Feds: Cudahy (Calif.) officials threw away ballots, manipulated two elections
Source: Los Angeles Times
Cudahy officials at the city's highest levels tampered with and manipulated the results of at least two city elections, according to federal documents released Thursday.
... Details of the election fraud were spelled out by Angel Perales, the city's former interim city manager and code enforcement director. Perales and former mayor David Silva have agreed to plead guilty to bribery and extortion.
The documents show that a city official identified only as G.P. asked Perales and others to make non-residents register to vote in elections. They used an address that belonged to a Cudahy city employee. In exchange, that employee was rewarded with promotions and other favorable treatment, the documents say.
... Perales said that when absentee ballots were delivered to City Hall, he and G.P. determined through "trial and error" the best way to open the sealed envelopes without defacing them. "Routinely and systematically," they opened the ballots. If they contained votes in favor of incumbents, they were resealed and counted. Ballots for non-incumbents were discarded.
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