A federal grand jury has indicted a 65-year-old-enough-to-now-better Apollo, Pennsylvania, man for casting two presidential ballots in 2024 — one from a state he doesn't live in and one from the state he's voted in since Clinton's second term, according to Penn Live.
Jeffrey Pope has been registered in Pennsylvania since 1999, but he picked up property in Alaska back in 2023, and somehow decided that made him eligible to vote twice. According to the indictment, Pope filled out and sent in an Alaska mail-in ballot for President on October 18, 2024, then turned around four days later and mailed in a Pennsylvania ballot for the same office. The catch: to submit that second ballot, he had to sign a declaration swearing he hadn't already voted — which prosecutors say was a lie.
U.S. Attorney Troy Rivetti's office brought the two-count indictment; if convicted, Pope faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. He's a registered Republican.
Outside groups and watchdogs tracking prosecuted voter-fraud cases over the past several election cycles keep finding that a disproportionate share of the people actually charged are registered Republicans — even as GOP officials lead the charge on "election integrity" crackdowns. Pope's indictment fits that pattern.
Pope's case is being treated as a serious federal fraud offense, not a civil infraction. And the system works; he was caught.
Oh Look a member of the GOP got caught voting twice: source https://t.co/GyClfn02J9 pic.twitter.com/g1NijSSrnw
— aswegrow (@aswegrow2) August 15, 2026
