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Carrollton Mayoral Candidate Arrested for Voter Fraud


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https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2020/10/08/carrollton-mayoral-candidate-zul-mirza-mohamed-arrested-voter-fraud/

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CARROLLTON (CBSDFW.COM) – A mayoral candidate in Carrollton has been arrested and charged with voter fraud.

Denton County Sheriffs have Zul Mirza Mohamed in custody and have charged him with 109 felonies related to voter fraud.

The investigation began September 23 when Sheriff’s were notified by the Denton County Elections Office of possible fraudulent activity related to absentee ballot applications.

Officials say absentee ballots had been requested to be sent to a PO Box in Lewisville, that was supposed to belong to a nursing home facility. When investigators made contact with the Carrollton residents whose ballots had been requested they learned that none of the residents had asked for ballots be mailed to the PO Box.

Further investigation revealed the PO Box had been obtained with a fictitious Texas driver license and a fictitious University of North Texas student ID.

To find out who was behind the scheme officials began a surveillance of the postal facility.

A box of the requested ballots was picked up at the location on October 7. Investigators followed the person, later identified as Mohamed, back to a home in the 1600 block of Bennington Drive in Carrollton and contacted a judge to get a search warrant for the house.

One inside deputies found the box containing the requested ballots, with several of them open. The fraudulent driver license used to rent the PO Box was also located during the search.

Sheriff Tracy Murphree said, “The fact an actual candidate for public office would engage in these activities is appalling.”

Mohamed, who is currently a candidate for mayor in the city of Carrollton, was arrested and taken to the Denton County Jail. He has been charged with 25 counts of Unlawful Possession of Ballot/Ballot Envelope w/o Request of Voter, and 84 counts of Fraudulent Use of Mail Ballot Application.

 

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1 minute ago, Viper said:

it does exist, but it's usually small time where it's worth the effort, like this local election. Not to say we shouldn't be vigilant of course.

Yeah, there's actually pretty good safeguards that will catch it on a large scale - Wired.com had an article on it.  

I don't know if it was Wired (in the article I mentioned) , or somebody else, that wrote about how, if you want to do something on a large scale, rather than actual vote fraud, it's cheaper, safer, and far more effective to use targeted advertising to either get your voters out, or depress voters on the other side.

This ain't the days when LBJ could make ballot boxes disappear.

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