Election official says she created three fake ballots for the “greater good” of exposing the potential for voter fraud.
fired Zapata from her position as deputy elections director“I understand what I did was wrong, and I understand that I need consequences for it,” Zapata said. “But at the same time, I did this for the greater good. I did this for the American voters to believe in the election system again. But now I am struggling because even though what I did was wrong, it came from pure of heart. But now I’m facing financial ruin because of this.
Ann Jacobs, a Democrat on the state’s bipartisan elections commission, said Zapata should have brought her concerns to local or state election authorities instead of ordering fake ballots.Zapata said she was confident when she sent the fake ballots that they would not be counted but said she has been troubled by the possibility that those who wanted to commit fraud could do so.
Brandtjen, the chairwoman of the state Assembly’s elections committee, frequently promotes false claims about elections. In response to receiving the fake ballots, she filed a lawsuit that sought to prevent the counting of military ballots unless local officials could show they were following a law requiring them to keep lists of all military voters. About 1,400 military ballots had been cast as of Friday.
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