Another GOP voter admits he committed fraud, gets light sentence – By Steve Benen (MSNBC) / July 25, 2022
Quite a few Trump voters were caught casting illegal ballots for dead or missing relatives. In each case, judges didn’t exactly throw the book at them.
Over the course of the last year or so, I’ve marveled at the number of Republican voters who’ve been caught casting ballots on behalf of dead or missing relatives. The case of Barry Morphew, however, is a little different, though it nevertheless fits into the larger pattern. The New York Times reported:
“The husband of a Colorado woman who has been missing for more than two years pleaded guilty on Thursday to casting her mail-in ballot for Donald J. Trump during the 2020 election, telling F.B.I. agents, “I figured all these other guys are cheating.” The man, Barry Morphew, 54, was given a sentence of one year of supervised probation but avoided jail time after pleading guilty to one count of forgery, a felony, in district court in Chaffee County, according to court records.”
If this story sounds at all familiar, it’s because we explored it in some detail over a year ago.
Just to briefly recap, Suzanne Morphew disappeared in May 2020 after going for a bike ride near her home. Her husband, Barry Morphew, was charged with murdering his wife, but a few months ago, the charges against him were dropped after a judge accused prosecutors of violating discovery rules.
