(Left) LaCarrie McCloud announces the names of five winners of a $50 raffle “that the Nevada Native Vote Project did today for all those voters who walked in and voted today.†(Right) Bethany Sam, the public relations officer for the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, holding up four $100 Visa gift cards as part of a "virtual raffle" for people who prove they voted. (Screenshot/The Epoch Times)
Illegal Money-for-Votes Raffles Conducted in Several States in 2020 Election
By Ivan Pentchoukov
December 1, 2020 Updated: December 1, 2020
The Nevada Native Vote Project posted photos on Facebook on Election Day of smiling voters holding $25 gift cards after handing over their ballots.
The posts have since been deleted but not before they were archived. The removal may have had something to do with the U.S. criminal code, two distinct sections of which impose fines and prison sentences for “whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote.â€
Offering gift cards for ballots was not the only way the Nevada Native Vote Project enticed people to vote. In a video that still appeared on Facebook on Nov. 24, Bethany Sam, the public relations officer for the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, urged people to come out and vote by offering “some extra swag that we can give out.â€
“We have twenty-five $25 dollar gift cards to raffle off so that’s a lot of money in cash here. We have also four $100 gift cards to give away, so again you want to make sure to get out here and vote. And then, we have four $250 gift cards to raffle. And our grand prize is going to be a $500 Visa gift card to the person or native voters who came out early this week early voting,†Sam said, adding that voters need only send a photo of themselves at the polling place to enter.
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