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.
Desert Rat?
“She should be permanently banned from voting, and any involvement in elections and the voting process.”
Each one should be treated like Philip Nolan in “The Man Without A Country”. Sadly, I doubt if there are enough rust-bucket ships in the world to house a single traitor-RAT on each.
“More ‘no-evidence’ is piling up on ‘No-Evidence Mountain’.”
I wonder if that Dana chick on CNN had this info before attacking Kari Lake about “no proven election fraud” yesterday.
Who’s paying her lawyers?
I hope it’s not a Public Employees’ UNION!
2020 municipal election…. So she only harvested for the local election and not the Federal election?
I’m thinking the death penalty for vote harvesting and voter fraud would strengthen voter integrity.
Is that a BOY or a GIRL?
“Is that a BOY or a GIRL?”
Yes.
Yes, it is a light slap on the wrist.
Hang the bitch, if she’s already been convicted in a fair trial.
BTW she has the face she deserves at her age.
Amen.
She has committed a crime against the Republic and thus forfeited her right to live
Yep
You think like I do. 30 days is a vacation with free meals. . . absurd for the scale of the crime
Ding ding ding ding! Post of the day! It is unbelievable that we have people who knew there was fraud and wanted to protest it can be held without bond just because of who they support. I am ashamed of how our country has taken such a down-hill turn.
And yet they want Steve Bannon in prison for 6 months.
“:^)
When the Republicans take the majority (if they do), I’d
like to see a committee out the Democrats with all the
information they have found concerning the 2020 election.
I’d like them to call up every single RINO that mouthed
off about no evidence, and ask them case by case by case,
if they see the cases as no evidence.
Just destroy these people’s credibility.
Probably. They just don’t pay attention to things they
don’t want to have to face head on.
They comfort themselves as being woke, but these people
are purposefully ignorant on today’s big topics.
Probably. They just don’t pay attention to things they
don’t want to have to face head on.
They comfort themselves as being woke, but these people
are purposefully ignorant on today’s big topics.
“:^)
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