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Builders tried to rig a vote and take over a village, U.S. indictment says

December 16, 2016 by Michael Castelluccio

Shalom Lamm and his townhouses in Bloomingburg

Shalom Lamm and his townhouses in Bloomingburg  Photo Kirsten Luce for The New York Times  

From The New York Times  December 15, 2016

As prosecutors painted it, the scheme seemed logical enough: If a rustic village in upstate New York would not approve a townhouse development that would more than quadruple its size, then bring in new residents, register them to vote and elect a new village board.

But the developers, according to an indictment unsealed on Thursday, took shortcuts that made the scheme easy to pick apart as fraudulent: They placed toothbrushes and toothpaste in apartments when no one was actually living there. They backdated leases to roughly the same period — the 30 days before the 2014 election required to establish legal residency for voting. They opened bank accounts and picked up mail at unoccupied home addresses. They arranged for bribes to scores of people to travel to the community to register to vote. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Bloomingburg, Voter fraud

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