Trump Supporter Arrested In Iowa For First Degree Election Felony Voter Fraud

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Trump Supporter Arrested In Iowa For First Degree Election Felony Voter Fraud

Donald Trump regularly claims that the presidential election is “rigged” against him, due to “all too common instances of voter fraud.“

Police in Des Moines, Iowa, said Friday that they had arrested Terri Lynn Rote, 55, for voting twice for Donald Trump in the general election.

Terri Lynn Rote, 55, was booked into the Polk County Jail about 3:40 p.m. Thursday on a first-degree election misconduct charge, which is a Class D felony.

Rote, a registered Republican, submitted ballots for Donald Trump at two different early-voting locations in Polk County, Iowa, according to local media reports. She has been charged with first-degree election misconduct, a felony.

“I wasn’t planning on doing it twice. It was a spur of the moment,” Rote told Iowa Public Radio. “The polls are rigged.” She said she feared her first vote for Trump would be changed to a vote for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

In February, a reporter for The Blaze, a conservative website run by Glenn Beck, interviewed and photographed Rote, who was then planning to support Trump in the Iowa caucuses.

A Des Moines woman has been arrested for voting twice this month for Donald Trump in the general election, police and court records show.

The Polk County auditor said this was the first instance of alleged voter fraud he could remember in 12 years, while the county prosecutor called it one of the few examples he’d seen in his 25 years of work.

Rote, a registered Republican, reportedly cast an early voting ballot for Donald Trump at the Polk County Election Office, 120 Second Ave., and another ballot for Donald Trump at a county satellite voting location in Des Moines, according to a Des Moines police report.

Rote's case is under investigation by Des Moines police.

Rote was held in jail on a $5,000 bond, but she had been released as of Friday afternoon. Her next court appearance was scheduled for Nov. 7, court records show.

This is the first time in 12 years that Polk County Auditor Jamie Fitzgerald can remember ever having to report potential voter fraud, he said Thursday morning.


The Des Moines Register
10-28-16

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/sto...ines/92892042/