NELSON COUNTY, Va. — A jury in this bright-red corner of rural Virginia found an avid Donald Trump fan not guilty of attempted illegal voting in a one-day trial Monday, accepting the man’s claim that he was only trying to test the election system for voter fraud when he asked to vote a second time in local elections last year.
Richardson Carter Bell, 67, admitted to police that he voted early at the Nelson County registrar’s office on Nov. 4, 2023 — then lined up with voters at his local polling place on Election Day three days later, presenting his driver’s license at the check-in table and confirming his name and address to the poll worker.
“I was messing [with them] to see if they were gonna let me vote again, to see what kind of fraud is going on,” Bell told State Police investigators who later questioned him in a recorded interview played for jurors in Nelson County Circuit Court.
Bell, who walks with a red, white and blue cane, leaned forward on the defense table and appeared overcome with emotion after the jurors confirmed the verdict. He gave a few little waves to them as they filed out.
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Someone needs to explain to Bell that only illegal immigrants get to vote multiple times.