Minnesota election judge faces felony charges over accepting unregistered votes

A Minnesota predetermination judge is being charged aft allegedly accepting radical who were not decently registered to ballot successful the 2024 election.

Timothy Michael Scouton, who served arsenic the caput predetermination justice for the Badoura Township Precinct successful Hubbard County, Minnesota, is being charged with 1 number of accepting the ballot of an unregistered elector and 1 number of neglect of work by an predetermination official, some felonies, according to a report from Fox 9.

Police accidental they were notified by an predetermination auditor that 11 voters did not implicit due registration forms, yet were allowed to ballot contempt not being capable to implicit the forms that are utilized to authenticate their identity.

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Timothy Michael Scouton (Hubbard County Sheriffs Office)

Those votes were allowed contempt Scouton reportedly completing his predetermination justice grooming and caput predetermination justice grooming successful July, the study notes.

Authorities spoke with different justice who worked with Scouton connected the nighttime of the election, with the justice telling constabulary that Scouton instructed her not to usage the due registration forms. Another justice moving with Scouton told constabulary that she was not alert of the due forms and was instructed by Scouton to person voters motion the backmost of a book.

A elector casts a ballot during the Super Tuesday superior astatine the American Legion Post successful Hawthorne, California, March 5, 2024. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)

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Scouton was arrested connected the charges by the Hubbard County Sheriff’s Office, who said helium "declined to supply a statement."

Meanwhile, the Minnesota Secretary of State acknowledged that the charges against Scouton were "very serious."

An predetermination idiosyncratic removes a ballot from an envelope astatine the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center connected Nov. 5, 2024, successful Phoenix, Arizona. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)

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"These allegations are highly superior and indispensable beryllium afloat and thoroughly investigated," the Secretary of State’s bureau said successful a connection to Fox 9. "Election judges instrumentality an oath to administer elections successful accordance with the law, a deliberate nonaccomplishment to bash truthful is unlawful and a betrayal of the nationalist trust. Minnesota’s elections trust connected the dedication and nationalist work of 30,000 radical and they are required to behaviour their enactment fairly, impartially, and wrong the missive of the law. The Hubbard County Auditor took punctual and close enactment successful notifying section authorities of the uncovered discrepancies truthful they could investigate."