Illinois election judge allegedly sent dead husband's ballot (yes, he voted for Trump) [View all]

EDWARDSVILLE (AP) — An election judge from southern Illinois was charged Friday with voter fraud for allegedly sending in an absentee ballot in her late husband's name.

Audrey Cook, 88, of Alton, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that she filled out the ballot for her husband after he died in September because she knew he would want Donald Trump to be president. Cook said she and her husband, Vic, applied for absentee ballots this past summer and she received them days after he died.

"I was just so distraught when this came and I just voted because I knew he wanted to live so badly to see Trump straighten out this stinking mess," she said tearfully.

Cook is charged with two felony election-fraud counts.

Madison County State's Attorney Tom Gibbons told the Belleville News-Democrat that Cook will be removed as an election judge.

Read more: http://www.qconline.com/news/illinois/illinois-election-judge-allegedly-sent-dead-husband-s-ballot/article_ae19c1b0-a317-11e6-8b8e-f3fa7d810242.html

[font color=330099]I wonder if her husband wanted his wife to be memorialized his political affiliation as a felon?[/font]