A Lebanon man has been arrested for voter fraud in connection to the 2016 general election, reports Patch.
65-year-old Vincent Marzello has been charged by the New Hampshire State Police with felony wrongful voting.
According to the NH Attorney General’s Office, Marzello voted once in his own name, and a second time under a fake name. An investigation into the incident began in 2018, after allegations of fraud surfaced. Investigators met with members of the city clerk’s office in 2019 about the case. Marzello was accused of voting under his own name, then a second time under the alias of “Helen Elisabeth Ashley”.
“This office also learned that the New Hampshire Democratic Party had appointed Helen Elisabeth Ashley as an Inspector of Election and by a letter, dated Aug. 27, 2020, suspended that appointment effective immediately,” said Kate Giaquinto, the director of communications for the Attorney General’s Office.
As soon as the NH Democratic Party was made aware of these allegations, they suspended the ballot inspector status of the individual, according to a spokesperson.
They continued to state that “Ashley” signed up to be a ballot inspector via an online forum, and this was the party’s first known interaction with the individual.
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