Democrat Student Jailed For Registering Dead People To Vote In Virginia

The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia has sentenced a James Madison University student to at least 100 days in prison for registering the names of deceased persons to vote prior to the 2016 presidential election.

According to acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle, the student, Andrew J. Spieles, worked for Democrat-affiliated organization Harrisonburg Votes when he committed the crime:

“In July 2016 Spieles’ job was to register as many voters as possible and reported to Democratic Campaign headquarters in Harrisonburg,” a U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesperson said. “In August 2016, Spieles was directed to combine his registration numbers with those of another individual because their respective territories overlapped. After filling out a registration form for a voter, Spieles entered the information into a computer system used by the Virginia Democratic Party to track information such as name, age, address and political affiliation. Every Thursday an employee/volunteer hand-delivered the paper copies of the registration forms to the Registrar’s Office in Harrisonburg.”

Spieles admitted to falsifying voter registration forms by using valid information from “walk sheets” provided to him by the Virginia Democratic Party. However, he was caught red-handed (blue-handed?) when a staffer at the Registrar’s Office noticed a name on one of the registration forms to be that of the deceased father of a Rockingham County judge:

“The Registrar’s Office discovered multiple instances of similarly falsified forms when it reviewed additional registrations. Some were in the names of deceased individuals while others bore incorrect middle names, birth dates, and social security numbers,” the spokesperson continued. “The Registrar’s Office learned that the individuals named in these forms had not in fact submitted the new voter registrations. The assistant registrar’s personal knowledge of the names of some of the individuals named in the falsified documents facilitated the detection of the crime.”

Spieles said he worked alone and that no one else participated in his crime; thankfully, he was caught after registering just 18 names. However, in a heavily contested battleground state like Virginia just a handful of falsified votes could swing an election. In 2016, Donald Trump lost Virginia by less than 200,000 votes. If other Democrats managed to commit voter fraud throughout the state undetected, is it possible that Trump could have won the state?

Voter fraud is real. Kudos to Virginia for cracking down on Spieles.

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