The Hartle mystery is now solved. And it turns out the scam was carried out by a Republican.
Hartle is married to Las Vegas businessman Donald Kirk Hartle, a registered Republican. In November 2020, Hartle
told Las Vegas TV station 8 News Now (KLAS-TV) said he felt “incredible” when he learned that a mail-in ballot was in his late wife’s name. At the time, it was “quite morbid,” he said, adding that he had no idea how it could have happened.
But Hartle actually cast the fake ballot herself.
Indeed. And this is not the first time something like this has happened.
In November 2020, the Trump campaign
emphasize one instance in which a ballot was cast in the name of a long-dead Pennsylvania woman. Her son
later confessed to vote that election for Trump, say, according to
Philadelphia Inquirer, he had “heard too much propaganda and made a stupid mistake.”
False or exaggerated statements
So there’s a bunch of confirmed cases where the ballots were actually dropped illegally with the names of the dead, and we’ll probably learn a few more under this. time. Earlier this year, the Nevada secretary of state
introduce 10 “suspicious” cases to law enforcement agencies for investigation.
But Trump
vague affirmation that the thousands of ballots cast in the names of those who have died in various important states are completely baseless; His huge numbers are purely fictitious. Meanwhile, some specific ballots that the Trump campaign claimed were fraudulent, quickly proved to be
Legitimate votes cast by those who live with or
the same, similar the name of the dead.
And Republican voters are held accountable for a number of known crimes.
A local Republican official is the perpetrator of a crime in Ohio,
admit forged signatures to vote in the name of his recently deceased father; he
told NBC News said it was an “honest error” and that he was simply “attempting to fulfill the wishes of a dying person.”
In Colorado, a man charged with the 2021 murder of his wife, who disappeared in May 2020, has
also charge with her illegal voting, for Trump, in the November election. He allegedly told FBI agents that he sent the ballot because he thought “all the other guys” is cheating” and his wife will vote for Trump anyway.
In a number of confirmed cases, including Hartle’s case, it is not publicly known which presidential candidate for which the illegal ballot was cast. Even so, there is no indication that the crime of voting in the name of a dead person happens even near often enough to turn any state over Biden, that the crime was committed by the voters. Biden voters, or this crime often goes unnoticed. of the authorities.
Paul Gronke, a political science professor and director of
Voting & Electoral Information Center at Reed . University. “Especially voter impersonation fraud, which Mr Hartle did when he forged his wife’s name, is even rarer.” Gronke said that, while voter fraud can sometimes slip through the verification system if they are willing to commit a felony like Hartle did, “there is nothing in this case that is evidence that voter fraud is taking place.” happen to the extent that it alters the outcome of the election.”
Nevada Republicans did not respond to CNN’s request for comment on how they drew attention to the Hartle affair in 2020.
Nothing surprising. When it comes to voter fraud, some of Trump’s allies have taken an obvious Trump approach: making sensational statements in public before the actual truth is known – and if the truth is real. Inconvenience finally emerges, just quietly moving on to the next sensational statement, confident that the truth will never reach a good part of the Republican base.
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