Illinois election judge charged for sending in dead husband's ballotHANDOUT Audrey Cook placed a vote for her husband, even though he was dead. An election judge from Illinois, US,has been was charged with voter fraud for allegedly sending in an absentee ballot in her late husband's name. * In trouble over anti-Clinton shirtMadison County State's Attorney Tom Gibbons told the Belleville News-Democrat that Cook will be removed as an election judge. Gibbons said absentee ballots say submitting a ballot on behalf of someone else constitutes perjury. The county clerk's office carefully examines every absentee ballot at multiple levels, including checking the names against the death records, he said.

Source: Stuff November 05, 2016 00:51 UTC