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Related: About this forumIllinois election judge allegedly sent dead husband's ballot (yes, he voted for Trump)
EDWARDSVILLE (AP) An election judge from southern Illinois was charged Friday with voter fraud for allegedly sending in an absentee ballot in her late husband's name.
Audrey Cook, 88, of Alton, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that she filled out the ballot for her husband after he died in September because she knew he would want Donald Trump to be president. Cook said she and her husband, Vic, applied for absentee ballots this past summer and she received them days after he died.
"I was just so distraught when this came and I just voted because I knew he wanted to live so badly to see Trump straighten out this stinking mess," she said tearfully.
Cook is charged with two felony election-fraud counts.
Madison County State's Attorney Tom Gibbons told the Belleville News-Democrat that Cook will be removed as an election judge.
Read more: http://www.qconline.com/news/illinois/illinois-election-judge-allegedly-sent-dead-husband-s-ballot/article_ae19c1b0-a317-11e6-8b8e-f3fa7d810242.html
[font color=330099]I wonder if her husband wanted his wife to be memorialized his political affiliation as a felon?[/font]
Skittles
(159,327 posts)I wish they would have asked her to define "stinking mess"
TexasTowelie
(116,768 posts)1. He is black.
2. He is a socialist.
3. He is a Muslim.
4. He is a Kenyan.
5. He is secretly gay.
6. He is a druggie.
7. He is a communist.
8. He is a traitor.
9. Did I forget to mention that he is black?
Skittles
(159,327 posts)yes indeed
ColesCountyDem
(6,944 posts)Everyone knows that's the only kind of voter fraud that happens in Illinois! Ask and GOP-er....