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[–] mr_anthrope ago
Those charges were complete bullshit. He (or whoever filled out his voter registration form) put his mailing address instead of the address of the apartment where he lived. That's it. A simple mistake that didn't mean anything. He got the exact same ballot that he would've gotten if he'd filled out the form properly, so it's not like he was trying to commit fraud and he didn't. This only happened because the state republican party is still Chamber of Commerce type republicans and Watkins was a Trump republican, so they hated him almost as much as the democrats. And the local newspaper had a special hatred for this guy and were actually the ones who dug this story up. It's a complete nothingburger that was blown up into a felony because the republicans wanted to get rid of a Trump guy and the news media was more than happy to help them.