Hoopeston woman sentenced for voter fraud

A 61-year-old Hoopeston woman was sentenced last Friday to three years probation and ordered to pay a 25-hundred dollar fine for voting twice in a federal election. In a press release, the United State’s Attorney’s Office for the Central District of Illinois says Brenda Knuth plead guilty in January to voting more than once in a federal election. Prosecutors say after voting on election day she posted on Facebook that she had “tested the system and it failed”. Knuth later admitted to investigators that she voted early in the election and then again on election day. Knuth could have gotten up to five years in prison and as much as a 10-thousand dollar fine.