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GOP Official In Ohio Admits to Voting Twice

June 23, 2021 at 11:32 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A Republican official in Ohio admitted to forging his dead father’s signature on an absentee ballot in the 2020 presidential election, NBC News reports.

Edward Snodgrass, a Porter Township trustee, called it “an honest error.”

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