Spieles used data from “walk
sheets” provided to him by the Virginia Democratic Party:
June 26, 2017, "Student headed to prison for registering dead voters for Democrats," wtvr.com, staff, Harrisonburg, Virginia
"A man paid to register Virginia voters prior to the 2016 Presidential
Election will spend at least 100 days in prison for submitting the
names of deceased individuals to the Registrar’s Office.
James Madison University student Andrew J. Spieles, 21, of
Harrisonburg, pled guilty Monday in the United States District Court for
the Western District of Virginia. As part of the plea agreement,
Spieles agreed to a prison sentence of 100 to 120 days.
Spieles worked for Harrisonburg Votes when he committed the crime,
according to acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle.
Harrisonburg Votes is a political organization affiliated with the Democratic Party.
“In July 2016 Spieles’ job was to register as many voters as possible
and reported to Democratic Campaign headquarters in Harrisonburg,” a
U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesperson said. “In August 2016, Spieles was
directed to combine his registration numbers with those of another
individual because their respective territories overlapped. After
filling out a registration form for a voter, Spieles entered the
information into a computer system used by the Virginia Democratic Party to track information such as name, age, address and political
affiliation. Every Thursday an employee/volunteer hand-delivered the
paper copies of the registration forms to the Registrar’s Office in
Harrisonburg.”
Later that month, someone at the Registrar’s Office called police
after another employee saw a name they recognized on a registration
form.
The name was the deceased father of a Rockingham County Judge.
“The Registrar’s Office discovered multiple instances of similarly
falsified forms when it reviewed additional registrations. Some were in
the names of deceased individuals while others bore incorrect middle
names, birth dates, and social security numbers,” the spokesperson
continued. “The Registrar’s Office learned that the individuals named in
these forms had not in fact submitted the new voter registrations. The
assistant registrar’s personal knowledge of the names of some of the
individuals named in the falsified documents facilitated the detection
of the crime.
“Spieles later admitted that he prepared the false voter registration
forms by obtaining the name, age, and address of individuals from “walk
sheets” provided to him by the Virginia Democratic Party, fabricating a
birth date based on the ages listed in the walk sheet, and fabricating
the social security numbers. Spieles admitted that he created all 18
fraudulent forms himself and that no one else participated in the
crime.”
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Harrisonburg Police Department investigated the crime." via Zero Hedge
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