Boulder Republican pleads not guilty to voter fraud charge
A Republican who lost the primary for a Jefferson County state House seat has pleaded not guilty to a felony charge of deceptive election practices in Jefferson County District Court.
Timothy D. McKenrick, of Boulder, was charged May 26 for allegedly altering his signature on a ballot envelope earlier that month when he voted in the Jefferson County High School Board of Trustees election.
Charges state that McKenrick, who is in his mid-50s, admitted to multiple election officials that he intentionally altered the signature on his affirmation envelope to “test the system.” He told one election worker that “he had intentionally altered his signature to appear more closely to that he used when he was younger … to make sure the election workers were checking signatures,” the charges state.
In doing so, he “made or presented a record or document knowing it to be false with the purpose that it be taken as a genuine part of a record or document received or kept by the government,” the charges state.
The charge is punishable by up to 10 years in prison and up to $10,000 in fines. A trial date has not been set.
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