PENNSYLVANIA (WHP) — A Pennsylvania man was sentenced on Wednesday after being convicted in March of voting twice in the 2020 presidential election, according to the Department of Justice.
Matthew Laiss, 32, of Bethlehem, was sentenced to three years, with the first six months of his sentence to be served on house arrest. Laiss was also ordered to pay a $6,000 fine and a $200 special assessment for election fraud offenses, the DOJ announced.
Court records show that Laiss lived in Bucks County from October 2012 until August 2020, when he moved to Florida. That same month, the DOJ said Laiss registered to vote in Florida and obtained a driver’s license.
In October 2020, a mail-in ballot was sent to his former home in Pennsylvania, where his parents still lived and, according to the DOJ, he filled out the Pennsylvania mail-in presidential election ballot. In November, Laiss also cast a ballot for the same race at an in-person location in Florida.