A nursing home employee who was criminally charged with forging signatures on absentee
ballots in the presidential election is being sentenced to jail after pleading guilty to three charges
According to the Michigan Attorney General28, -year-old Trenae Myesha Rainey faced three counts of election law forgery and three counts of forging signatures on absentee ballot applications which are all five year felonies.
It happened last year when a team of investigators started looking into a stack of suspicious ballots after they were dropped off for processing, and a clerk noticed the signatures on the applications did not match the voter signatures in the qualified voter filed.
Investigators determined that Rainey, who worked at the nursing home, filled out the applications for the residents and forged their signatures. She then, they say, handed off the ballots to another employee who delivered them to the Center Line clerk.
Rainey plead guilty to three misdemeanor charges and will serve 45 days in jail and two years probation.
Two other election fraud cases stemming from the 2020 General Election were also announced, one relating to forging signatures, and another who is being charged for attempting to obtain absentee ballots for legally incapacitated people under her care. Defendant Nancy Williams faces four charges in Wayne County on May 9th, and a fifth case that was filed against her in Oakland County has a scheduled court date of March 23rd.
