Texas Republican offers $1 million voter fraud bounty; Democrat who caught a Republican collects

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick hacked up his first prize for the abundance to an ever-evolving survey watcher in Pennsylvania

Distributed October 26, 2021 6:47PM (EDT)

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, a Trump patron who offered at least $25,000 to anybody

Who could discover proof of citizen extortion in the 2020 political race, has at long last paid out his first abundance – to an ever-evolving who discovered proof of Republican treachery.

The impossible beneficiary, Eric Frank, a survey laborer from Chester County, Pennsylvania, is set to gather the $25,000 least, as indicated by The Dallas Morning News. Forthright allegedly saw 72-year-old Republican citizen Ralph Thurman endeavoring to cast a ballot twice – once for him and once for his child, an enrolled Democrat. Thurman conceded last month to continue casting a ballot. He was condemned to three years probation and is presently disallowed from deciding in favor of the following four years, as per The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Back in November of last year, during the fallout of Donald Trump's political race misfortune, Patrick declared that he would present up to $1 million "to boost, urge and prize individuals to approach and report citizen misrepresentation." The Republican explicitly guaranteed that reports prompting feelings would acquire basically $25,000, advising would-be sources to contact their nearby specialists.

"I support President Trump's endeavors to distinguish citizen misrepresentation in the official political decision and his obligation to ensuring that each legitimate vote is counted and each illicit vote is precluded," Patrick said at that point. "President Trump's quest for citizen extortion isn't simply fundamental to decide the result of this political decision, it is fundamental to keep up with our popular government and reestablish confidence in later races."

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Yet, Patrick's abundance, apparently set up to get Democratic fraudsters, presently appears to

Have blown up.

"I simply believe it's incredibly amusing… they were attempting to see elector extortion from somebody that was a Democrat. What's more, it would appear, essentially for me, for my case that I saw, it was a Republican citizen. Thus, indeed I think it sort of backfired somewhat," Frank told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow in a meeting the week before. "I never thought in 1,000,000 years that I would get compensated."

It isn't whenever that Republicans first have been discovered endeavoring to swindle the 2020 political race, CNN noted.

Back in May, a Republican municipality trustee in Delaware County, Pennsylvania was condemned to five years probation after he was discovered attempting to project a polling form for Trump in his late mother's name.