<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Courtesy of the <i>New York Times</i> at:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/23/technology/Pennsylvania-voter-fraud-bartman.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/23/technology/Pennsylvania-voter-fraud-bartman.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>————————————————</div><div><br></div><div><h1 class="css-ymxi58 e1h9rw200" data-test-id="headline" style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 2.5rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 3rem; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); width: 600px; max-width: 600px;">Pennsylvania man is accused of casting Trump vote for his dead mother.</h1></div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Shortly after the November election, the Trump campaign circulated on its <a href="https://www.facebook.com/1771156219840594/posts/2871960556426816" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145); border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Facebook</span></a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1326675187287388165" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145); border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Twitter</span></a> accounts, as well as <a href="https://donaldtrumpcampaign.cmail20.com/t/ViewEmail/r/3D14F1B3113615362540EF23F30FEDED/E2E4093E5ACCCC74A9AC1099B17138EA" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145); border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">its website</span></a>, the names of seven dead Americans in the battleground states of Georgia and Pennsylvania. The dead people were used to cast votes in last month’s election, the campaign claimed, pointing to the incidents as evidence of widespread voter fraud that enabled President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Local officials have <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/technology/dead-voters-false-claims.html"><span style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145); border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">debunked several of the dead-voter claims</span></a>, and there remains no evidence of widespread voter fraud. But now, Pennsylvania officials say one of the names held up by the Trump campaign was used to cast a vote in the election.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Here’s the catch: Authorities say the fraudulent vote was cast for Mr. Trump.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">This week, Jack Stollsteimer, the district attorney of Delaware County, <a href="https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/press-release-on-criminal-charges-against-bruce-bartman/00763f9543d066ea/full.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145); border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">accused Bruce Bartman of Marple Township, Pa.</span></a>, of illegally voting in place of his deceased mother in the general election. In addition to his mother, Mr. Bartman registered his mother-in-law, Elizabeth Weihman, who died in 2019, as a voter, according to the district attorney’s office, but is not accused of voting for her. He also cast a ballot under his own name.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">“This is the only known case of a ‘dead person’ voting in our county, conspiracy theories notwithstanding,” Mr. Stollsteimer said in a statement. “The prompt prosecution of this case shows that law enforcement will continue to uphold our election laws whenever presented with actual evidence of fraud and that we will continue to investigate every allegation that comes our way.”</span></p><p class="css-axufdj" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Samuel Stretton, a lawyer for Mr. Bartman, said: “He’s admitted everything. He’s cooperated.” Mr. Stretton added that he was negotiating a guilty plea, and that Mr. Bartman had no criminal record.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="css-axufdj" style="margin: 0.9375rem; font-size: 1.25rem; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">“He’s a good man,” Mr. Stretton said. “He did something very stupid under some misguided theory that this was his form of protest.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="css-axufdj" style="margin: 0.9375rem; font-size: 1.25rem; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">In an interview with The New York Times in November after the Trump campaign first made its claims, Mr. Bartman said he did not recall seeing a mail-in ballot for his mother. “Oh, no, no, I haven’t gotten anything,” he said. “Occasionally I would get some junk mail for her. But not in several years.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="css-axufdj" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 1.25rem; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">He added that he did not hear of the Trump campaign’s allegation because he did not use social media much and only infrequently logged on to Facebook to see pictures of his grandchildren.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="css-axufdj" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: medium; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Asked whether he knew why a vote for his mother would have been recorded despite her having passed away, he said the state’s governor, Tom Wolf, “doesn’t know anything or what’s going on in the city of Philadelphia, or the surrounding counties in the middle part of the state.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="css-axufdj" style="margin: 0.9375rem; font-size: 1.25rem; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><em style="font-size: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">“</span></em><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Some of the stuff that has gone on in Philadelphia is just atrocious,” Mr. Bartman added.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="css-axufdj" style="margin: 0.9375rem; font-size: 1.25rem; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Mr. Stretton, his lawyer, said, “He was wrong in saying that, he admits he was wrong, and since he was approached by the detectives, he has cooperated and told the truth.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="css-axufdj" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 1.25rem; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The claim that a vote was fraudulently cast using Elizabeth Bartman’s name and that it was emblematic of systemic voter fraud helping Mr. Biden spread widely online. On Facebook, articles with the claim from the conservative websites ZeroHedge and The Epoch Times were shared 1,800 times and reached up to 61 million followers, according to data from CrowdTangle, a Facebook-owned social media analytics tool.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br></div><div>————————————————<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/">http://www.moscowcares.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><b>“You’re a Mean One, Mr. Trump”</b></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Donald_Trump/Youre_a_Mean_One_Mr_Trump.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Songs/Donald_Trump/Youre_a_Mean_One_Mr_Trump.mp3</a></div></div></div></body></html>