Minnesota Election Judge Arrested, Accused of Accepting Ballots from Unregistered Voters – EVOL

An election judge in Minnesota is facing felony charges after allegedly allowing people who were not properly registered to cast ballots in the 2024 election.

Timothy Michael Scouton, who served as the head election judge for the Badoura Township Precinct in Hubbard County, Minnesota, has been charged with one count of accepting the vote of an unregistered voter and one count of neglect of duty by an election official, according to a report from Fox 9 Minneapolis. Both of the charges are felonies.

Scouton reportedly attended basic election judge training before completing head election judge training in July, according to a criminal complaint from Hubbard County.

Law enforcement stated that they were alerted to Scouton’s activities after an election auditor reported that 11 voters did not complete proper registration forms. The auditor told police that on November 7, she reached out to the head election judge, who was Scouton. She was then reportedly informed that he could not find the registration forms.

When the auditor was eventually able to locate the forms, Scouton allegedly told her that he and other election judges did not use them, the criminal complaint states.

The auditor then spoke with law enforcement again on

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