cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/30646
“I did my duty and voted early for [Senator Bernie] Sanders. There were twenty people around me planning to vote for [Joe] Biden because they loved Obama…” Ghalib wrote on March 8, 2020. “I got them to vote for Sanders and did their families’ ballot cards myself. Pray for the Jewish guy, don’t let him down,” he joked, apparently pointing out the irony that he would support a Jewish political candidate.
In Michigan, it is a felony to influence an absentee voter who is filling out their ballot. It is also illegal when completing another person’s absentee ballot to instruct them on how to vote.