Texas man sentenced to four years for ballot fraud

A Denton County man in Texas was recently sentenced by a jury to four years in prison and 10 years of probation, after he pleaded guilty to voter fraud in the 2020 Carrollton mayoral election.

Zul Mirza Mohamed, 43, faced up to 20 years in prison after he admitted to 106 felony charges related to voter fraud, according to the NPR outlet KERA News.  He was sentenced to four years on Friday.

Mohamed was a candidate in the election, and forged mail ballot applications under the names of Carrollton residents, which were sent to a mail store in Lewisville, where he leased a virtual mailbox. 

Elections Administrator Frank Phillips said his staff found it suspicious that multiple ballot-by-mail applications were being sought from the same address. When investigators reached out to residents to confirm they were seeking mail ballots, the residents said they had not made the requests. 

Mohamed picked up the mail box that held the applications on Oct. 7, 2020. An undercover officer, who was monitoring the mail facility, arrested Mohamed that same day after following a tracker investigators had dropped into the box. A search warrant on Mohamed's house found the Denton County box, a box of Dallas County ballot applications, and a lease to a second commercial mailbox in Plano.

The police also found fraudulent identification and a fake notary stamp in Mohamed's house.

Misty Severi is an evening news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.