A Former mayor of Arizona was sent to jail for violating election laws in the state.
According to the reports, the Democrat ran an “illegal ballot harvesting operation during the 2020 general election. Now, she and her accomplice have both been convicted.”
Guillermina Fuentes, a prominent Democratic Party activist and the former mayor of San Luis, Arizona was sentenced to 30 days in jail and two years of probation last week after he pleaded guilty in June to felony ballot harvesting.
In the report released by the RightWing, it was revealed that “Fuentes pleaded guilty to collecting four early ballots from voters and handing them to fellow activist Alma Juarez, who took them to a polling place and put them in a drop-off bin. That violated an Arizona law that says only a voter’s family member, housemate, or caregiver can possess their mail-in ballot. Juarez was convicted of the crime in March and was sentenced to probation only.”
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Following the sentencing, Yuma County Judge Roger Nelson blasted the former Arizona mayor for refusing to accept that she’d broken the law despite the concrete evidence against her.
In fact, she admitted at one point that she possessed the ballots but claimed, “I’m not a criminal.”
“Well, you are a criminal,” Nelson told her and added that it was a problem she didn’t recognize.
Moreover, as the former mayor’s defense team asserted that her local prominence was a mitigating factor, Nelson claimed that, that was an aggravating one, “People look up to you,” he said.
Meanwhile, in a separate proceeding on Thursday, Juarez, also of San Luis, was also charged with the same offense.
According to the reports, Judge Nelson ordered Juarez, who also pleaded guilty, to serve 12 months on probation but did not order a jail term.
The legal issue was that the duo carried ballots without being part of an enumerated list of people qualified to do so.
“Arizona law only provides for a family member, household member, or caregiver of the voter to collect voted or unvoted early ballots from another person,” the AG’s office said.
