Jacqulyn Boone, the former mayor of Ft. Deposit, Alabama, was just arrested and charged with unlawful use of absentee ballots — a Class C felony that carries up to a decade in prison. She wasn’t alone, either. A city council candidate named Steven Thigpen got popped on the same charges. Both of them won their races in the August 2025 municipal election. Both of those results were thrown out. A new election was held, and shockingly, neither one of them showed up on the ballot.
Funny how that works when you can’t cheat.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced the arrests this past week, and we should all take a moment to appreciate the beautiful irony of yet another elected official getting busted for the crime that every Democrat, every cable news anchor, and every “fact-checker” in America has spent the last six years telling us doesn’t exist.
Voter fraud is a myth, they said. It’s a conspiracy theory, they said. Anyone who questions election integrity is an “election denier” who hates democracy and probably wants to bring back Jim Crow. That’s been the party line since about November 4, 2020, and they’ve repeated it so many times that they genuinely seem confused when reality keeps interrupting their narrative.
So let’s add Jacqulyn Boone to the list.
It’s a long list, by the way. We’ve got the mayor from Mississippi who got convicted. We’ve got the city council member from Texas. We’ve got the ballot harvesters in Arizona. We’ve got operatives in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin who were caught on camera doing exactly what we were told nobody was doing. We’ve got a exposed network in New Jersey. Every few months, another one drops, and every time, the media treats it like an isolated incident that proves nothing.
One case is an anomaly. Two is a coincidence. Three is a pattern. We’re somewhere around case number four hundred, and the smart people on television are still telling us there’s nothing to see here.
Now, the specifics of Ft. Deposit are worth knowing. This is a tiny town in Lowndes County — we’re not talking about some massive statewide conspiracy here. This is a small-town municipal election where two people allegedly gamed the absentee ballot system to win races they apparently couldn’t win honestly. The election results were invalidated. New elections were held. The system caught it.
And that’s actually the part Democrats should be paying attention to, if they were capable of honest analysis. The system caught it BECAUSE people were looking. Because election integrity measures exist. Because someone flagged something that didn’t look right, and investigators followed the trail.
That’s exactly what Republicans have been asking for — not suppression, not disenfranchisement, not whatever scary word CNN wants to attach to voter ID laws. Just… looking. Paying attention. Verifying that the people who vote are allowed to vote and that the ballots being cast are legitimate.
But every time a Republican proposes tightening absentee ballot rules, or requiring voter ID, or cleaning up voter rolls, the entire Democratic establishment and their media allies scream that it’s racist, authoritarian voter suppression designed to keep minorities from voting. They literally cannot process the idea that maybe — just maybe — the rules exist to prevent exactly what Jacqulyn Boone allegedly did.
Absentee ballots are the soft underbelly of our election system, and everybody knows it. They’re the easiest vector for fraud because they remove the one safeguard that in-person voting provides: a real human being showing up, proving they are who they say they are, and casting their own ballot. When you mail ballots around, you’re trusting that every step of the chain is honest. And as Ft. Deposit just demonstrated, that trust is not always earned.
We should point out that Boone and Thigpen haven’t been tried yet. They’re charged, not convicted. Due process matters — unlike the way Democrats treated Donald Trump, we actually believe in “innocent until proven guilty.” But the charges are serious, the election results were already thrown out, and the Alabama Attorney General thought the evidence was strong enough to make arrests.
The 2026 midterms are coming. Every House seat, a third of the Senate, and governor’s races across the country are on the ballot. And we’re going to hear the same thing we hear every cycle: voter fraud doesn’t exist, election integrity is code for racism, and anyone who wants to verify ballots is a threat to democracy.
Meanwhile, Jacqulyn Boone is out on bond.
We don’t need to prove that fraud flipped a presidential election to acknowledge that it’s a real problem that deserves real solutions. A former mayor just got arrested for rigging a small-town election with absentee ballots. If it happens in Ft. Deposit, Alabama, it can happen anywhere. And pretending otherwise isn’t optimism — it’s negligence.
But sure, tell us again how it never happens. We’ll wait right here while you explain it to the Alabama Attorney General.