The New York Daily News’ Tim Balk reports, “Jason Schofield applied for absentee ballots for voters who did not want to vote, and, in some instances, personally pushed voters to sign absentee ballot envelopes, positioning himself or his associates to commit voter fraud in primary and general elections in 2021, according to court papers. The 12-count indictment charging Schofield said ballots were counted from at least four voters who were instructed to sign ballot envelopes but were not allowed to complete them.”
The court papers, according to Balk, allege, “Schofield was able to vote — or have other people vote — in the RVs’ names.”
Schofield is an elections board commissioner in upstate New York’s Rensselaer County, which is near the state capital of Albany and includes Troy, NY. Balk notes that Schofield “faces up to five years in prison on each of 12 counts of unlawful possession and use of a means of identification, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Albany.”