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Mayoral Candidate in Texas [Zul Mirza Mohamed] Charged With Over 100 Counts of Voter Fraud

2020-10-12

[DailySignal] When police arrested Zul Mirza Mohamed on suspicion of voter fraud Wednesday night, prosecutors say, the candidate for mayor in Carrollton, Texas, was stuffing envelopes with mail-in ballot applications to send to Dallas County.

However, Texas state and local law enforcement officials allege that Mohamed’s illicit activities ran far deeper than what he was caught in the act doing.

Prosecutors charged Mohamed, 39, with 84 counts of mail ballot application fraud and 25 counts of unlawful possession of an official mail ballot, the Texas Attorney General’s Office said.

If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison.

Carrollton, with a population of about 127,279, spans the counties of Denton, Dallas, and Collin.

Texas officials allege that Mohamed obtained a virtual mailbox using a false identity. Then, prosecutors say, he forged at least 84 voter registration applications for unwitting residents of Denton County. The absentee voter applications asked for ballots to be sent to a fraudulent location.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he worked on the investigation with the Denton County Sheriff’s Office, the Lewisville Police Department, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and Denton’s elections and district attorney’s offices.

Paxton said law enforcement is committed to “ensuring a free and fair presidential election in the face of unprecedented voter fraud.”

“Mail ballots are inherently insecure and vulnerable to fraud, and I am committed to safeguarding the integrity of our elections,” Paxton said in a written statement. “My office is prepared to assist any Texas county in combating this form of fraud.”

Texas recently saw other voter fraud cases.

In late September, a grand jury indicted Gregg County Commissioner Shannon Brown and associates, alleging a scheme that involved falsely claiming that voters were disabled in order to obtain absentee ballots. Brown had won a five-vote victory in a Democratic primary in March.

In 2019, prosecutors indicted Edinburg Mayor Richard Molina and 18 others on charges they violated Texas law against ballot harvesting.

Update from the Washington Times at 2:40 p.m. ET:

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said the mayoral candidate forged at least 84 applications for mail-in ballots, and when he was arrested he was in the process of stuffing envelopes to request even more.

Authorities caught onto the scheme when dozens of ballot requests were all tied back to the same post office box, which was supposedly tied to a nursing home.

But when the Denton County Sheriff’s Office investigated, it found the box had been rented using a fake driver’s license and university student ID, and people whose ballots were being sent to the box said they never made the requests.

The sheriff’s department stuck an undercover officer at the post office to watch the box, and said they struck pay dirt Wednesday when someone came to collect the ballots. They followed the person, then obtained a warrant and found the ballots and the fake IDs.

Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#9 I know there is a Paris, Texas but now we got a Peshawar, Texas?

North east of Palestine.

Posted by: Skidmark 2020-10-12 18:15

#8 I thought it was mentioned at the 'Burg, too.

I thought so, but I found nothing in the archives.

Posted by: trailing wife 2020-10-12 14:42

#7 I first saw this on the local CBS channel in DFW, October 8. I thought it was mentioned at the 'Burg, too.

Posted by: Bobby 2020-10-12 14:27

#6 Notice any mention of the Party?

He has been described as "progressive". Explanation for lack of party affiliation:

Townhall: Update: Zul Mirza Mohamed was running for mayor in Carrollton, Texas as a non-partisan candidate against incumbent Kevin Falconer. An early version of this story incorrectly described Mohamed as a Democratic candidate for mayor when mayoral candidates in Texas are not traditionally affiliated with a political party.

Posted by: Ebbising Hupoth8296 2020-10-12 13:14

#5 Nazis???

That’s why the Heritage Foundation team created a digital-first, multimedia news platform called The Daily Signal.

Posted by: Ebbising Hupoth8296 2020-10-12 13:06

#4 No photo, either, just sayin'....

Posted by: Clem 2020-10-12 13:05

#3 Daily Signal?

I thought Rantburg was pro-Jewish, not neo-Nazi?

Posted by: Muggsy Hapsburg5230 2020-10-12 12:59

#2 Notice any mention of the Party?

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-10-12 12:36

#1 I know there is a Paris, Texas but now we got a Peshawar, Texas?

Posted by: Ebbising Hupoth8296 2020-10-12 12:12

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