Current Events > NY: Republican county board of elections commissioner arrested by the FBI

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https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/Rensselaer-County-s-Republican-elections-17438122.php

TROY Jason T. Schofield, the Republican Rensselaer County Board of Elections commissioner, was arrested outside his residence Tuesday morning by the FBI and charged with fraudulently obtaining and filing absentee ballots last year using the personal information of at least eight voters without their permission, according to an indictment unsealed in U.S. District Court.
The indictment handed up last week and unsealed Tuesday during his arraignment charges Schofield with 12 felony counts of unlawful possession and use of a means of identification.

Schofield was led into court in handcuffs just after 2 p.m. by three FBI agents, including two who have been pursuing the wide-ranging voter fraud investigation since last year. The 42-year-old entered a not guilty plea as a half-dozen of his supporters sat behind him in the courtroom. The proceeding concluded with U.S. Magistrate Judge Daniel J. Stewart releasing him on his own recognizance with no objections from the U.S. attorney's office.

Schofield turned and thanked the FBI agents when they removed his handcuffs following the short proceeding.
He declined comment as he left the courthouse with his attorney, Danielle Neroni, and the small group of supporters. Neroni said her client "continues to maintain his innocence."

The indictment accuses Schofield of using an online state Board of Elections portal to request absentee ballots on behalf of eight voters who had no interest in voting, did not request absentee ballots and didn't know that Schofield was using their personal information to obtain the ballots. The indictment alleges the official "falsely certified" that he was the person requesting the ballot when he entered the voters' names and dates of birth in the portal.

12 felony counts of voter fraud. Hopefully he gets a long prison sentence.

This isn't even surprising. He probably wanted to become a member of the board of elections to accomplish precisely this.

let me guess... this person planned to vote Democrat?

edit: oops, didn't read topic title fully

Typical scumbag republican behavior

Republicans are finding a lot of voter fraud, FROM THEIR OWN TEAM!

Holy shit, what is with these fucking people.

Nice to see that stuf is actually being done about it though. Hopefully all these corrupt bastards will go.

Republicans: "The left cheated, voter fraud, mules!!!! Blah blah blah"

Also Republican: "Lets intimidate voters by standing around with guns, sit around ballot drop off and let's vote illegally!!!"

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Still dont get how this insane amounts of hypocrisy isnt investigated more. The right is clearly fucking with elections.

FBI really is stopping the steal

FigureOfSpeech posted...

let me guess... this person planned to vote Democrat?

edit: oops, didn't read topic title fully

Why did you assume that?

Ruvan22 posted...

Why did you assume that?

Pretty clearly sarcasm, especially if you're familiar with the person who posted it (who's pretty far from being the MAGA type).

Trumble posted...

Pretty clearly sarcasm, especially if you're familiar with the person who posted it (who's pretty far from being the MAGA type).

Aahh I guess I don't know that screenname too well

Trumble posted...

Pretty clearly sarcasm, especially if you're familiar with the person who posted it (who's pretty far from being the MAGA type).

yeah, the edit makes it look serious but that's by design, and I often use the uside down emoji when I'm being sarcastic and/or whimsical.

has there been a single conviction of voter fraud that helped Biden? i can't recall any. funny how that works, isn't it?

Giant_Aspirin posted...

has there been a single conviction of voter fraud that helped Biden? i can't recall any. funny how that works, isn't it?

I don't have the info to back it up and I'm going on memory, but when I tried to look it up it was a ratio of like 1 for every 51 trump fraud votes.

Relient_K posted...

I don't have the info to back it up and I'm going on memory, but when I tried to look it up it was a ratio of like 1 for every 51 trump fraud votes.

The only instance I've ever heard was one where a woman mistakenly cast a provisional ballot and that was only because her PO told her that she was good to vote. Republican judges threw the book at her.