David Pruitt, an Alderman serving on the Beebe City Council, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for voting twice in Arkansas’s 2016 primary election. An investigation found that he voted on February 26th, 2016, and then again on March 1st, 2016. He was fined $750 and ordered to pay $170 in court costs and fees. The Beebe City Attorney has indicated Pruitt may be ineligible to serve on the City Council due to his guilty plea. Arkansas. 2016. Duplicate Voting. Criminal Conviction. Fraud Investigation. Report Summary
Democratic Rep. Hudson Hallum, his father Kent Hallum, and two campaign workers, Phillip Wayne Carter and Sam Malone, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit election fraud. The lawmaker’s campaign bribed absentee voters and destroyed ballots in the Arkansas District 54 primary, runoff, and general elections in 2011. Hudson Hallam was sentenced to one year of home detention, three years’ probation, and was ordered to pay a $20,000 fine and complete 100 hours of community service. Kent Hallum received probation and nine months’ home confinement. Sam Malone received three years’ probation (7.2 months of which was home confinement), and 100 hours of community service. Carter received three years’ probation (five months of which was monitored home confinement) 100 hours of community service, and a $2,500 fine. Arkansas. 2012. Buying Votes. Fraudulent Use of Abs. Ballots. Criminal Conviction. Fraud Investigation. Report Summary
Larry Gray was charged with illegally casting more than 25 absentee ballots in other people’s names during the 2002 primary, but the sum total of his election fraud may have been much higher. The former sanitation director for the city applied for hundreds of ballots, successfully submitting 98 in the Democratic primary. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Gray was likely not the only one running this type of scheme. After pleading guilty, Gray received two years’ probation. Arkansas. 2002. Fraudulent Use of Abs. Ballots. Criminal Conviction. Fraud Investigation. Report Summary