"It was just ironic -- it's my opinion that (Patrick) put up, they put out this bounty to try to find Democrats committing voter fraud. And in fact, it was the complete opposite of what their intentions were," Frank said.
Neither Patrick's office nor campaign responded to multiple requests for comment.
In announcing the voter fraud bounty last year, Patrick said at the time, "I support President Trump's efforts to identify voter fraud in the presidential election and his commitment to making sure that every legal vote is counted and every illegal vote is disqualified. President Trump's pursuit of voter fraud is not only essential to determine the outcome of this election, it is essential to maintain our democracy and restore faith in future elections."
This is not the only case of double voting. In Pennsylvania, a man in
Delaware County in May was sentenced to five years probation after pleading guilty to casting a vote in the name of his deceased mother in an effort to
reelect then-President Donald Trump.
Since losing in 2020, Trump has repeatedly sought to sow doubt over the integrity of the general election and even falsely claimed victory over
Joe Biden despite there being
no evidence of widespread voter fraud in any US state.
Republican state lawmakers across the country have echoed Trump's voting conspiracy theories and, in some cases, advanced new election bills that disproportionately affect Democratic voters.
Nineteen states have passed 33
news laws this year that make it
harder to vote, according to an
updated analysis released this month by the liberal Brennan Center for Justice.
Frank plans to put the money toward a home and some toward charity, though he believes he should have been given a bigger reward. Frank said he was told by Patrick's spokesperson that he received the minimum reward because "we're looking at bigger fish."