Maryland Man Pleads Guilty To Illegally Voting In West Virginia 9 Times

MANCHESTER, NH - JANUARY 08:  A man marks his ballot in a voting booth January 8, 2008 in Manchester, New Hampshire.  Record turnout for the nation's first primary was expected.  (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
MANCHESTER, NH - JANUARY 08: A man marks his ballot in a voting booth January 8, 2008 in Manchester, New Hampshire. Record turnout for the nation's first primary was expected. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s secretary of state says a Maryland man who had been casting ballots in both states has pleaded guilty to illegal voting.

Secretary of State Mac Warner’s office said in a news release that 73-year-old Jeffrey Hartman of Westminster, Maryland, pleaded guilty in Morgan County Magistrate Court in West Virginia last week.

The release said Hartman was registered to vote in both states and had cast ballots nine times in both since 2006.

He was sentenced to 30 days in jail, suspended for one year of probation and ordered to pay a $100 fine and court costs.

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  1. Lucky for him he wasn’t a black woman in Texas.

  2. $100 won’t get you a glass of water in the Georgia courts.

  3. Voting While Black

    A judge who sentenced a Texas woman to five years in prison for voting illegally because she was a felon on probation turned down on Monday the woman’s bid for a new trial.
    
    Ms. Mason,......................................... has said that she didn’t know that she wasn’t allowed to vote in that year’s presidential election. She cast a provisional ballot at her local church after being told that her name could not be found on the rolls. ***The ballot was never counted.***
    
    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/us/texas-woman-voter-fraud.html
  4. So for whom did he vote? That’s what I want to know.

    I"m gonna put my CSI: Voter Fraud Unit hat on and guess that a 73–year-old isn’t secret-voting for Hillary.

  5. Exactly. That’s why the AP left that bit of information out. After all, “both sides do it.”

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