An Occidental man has been sentenced for voter fraud after he claimed to prove the election process was flawed. Seventy-seven-year-old William Eschenbach has been sentenced to six months of probation, 40 hours of community service and ordered to pay $500 in restitution. It stemmed from a post on X in January this year in which Eschenbach said he voted multiple times as “an experiment” to prove mail-in voting was insecure. He voted twice in two elections in 2022, by mail and in-person. However, the mail-in ballots were not counted because, by the time the registrar’s office received them, Eschenbach had voted in person. He was arrested in April and later reached a plea deal and pleaded no contest to one misdemeanor count of voter fraud.
Occidental Man Gets Probation and Community Service for Voter Fraud
