The Maricopa County Attorney's Office has handed down an indictment against a petition signature collector for his illicit hand in the 2024 election. Anthony Harris, born in June 1971, now faces charges including identity theft, fraudulent schemes, and submitting false signatures on an election petition.
Harris, with a past marred by convictions that should have barred him from the role of circulator, managed to register and collect petitions for the Arizona Abortion Access Act, also known as Proposition 139. Delving deep into the pages of signatures he submitted, authorities have found dozens to be forgeries, crafted well enough to momentarily evade detection, as confirmed by the Maricopa County Attorney's Office. Despite his fraudulent efforts, however, the proposition had garnered sufficient genuine support to make it onto the November ballot, where it eventually passed.
Specifically, the charges against Harris include one count of Aggravated Taking Identity of Another, a Class Three Felony, one count of Fraudulent Schemes and Practices; Willful Concealment, a Class Five Felony, one count of Circulator Registration Violation, a Class One Misdemeanor, and ten counts of Petition False Signature, also Class One Misdemeanors. It stands as a testament to our vigilant legal system that such nefarious acts have not gone unnoticed.
