Lawyer says 'mistake' for man to pretend to be dead mom for Trump vote
Drew Angerer/Getty Images 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 w...