in the San Luis community to persuade local voters to let her or her acquaintances deposit their ballots.
According to the report (pdf), the Arizona Attorney General’s office started investigating Fuentes following a complaint of a potential case of voter fraud. Video evidence provided to investigators apparently showed that Fuentes was collecting and filling out ballots at a table outside a polling place.
“A group of subjects, lead by Guillermina Fuentes were seen on video manning a table and appearing to be supporting particular candidates,” the report reads. “A female identified as Alma Juarez approached the table and made contact with a second female identified as Guillermina Fuentes. Fuentes is ultimately observed taking a ballot from Juarez.”
“In the video, it is clear that the ballot envelope was unsealed,” it continued. “Fuentes was observed to pick up a pen or pencil and write on the ballot envelope. She then pulls the ballot out of the envelope and makes three marks consistent with the filling in of spaces on a ballot to make a candidate selection. Fuentes put the ballot back in the envelope and sealed it. She then retrieved several more ballot envelopes from a folder on the table and handed them to Juarez. Juarez then walks toward the polling location.”
The video was recorded at sent to Yuman County Sheriff’s office by Gary Garcia Snyder, a Republican running for the San Luis City Council in 2020 as a write-in candidate. Snyder is now running for the state Senate.
In a separate proceeding Thursday, Juarez was sentenced to a 12-month term of probation for her ballot abuse offense, the attorney general’s office said.
Arizona’s 2016 anti-ballot-harvesting law, upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2021, makes it a felony for someone to turn in the early ballots of other people unless they are a family member, household member, or caregiver. Sixteen states currently allow a voter to designate a non-family member to return their ballot for them, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Should be a 5 year mandatory sentence.
30 days?....What a joke! That’s a thumb in the eye of all those who love our Constitution and our country.
Yup...one of the self anointed “betters” who think they know better than parents; and obviously think they vote better than the proles.
Tip of the iceberg. Does anyone doubt that demonrats do exactly this on an enormous scale every election. Tens of millions of fake votes. They pay people money and then fill in the ballots.
Should be much longer than that, IMO.
Out in time for midterms.
30 days . . . . unbelievable! This country is sliding fast and like I have said before if God doesn’t intervene on our behalf it’s “Sayonara” (the Japanese translation) America.
Suspect....
“All of you rotten men. You ignored me and went for the flashy types with their makeup and their toned exercise club bodies. When I pointed out your sexism you didn’t reform. I’ll get all of you one by one. I’m only inside for thirty days then I’m back on my mission. You’ll see.”
Democrats: “what? You mean rigging elections engaging in vote fraud is actually illegal? Are you serious?”
Excellent statement.
>>Give her a year<<
At least enough months so she can’t repeat the fraud again...
>>You mean rigging elections engaging in vote fraud is actually illegal? Are you serious?”<<
Actually, an Illegal Alien could beat the rap...
And how many more are out there, just like her?
Probably a lot. Yikes.
She should never be released from prison until the last person on the ballot loses any successive elections. If one candidate wins and gets re-elected later, she should sit in office until the last beneficiary of her cheating is no longer in office.
Southfield city clerk charged with 6 felonies tied to November election
Christine Ferretti
The Detroit News
Detroit — Southfield City Clerk Sherikia L. Hawkins was charged Monday with six felony counts over “unauthorized and inaccurate” changes to absentee ballots in the November 2018 election.
Hawkins, 38, was arraigned Monday in 46th District Court in Southfield on the charges, which include election law-falsifying returns or records, forgery of a public record, misconduct in office and multiple counts of using a computer to commit a crime.
Forgery of a public record is a 14-year offense.
Hawkins, a Democrat who just a few months ago was honored by the state party with the Dingell/Levin Award at its Legacy Dinner in Detroit, could not be reached Monday at her office for comment or a number listed in public records. Her attorney also could not be reached.
Hawkins is paid $101,500 per year in Southfield as the city’s clerk.
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BUT, she had motions filed to toss out four of the six felonies and the court approved this for legal technicalities. Judge Leo Bowman released her from the charges of four indictments.
Two remain against her, thank goodness.
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Jan.21, 2022
Election violation charges reinstated against Southfield city clerk Hawkins
Mike Martindale
The Detroit News
The Michigan Court of Appeals has reinstated four original criminal charges against Southfield City Clerk Sherikia Hawkins regarding alleged November 2018 election violations.
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Hawkins has been charged with one count of violating election law by falsifying returns or records, a five-year felony that can include a $1,000 fine; one count of forgery of a public record, a 14-year felony; and one count of misconduct in office, a five-year felony that can include a $10,000 fine.
The other three charges involve the alleged use of a computer to commit the other violations.
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Jan. 21, 2022. Now, the Michigan Court of Appeals has reversed Bowman and increased the number of live charges back to six, up from two. The panel rejected Bowman’s finding that a district court judge erred in sending her to trial on all six counts, after hearing evidence at a preliminary hearing.
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Me: So the case is not over and she hasn’t been sentenced. Amazing how shoddy the legal system is. A wonder she and the Dems didn’t sue us for the emotional strain of facing her indictments for felonies.
Sounds like a “Threat to Democracy”® to me.
Democrats, school board groomers and scum
Who is keeping track of these fraud incidents? Jim Jordan, Ted Cruz, Matt Gaetz, and Rand Paul should have copies. They’re the only ones calling out and challenging the dems on their stupid policies.
They should be jailed for the 30-day period before the elections.
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