Democrat Former US Congressman Indicted On 8 Counts of Election Fraud

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A former Democrat Congressman, now working as a campaign consultant, was indicted Thursday on charges that he bribed a poll worker to stuff ballot boxes for Democrat candidates in local elections.

Federal prosecutors said former U.S. Rep. Michael “Ozzie” Myers paid a South Philadelphia judge of elections to fraudulently add votes for candidates who had hired him between 2014 to 2016.

The eight-count indictment, unsealed by the Department of Justice on Thursday, alleges Myers paid thousands of dollars to Election Judge Domenick DeMuro, a Democratic ward judge, during the 2015 Democratic primary to pad vote counts for three candidates.

The indictment hints that Myers also conspired with other unnamed election board officials and tampered with vote results for other favored candidates, including for local, state, and federal officesincluding members of the U.S. House — discrediting longstanding Democrat claims that voter fraud “does not exist.”

Prosecutors did not identify the Democrat candidates, say whether they won election, or indicate whether the fraudulent votes proved decisive. Still, the 40 fake ballots added by the corrupt judge Domenick DeMuro accounted for 15% of the votes certified from the ward he oversaw.

According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Myer’s indictment “hints at an ongoing investigation, broadly accusing Myers of conspiring with other unnamed election board officials and tampering with vote results for other favored candidates, including for local, state, and federal offices — including members of the U.S. House.

If only one vote has been illegally rung up or fraudulently stuffed into a ballot box, the integrity of that entire election is undermined,” U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain said in a video statement outlining the case against the former Democrat congressman.

Votes are not things to be purchased, and democracy is not for sale.”

These charges, announced today by the Justice Department, clearly illustrate allegations of absolute disregard for the sanctity of our electoral system,” said Captain Leo D. Hannon Jr., Director of the Special Investigations Division of the Pennsylvania State Police. 

Myers, 77, did not return calls for comment Thursday. His attorneys, Noah Gorson and Arnold R. Silverstein, also declined to comment.

The former congressman is expected to surrender next week for his first court appearance. If convicted, he is facing a maximum 20-year sentence on the most serious charge.

Myers was expelled from Congress in the 1970s after he was caught taking bribes in the Abscam sting investigation.

Baxter Dmitry

Baxter Dmitry

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3 Comments

  1. That sort of thing goes on regularly ” Trusted ” l8cal businessmen who are selected to staff ballot boxes and to w sure their secure ,usually utterly crooked criminals with Jekkyl and hyde personalities,heavily involved in burglaries, drug trafficking money laundering tax fraud do it all .

  2. I’m wondering why no charges have been brought against Ilhan Omar. She is running canpaign ads on local TV. I am waiting for counter ads from the other side, talking about her campaign finance fraud, immigration fraud, tax fraud, bigamy, and marrying her brother.

  3. In order to have an legal accurate election we would all have to demand Voter ID in person with the exception of the Military and eliminate computer voting and mail in ballots . Ballot stuffing and ballot harvesting destroying by the Demoncats has been going on for 40 years and will continue until they are all prosecuted………..

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