Minnesota Judge Arrested for 2024 Election Fraud Scheme
Nov 20, 2024 18:46:35 GMT -5
Post by schwartzie on Nov 20, 2024 18:46:35 GMT -5
Minnesota Judge Arrested for 2024 Election Fraud Scheme
Nick R. Hamilton
November 20, 2024 - 10:13 am
An elections judge in Minnesota has been arrested and charged over an illegal scheme to let unregistered people vote in the 2024 presidential race.
Timothy Michael Scouton, 64, was the head election judge in a small township of 100 in Hubbard County.
Police arrested Scouton after receiving reports of election violations.
Witnesses said Scouton told them to let people vote without registering.
It was Hubbard County Auditor Kay Rave who tipped off the police.
Rave discovered that 11 people had voted without completing registration forms.
Police then interviewed election judges in Badoura Township who worked the election with Scouton on Election Night.
One judge told police that Scouton had instructed her not to use the Minnesota Voter Registration Application form.
Scouton’s son was also working as an election judge and would have been overseeing the registration process, the witness said.
Amazingly, another judge said he was unaware the registration form was necessary or that it even existed.
The judge said Scouton instructed him to have voters sign the back of a book.
Scouton allowed this despite completing his training in July to be a head election judge, the criminal complaint said.
He “declined to provide a statement” after his arrest, police revealed.
Minnesota’s Democrat Secretary of State Steve Simon called the allegations “extremely serious” in an initial statement.
However, he later downplayed the incident.
Instead, Simon insisted that elections in Minnesota are “resilient.”
Simon argues this is a case of one bad apple, rather than a systematic problem.
But the state’s Republicans say reform is needed.
In a statement, Republican State Rep. Krista Knudson said.
“This is yet another reason we need voter ID and for Secretary of State Steve Simon to join Republicans in making election law changes that will put a stop to the numerous problems we’ve seen throughout this election cycle.
“The status quo is not working, and we need to take action next session to address these problems.”
The arrest fits a pattern of election-related breaches that have been consistently shrugged off by Democrats.
Before the election, Michigan’s Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson downplayed the arrest of a Chinese national who successfully cast a ballot.
Scouton was charged with one count of accepting the vote of an unregistered voter and one count of neglect of duty by an election official, both felonies.
He is due back in court on January 6.
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Nick R. Hamilton
November 20, 2024 - 10:13 am
An elections judge in Minnesota has been arrested and charged over an illegal scheme to let unregistered people vote in the 2024 presidential race.
Timothy Michael Scouton, 64, was the head election judge in a small township of 100 in Hubbard County.
Police arrested Scouton after receiving reports of election violations.
Witnesses said Scouton told them to let people vote without registering.
It was Hubbard County Auditor Kay Rave who tipped off the police.
Rave discovered that 11 people had voted without completing registration forms.
Police then interviewed election judges in Badoura Township who worked the election with Scouton on Election Night.
One judge told police that Scouton had instructed her not to use the Minnesota Voter Registration Application form.
Scouton’s son was also working as an election judge and would have been overseeing the registration process, the witness said.
Amazingly, another judge said he was unaware the registration form was necessary or that it even existed.
The judge said Scouton instructed him to have voters sign the back of a book.
Scouton allowed this despite completing his training in July to be a head election judge, the criminal complaint said.
He “declined to provide a statement” after his arrest, police revealed.
Minnesota’s Democrat Secretary of State Steve Simon called the allegations “extremely serious” in an initial statement.
However, he later downplayed the incident.
Instead, Simon insisted that elections in Minnesota are “resilient.”
Simon argues this is a case of one bad apple, rather than a systematic problem.
But the state’s Republicans say reform is needed.
In a statement, Republican State Rep. Krista Knudson said.
“This is yet another reason we need voter ID and for Secretary of State Steve Simon to join Republicans in making election law changes that will put a stop to the numerous problems we’ve seen throughout this election cycle.
“The status quo is not working, and we need to take action next session to address these problems.”
The arrest fits a pattern of election-related breaches that have been consistently shrugged off by Democrats.
Before the election, Michigan’s Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson downplayed the arrest of a Chinese national who successfully cast a ballot.
Scouton was charged with one count of accepting the vote of an unregistered voter and one count of neglect of duty by an election official, both felonies.
He is due back in court on January 6.
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