After a five-day trial, a Palmer jury found 72-year-old John Irwin Barton, a registered Democrat from Wasilla, guilty of one count of perjury and two counts of voter misconduct in the first degree for offenses relating to the 2022 Matanuska-Susitna Borough election.
During the trial, prosecutors showed Barton, who is a former art instructor at Mat-Su College, had gone to two different polling places during the election and requested and received ballots for the same election.
At both places, Barton signed that, under penalty of perjury, “I have not and will not vote in any other manner in this election.” Borough elections officials discovered that Barton had received two ballots in the same election and reported the incident to the Alaska State Troopers, wrote the Department of Law.
In another voter misconduct case, former Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux of Anchorage, who is charged with numerous counts of felony-level voter registration fraud relating to trying to get herself reelected, has had her trial postponed yet again until November, while Barton’s case was quickly moved ahead. After being postponed up to four times, LeDoux’s trial almost proceeded in July, but then was postponed again for another several months, without adequate explanation to the public, other than that the prosecution had some new evidence against her. LeDoux’s former legislative aide has already signed a plea agreement that includes being willing to testify against her.
Like Barton, LeDoux was also a Democrat, but she switched parties in order to run in a conservative district in Anchorage.
Meanwhile, justice for Barton has been apace and sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 6, in Palmer in front of Superior Court Judge John Cagle, unless Barton appeals. He has been assigned a public defender. Barton faces a sentencing range of one to three years to serve on the perjury conviction and up to two years on each of the two voter misconduct convictions.
Call Lisa she will rank choice you in & she has a judge that excepts get out of jail pay on the side rank. Integrity
The perjury conviction was no doubt an attempt to conceal the voter fraud. The cover-up is always worse than the actual crime. Kudos to the Matanuska-Susitna Borough Clerk’s office for aggressively pursuing this. Election fraud is a huge issue for the public. Everyone wants fair and competently administered elections.
Correction: its only an issue for conservatives; the leftists benefit from it.
Every vote is sacred.
Every vote should be protected from being disenfranchised.
Voter fraud should never be tolerated. It serves to deprive the citizen of their franchise, of their voice. What is a citizen who has no voice in the operation of their own government?
We call them slaves.
We call them subjects of a monarch.
We call them criminals (who have forfeited their voice through conviction of a crime).
Let every voice be protected, no matter how shrill, no matter how inferior the candidate the vote is being cast for.
Diluting votes through mathematical formulas like ranked-choice voting empowers no one but the candidates who couldn’t get enough votes to win without it.
“Every vote should be protected from being disenfranchised.”
Maybe sent that quote in an email to Trump, Giuliani, the Pillow Guy (he’s so weird), and every one of the fake Electors.
“…and every one of the fake Electors.”
Tell everyone you know nothing about how the Electoral College works without actually saying you know nothing about it.
Always a red herring with you.
Instead of admitting more fraud, you pivot and deflect.
So common of you. We ALL see it. Maybe you should, too.
WTD you are a “weird” dude…try standup comedy, you seem to have a knack for making people laugh
Go ahead and defend a criminal whidbey. All you Dems are sleezy. Must be the high powered dope you smoke.
According to the left, voter fraud never happens, has never happened, and there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that it has happened. Anyone saying otherwise is an election denier, and a fundamental threat to democracy.
The argument is not that it does not happen, but that when it does happen, it happens at such low level it cannot alter an election outcome, and that there are both D’s and R’s committing the crime, so they cancel each other out to some extent, thus lowering even more the probability of altering the outcome.
Not according to the comments I get on MRAK. The will say, apparently with a straight face, there is no evidence of vote fraud.
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And, just because it is small (which is a laughable statement from anyone) is meaningless. One vote cast illegally negates a legally cast vote. Whether the outcome is altered is equally meaningless.
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Tell you what, if I were to take a dollar out of the till at my employers store, it will not alter the profit margin for that days work. Do you think that is OK to do? Ignorable?
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Further to the “low level” comment, I find it difficult to believe the outcome is not altered when an audit of ballots show that over a hundred thousand votes may have been cast illegally. If even 25% of the potentially illegal ballots were fraud that is enough to swing a district, and even a state. But, why mention those audits. Instead focus on the petty crimes.
At a local level. Probably happens regularly. Anything done by people is ultimately suspect to one degree or another.
The question becomes are the irregularities and bad actors enough to change the course of an election?
The day we as a society decide the electoral process is fundamentally flawed, our system of government as we know it is over.
Are the irregularities enough to swing an election?
All depends on where they happen.
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A dozen illegal votes could swing a neighborhood. A few hundred could swing a district. Vote fraud does not have to be widespread to swing an election. I just has to happen in the right places.
He will probably get a few voter ballots again from the left.
Delivered to his residence at the Correctional facility
Nice to see the law applied and this double-voter convicted. This is the way. And more of this, please.
Which brings up the question, what is the status of the voter registration rolls? Alaska has historically been one of the worst in the nation by percentage. The key for election manipulations are inflated voter rolls and an abundance of ballots to be “voted” in the desired manner. This combined with ranked choice is, and has been a disaster for us.
Brian, you can purchase a copy of the voter rolls from the state elections office. Not sure what the price is now, but it was something like $20 before. Everyone should order a copy and check to see if their voting information and history is correctly listed in the rolls!
There are groups that have been trying to work on election integrity here in Alaska, but there just is not enough participation from the voter base. It truly is sad that we are seeing fraud cases here and there, but very few are willing to put time in and look for anomalies and irregularities in the state rolls.
Last I checked, Alaska is still using the ERIC system, which is pretty much a smokescreen organization for protecting the bloated Dead People voting rolls.
Yes and it has been proven to have flaws in it.
Just goes to show that lying is no longer paying off for anyone. Dishonesty seems to have had an expiration date some time ago. Look out for all of those out there who have lied in past litigation of any kind against others to financially rape them because of their hatred and inner emotional conflicts….
A sample size of N = 1. Yep, that must mean widespread and result changing fraud. You broke the story wide open MRAK!
Given that some people claim there is no evidence of vote fraud, one example is enough to prove them wrong.
The error here is election officials here gave out wrong information. No triumph here that an innocent man was put through this drama. Another case of the power of government to crush somebody.
1 vote per person is that so hard to figure out. A teacher no less. Pitiful.
What about a cover up from an election official who gave mistaken information and did not destroy the first ballot as he or she said they would? Pitiful.
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