Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Andrew Santoli ordered sheriff’s deputies to take James Saunders straight to county jail after finding the 56-year-old guilty of two counts of illegall voting, a fourth-degree felony.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A Shaker Heights attorney who donated to ex-President Donald Trump’s campaign was convicted Tuesday of election fraud for voting twice in the last two general elections.James Saunders
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O’Malley said after the hearing that Saunders’ case is the only instance of a person actually voting twice in Cuyahoga County in several years.Santoli also ordered the Cuyahoga County public defender’s office, which, to turn over the results of its investigation into Saunders’ financial status to determine whether taxpayers should pay for his representation.
Cellphone tower date placed Saunders’ cellphone at his Virginia address on Nov. 1, 2020, then showed that he drove down to Broward County on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020, and cast his ballot in-person there. Federal Elections Commission filings show Saunders made multiple small donations to Trump’s reelection campaign in both 2017 and 2020, as well as super-PACs supporting Trump’s candidacies. Saunders also made several reoccurring donations beginning in March 2020 to the National Republican Congressional Committee and WinRed, the GOP’s fundraising platform. The most recent donation was December 2021, according to records. All of the donations were under $100.
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