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New Jersey’s Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin has added new charges to an ongoing election-fraud case involving Democrat Alex Mendez, the Paterson City Council President, and several alleged co-conspirators. According to the Attorney General, the defendants are accused of attempting to rig the election, tampering with ballots, and obstructing the course of justice through witness tampering.
The 347 mail-in voting ballots that have put Alex Mendez at risk of facing prison time were never counted as part of the councilman’s winning margin.
An unidentified state’s witness said he accompanied Alex Mendez while the then-candidate illegally collected mail-in ballots from voters.
The council president was hit with a new batch of criminal election fraud charges stemming from the 2020 ward council races.