Voter Fraud Report

Diana Watt was charged by the state with one felony count of attempt to influence a public servant, one misdemeanor count of perjury, and one misdemeanor count of tampering with nominating papers after submitting fraudulent signatures for a candidate ballot petition in the 2022 Republican primary for the 7th congressional district. Watt was a circulator with the Oregon-based firm Grassfire LLC, which was paid to gather the required 1,500 signatures for Republican candidate Carl Andersen to qualify for the ballot. Watt submitted petitions with the forged signatures of voters, including deceased voters and voters who had moved out of state prior to the petition being circulated. She pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of tampering with nominating papers, in exchange for dismissal of the other charges, and was sentenced to 6 months of unsupervised probation (which could be reduced to 90 days if all court costs and fine are paid), and assessed $4,025.41 in court costs and fines.