{"id":265670,"date":"2026-08-15T02:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T02:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/265670\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T02:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T02:20:07","slug":"doj-western-pennsylvania-man-accused-of-voting-twice-in-2024-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/265670\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ: Western Pennsylvania man accused of voting twice in 2024 Presidential Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PENNSYLVANIA (WJAC) \u2014 Federal authorities say a western Pennsylvania man is accused of violating federal voting laws after he allegedly submitted mail-in ballots in two states during the 2024 Presidential Election.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators with the Department of Justice have indicted 65-year-old Jeffrey Pope, of Apollo, after learning that he reportedly voted in both Pennsylvania and Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>According to the DOJ, while Pope has been a registered Pennsylvania voter since 1999, he purchased property in Alaska in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Federal investigators allege that during the 2024 election cycle, Pope then submitted mail-in ballots in both states.<\/p>\n<p>If convicted, authorities say Pope faces up to 10 years in federal prison, as well as a $250,000 fine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENNSYLVANIA (WJAC) \u2014 Federal authorities say a western Pennsylvania man is accused of violating federal voting laws after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-265670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}