A Marple man pleaded guilty Friday to voter fraud. He was charged with using his dead mother’s name to cast a vote for Donald Trump, writes Jaclyn Peiser for The Washington Post.

 “I was isolated last year in lockdown,” Bruce Bartman, 70, said. “I listened to too much propaganda and made a stupid mistake.”

He apologized to the judge for his crime.

Bartman was sentenced to five years’ probation on a guilty plea to felony perjury and unlawful voting.

A condition of the plea means he cannot vote for four years.

Bartman’s crime “goes to the heart of our democracy”, said Delaware County Common Pleas Court Judge George A. Pagano.

He commended Bartman for owning up to his crimes.

 Bartman’s case is among a handful of voter fraud in a dozen key swing states. His was one of three in Pennsylvania.

This is the “only known case of a dead person voting in our county, conspiracy theories notwithstanding,” said Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer.

Pennsylvania’s voting system flagged Bartman’s mother’s registration as having come from a dead person. Bartman was arrested Dec.18.

His prosecution proves that law enforcement will continue to “uphold our election laws whenever presented with actual evidence of fraud,” Stollsteimer said.

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