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Massachusetts couple pleads guilty to wrongful voting in New Hampshire, AG says

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CONCORD, N.H. — A Massachusetts couple has pleaded guilty to wrongful voting in New Hampshire, where they own a home, the attorney general said Friday.

Joshua Urovitch, 56, and Lisa Urovitch, 54, both of Ashland, Massachusetts, were each sentenced in Merrimack County Superior Court to 12 months in the House of Corrections, all suspended for two years on the condition of their good behavior, Attorney General John Formella said in a statement.

The court also ordered the couple to each pay a $2,000 fine with a penalty assessment of $480. The state imposed an additional civil penalty of $1,240 each, Formella said. The Urovitches have also each lost the right to vote in New Hampshire.

As part of a negotiated plea, the Urovitches each pleaded guilty to one Class A misdemeanor of wrongful voting, and the state dropped two remaining wrongful voting charges.

The Urovitches own a house in Concord that they rent to tenants, Formella said. Since at least 2020, the couple has lived in Ashland, Massachusetts.

Tenants living in the Concord property between 2020 and 2024 confirmed that the Urovitches only visited the property as landlords and never lived in the property during that time.

Prosecutors alleged that the couple wrongfully voted in New Hampshire in the Nov. 3, 2020 General Election, the Nov. 8, 2022 General Election, and the Nov. 8, 2022 Concord School District Election using the Concord property as their address.

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