Basal Burmoral 2021 in Millbourne, a tiny district of Delaware west of Philadelphia, was settled by the cleanest margins, and MD Nurul Hasan lost the offer to perform the function of a democratic candidate for just 16 votes.
So in the next few months Hasan – vice president of the Millbourne council – decided to hatch the program to make sure that he could win the best office anyway.
First of all, Hasan called voters to a enormous extent a democratic district so that they would not vote for the official party candidate in universal elections – and instead wrote his name on the voting cards.
Then, in an insolent attempt to strengthen his chances, Hasan conspired with two other members of the Council to dishonestly change about three dozen registration of voters in the Pennsylvania internet system, increasing the number of people in the Millbourne voters lists by about 5%. Then Hasan asked for postal voting for these newly manipulated registrants-he voted for himself.
And yet Hasan’s conspiracy still disappointed to become the mayor. He lost in common elections about two dozen votes.
On Tuesday, the depth of the defeat was explained as Hasan and his two cokonspirators – a member of the MD Munsur Ali Council I and a former member of the MD Rafikul Islam council – they admitted to the federal court against crimes, including a conspiracy, fraudulent registration of voters and providing false information in registration of voters.
Men refrained from speaking a lot, accepting crimes before the US District Judge Harvey Bartle III, generally answering only “yes” or “no” to a number of standard questions.
Bartle is to convict men in June. Each of them is in the face of years behind bars.
The back appeared about six weeks after federal prosecutors lodged charges in this matter. Hasan was also accused last month in a parallel case in which counting stands in it, including voter voting and fraud.
In court documents, prosecutors said that Hasan ran a plan, cooperating with Ali and Islam to re -register voters from neighboring cities and falsely state that they lived in Millbourne addresses. To do this, men had to access personal information on the identification of voters, such as social insurance numbers and drivers, and present changes on the online voter registration platform in Pennsylvania.
Sometimes it meant that Hasan or Ali asked friends for permission to change registration, said prosecutors. But in other cases, men were able to make changes without the voter’s knowledge.
(Islam has been accused of playing the slightest role in the program, enabling Hasan to apply his e -mail address when introducing changes in some registrations to avoid detection, said prosecutors.)
After the change of registration, prosecutors said Hasan asked for post voting and sent them to the addresses in which he could receive them. Then the men filled and returned the vote with the name of Hasana written for the mayor.
In total, prosecutors found that the program led Hasan to submit about three dozen dishonest voting cards. But he still lost the race with the current mayor of Millbourne Mahabubul A. Tayub.
Millbourne is a tiny community, a house for just over 1,200 people, with a enormous population of immigrants. After the accusation of men, the election officials of the county stated that the program was a “extremely rare” form of electoral fraud that risked the results of local elections with a very tiny attendance.
Only about 300 people voted in the universal elections in 2021 for the mayor, said US prosecutor’s assistant Mark Dubnoff in court.
Despite the loss of Hasan in this competition, Remained Vice President of the Commune Council – even after submitting criminal charges against him at the beginning of this year. Ali is also a member of the council.
According to state law, beliefs about crime probably prohibit people with the behavior of these positions. But it was not immediately clear on Tuesday, how or when they could give up or be forced to do so. The mayor, chairman of the Council and the District’s lawyer did not respond to requests for comment.
Personnel writers Katie Bernard and Gillian McGoldrick contributed to this article.
