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.
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.
He will probably get a few voter ballots again from the left.
Nice to see the law applied and this double-voter convicted. This is the way. And more of this, please.