Cranston Mayor Alan Fung announced Thursday an investigation into possible voting irregularities that may have occurred during the 2016 Election.
Fung said that as a result of normal post-election reconciliation of the ballot applications, several instances of voting irregularities have been identified from the 2016 elections in Cranston. Fung said that none of these cases occurred in the District 15 state representative race between House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello and Republican Steven Frias.
Fung discussed the investigation with WPRO’s Matt Allen on Thursday. LISTEN BELOW.
The irregularities include two cases of suspected non-citizens being registered and actually voting in Cranston; two incidents of residents who allegedly voted by emergency ballot at city hall prior to election day and also in person at their normal location on November 8th; two residents who allegedly voted with a regular ballot at their polling location and then voted at city hall that same day for the President/Vice-President only; one person allegedly voting in both the April Presidential Primary and November General Election in Cranston and in Providence as well; one Cranston resident whose identity was allegedly used to be registered and a vote cast in a prior election in Providence without their knowledge or consent.
All cases are ongoing investigations by the Cranston Police Department that will be referred to the Attorney General’s office for review for potential charges.
“While these irregularities are being investigated and handled by the Cranston Police Department with the assistance of the Attorney General’s office, we need to not only hold people accountable, but fix these loopholes and prevent this from happening again,” said Fung.
Fung says he will be reaching out in the next few days to Secretary Gorbea to share Cranston’s findings.
