American Military News by Ryan Morgan November 18, 2020
Two California men, including a former mayoral candidate for the city of Hawthorne, have been charged with submitting 8,000 fraudulent voter registration applications, Los Angeles County prosecutors announced Tuesday.
Carlos Antonio De Bourbon Montenegro (a.k.a Mark Anthony Gonsalves), and Marcos Raul Arevalo were charged in a 41-count criminal complaint, according to a
statement from the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. According to the district attorney’s statement, Montenegro allegedly submitted more than 8,000 fraudulent voter registration applications between July and October 2020 and is also accused of falsifying names, addresses, and signatures on nomination papers under penalty of perjury to run for mayor in the city of Hawthorne.
The criminal
complaint states Montenegro’s mayoral documents listed the names, addresses, and signatures of 32 “fictitious, nonexistent or deceased†who purportedly supported his nomination for the mayoral race. The complaint also lists numerous cases of voter registration documents being filed for fictitious people or people who had not requested to register or re-register as a voter.
NBC Los Angeles
reported the pair were attempting to get the county registrar’s office to send them mail-in ballots for the fake voters they had registered, but the registrar caught on to the scheme and flagged the applications to prevent the fraudulent votes. NBC Los Angeles reported no votes were cast in their scheme.
The Los Angeles Times
reported the pair set up three post office boxes and Montenegro’s home address to submit the fraudulent voter applications.
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