Nearly 60 witnesses, many of them disenfranchised voters, have
testified in the absentee ballot fraud trial so far before acting Supreme Court Judge George J. Pulver.  Special Prosecutor Trey Smith has entered about 190 items of evidence, and still has DNA and
handwriting experts on deck who are expected to testify going into the
trial’s fifth week.

Democratic elections Commissioner Edward McDonough and former City Councilman Michael LoPorto
have been on trial since Jan. 24 on numerous counts of forgery and
filing false documents for allegedly entering nearly 50 fraudulent
absentee ballots in the 2009 Working Families Party primary.  Democrats wanted to secure that line that year, a line that before usually went to the Republicans.

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