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May 10, 2021
Forty-five-year-old Ashlee Monique Deschamp pleaded guilty to a Class A misdemeanor election offense.
North Central District Court Judge Richard Hagar deferred her 360-day sentence and ordered her to pay $325 in court costs. The charge will be dismissed if Deschamp complies with court conditions.
On Oct. 28 Deschamp voted once in person and also filled out an absentee ballot.
Deschamp told authorities that when she placed her regular ballot into the voting machine she did not get a response and didn’t think it registered. She then decided to drop the absentee form into the slot for those ballots.
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MINOT, N.D. (AP) - Authorities say a Minot woman who voted twice in last fall’s election has received a deferred sentence.
Ashlee Monique Deschamp, 45, was charged with a Class C felony but pleaded guilty to a reduced Class A misdemeanor election offense. North Central District Court Judge Richard Hagar deferred her 360-day sentence and ordered her to pay $325 in court costs.
The charge will be dismissed if Deschamp complies with court conditions, the Minot Daily News reported.
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Ashlee Monique Deschamp, 45, is accused of voting twice in last fall’s election, a Class C felony. She made an initial appearance on the charge on Monday before Judge Richard Hagar in district court in Minot.
According to a probable cause affidavit filed with the court, Deschamp voted once in person on Oct. 28 at the early voting site at the Ward County Administration building and had also filled out an absentee ballot, which she dropped in a slot for absentee ballots at the same building on Oct. 28. Deschamp told authorities that she had gone to the building to drop off her absentee ballot, saw that early voting was taking place and decided to vote in person. However, when she placed her ballot into the ballot machine she did not get a response and didn’t think her vote had been counted. She then decided to drop the absentee ballot she had already filled out into the slot for absentee ballots.