An attorney in Ohio who has donated money to former President Donald Trump acknowledged this week that he double-voted in past elections, but he says he only did so accidentally.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that 56-year-old James Saunders illegally voted twice in two separate locations: Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and Broward County, Florida.
However, an attorney representing Saunders told a court this week that his client should be acquited because he only did this "by accident."
"Mistakes do happen, accidents do happen," Scott Roger Hurley argued.
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However, Andrew Rogalski countered that Saunders had not just double-voted in one election, but in two: The 2020 presidential election and the 2022 midterm election.
What's more, prosecutors have evidence that Saunders cast his ballot in person in both states, which makes it difficult to believe he simply absentmindedly sent in ballots by mail.
"The fact that you do that in consecutive general elections I think takes ‘accident’ to the land of imaginary doubt, and not reasonable doubt," he retorted.
Former President Donald Trump is still blaming "voter fraud" for his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. Although there is no evidence to show there was any fraud significant to shift the election, individual cases of voter fraud -- many of which were allegedly perpetrated by Trump supporters -- are prosecuted every year.
