A man who attempted to vote twice in Virginia's 2023 election was acquitted of attempted illegal voting on Monday, following his claims in court that he had been testing the the system for voter fraud.

NELSON COUNTY, Va. — A jury in this bright-red corner of rural Virginia found an avid Donald Trump fan not guilty of attempted illegal voting in a one-day trial Monday, accepting the man’s claim that he was only trying to test the election system for voter fraud when he asked to vote a second time in local elections last year.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    41·
    11 hours ago

    Do you believe that attempted murder shouldn’t be a crime because the perpetrator wasn’t successful?

    • PetteriPano@lemmy.world
      5·
      9 hours ago

      If the would-be murder was denied the purchase of a gun and then just decided to go get some MacDonald instead, then it’s not really attempted murder.

      Conspiring or planning, perhaps. But even then you’d need to prove what he was intending to do with that gun.