A Canton Township man has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor election law violation after being accused of forging his daughter’s signature on an absentee voter ballot in November s general election, the Michigan Attorney General s Office announced Wednesday.
Paul Parana, 47, pleaded guilty Tuesday to the offense, a 90-day misdemeanor election law violation, for impersonating a voter.
Parana was charged in November with forging a signature on an absentee ballot and impersonating another to vote at an election. Those charges carry five- and four-year penalties, respectively.
Investigators found that Parana failed to forward the absentee ballot, which arrived at his home, to his daughter but instead filled it out as she instructed and forged her name on the back of the ballot envelope and mailed it to the Canton Township Clerk’s Office.