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Two women faced a ruling on Thursday inSouthern Arizonafor illegally collecting four early voting forms during the 2020 primary election.
Authorities state that Guillermina Fentes and Alma Huares participated in the "Barrot Harvesting". This is a practice once used by both parties to increase voting rates, but it is illegal because 2016 state law prohibits anyone other than family members or caregivers from returning early votes for another person. became. This is the only lawsuit ever filed by the State Attorney General under a law endorsed by the US Supreme Court last year.
According to authorities, Fuentes, a former mayor of San Luis and a member of the current Board of Education, will take advantage of his position in thedemocratic politicsof the Arizona border city to pursue sophisticated operations. Run, get voters to gather her, and in some cases fill out a voting form. However, the crimes she admitted in court last month do not include filling out voting forms or broader efforts.
Fuentes and Huares each pleaded guilty to ballot abuse and admitted that they had collected early ballots for people who were not in the family, lived together, or were not cared for. rice field.
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Fentes' conviction is a minor test Being punished by Ferrony or in prison for as long as two years. Huares's conviction is disdainful, and under the agreement of her plea, if she cooperates as she promises, she will be put to prosecution and the prosecutor will not ask for prison time.
Fentes fills out one voter's voting form, and three other ferrony charges are dismissed for forging her signature on some of the four voting forms she illegally returned. I did.
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Repeating unsupported claims RepublicansWithout widespread voting fraud As part of the wider pattern of battlefield states citing this case, the claim that President Donald Trump would have been reelected, but evidence did not extend it beyond the politics of the small town. It suggests that.
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According to public record requirements, less than 12 votes can be linked to Fuentes, which is not enough to make a difference except for the toughest local races.
The office of Justice Secretary Mark Brunovich, a Republican seeking the nomination of the party's US Senate, provided the record after a delay of more than 15 months.
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Fuentes and Juarez frominvestigators Reportedly, an envelopewill be mailed outside the San Luis Cultural Center on the day of the 2020 primary election. The voting form was put inside and dropped into the voting box.
Fuentes was recorded in a video by a write candidate who called the Yuma County Security Officer.
That day, the investigation began and the fingerprints were checked with about 50 votes, but no conclusions were reached. The investigation was taken over by the General Bureau of Lawyers within a few days, and the investigators worked with the security officer's representative to interview voters and Fentes.