The issue of whether the 2020 presidential election was held under free and fair terms remains a really contentious point in American politics – but whether or not there was large-scale fraud in that election, it remains true that fraud does happen, at least on a small scale.
Over the last week, reports revealed how a man stands accused of voting in both Florida and Pennsylvania – and that he’s now facing charges.
A Pennsylvania man who allegedly voted three times in the 2020 election was slapped with charges by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Friday.
Court documents reveal the man to be 62-year-old Philip Pulley, a resident of Huntington Valley. According to the documents, the man was registered to vote in Pennsylvania between the years 2005 and 2023. However, Pulley also registered to vote from his address in Florida from August, 2018.
According to records, the man was a registered Republican – though it’s impossible to know how he voted in 2020.
While it has taken several years for the authorities to catch up with Pulley, casting two votes and breaking election law isn’t without consequence. Pulley faces charges for allegedly applying for a mail-in ballot in Philadelphia County in October of 2020, just a month before the presidential election took place. The same man is believed to have also registered for an absentee ballot in Florida and used the ballot to vote. He is also believed to have cast a third vote in person on November 3, 2020, in a Montgomery County polling station. On all three occasions, court documents reveal, Pulley cast a vote for a presidential candidate.
In the 2022 midterm elections, Pulley is also accused of casting a vote in all three counties in which he was registered. And if that wasn’t enough, he also reportedly voted twice in the Pennsylvania Senate elections that year.
So, what now? Well, once he has his day in court, Pulley is looking at paying a fine of up to $250,000, and supervised release that could go on for three years.
Doesn’t sound like it was worth it, does it?
