Republican Election Crimes
Scandal Categories
Displaying 36 Scandals
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Georgia GOP VP Brian PritchardIllegally voted in nine elections between 2008 and 2011 while he was on probation for a prior felony conviction and ineligible to vote in Georgia while also having hypocritically spread baseless claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election and was later fined $5,000 and given a public reprimand by the judge overseeing his case28 Mar 2024According to an investigative report by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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County Commissioner Peggy Judd [R-AZ]Intentionally delayed certifying her county's 2022 midterm election results for weeks by citing unfounded and baseless allegations of fraud and only allowed the certification to go through after a judge ordered her to29 Nov 2023According to charging documents filed by state officials
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County Commissioner Tom Crosby [R-AZ]Intentionally and "knowingly interfered" with state officials attempting to certify 2022 midterm election results by delaying the certification of his county's results for weeks by citing unfounded and baseless allegations of fraud29 Nov 2023According to charging documents filed by state officials
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Trump Campaign Lawyer Jenna EllisLied to Georgia state senators about supposed voter fraud in the 2020 election and "intentionally aided and abetted" Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani after who also pushed election falsehoods to the state legislators24 Oct 2023According to charging documents filed by state officials
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Trump Campaign Advisor Kenneth ChesebroDevised and executed a plan to overturn the 2020 Presidential election results in Georgia in which he conspired with 16 Republicans to falsely certify Trump won the state and declare themselves the “duly elected and qualified” electors20 Oct 2023According to charging documents filed by state officials
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Trump Campaign Lawyer Sidney PowellPaid two coconspirators to illegally access voting machines in Coffee County, GA and copy voter data from the 2020 election presumably to search for anything that could back up their unhinged election conspiracy theories19 Oct 2023According to charging documents filed by state officials
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State Rep. David Cole [R-AL]Fraudulently claimed a 5-by-5-foot closet-size space he rented for $5 a month was his official residence in order to run for office in a district he didn't actually live in10 Oct 2023According to charging documents filed by local officials
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State Sen. Brian Kelsey [R-TN]Illegally transferred $91,000 from his political campaign and a nonprofit organization to an authorized federal campaign committee supporting his candidacy using money not subject to reporting regulations to help his 2016 bid for US Congress and then hid the transactions from the FEC11 Aug 2023According to charging documents filed by federal officials
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Matt DePerno [2021 GOP MI Attorney General Nominee]Organized a group to illegally seize voting machines used in the 2020 election and perform "tests" on the equipment which election security experts warn compromised the machines and could have altered the votes cast on them01 Aug 2023According to charging documents filed by state officials
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State Rep. Daire Rendon [R-MI]Organized a group to illegally seize voting machines used in the 2020 election and perform "tests" on the equipment which election security experts warn compromised the machines and could have altered the votes cast on them01 Aug 2023According to charging documents filed by state officials
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Signature Masters Inc Exec Shawn WilmothForged thousands of fake signatures over hundreds of petitions his third-party company conducted that the State AG charged were full of “obvious fraud” and done in such a “sophomoric” way that he misspelled people's names and cities and had signatures of people who were dead or had moved and then submitted them to candidates who contracted his services and proceeded to inadvertently submit the fraudulent petition signatures to election officials22 Jun 2023According to charging documents filed by state officials
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State Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson [R-AR]Illegally spent over $100,000 in campaign contributions on personal expenses and then tried to cover it up by filing numerous false tax returns03 Feb 2023He pleaded guilty to tax and wire fraud and was sentenced to 46 months in prison and ordered to pay over $350,000 in fines
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Wife Phuong TaylorSubmitted dozens of phony voter registrations, absentee ballot requests and absentee ballots in the 2020 Iowa Republican primary in an attempt to help her husband Jeremy Taylor's campaign for the US House12 Jan 2023According to charging documents filed by federal officials
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Rep. Drew Ferguson [R-GA]Voted using his former invalid address instead of the one he actually lived at in a different county 60 miles away in the 2022 primary, general and U.S. Senate runoff elections21 Dec 2022According to an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Alabama GOP Chair John Wahl03 Oct 2022According to investigative report by AL.com
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Commissioner Jason Schofield [R-NY]Filled out and submitted eight absentee ballots for unwitting voters without their knowledge or consent by taking advantage of his position on a local elections board to access their voter information13 Sep 2022According to charging documents filed by federal officials
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Paul Manni [2020 GOP MI City Council Member Nominee]Forged signatures on at least nine absentee voter applications for people who were unaware he was submitting the request and lied to the county clerk by attesting he had permission to deliver the applications09 Aug 2022According to charging documents filed by local officials
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City Council Member Kimberly McPherson [R-NY]Cast two ballots in other people's names in a general election and in one other person's name in a primary election held in 202108 Jun 2022According to charging documents filed by federal officials
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Commissioner John Oxendine [R-GA]Spent roughly $100,000 in campaign donations on personal expenses that included a down payment on a home, luxury cars and childcare expenses12 May 2022According to a complaint filed by the Georgia Ethics Commission which he settled by agreeing to forfeit $128,000 dollars left in his campaign account without admitting any guilt
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City Council Member Brian Young [R-IN]Illegally voted in multiple elections and even represented a district he didn't actually live in after using his parents address as his own on his voter registration06 Apr 2022According to charging documents filed by local officials
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County Clerk Tina Peters [R-CO]Allowed an unauthorized individual to make copies of voting machine hard drives and attend a voting machine software update intended only for credentialed election officials09 Mar 2022According to charging documents filed by the Colorado Attorney General
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Mark Meadows [Fmr. Trump Chief of Staff]Registered to vote from NC mobile home he never visited in violation of state law that says it's illegal to vote from an address where you are not a legal resident06 Mar 2022According to an investigative report by The New Yorker
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Frederick Gattuso [2020 GOP NJ Mayor Nominee]29 Jul 2021According to charging documents filed by local police
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State Sen. Sam McCann [R-IL]03 Feb 2021According to charging documents filed by federal prosecutors
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Rep. Steve Watkins [R-KS]Illegally used a local UPS store as his legal address for voting purposes in violation of state election law14 Jul 2020According to charging documents filed by local officials
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State Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux [R-AK]Asked people who no longer lived in her home district to break the law and vote there anyway in two different elections, one of which she only won by 117 votes13 Mar 2020According to charging documents filed by local police
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Operative McCrae Dowless [R-NC]Conspired to illegally collect and fill out unsuspecting voters absentee and mail-in ballots to help Republican candidates in the 2018 midterm election and later lied to27 Feb 2019According to charging documents filed by federal prosecutors
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State Sen. John Courson [R-SC]Stole $159k from his election campaign and spent it on personal expenses by routing funds through a political consulting firm that in turn paid him over a series of transactions04 Jun 2018According to charging documents filed by federal officials
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Justice of the Peace Russ Casey [R-TX]Forged more than 100 signatures on a candidate petition to ensure he could get on the ballot for the 2018 Republican primary11 Jan 2018He pled guilty to tampering with govenment records and was sentenced to five years of probation
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Don Leeman [2020 NH GOP State Rep. Candidate]Voted in a district he no longer resided in and later unsuccessfully tried to bribe a local Housing Authority employee into falsifying a letter to election officials that attested he had only temporarily moved out of the district in exchange for a donation to the county Housing Authority03 May 2017Allegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
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Mayor Drew Hastings [R-OH]Listed a fake address on his declaration of candidacy forms and illegally claimed a city refund of $500 on a vacant building he owned and altered official documents related to the refund12 Jul 2016According to charging documents filed by local police
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Rep. Duncan Hunter [R-CA]Stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from his campaign to spend on everyday personal expenses like family vacations, private school tuition and jewelry so he could live the opulent lifestyle his taxpayer funded salary didn't provideApr 2016He pleaded guilty to using campaign funds for private use and was sentenced to eleven months in prison, but was pardoned by Donald Trump before his sentence began
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Annette Bosworth [2014 SD GOP Sen. Candidate]Filed false election documents attesting she personally gathered the requisite amount of voter signatures required for her to get on the ballot for a US Senate election and then lied to state officials when they confronted her01 Jul 2015According to charging documents filed by local police
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Rep. Aaron Schock [R-IL]Received nearly $50,000 he was not entitled to after he lied about driving 90,000 more miles than he actually did in reimbursement forms he filed with the government and his campaign17 Mar 2015According to a report by Politico
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John Couch [2022 IN GOP Mayor Candidate]27 Oct 2014Allegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
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Signature Masters Inc Exec Shawn WilmothPaid two felons who weren't legally eligible to vote $2 per signature to fraudulently sign off on petitions for a local ballot proposal he supported05 May 2011According to charging documents filed by state officials