A Justice of the Peace in Texas pleaded guilty on Monday (April 23) to voter fraud, but he won’t see the inside of a jail cell for his felony conviction.
Judge Russ Casey received probation on his two-year sentence for turning in fake signatures to get on the Republican primary ballot in March, the Star-Telegram reported.
Casey, who resigned from the bench, had filed a lawsuit demanding removal of a Republican rival from the primary ballot for an invalid number of signatures. It backfired—and that opponent counter-attacked with a challenge against Casey.
An investigation determined that many of the signatures on the petition Casey submitted were false and that Casey signed the form saying that he witnessed all the signatures, according to the prosecutor.
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