A Florida man is in trouble after requesting a mail-in ballot for his dead wife, WFLA reports. Larry Wiggins was arrested Thursday in Manatee County and charged with requesting a mail-in ballot on behalf of another elector, a third-degree felony. His explanation? "I heard so much about ballots being sent in and people just having found them in different places," says the 62-year-old. "I feel like I haven't done anything wrong." Wiggins further claims he was just testing the system, didn't plan to use the ballot, and didn't try to replicate his late wife's signature on her application: "I said well, let me just send it in and see what's going to happen to see if they're actually going to send a ballot for her to vote," he says.
Election officials caught the error when they checked the voter roll and noticed that Wiggins' wife died two years ago, per the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Then they noticed that the signature didn't match. "He wanted to test the system," says Manatee County Elections Supervisor Michael Bennett. "He did test the system, and guess what? It worked." Bennett, a Republican, says voter fraud is rare in Florida but he will prosecute such cases to the hilt. Wiggins, a registered Democrat, says he supports President Trump. He posted a $1,500 bond to get out of jail on Friday. (More mail-in voting stories.)
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