I thought liberals said President Trump’s claims of voter fraud were rare or don’t exist? Well, a unicorn must have been found in Illinois, because the State’s Attorney office just indicted some people for — you guessed it — voter fraud.
Five people have been indicted in Lake County, Ill. — a county North of Chicago — for illegally voting in the 2016 general election.
The five indictments include three cases of illegal immigrants voting along with two cases of people “voting more than once.”
According to the Lake County News-Sun, the following people have been indicted (with charges):
- According to [Assistant State’s Attorney Fred] Day and court records, Marcelo Villaruz, of Beach Park, was charged with perjury for allegedly misrepresenting his citizenship prior to voting. His wife, Gina Villaruz, was indicted on the same charges. Both are scheduled to be arraigned March 21, as are the other three defendants.
- Yvette Yust, of Waukegan, was also charged with two counts of perjury for misrepresenting citizenship, Day said.
- Day said that Janet Pokryfke, of Mundelein, was charged with voting more than once, and perjury for allegedly casting both mail-in and walk-in votes in the general election.
- Finally, Marvin Hershman, of Riverwoods, was charged with two counts of voting more than once and one count of perjury, according to Day.
Among those that don’t think voter fraud is a serious problem, the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law published a report in January 2017 stating that “a look at the facts makes clear fraud is vanishingly rare, and does not happen on a scale even close to that necessary to ‘rig’ and election.”
While the report lists the minuscule number of voters across the U.S. that engage in voter fraud, isn’t the presence of a small minority of fraudulent voters worrisome to those that want a fair and clear election process?
It was not reported who the accused voted for in the election, but all of the defendants are facing class 3 felony charges, according to the News-Sun. If convicted, the defendants could face “probation or two to five years in prison.”