Overview

• Ronnie Williams, 58, pleaded guilty July 8 to conspiracy to commit voter registration fraud in U.S. District Court in St. Paul.
• Lorraine Lee Combs entered her guilty plea on June 24 under a plea deal recommending up to six months in prison, supervised release and fines.
• Federal prosecutors say the pair fabricated hundreds of voter registration applications using false names and Social Security numbers, submitting them through a group known as Foundation 1.
• Minnesota’s built-in verification checks flagged the irregular applications in 2023, triggering an FBI investigation that collected fingerprint evidence linking the defendants to the forms.
• Sentencing dates have not been set yet under federal guidelines that allow up to five years behind bars, but Minnesota officials note no fraudulent ballots were ever cast.