A Grand Prairie, Texas woman has been arrested for attempting to vote five times in elections.
Rosa Maria Ortega, a legal alien and wife of an American citizen, applied to vote, but because she is not a citizen, her application was rejected.
NBC 5 reports:
Ortega applied to vote in Tarrant County and acknowledged on the application form that she was not a citizen, White said. The county rejected her application and notified her she was not qualified to vote.
But five months later, she applied again and this time claimed she was a citizen, White said.
Ortega never did vote in Tarrant County, but investigators learned she had voted in Dallas County, he said.
Dallas County Elections Administrator Toni Pippins-Poole said records showed that Ortega had voted a total of five times.
She was charged with illegal voting and was being held on $10,000 bond.
Meanwhile, Three Des Moines, Iowa residents have been charged with voter fraud after election officials say they tried to vote multiple times via absentee ballot.
According to the Des Moines Police Department, “two people were charged with first-degree election misconduct, and a third person was charged with fraud,” KCRG reports.
Officials say they attempted to submit ballots in multiple locations.
“You can only vote once, and once you vote, you can’t change your vote,” Polk County Auditor Jamie Fitzgerald says.
“When you vote, you get a bar scan, and we scan it into the system. We don’t know how you vote. We don’t care how you vote. But we can scan it in, and then if you try to go to a second (place), like a satellite location, then we try to scan it in. It will say you have already voted.”
According to the police report, two of the suspects mailed in ballots, then also allegedly voted in person, as well.
One voter is 102, while the other listed in the police report is 55.
“We check that against the national Social Security Number database, along with the DOT, so that’s checked,” Fitzgerald tells WHO. “We send you a voter card, and if that comes back it’ll get pulled from the early voting.”
Fitzgerald claims officials are attempting to keep dead people from voting in the election.
“We actually go through the death records from the Iowa Department of Public Health,” he says.
On Tuesday, the Des Moines Register reported U.S. Attorney Randy Seiler appointed an election officer to monitor complaints and allegations of fraud.
“Every citizen must be able to vote without interference or discrimination and to have that vote counted. The Department of Justice will act promptly and aggressively to protect the integrity of the election process,” Seiler says.
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