By Patti Weaver
STILLWATER — In what may be the first case of its type ever filed here, a 31-year-old Oklahoma City woman has been accused of voting illegally in Payne County in the general election of November 2024.
By an Oklahoma City based multi-county grand jury indictment that has been unsealed, Victoria Vincenza Dill was charged with “willfully voting more than once in the November 2024 general election.”
Dill remains free on $2,000 bond pending her arraignment in Payne County District Court on Nov. 6 on the felony, which is punishable by up to five years in prison and a $50,000 fine on conviction.
“The Oklahoma State Election Board discovered Dill voted in person in Oklahoma County and submitted an absentee ballot in Payne County on the same day,” state Attorney General Gentner Drummond alleged in a news release.
“The general election ballot included president/vice president, state leaders like corporation commissioner, U.S. representatives, state senators and representatives, judges and state questions.
“The integrity of our elections is fundamental to ensuring every vote counts,” the AG noted in his news release.
“My office will continue to investigate voter fraud and hold accountable those who violate Oklahoma’s election laws,” the AG emphasized in his news release.
An indictment is a formal charge and does not mean someone is guilty. The defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law, the AG noted.
Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Bautista, the grand jury’s legal advisor, had sought and been granted by the grand jury’s presiding judge Natalie Mai, that the indictment filed in Oklahoma County remain sealed until the defendant was arrested, court records show.
The case has been assigned to Payne County District Judge Jason Reese, court records show.
