SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Editor's note: The above video is from a previous broadcast.
A Scottsdale woman has pleaded guilty to using her deceased mother's name to illegally vote in the November 2020 elections, the Arizona Attorney General's Office said.
Tracey Kay McKee, 64, pleaded guilty to a felony count of attempted illegal voting last week.
Officials said McKee went before Judge Margaret LaBianca in Maricopa County Superior Court on Jan. 26 and admitted to signing her deceased mother, Mary Arendt's name on an early ballot envelope and then mailing it to Maricopa County on or between Oct. 7, 2020 and Nov. 3, 2020.
Arendt died on Oct. 5, 2020.
Court records indicate McKee entered a not-guilty plea at the end of June 2021 and was indicted the next month. The indictment says McKee wasn't eligible to vote, but doesn't reveal why.
There were allegations of voter fraud in Arizona as the Election Night count showed Democrat Joe Biden taking a narrow lead over Republican President Donald Trump. A Democrat presidential nominee had won Arizona just once in the previous 72 years.
But no evidence of widespread voter fraud has surfaced. The presidential election results were certified by Democratic and Republican leaders.
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How big is Maricopa County?:
Maricopa County is the United States’ 4th largest county in terms of population with 4,485,414 people, according to the 2020 Census.
The county contains around 63% of Arizona’s population and is 9,224 square miles. That makes the county larger than seven U.S. states (Rhode Island, Delaware, Connecticut, Hawaii, New Jersey, Massachusetts and New Hampshire).
One of the largest park systems in the nation is also located in Maricopa County. The county has an estimated 120,000 acres of open space parks that includes hundreds of miles of trails, nature centers and campgrounds.
The county’s seat is located in Phoenix, which is also the state capital and the census-designated 5th most populous city in the United States.
The county was named after the Maricopa, or Piipaash, Native American Tribe.