After Felony Conviction in for Casting Ballots in Arizona and New Hampshire in 2016, Man Obtained Arizona Ballot for 2020 Election

A man who was convicted of voting in Arizona and New Hampshire for the same election has continued voting in Arizona. Court documents show Sigmund Boganski, 77, voted in both states in the 2016 election, but according to the Maricopa County Recorder, he requested an early ballot for the 2020 election.

New Hampshire prosecuted him, but officials in Arizona appear to have filed no charges almost six years later. An arrest warrant was issued for Boganski out of New Hampshire on Oct. 19, 2020, and he was indicted on Nov. 4, 2020 by a grand jury in New Hampshire on a felony of voting in multiple states. He pleaded guilty earlier this month on May 4, and will pay a fine of $1,000 and a penalty assessment of $240. A 90-day jail sentence will be suspended on the condition of good behavior. His right to vote in New Hampshire was terminated.

States share voting information to ensure that people aren’t voting in multiple states, known as “crosschecks,” so if New Hampshire caught the double vote, Arizona should have also. Yet from 2016 to 2020, Maricopa County apparently did not.

ARS 16-1016(4) makes it a class 5 felony where someone “knowingly votes in this state in an election in which a federal office appears on the ballot and votes in another state in an election in which a federal office appears on the ballot and the election day for both states is the same date.” They lose their right to vote.

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