Montana elections chief alleges voter fraud in May balloting
HELENA — Montana’s chief elections officer alleged Thursday that voter fraud may be more common than local officials acknowledge and asserted that more than 360 illegal ballots were cast, but not counted, during the special congressional election in May.
Republican Secretary of State Corey Stapleton made the allegations before an interim legislative committee. He was immediately challenged by Sen. Sue Malek, a Missoula Democrat who leads the State Administration and Veterans’ Affairs committee. She countered that those rejected ballots, a minuscule percentage of the 383,000 cast in the May 25 election won by U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte, were rejected because of honest mistakes.
Stapleton acknowledged that no one in Montana has ever been convicted of voter fraud, but he suggested it routinely happens and urged county elections officials to take fraud allegations more seriously.
“I’m saying we have a system that can be improved,” Stapleton said in an interview, adding that reports over fraud are too casually dismissed and “glossed over” by county elections clerks.
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