Three officials in a miniature district in the south -eastern Favor’s County illegally threw dozens of voting cards in the mayor’s race in 2021, just to lose their candidate, say Federal prosecutors.
Federal prosecutors accused on Tuesday by the Vice President of the Council of Millbourne Borough Council MD Nurul Hasan, a member of the MD Council Munsur Ali and a former member of the Council of Rafikul Islam with dozens of electoral allegations arising from what an unsuccessful plot says to steal the mayor for Hasan four years ago.
In a uncommon case of election fraud, the federal act To change the registration of voters in neighboring communities to Millbourne before the cast of post voting on their behalf.
In a miniature community, in which there are just over 1,200 people, the program-according to federal officials, resulted in about three fraudulent voting cards-it was possible to convince the results in low-turn elections. But Hasan still lost the race with almost 30 votes Mayor Mahabubul A. Tayuub.
No lawyer was mentioned for men. Inquiter was unable to reach them on Thursday And the District’s lawyer did not answer the request for comment.
Jim Allen, the Director of the Delaware County election, said that the unit cooperated in investigation after raising fears in 2021, said that prosecution should serve as a deterrent for others, tempted to break the rules.
“I consider it proof that investigators will not allow the passage of time or lack of influence on the election results prevent them from implementing the case, no matter how long it takes.”
Allen said that the program that required knowledge of personal data is “extremely rare”.
After losing a democratic Primary for the mayor of Millbourne in 2021, Hasan began a campaign on universal elections.
Trying to win this race, the accusation claims that he and Ali asked friends who do not live in Millbourne, to change the registration address of voters to Millbourne and vote for him. Apparently they told these friends that they would not be punished until they voted in the next election in November.
In addition, Ali and Hasan allegedly convinced friends to provide them with a driving license or other documents with information identification. Then they used the online voter registration system in Pennsylvania to change the registration address for these people.
They did the same with the registration of other voters, whose identification information was able to obtain without the knowledge of voters, prosecutors say.
The online voter registration system in Pennsylvania is established so that voters can register and change information only for themselves. To register to vote or change information, voters must provide the date of birth, address and social insurance number or driving license number.
The same system can also be used to demand post voting.
According to the indictment, Hasan not only used personal data to change the registration of non -resident voters, but also had voting for these people, Ali and Islam. Then the men allegedly completed the voting cards, voting for Hasan and returned them to the services of Delaware County voters.
Prosecutors say that men have registered falsely and cast voting cards for about three dozen voters.
Each of them is accused of conspiracy and several cases of fraudulent registration of voters and providing false information in the registration of voters. All three accused are to be accused next week.
