Posted on 11/17/2020 12:19:01 PM PST by gattaca
Two men were arrested and charged in Southern California on voter fraud charges after they allegedly submitted thousands of fraudulent voter registration applications on behalf of homeless people, said the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office on Tuesday.
Carlos Antonio De Bourbon Montenegro, 53, and Marcos Raul Arevalo, 34, were charged with one count each of conspiracy to commit voter fraud, eight counts of voter fraud, four counts of procuring and offering a false or forged instrument, and other charges, said the DA’s office in a news release.
The office said Montenegro allegedly submitted more than “8,000 fraudulent voter registration applications between July and October 2020.” He’s also accused of falsifying names, signatures, and addresses on nomination papers “under penalty of perjury to run for mayor in the city of Hawthorne.”
Montenegro also faces another 10 counts of voter fraud, seven counts of procuring and offering a false or forged instrument, two counts of perjury, and five misdemeanor counts of interference with a prompt transfer of a completed affidavit, the office said.
If convicted, Montenegro can face as many as 15 years and eight months in prison, while Arevalo could face seven years in prison, officials noted.
The FBI, District Attorney’s office, the Los Angeles Public Integrity Division, and other agencies are investigating the case.
Other details about the case are not clear. It’s also not clear if their alleged voter fraud scheme affected the presidential election in some way.
It’s not clear if either Montenegro or Arevalo have lawyers.
According to local news outlet The Daily Breeze in a report in August, Montenegro, who was running for mayor in Hawthorne, had “turned in paperwork to run for mayor but failed to meet the required 20 signatures by Hawthorne residents.”
Over the past two weeks, since the Nov. 3 election, President Donald Trump’s campaign and other Republicans have raised questions about voter fraud and irregularities that may have tipped the presidential race to Democratic candidate Joe Biden. The president’s team has filed several lawsuits in key states including Pennsylvania, Georgia, and other places, while citing sworn statements made by hundreds of witnesses.
The Department of Homeland Security’s cyber-security division, in a statement last week, said the past election was the “most secure” in history. Meanwhile, secretaries of state have disputed Trump’s claims of fraud.
However, the chairman of the Federal Elections Commission (FEC), Trey Trainor told Newsmax several days ago that he believes “that there is voter fraud taking place in these places.” Trainor, in a tweet, said a recent claim from Trump lawyer Sidney Powell about his team being able to overturn the election with their cases should be taken seriously.
NO. VOTER FRAUD DOES NOT EXIST!!!
Why the hell would they need to commit voter fraud in CA? They have that state wrapped up and on the shelf.
It was probably a squabble amongst democrat candidates..
In before unsubstantiated claims !
Communists in 2016: “Russia hacked and stole the election!”
Communists in 2020: “There is no vote fraud.”
The Department of Homeland Security’s cyber-security division, in a statement said these 8,000 fraudulent voter registration applications as well as falsified names, signatures, and addresses on nomination papers was the “most secure” election fraud in history.
It’s a matter of numbers. California is where the Deep State runs up numbers in order to build a numerical majority for Biden, to support his claims of winning the race.
Stop the investigation! There isn’t enough fraud to overturn the election, therefore it isn’t fraud!/s
down ballot contests. the dems flipped a half dozen house seats a few years ago with ballot harvesting; this sounds similar.
Wanna stop this crap? Institute capital punishment. Public hangings would work.
I remember that. Hearing two weeks later a race flipped in CA after “counting” was complete.
How much $$$ did they make for their efforts? Who paid them?
Possibly congressional votes rigged.
That is exactly what’s needed.
Good point!
Carlos Antonio De Bourbon Montenegro
This guy doesn’t have enough names.
Only 7 years of prison for the one guy and 8 years for the guy running for mayor (Can you really believe this guy was this big of a cheater and idiot?), and that’s only if they are convicted.... Capital punishment should be the minimum sentence.
Stop the investigation! There isn’t enough fraud to overturn the election, therefore it isn’t fraud!/s
That is certainly what the MSM, Yahoo, Google, etc. would have us believe.
OTOH, the last two lines of the article provide a better sense of reality:
"the chairman of the...(FEC), Trey Trainor told Newsmax...he believes...there is voter fraud taking place in these places. Trainor,...said a recent claim from...Sidney Powell about his team being able to overturn the election with their cases should be taken seriously."
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