SOUTH BEND, Ind.— A 27-year-old Illinois woman appeared in the St. Joseph County Courthouse infront of Judge Sanford Friday morning after being accused of forging voter signatures to help place a presidential candidate on Indiana’s 2024 ballot.
Karina Escobar Perez entered a guilty plea to a Level 6 felony counterfeiting charge and acknowledged knowing that many of the petition signatures she turned in were not valid.
Investigators said Escobar Perez was contracted by a third-party company, Campaign Engineers, and paid $5,000 to gather 500 signatures in 5 days as part of an attempt to get Democratic presidential candidate Dean Phillip to appear on the Indiana ballot…