Arizona GOP Candidate Appeared To Admit To Committing Voter Fraud As A Teen
Abraham Hamadeh, the Republican nominee for attorney general in Arizona, seemingly admitted to committing voter fraud during the 2008 presidential election in a series of message board posts he made as a teen, the Phoenix New Times reported Tuesday.
Hamadeh, a 31-year-old first-time candidate, won Arizona’s crowded attorney general primary earlier this month after securing former President Donald Trump’s endorsement. He embraced many of Trump’s favorite conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and has said he would not have certified the results of that contest in Arizona, which Trump lost. Hamadeh has also vowed to use the attorney general’s office to “prosecute crimes of the rigged 2020 election.”
But more than a decade ago, a teenage Hamadeh reportedly suggested on an internet forum that he had changed his mother’s vote on her absentee ballot, which could have been a crime at the time, the New Times reported.
An account the New Times linked to Hamadeh, who was 17 and ineligible to vote at the time, made the posts on a forum popular among fans of libertarian former congressman Ron Paul, who ran for president in 2008. In two posts from before that election, Hamadeh reportedly appeared to admit that his mother intended to vote for Paul, but that he regretfully changed her absentee ballot to a vote in favor of Barack Obama instead.
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