“The lawyer representing Bruce Bartman – the Pennsylvania Republican charged with voter fraud for pretending to be his dead mother to illegally cast a vote on her behalf for President Donald Trump – says his client believed he was participating in some kind of ‘protest.’ ‘He was angry at people criticizing the president and complaining about the election process, and he wanted to do what he considered civil disobedience by registering his mother and voting her,’ the attorney, Samuel Stretton, told Insider on Tuesday. ‘Of course, he was wildly mistaken.'”
“Bartman has been charged with unlawful voting and perjury. Delaware County prosecutors say he filled out voter registration forms in August, using a driver’s license for his dead mother, Elizabeth Bartman, and social security number for his dead mother-in-law, Elizabeth Weihman. He ultimately cast a successful vote in Elizabeth Bartman’s name for Trump. Stretton told Insider that Bartman plans to plead guilty once his case goes through preliminary hearings, calling his actions ‘a terrible mistake.’ The 70-year-old Bartman faces a maximum of 19 years in prison” – Business Insider.