The plot thickens in the ballot petition fraud investigation in Indiana involving Democrat presidential candidate Dean Phillips’ campaign, with a second county now reporting potentially hundreds of bad signatures.
Meanwhile, the Phillips camp blames an outside firm for the faulty petitions in what’s starting to look like Michigan’s unprecedented petition fraud scandal that knocked several candidates for governor off the 2022 ballot.
Tippecanoe County Clerk Julie Roush told The Federalist that a petition carrier working on behalf of the Phillips campaign turned in 42 pages of petitions with approximately 400 names.
“Most of what they turned in to us were not even registered voters,” Roush said.
The clerk added that only 149 of the individuals listed on the petition were registered to vote in the county. Many of the pages included incomplete or suspect information and several signatures appeared to be from the same individual on closer review, she said.
Roush called the police.
“This whole thing is junk,” the clerk said.
West-central Indiana’s Tippecanoe County, home to Purdue University, is at least the second Hoosier State county raising red flags about apparent petition fraud involving Phillips’ campaign.
As I reported last week, Indiana State Police have opened up an investigation in St. Joseph County, where Clerk Amy Rolfes and her staff late last month discovered hundreds of what appeared to be fraudulent petition signatures and addresses.
Rolfes said a Phillips campaign volunteer showed up on Jan. 26 with about 53 pages of petitions to help get the candidate on
