Voters can choose their “I Voted” stickers at the polling station Glacier Valley Baptist Church in Juneau, Alaska, Nov. 8, 2022.
According to online court records, a woman who was accused of voting illegally both in Alaska and Florida during 2020 elections will be facing charges in Florida on Dec. 8.
Cheryl-Ann Leslie will be arraigned for felony counts of casting more ballots. She will become the second person to be charged with voter fraud in connection to Alaska’s 2020 elections.
Investigators have not found any evidence that fraud of this scale was committed despite claims made by some Alaskans about fraudulent voting changing the state’s election results over two years ago.
Senator Mike Shower, R.-Wasilla was one of those who collected data about fraudulent votes after the 2020 election and sent it to state investigators.
Governor. Mike Dunleavy stated that state troopers were investigating three cases of voter fraud.
A special team of Florida investigators was assigned to the Florida case. Patty Sullivan, spokesperson for the Alaska Department of Law said that the Alaska Division of Elections assisted Florida in its investigation and referred it to law enforcement.
Dunleavy didn’t specify if the case was one among the others. The governor’s office sent a question to both the Department of Law, and the Department of Public Safety.
A public records request to the Alaska Court System revealed that only two cases of voter misconduct have been filed since 2020.
The judge has ordered that one case remain sealed. This makes it impossible to know the details. The other case concerns , a Copper Center man that signed absentee ballots bearing an anti-gay epithet.
Terry Anthony Bell was originally charged with five felonies, but as part of a plea agreement with the prosecutors, he pleaded guilty only to one misdemeanor count for voter misconduct.
Sullivan stated that she couldn’t predict whether other cases would be filed by prosecutors.
She stated that “other than what is public record, we can’t confirm the existence active criminal investigations until criminal cases have been brought forward.”
prosecutors charged Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux (R-Anchorage), her chief of staff and the son of the chief of the staff with voter misconduct in relation to the elections of 2018 and 2014.
Due to courtroom closings during the COVID-19 pandemic in part, LeDoux’s case and those of the other two men have not been tried.
The next hearing is set for December 12.
