by Misty Severi at Just the News
A Denton County man in Texas was recently sentenced by a jury to four years in prison and 10 years of probation, after he pleaded guilty to voter fraud in the 2020 Carrollton mayoral election.
Zul Mirza Mohamed, 43, faced up to 20 years in prison after he admitted to 106 felony charges related to voter fraud, according to the NPR outlet KERA News. He was sentenced to four years on Friday.
Mohamed was a candidate in the election, and forged mail ballot applications under the names of Carrollton residents, which were sent to a mail store in Lewisville, where he leased a virtual mailbox.
Elections Administrator Frank Phillips said his staff found it suspicious that multiple ballot-by-mail applications were being sought from the same address. When investigators reached out to residents to confirm they were seeking mail ballots, the residents said they had not made the requests.
Mohamed picked up the mail box that held…
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