Lancaster County election officials have referred to law enforcement more than 13,300 signatures suspected to be fraudulent on three petitions seeking to reshape Lincoln elections. Lancaster County Election Commissioner Todd Wiltgen confirmed that update to the Nebraska Examiner on Thursday afternoon.
His office on Wednesday had provided a report to the Lincoln City Clerk’s Office on the Good Government Lincoln campaign’s petition pages.
An Examiner review of those documents, obtained via a public records request, indicated 67.6% of rejected signatures were flagged as being “suspected fraudulent signatures.” The reports do not specify what led local election officials to flag them as fraudulent.
Twenty unique reasons were given for rejection. “Suspected fraudulent signatures” was listed as the most common, followed by voters not being registered in Nebraska (12.1% of the rejections), not being registered in Lincoln (9.9% of rejections), duplicate signatures (2.1%) or a missing signature from a petition line (2.1%).
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