by Paul Sacca at Blaze Media
A Democratic operative was sentenced to jail for allegedly harvesting ballots during the 2020 primary election.
Guillermina Fuentes – a 66-year-old school board member and former mayor of the small border city of San Luis – pleaded guilty to collecting four early ballots in the 2020 primary. On Thursday, Fuentes was sentenced to 30 days in jail and two years of probation for her alleged election crimes.
In the plea deal, prosecutors dropped three felony counts claiming that Fuentes filled out one voter’s ballot and forged signatures on some of the four ballots she illegally returned for non-family members.
Arizona prosecutors had sought a year in jail for the crimes committed by Fuentes. Meanwhile, the attorneys for Fuentes argued for probation.
KSAZ-TV reported, “Fuentes collected the four completed mail ballots from acquaintances in San Luis, and gave them to co-defendant Alma Juarez while working a table outside a polling place where she was urging people to vote for a slate of city council candidates. Juarez carried them inside and put them in a ballot drop-off bin. Election officials in Yuma County confirmed that the ballots were legitimate and the mail-ballot envelopes were signed by qualified voters, so they were counted.”
Yuma County Superior Court Judge Roger Nelson considered being more lenient on Fuentes if she had admitted that she had committed a crime.
Fuentes reportedly declared, ‘I’m not a criminal.”
Nelson blasted back…
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