{"id":1507543,"date":"2022-06-08T11:34:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T15:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1507543"},"modified":"2022-06-08T11:34:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T15:34:34","slug":"former-democrat-congressman-pleads-guilty-to-rigging-elections-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-democrat-congressman-pleads-guilty-to-rigging-elections-in-pennsylvania\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Democrat Congressman Pleads Guilty To Rigging Elections In Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-democrat-congressman-pleads-guilty-to-rigging-elections-in-pennsylvania%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1507543&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/pexels-element-digital-1550337.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A former Democrat congressman, who was expelled from the House of Representatives in 1980 after getting caught taking bribes in what turned out to be an FBI sting, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-edpa\/pr\/former-us-congressman-and-philadelphia-political-operative-pleads-guilty-election-fraud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pleaded guilty<\/a> to multiple election fraud charges this week after the U.S. Department of Justice charged him with bribery, falsifying voting records, stuffing ballot boxes, and more election crimes in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>According to U.S. Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams, 79-year-old Michael \u201cOzzie\u201d Myers admitted to bribing Philadelphia election judge Domenick J. Demuro, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/former-philadelphia-judge-elections-convicted-conspiring-violate-civil-rights-and-bribery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">who already pleaded guilty in 2020<\/a>, during the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018 state elections for $300 to $5,000 per election and then telling him to lie about falsely inflating votes.<\/p>\n<p>Demuro, who \u201cwas responsible for overseeing the entire election process and all voter activities of his Division in accord with federal and state election laws,\u201d then manipulated the voting machines in his respective ward and division in a way that satisfied Myers\u2019 desire to \u201cillegally add votes for certain candidates of their mutual political party in primary elections,\u201d especially those clients who paid him \u201cconsulting fees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of these candidates were individuals running for judicial office whose campaigns had hired Myers, and others were candidates for various federal, state, and local elective offices that Myers favored for a variety of reasons,\u201d the DOJ noted in a press release. <\/p>\n<p>Myers pulled the same stunt with another South Philadelphia election judge Marie Beren, who also pleaded guilty in 2021 to her role in the fraud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMyers acknowledged in court that on almost every Election Day, Myers transported Beren to the polling station to open the polls. During the drive to the polling station, Myers would advise Beren which candidates he was supporting so that Beren knew which candidates should be receiving fraudulent votes. Inside the polling place and while the polls were open, Beren would advise actual in-person voters to support Myers\u2019 candidates and also cast fraudulent votes in support of Myers\u2019 preferred candidates on behalf of voters she knew would not or did not physically appear at the polls,\u201d the DOJ stated. <\/p>\n<p>The pair also used cell phone communication to notate in real-time how many votes they faked versus how many were real.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf actual voter turnout was high, Beren would add fewer fraudulent votes in support of Myers\u2019 preferred candidates. From time to time, Myers would instruct Beren to shift her efforts from one of his preferred candidates to another. Specifically, Myers would instruct Beren \u2018to throw support\u2019 behind another candidate during Election Day if he concluded that his first choice was comfortably ahead,\u201d the press release continued. <\/p>\n<p>Much like Demuro, Beren then falsified poll books \u201cby recording the names, party affiliation, and order of appearances for voters who had not physically appeared at the polling station to cast his or her ballot in the election\u201d and balanced the list with the ballots recorded by voting machines before certifying the tainted results. <\/p>\n<p>Myers\u2019 guilty plea adds to the long list of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/02\/15\/exclusive-systemic-voting-issues-in-pennsylvania-county-even-more-extensive-than-previously-known\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">systemic voting issues<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/17\/video-shows-pennsylvania-official-admitting-election-laws-were-broken-in-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">election law violations<\/a> already plaguing Pennsylvania, where voters recently <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/24\/as-counting-deadline-nears-dr-oz-holds-nearly-1000-vote-lead-in-pennsylvania-senate-primary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">waited weeks<\/a> to hear the results of the U.S. Senate Republican primary. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire and Fox News. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Democrat congressman, who was expelled from the House of Representatives in 1980 after getting caught taking bribes in what turned out to be an FBI sting, pleaded guilty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1507543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1507543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}