At its regular meeting last Thursday, Monroe County’s three-member election board voted to forward a case it considers to be possible voter registration fraud to the county prosecutor’s office for review.
The case came after the Nov. 3, 2020 election took place, and does not involve ballots that have been cast in an election.
As described at the board’s meeting, the case involved the registration of a voter name that did not match the name on the driver’s license that was used as a credential for the registration.
“It seems like a made-up name,” said Monroe County’s election supervisor Karen Wheeler at last Thursday’s meeting.
Election board chair Carolyn VandeWiele acknowledged at Thursday’s meeting that staff erred when they accepted a name as valid for registration that did not match the name on the credential.
The name of the person now under investigation was not mentioned at the board’s Thursday meeting.
Based on details of the story that were mentioned at the board meeting, The Square Beacon reached out to journalist Margaret Menge, now a Bloomington resident. Menge confirmed that she had submitted information through the online system, with the outcome, as she described it: “They registered a person who doesn’t exist.”
Menge added, “I was testing the system. I don’t think the system is as tight and secure as they think it is.” Continue reading “Journalist’s voter registration under different name sent by election board to Monroe County prosecutor as potential fraud: “I was testing the system.””
