Former Stanton Councilwoman Charged With Voter Fraud

Former Stanton Councilwoman Hong Alyce Van is being charged with aggregate felonies for allegedly lying astir wherever she lived erstwhile she ran for bureau successful the 2024 election. 

Van has not accepted a plea woody from prosecutors arsenic of Wednesday day and is acceptable to beryllium arraigned successful Westminster connected Jan. 29. 

Van did not instrumentality a petition for remark from Voice of OC. 

Prosecutors assertion that portion Van did unrecorded successful Stanton’s 2nd metropolis assembly territory erstwhile she was elected successful 2020, she allegedly moved soon aft to District 4 without resigning her seat, which is illegal.  

She did not merchantability the house, but was not utilizing it arsenic her superior residence, a request to correspond the territory according to prosecutors. 

Van besides claimed the location was her superior residence successful her information paperwork, which she signed nether punishment of perjury. She was besides registered to ballot astatine her aged address, meaning the ballot she formed successful the 2024 predetermination was a felony according to prosecutors. 

“The integrity of our elections volition beryllium safeguarded and governmental candidates who prevarication and cheat the strategy successful bid to get elected volition beryllium prosecuted,” said Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer successful a quality merchandise announcing the case. “These are not mistakes. These are deliberate decisions to interfere with our antiauthoritarian process and they volition not beryllium tolerated.”

Van is 1 of respective radical who ran for bureau this twelvemonth charged by Spitzer for falsifying oregon incorrectly handling their information paperwork. 

Former Rancho Santa Margarita Mayor Carol Gamble suspended her run for reelection aft prosecutors recovered she’d submitted an mistake successful her information paperwork. 

Scott Markowitz, a campaigner for Fullerton City Council, was arrested for perjury connected his information forms. 

[Read: Fullerton City Council Candidate Arrested For Alleged Perjury 3 Weeks Before Election]

Spitzer’s bureau is besides helping prosecute erstwhile Supervisor Andrew Do, who pleaded blameworthy to accepting bribes, and of recently elected Tustin Councilman Lee Fink, who pleaded blameworthy to artillery charges past month. 

[Read: Tustin City Council Member Pleads Guilty to Battery, Sentenced to 1-Year Probation]

Noah Biesiada is simply a Voice of OC newsman and corps subordinate with Report for America, a GroundTruth initiative. Contact him astatine nbiesiada@voiceofoc.org.

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