{"id":2634,"date":"2026-07-15T21:15:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=2634"},"modified":"2026-07-15T21:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:15:20","slug":"former-bucks-county-man-who-voted-twice-for-president-donald-trump-in-2020-sentenced-to-six-months-of-house-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=2634","title":{"rendered":"Former Bucks County man who voted twice for President Donald Trump in 2020 sentenced to six months of house arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A former Bucks County man who voted twice for President Donald Trump in the 2020 election was sentenced Wednesday to six months of house arrest and three years of probation.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=2632\">U.S. pledges to buy more Philly-made ships and nuclear sub parts<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Matthew Laiss was found guilty by a jury earlier this year of casting two ballots in the 2020 election: First by mail in Pennsylvania, where he\u2019d once lived in Ottsville, and then again in person in Florida, where he was living at the time.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Laiss, 32, said in court Wednesday that his actions were \u201cstupid\u201d and a mistake. And his lawyer said Laiss never meant for both votes to actually count \u2014 that he wrongfully assumed election officials would identify he\u2019d voted twice and only count one of his ballots.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIn hindsight, it wasn\u2019t good judgment,\u201d Laiss said.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Prosecutors, however, said they didn\u2019t believe that, in part because they said Laiss misled FBI agents about his actions when he was confronted years later. And Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Dubnoff said Laiss had shown a \u201cstriking\u201d lack of remorse for what he did, repeatedly saying it was the result of his age or mental health at the time, as opposed to realizing he\u2019d committed a crime.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cMr. Laiss has not accepted ownership of what he did,\u201d Dubnoff said.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Joseph F. Leeson, Jr. said Laiss\u2019 crimes were serious and had affected \u201call citizens of this country.\u201d <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>But he declined to send Laiss to prison, noting that Laiss had already lost his job as an insurance salesman as a result of the case, and that he\u2019d have the felony conviction on his record for the rest of his life.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office charged Laiss last year with crimes including voter fraud and voting more than once in a federal election.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=2630\">\u2018Didn\u2019t we try this before?\u2019 And other questions about permanent daylight saving time, answered.<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>They said records showed that Laiss had filled out and returned a mail-in Pennsylvania ballot in October 2020. And less then a week later, they said, he went to a polling place in Florida and voted again.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Laiss later said in court documents that he voted twice for Trump. And as his case progressed toward trial, he sought to claim that his actions were covered by pardons Trump extended to people who tried to help him overturn the results of the 2020 election, which Joe Biden won.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Leeson denied Laiss\u2019 motion, and in March, Laiss, now a resident of Bethlehem, was found guilty by a federal jury in Allentown.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Prosecutors announced Laiss\u2019 case alongside the indictment of a Philadelphia woman, Miya Pack, who was separately charged with voting twice in the 2020 election. She pleaded guilty last month and is awaiting sentencing.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Still, attorneys said cases involving people casting multiple ballots were relatively rare in eastern Pennsylvania. Laiss\u2019 lawyer said the only other comparable case in the region that unfolded in recent years was that of Philip C. Pulley, a Philadelphia landlord who voted in the city, Montgomery County, and Florida in 2020 and 2022. He was also sentenced to probation.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Trump has nonetheless made frequently questionable or false statements about the prevalence of voter fraud, particularly in instances where his opponents or Democrats have won. Election officials and experts generally agree that voter fraud has not historically occurred at widespread rates or in ways that could lead to incorrect outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=2628\">4.6-million-square-foot King of Prussia data centers poised for nitty-gritty discussion<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Laiss voted by mail in Pennsylvania and again in person in Florida in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Former Bucks County man who voted twice for President Donald Trump in 2020 sentenced to six months of house arrest - 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