Former Alaska Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux’s long-delayed election misconduct trial started in Anchorage in Nov. 18 and lasted seven days. The closing arguments were held Nov. 27, and the jury has had the long Thanksgiving weekend to deliberate. As of this writing, the date has yet been published for when the jury will be asked for its verdict in an election fraud case that was brought by the State of Alaska in 2020 and which has been delayed several times, but it is expected to be early this week.
LeDoux was accused by state prosecutors in 2020 of encouraging people who did not live in her district to vote for her in the 2018 primary and general elections.
On June 2, 2021, an Anchorage grand jury, after hearing the evidence, indicted LeDoux, Lisa (Vaught) Simpson, and Caden Vaught on multiple counts of voter misconduct in the first degree, charges stemming from an investigation that started in 2018 after the Division of Elections identified irregularities in absentee ballot applications and absentee ballots returned for the primary election for what was then House District 15. The Alaska State Troopers, in conjunction with the Federal Bureau of Investigations, were involved in the two-year investigation.
During the long-delayed trial in November, LeDoux had to answer to 12 charges, including five felonies — she pleaded not guilty to all, and shifted the blame to her then-legislative aide, whom she described as the one who broke the law and misunderstood LeDoux’s directions.
LeDoux is an attorney who is still licensed to practice law in Alaska and who has not been disbarred. While running for reelection for East Anchorage, she allegedly told her aide Lisa Simpson to register her adult son in the district so he could vote.
The verdict is expected this week, as the jury was given instructions by Superior Court Judge Kevin Saxby on Thanksgiving Eve.
Justice delayed is Justice denied. We in LeDoux’s district deserve justice.
That was my district for a very long time. It’s too bad what happened to it.
In 2002, the House candidates in Muldoon were Tom Anderson and Owen Carey. News coverage pointed out the deep roots both had in that part of Anchorage. Anderson won and after two terms was succeeded by Bob Roses. His in-laws were one of the earliest families in Muldoon.
It only went downhill from there. Roses was succeeded by Pete Petersen, who only four years before ran against Bob Lynn in a district centered on Huffman Road and lost by a two-to-one margin. Muldoon was split up after redistricting, with Petersen losing to Lance Pruitt. The resulting open seat was won by LeDoux, who represented Kodiak only four years before.
Muldoon’s community identity was once so strong that the City of Anchorage’s attempted annexation in 1973 was mired in controversy, which led to the compromises necessary to allow unification to finally pass in 1975. It’s clear that it’s community identity dissipated by some point in time, thought I can’t pinpoint exactly why.
Adios, LeDouxs.
Typical politician “It wasn’t me.”
Point the finger at someone else.
She is obviously not guilty.
Just ask any of the leftists on MRAK. There is absolutely no proof whatsoever of any election fraud. It has never happened, there is no evidence. How they managed to even get charges filed, I will never know.
I have as much faith for a adjust outcome of this trial as I do in elections in Alaska and Anchorage
Guilty , fine $1500 or 60 hours commute service.
You should know by now that pretty woman learn to open doors with just a smile. Hell, if it were up to me, I’d let her go with a pat on the rump and a wink of the eye and advise her to cheat no more! However, it being Sunday, I realize that nothing less than stoning her will quell the heathen heart!
Is there a betting pool in this case?
Will Charlie Chang show up?
How does anyone vote “outside their own district.” Our voter registration cards specify our district. When I vote, my name is on a list per district. If anyone misrepresented themselves how is that the responsibility of the candidate? Too many facts omitted.
It refers to registering people to vote in the district whose residency in the district was questionable or outright unverifiable. Specifically, Rangeview Trailer Court was effectively taken over by Anchorage’s Hmong immigrant community some years ago. It was believed that Hmong activists in California (Sacramento and the Central Valley contain significant Hmong populations) could find sockpuppets to register to vote in Alaska or specifically in the district, plus deliver harvested votes.
LeDoux had a heart breaking experience many years ago in Anchorage. Her husband and , I believe, one of their children were killed when a large truck carrying many tons of dirt fill ran a spot sign / light and hit his car at the intersection of Spenard and international rd. The driver, Daniel Maule, was convicted of two counts of manslaughter and served quite a few years in prison.
That in no way excuses her conduct as a legislator running for office. But I have some sympathy for her.
While you recount a heartbreaking situation that took place many years ago, it is irrelevant to Gabrielle LeDoux’s felony charges and current (long-delayed) court case. As an attorney with no apparent signs of dementia in 2018, I believe LeDoux knew exactly what she instructed Lisa Vaught and Lisa’s son to do. The two admit they did what she instructed despite knowing their actions were against the law. LeDoux wanted to win the election no matter what she had to do or instruct others to do. This is clear!
LeDoux should be found guilty and serve some time in prison. Of course, a prison sentence probably will require her to give up the very nice home she recently purchased in Oregon.
She will blend in nicely with Oregon politics.
It is so amazing that election fraud can even go to court. The laws that are on the books already address election fraud. Once again, the rules were ignored and exceptions made.
Ginny: What, exactly, is your point?
That no trial was necessary?
Reread the comment. The fact that it has to go to court to determine if there was fraud?
The Great Alaska LeDoux Vote Experiment almost worked, did it not?
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Would that mob have tried it if they knew Alaska’s election system wasn’t so easily corruptible?
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LeDoux’s going to jail, 20 years’ hard time, with what she knows about how the scam came together and who she knows who gave the green light for the scam to come together?
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LeDoux’s mob didn’t learn something, figure out what they messed up, refine their tactics so they can’t possibly get caught next time?
What’s ironic is that the illegal votes weren’t necessary. If I remember correctly, she would have won without them. Jail time is justified. And we will likely never know if there was a connection between her visit and Charlie Changs’ death. “Oh what tangled webs we weave, when we practice to decieve”.
Guilty guilty guilty. 10 years no parole. Set an example.
I will be very surprised that even if convicted that LeDoux will serve any time in prison. Maybe a year or two suspended on many conditions including among others that she be placed on probation and not run for public office during her five years probation. It will be a light sentence for a first offender who will have some sympathy on her side.
Biden will probably excuse her charges and set her free.
LeDoux deserves equal punishment based upon her breaking of the law, nothing more, nothing less.
That it took so long to bring her to justice is the fallacy of justice within itself.