ICYMI Voting Records Reveal Democrat Donna Lake May Have Voted Twice – in North Carolina and New York
October 2, 2020
For Immediate Release
Raleigh, NC - A new report from the News & Observer reveals that Democratic State Senate candidate Donna Lake – or someone claiming to be Donna Lake – voted in New York and North Carolina in 2008. Donna Lake was registered to vote both in North Carolina and New York for five years, from 2008 until 2013, and election officials in both states confirm that she was recorded as having voted in each state in the 2008 general election.
“Voter fraud does indeed occur – and no one knows that better than Democrat Donna Lake,” said NCGOP Press Secretary Tim Wigginton. “Donna Lake should explain to the voters of Wayne and Lenoir counties why she was registered to vote in New York for five years after moving to North Carolina, why she is recorded as voting in both states in 2008, and why she continues to oppose Voter ID to safeguard our elections.”
Here are some of the key excerpts from the article:
“Retired Col. Donna Lake cast her ballot on a chilly October day in 2008 at the Wayne County Public Library, about three miles from her home in Goldsboro.”
“Fifteen days later, on Nov. 4, 2008, another ballot was cast under Lake’s name, this time at a polling place in New York.”
“North Carolina State Board of Elections spokesman Pat Gannon told The News & Observer Friday that the board was looking into the case and gathering more information. The New York State Board of Elections Division of Election Law Enforcement declined to comment.”
“‘You have received records from the Suffolk County BOE, I have no comment,’ chief enforcement counsel Risa S. Sugarman said in an email."
“Records provided by the Suffolk County Board of Elections show that Lake, 64, was registered to vote in her home state at least as far back as July 1992.”
“She voted in-person that year, according to the records.”
“It’s also a felony to impersonate another voter.”
“When a voter moves to a new state, that state will send what’s called a ‘cancellation notice’ to the state where the voter was previously registered, or the voter would need to request their registration in their previous state be canceled.”
“The Wayne County Board of Elections said it did not have a record of sending a cancellation notice to New York when Lake registered in 2008.”
“The county’s election director, Anne Risku, said Lake’s North Carolina voter registration did not indicate she was registered in another state, so the county has no record of a cancellation notice being sent to New York.”
‘“If a voter does not indicate their former address on the North Carolina voter registration application, we would have no way of knowing if or where the voter was formerly registered,” NC elections board spokesman Gannon said. ‘Eventually, normal list maintenance processes would catch up, and the voter would be removed from the registration rolls in the former state.’”
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