A former member of the Council in a compact district of Delaware in Millbourne was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in prison of the Federal for unsuccessfully attempted to prepare the mayor’s elections at 2021.
USA Judge Harvey Bartle told MD Nurul Hasan that his attempt to unfairly install at the top of the district government was one of the most solemn crimes in the country. And although Hasan apologized during the compact comments read by his lawyer, the judge did not stop his criticism of Hasan’s actions four years ago, claiming that they threatened the basic district – and the country – allegedly want to serve.
“What you did is undermine our democratic process,” said Bartle. “Democracy cannot function if we do not have free and honest choices, and this program was not small.”
Hasan was one of the three accused at the beginning of this year for participating in the program to be glued in the mayor’s office during the election cycle in 2021.
After he lost the democratic basics of only 16 votes, prosecutors, Hasan and two cokonpirators of the MD MDSUR ALI and MD RAFIKIKI Islam-Niezedzna voters from neighboring cities, to represent that people lived in Millbourne before the pre-first addresses, said prosecutors,
According to prosecutors, men had to study or gain access to personal information on the identification of voters, such as social law and driving license numbers, and present changes on the website registration website in Pennsylvania. Sometimes men did it with knowledge, other times without.
After the change of registration, prosecutors said Hasan sent post voting cards to the addresses in which he could recover them. He and his cokonpirators then filled and returned the vote with the name of Hasana written for the mayor.
Hasan-which also encouraged voters to offer legitimate support through the writing campaign-a total of about three fraudulent voting cards.
But Hasan still lost the race with the current mayor of Millbourne Mahbubul A. Tayub.
Despite his defeat, Hasan remained the vice president of the vicinity and remained in place, even after he pleaded guilty in the Federal Court in April for crimes, including a conspiracy, unfair registration of voters and providing false information in the registration of voters. (He was also accused of similar crimes in a related case, which is still expecting in a state court).
Hasan rejected calls to resign earlier this spring. The Borough Council was in the process of an unexpected personnel crisis at that time due to unrelated resignations. Hasan finally gave way in May, said his lawyer on Wednesday in court.
According to the website of the ALI district, he still has not resigned from the council, but is to be convicted next week. State law probably forbids him to continue his office after imposing his penalty, but it is not clear how and when he can be forced to subside.
Meanwhile, Islam was sentenced earlier on Wednesday for a year and one day behind bars. Prosecutors said that he played the smallest role in the program, enabling Hasan to employ his E -Mail address when making changes to voter registrations.
James Allen, director of the Delaware County election, testified to the interrogation of Hasan that the program was perhaps the worst example of the voter’s fraud he had seen from about two decades of work in election competitions. And it was particularly harmful, said Allen that the plot developed among the election climate, which in recent years has become more and more unstable, along with conspiracy explosions and allegations of fraud exploded throughout the country.
“This will cause suspicion forever in the Millbourne election,” said Allen. “There was real damage to the reputation of the election. And everything was for the selfish motif that had a dishonest selected place.”
