AMMENDMENT PETITION FRAUD

IN SOUTHWEST OHIO, ONE MAN HAS BEEN CONVICTED ON MULTIPLE COUNTS OF FORGERY AND FALSIFICATION IN PURSUIT OF SIGNATURES FOR A REDISTRICTING AMMENDMENT PETITION. 
THE WARREN COUNTY PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE REPORTS THAT 41-YEAR-OLD XEZAKIA (ZEH-ZAH-KEE-AH) ROUSE (RHYMES WITH OW AS IN OUCH) OF LEBANON HAS BEEN CONVICTED OF 12 COUNTS OF ELECTION FALSIFICATION AND 12 COUNTS OF FORGERY. HE WAS TASKED WITH COLLECTING SIGNATURES STATEWIDE IN 2023 AND 2024 FOR A PETITION TO SUPPORT A 2024 OHIO CONSTITUTIONAL AMMENDMENT THAT LATER APPEARED ON THE BALLOT AS ISSUE ONE. AN INVESTIGATION PROVED THAT A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF SIGNATURES WERE FALSE. ISSUE ONE WAS ULTIMATELY DEFEATED THAT YEAR.