A woman in South Texas was arrested and charged in a mass voter fraud scheme last week, local paper The Tyler Morning Telegraph reported on Friday.

Monica Rene Mendez was charged by the Texas Attorney General’s Office with 26 counts of violating election law.

Mendez “was charged with three counts of illegal voting, seven counts of unlawful voter assistance, eight counts of returning marked ballots without consent and eight counts of election fraud, according to jail records,” according to The Morning Telegraph.

If convicted, Mendez would face between two and 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine for each count of illegal voting, a second-degree felony. Unlawful voter assistance and returning marked ballots without consent are both a class A misdemeanor. Each is punishable by up to a year in prison and/or a fine of up to $4,000.

Local officials couldn’t answer where the alleged election law violations took place, but said Mendez was arrested in Victoria County because she’s likely a resident there.

Mendez is one of 43 people charged in 510 alleged instances of voter fraud in Texas, the state’s Attorney General’s Office said.

There is an additional 386 active voter fraud investigations that remain ongoing in the state.

 

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The Horn editorial team