one who just like bruce bartman registered dead mom to vote.other cast at polling place and came back 45 minutes later wearing sunglasses to cast a ballot in his son's name. alert poll worker saw through his brilliant sunglasses disguise. voter fraud is very rare, a few instances here and there, usually ridiculous. after the election when republicans were having trouble finding examples of the giant democratic fraud they were sure had taken place. republican governor of texas dan patrick offered a $1 million reward for anyone providing evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 election. for months his counterpart, democratic lieutenant governor fetterman has been trolling him. i got guys casting a ballot for donald trump in dead mother's name. not what you had in mind? i have a second one of those too, if you want to try that. despite inability to find any evidence of voter fraud he says is rampant, not even for $1 million, republicans in texas are nevertheless pushing ahead with idea fantasy of rampant fraud justifies draconian restrictions. compani

vote in the name of his deceased mother, all in an effort to re-elect donald trump. 70-year-old bruce bartmanea to two counts of perjury, one count of unlawful voting meaning he'll get five years probation and he loses his right to vote for four years. the voting records show he used pennsylvania's online voter registration portal to register both his late mother and his deceased mother-in-law. illegally registering both of them as republican voters, according to the district attorney's office. then bartman filled out an absentee ballot for his mother and sent it in. he's pleaded guilty. his attorney says it was a misguided political dissent. this all goes against donald trump's calls of a fraudulent election in favor of joe biden. first of all, because there is no evidence of widespread fraud, and in this one case we're seeing out of pennsylvania, the illegal vote was actually cast for trump. >> jessica, thank you for that report. >>> florida is now joining the growing list of republican-led states that are pushing new limits on voting. all in connection with donald trump's baseless claims o

sentenced to five years' probation for voting as a dead person in the 2020 election. 70-year-old bruce bartman casting a vote on behalf of his deceased mother in an effort to re-elect president donald trump. all that talk of voter fraud by the former president and one of his supporters is now guilty of doing it. bartman also registered his deceased mother-in-law as a republican but did not submit her ballot. the man's lawyer telling cnn that his client accepts responsibility, adding that bartman had been isolated at home because of the pandemic and was misled by, quote, propaganda and statements that were made about voter fraud. now, keep in mind bartman's sentence, five years' probation because i want to remind you of a different case cnn has covered. that's the case of crystal mason, a black woman who is fighting a five-year prison sentence for voting illegally in the 2016 election. mason says she did not know her status as a felon on release made her ineligible to cast a ballot. she says if she had known that, she would not have submitted a provisional ballot. >> you have no inclination fro

what we saw with bruce bartman in pennsylvania is that he was listening to president trump.dent that made him do it, in his account. he said he believed the lies. and in a weird sense, he decided he had to cheat because the other side was cheating. he has now been deprogrammed by the criminal justice system to understand and realize that he was being lied to. i'm not sure we can get everyone to go through that, and i'm not sure what the answer really is. the fact is, if you have powerful people with big broadcast audiences who were big on twitter and they have acolytes who are going to spread this stuff, people are going to believe it. that's the lesson. if the lie is big, people will believe it. >> and if the lie is repeated to these people, they believe it, it becomes their truth. eddie, you hinted at something bigger. i want to give you a chance to say more about that. >> my only point is this, nicole. we have to fight for the -- this is an existential battle, and it seems to me that we're playing too nice with these people. they're not -- we treat their arguments as if t

dead person in the 2020 e vex. 70-year-old bruce hartman pleaded guilty to casting on behalf of his dead mother in an effort to re-elect donald trump. bartmanbut not submit the ballot. bartman has been isolated at home by the pandemic and was misled about the law. his sentence is five years' probation. crystal mason is fighting a five-year prison sentence for voting illegally in the 2016 election. she said she did not know her status as a felon made her ineligible. >> you have no inclination from anyone at that polling station that there were koconsequences you voted on a provisional ballot. >> no, no way. there's no way i would have attempted to leave my children, lose my job to go through what i'm doing right now, no way i would have attempted to vote. >> her lawyers have disputed if it's fair to say she voted at all because her provisional ballot was rejected and never tallied. crystal mason is out on bond and her case is set to be heard in the next few months. a black woman facing five years in prison for a vote that was never tallied. meanwhile, a white man knowingly votes as his dead mother, he gets five years probation. two systems o