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California fraudster who voted three times as dead mother six years after she passed away gets arrested

Abutin is accused of voting in three elections between October 2012 and November 2014

LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA: The Los Angeles District Attorney revealed on Tuesday, August 18 how a man from Norwalk, in Los Angeles County, was arrested and charged last month for reportedly voting three times as his late mother. "A Norwalk man has been charged with allegedly casting votes in three elections on behalf of his mother who had passed away," the District Attorney’s Office announced in a statement. "Caesar Peter Abutin (dob 11/2/64) was charged in case BA488819 with one felony count each of fraud in connection with votes cast and fraudulent voting."

According to the release, Abutin "pleaded not guilty today and is scheduled to return for a preliminary hearing setting on October 28 in Department 50 of the Foltz Criminal Justice Center."

Deputy District Attorney Marian Thompson of the Public Integrity Division is prosecuting the said case, which was filed for warrant on July 31. According to the report, Abutin is accused of voting in three elections between October 2012 and November 2014 in place of his 67-year-old mother who passed away in July 2006. Meanwhile, he was also casting votes for himself.

It's worth noting that the charges were announced in the midst of the Democratic National Convention, as Democrats continue to accuse President Donald Trump of "exaggerating the potential for voter fraud in his push against automatic vote-by-mail," Breitbart reported. In 2019, Los Angeles County was forced to remove from its electoral rolls a staggering 1.5 million registered but inactive voters as of April 2018 in a settlement with conservative watchdog Judicial Watch. The non-profit activist group interestingly noted that "112% of the adult population of LA was registered to vote."

Trump has previously asserted that vote-by-mail would pave the way for the “greatest rigged election in history” and that proponents of the model were using the Covid-19 pandemic to facilitate a voting scam. Trump has been accelerating his campaign against the integrity of mail-in ballots as Democrat-run states like Michigan and Nevada opt for the distant-voting model in a bid to reduce people’s exposure to the coronavirus.

“The United States cannot have all Mail-In Ballots. It will be the greatest Rigged Election in history. People grab them from mailboxes, print thousands of forgeries, and 'force' people to sign. Also, forge names,” Trump tweeted on May 24. “Some absentee OK, when necessary. Trying to use Covid for this Scam!”

At the time, Trump threatened to ‘hold up’ federal funding in the key battleground state of Michigan saying their mail-in ballot plans were “illegal”. “Michigan sends absentee ballot applications to 7.7 million people ahead of Primaries and the General Election. This was done illegally and without authorization by a rogue Secretary of State. I will ask to hold up funding to Michigan if they want to go down this Voter Fraud path!” he tweeted on May 20. The tweet was deleted later.

On July 30, Trump even suggested that the November election should be delayed due to possible voter fraud. "With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???" he tweeted.