{"id":1636282,"date":"2022-09-08T13:06:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T17:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1636282"},"modified":"2022-09-08T13:07:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T17:07:04","slug":"former-county-elections-official-hit-with-corruption-charges-around-2020-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-county-elections-official-hit-with-corruption-charges-around-2020-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Former County Elections Official Hit With Corruption Charges Around 2020 Election"},"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\">22<\/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-county-elections-official-hit-with-corruption-charges-around-2020-election%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=1636282&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--><p>A former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/virginia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia<\/a> elections official has been hit with corruption charges, including multiple felonies, from the office of Virginia Attorney General <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/jason-miyares\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jason Miyares<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Michele White, who was the elections registrar for Prince William County from 2015-2021, was <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2022-midterm-elections-virginia-indictments-d1ff4e7c2f368f5a2429654b64c44a4c\">charged<\/a> with corrupt conduct as an election official, making a false statement, and willful neglect of duty in the months around the November <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/2020-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2020 election<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged criminal actions \u201cdid not impact the outcome of any election contest,\u201d according to Eric Olsen, the general registrar and director of elections for Prince William County, Virginia\u2019s second most populous county.<\/p>\n<p>Miyares, a Republican, initiated an investigation in White following the reporting of \u201cdiscrepancies\u201d from Olson earlier this year to the Virginia Commissioner of Elections and the State Board of Elections. White had resigned from her position in March 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Electoral Board and new director of elections have built an entirely new leadership team that is dedicated to fair and accurate elections,\u201d Olsen said in a statement. \u201cMany improvements and best practices have been adopted to ensure a safe and transparent voting experience for the voters of Prince William County.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The alleged corrupt actions took place from August-December 2020, according to officials. White also is accused of making a false statement during November 3-10, 2020. Miyares\u2019 office did not provide any additional details about the charges against White.<\/p>\n<p>White, who had previously been an official in Culpeper County, gave no explanation to why she had stepped down from her position in March 2021.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Prince William Times, the White\u2019s resignation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.princewilliamtimes.com\/news\/former-prince-william-elections-director-indicted-for-alleged-corruption-lying-neglect-of-duty-in-2020\/article_494ad6cc-2ef6-11ed-b070-5b323cddeb51.html\">came<\/a> after an emergency meeting by the county\u2019s electoral board. Electoral Board Secretary Keith Scarborough said that the meeting had pertained to White\u2019s time with the election\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2020 presidential election, President Joe Biden won Prince William County by a large margin, earning nearly 63% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>In recent months, Miyares\u2019 office has also been involved in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/former-virginia-deputy-attorney-general-files-suit-against-attorney-generals-office\/\">another<\/a> elections dispute as former Virginia deputy attorney general Monique Miles announced a suit last month against several Virginia officials. Miles claims that she was fired over her viewpoints related to the January 6 riot.<\/p>\n<p>Miles was out at the office after the Washington Post uncovered a Facebook post where she said on January 6, \u201cNews Flash: Patriots have stormed the Capitol. No surprise. The deep state has awoken the sleeping giant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She claims that the office fired her and that she did not resign as was widely reported at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Virginia elections official has been hit with corruption charges, including multiple felonies, from the office of Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares. Michele White, who was the elections registrar for Prince William County from 2015-2021, was charged with corrupt conduct as an election official, making a false statement, and willful neglect of duty in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1636284,"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-1636282","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\/1636282","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1636282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1636284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1636282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1636282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1636282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}