AG Landryâs office arrests city councilman on alleged election fraud Emmanuel Zanders (Source: TPSO) By Austin Kemker | January 5, 2021 at 5:04 PM CST - Updated January 6 at 7:21 PM
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Prosecutors say a Louisiana city councilman illegally registered nearly two dozen people to vote in his district as he sought re-election last November.
Emanuel Zanders, a councilman in Amite, Louisiana, has been arrested and charged with eight counts of voter fraud, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry announced Wednesday morning.
Landry says Zanders allegedly urged 22 people to list vacant lots as their home addresses in order to attempt to increase the number of people who were eligible to vote for him.