A Russian national and an Uzbek national have been arrested for allegedly submitting over 100 fake voter registration applications in Pinellas County, the U.S. Department of Justice said Monday.
Dmitry Shushlebin, 45, and Sanjar Jamilov, 33, were both charged with one count of conspiring to submit fraudulent voter registration applications and give false information in registering to vote.Law firm sues owner of St. Pete building hit by collapsed crane during Hurricane Milton
Shushlebin, who is from Russia, was living in Miami Beach at the time of the alleged crimes, while Jamilov, who is from Uzbekistan, was living in St. Petersburg, the DOJ said.
The Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections became suspicious after receiving the voter applications in February and March 2023, according to a criminal complaint filed in the Middle District of Florida.
The 132 applications were submitted in envelopes with “identically formatted return and address labels,” the complaint said. Each listed a real residential address in Pinellas County, but bore the name, date of birth, and social security number of what appeared to be a fictitious person….
Officials said there were also several other red flags, including that none of the applicants had middle names, multiple shared the same date of birth and nearly all of the addresses listed appeared at least twice within the 132 applications….