Voter Fraud Report

Roberta Lucia Maricano was charged by the state with one felony count of making false statements and election fraud after gathering fraudulent petition signatures. Maricano, a campaign staffer for U.S. Rep. Scott Taylor, the GOP incumbent running for reelection in 2018 in the 2nd Congressional District of Virgnia, signed notarized affidavits falsely claiming that she had witnessed voters signing ballot petitions to qualify Shaun Brown, a Democrat, on the ballot as an Independent in order to take away votes from the Democratic nominee (her boss's main opponent). The signatures were forgeries of deceased individuals and former residents. She pleaded guilty to an amended misdemeanor count of election official willful neglect of duty, received a one-year suspended sentence, paid a fine and cost of $1,267, and was placed on 12 months of unsupervised probation.