A Delaware County man charged with registering dead relatives to vote in presidential election
Updated Dec 21, 2020;
Vinny Vella | The Philadelphia Inquirer
Dec. 22 In the weeks leading up to the presidential election, Elizabeth Bartman and Elizabeth Weihman registered to vote as Republicans in Nether Providence Township, Delaware County officials said Monday. There was one problem: Both women had been dead for several years.
The man behind those applications, Bruce Bartman, now faces two felony counts of perjury, as well as one count of unlawful voting for successfully casting an absentee ballot for President Donald Trump in the name of Elizabeth Bartman, his long-dead mother.
MEDIA A registered Republican who requested and returned an absentee ballot on behalf of his dead mother that was counted in the 2020 General Election has been charged with unlawful voting and perjury, Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer announced Monday.
âLet me just be very clear for all the conspiracy theorists who may be out there watching: The case we are talking about today presents no evidence of widespread voter fraud, and in fact is only evidence that one individual here in Delaware County was able to vote for a deceased person, and he voted that person for Donald Trump,â said Stollsteimer.
What to Know
Bruce Bartman, 70, of Marple Township, is accused of illegally voting for President Donald Trump under the names of his deceased mother and his deceased mother-in-law.
An Absentee Ballot under the name of Bartman s deceased mother was received and recorded by the Delaware County Bureau of Elections and the illegal vote was counted in the tally for the November 3 election, investigators said.
Delaware County s district attorney said the incident was the the only known case of a ‘dead person’ voting in the county.
A Delaware County man is accused of illegally voting for President Donald Trump under the names of his deceased mother and deceased mother-in-law.
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Bruce Bartman pretended to be his dead mother to illegally cast a vote for President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, prosecutors say.
Samuel Stretton, Bartman s lawyer, told Insider that he admitted to the crime and planned to plead guilty. It was his way of doing civil disobedience by voting illegally for Trump, Stretton said.
Voter fraud is extremely rare in the US, with fewer than 200 convicted cases out of hundreds of millions of votes cast from 2000 to 2020.
The lawyer representing Bruce Bartman the Pennsylvania Republican who was charged with voter fraud, accused of pretending to be his dead mother to illegally cast a vote on her behalf for President Donald Trump says his client believed he was participating in some kind of protest.
Updated on December 21, 2020 at 5:22 pm
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What to Know
Bruce Bartman, 70, of Marple Township, is accused of illegally voting for President Donald Trump under the names of his deceased mother and his deceased mother-in-law.
An Absentee Ballot under the name of Bartman s deceased mother was received and recorded by the Delaware County Bureau of Elections and the illegal vote was counted in the tally for the November 3 election, investigators said.
Delaware County s district attorney said the incident was the the only known case of a ‘dead person’ voting in the county.
A Delaware County man is accused of illegally voting for President Donald Trump under the names of his deceased mother and deceased mother-in-law.