{"id":387,"date":"2023-01-13T10:49:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T15:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=387"},"modified":"2023-01-13T10:49:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T15:49:24","slug":"former-elections-official-pleads-guilty-in-ballot-fraud-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"Former Elections Official Pleads Guilty In Ballot Fraud Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A former Rensselaer County, New York, elections commissioner pleaded guilty Wednesday for fraudulently applying for 12 absentee ballots for 2021 elections with voters\u2019 names and birth dates, the Northern New York U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Troy\u2019s Jason Schofield, 43, confessed to personally possessing nine of the absentee ballots to make Rensselaer County Board of Elections records wrongly show they had been mailed to the voters, the office\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-ndny\/pr\/former-rensselaer-county-elections-commissioner-pleads-guilty-identity-theft\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>. Schofield, a Republican, resigned from the board on Dec. 28, CBS 6\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cbs6albany.com\/news\/local\/rensselaer-county-elections-commissioner-resigns-changing-plea-to-guilty-schofield-troy-voter-fraud-absentee-ballots\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Continued Article: https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/01\/12\/ballot-fraud-guilty-new-york\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Rensselaer County, New York, elections commissioner pleaded guilty Wednesday for fraudulently applying for 12 absentee ballots for 2021 elections with voters\u2019 names and birth dates, the Northern New York U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office announced. Troy\u2019s Jason Schofield, 43, confessed to personally possessing nine of the absentee ballots to make Rensselaer County Board of Elections records wrongly show they had been mailed to the voters, the office\u00a0said. Schofield, a Republican, resigned from the board on Dec. 28, CBS 6\u00a0reported. Continued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}