In yet another incident of what Democrats long claimed wasn’t happening, New Jersey Democrat Henrilynn Ibezim, who ran for the Democratic mayoral primary in the town of Plainfield, New Jersey, has pleaded guilty to forging nearly a whopping 1000 voter registration applications during the 2021 primary.
As background, Ibezim was discovered committing the offens in 2024, when he was charged with fraud after having been caught bringing a garbage bag full of the fake, falsified voter registration applications, all of which had the same three or four fraudulent signatures on them, to a post office in an attempt to mail them off, presumably so he could cast votes for himself.
Announcing the charges in late August of 2024, the New Jersey Attorney General’s office said, “Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA) today announced that a state grand jury indicted a former candidate for mayor of Plainfield, New Jersey, charging the defendant with attempting to submit hundreds of fraudulent voter registration applications to Union County election officials and then engaging in an attempt to cover up his actions.”
It added, “The grand jury returned an eight-count indictment against Dr. Henrilynn Ibezim, 70, of Plainfield. Ibezim was a candidate for mayor of the City of Plainfield in the June 2021 primary election. Based on publicly filed documents in the case, Ibezim allegedly brought a garbage bag containing nearly 1,000 falsified voter registration applications to an Elizabeth post office, intending to mail the documents to the Union County Commissioner of Registration.”
It then said, “As alleged, Ibezim created and attempted to submit false voter registration applications containing the personal identifying information of individuals without their authorization. Many of the applications had the handwriting of only three or four writers. The applications did not state, as required, that they were completed by anyone other than the voter for whom the application was purportedly submitted.”
Now, Ibezim has been convicted. As was reported by Fox News Digital, Ibezim pleaded guilty to one count of third-degree forgery over the scheme, doing so as part of a plea deal with the New Jersey attorney general’s office. That was a dramatic reduction from the original slew of charges that Ibezim faced, which included eight offenses of various sorts, including election fraud and witness tampering.
“My office is determined to ensure elections are fair and that their outcomes are determined by the will of the voters,” Attorney General Jennifer Davenport said about the case in a statement, Fox News Digital reports, despite the fact that she had failed to secure an election fraud conviction or guilty plea in this case.
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She added, further commenting on how these sorts of incidents can be devastating to the legitimacy of the ruling regime, “It is crucial to our system of government that those who engage in illegal and bad-faith conduct during elections be held accountable. Failing to do so opens the door to a loss of public confidence in the democratic process.”
Featured image credit: from a Dr. Henrilynn Ibezim campaign poster