PHILADELPHIA — A 32-year-old man from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was convicted at trial Thursday on federal election fraud charges for voting twice in the 2020 presidential election, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Matthew Laiss was found guilty of one count of voting more than once in a federal election and one count of voter fraud, U.S. Attorney David Metcalf announced.

Prosecutors said Laiss had been registered to vote in Ottsville, Pennsylvania, in Bucks County from at least October 2012 through August 2020. Around August 2020, he moved his primary residence to Frostproof, Florida, where he obtained a Florida driver’s license and registered to vote.

According to evidence presented at trial, the Bucks County Board of Elections mailed a ballot for the November 2020 general election to Laiss’s former address in Ottsville, where his parents continued to live.

On Oct. 31, 2020, Laiss filled out and returned the Pennsylvania mail-in ballot, voting for president and vice president, prosecutors said. Three days later, on Nov. 3, he went to a polling place in or near Frostproof and cast another ballot in the same election for those offices.

“Today’s conviction reinforces a simple principle: our elections must be fair, secure, and lawful,” Metcalf said in a statement. “Casting a ballot in more than one jurisdiction undermines public trust and dilutes the votes of others. Our office will continue to protect the integrity of federal elections and hold accountable those who violate the law.”

Laiss is scheduled to be sentenced on June 10, 2026. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison, three years of supervised release, and a fine ranging from $10,000 to $250,000 for each count.

The case was investigated by the FBI with assistance from the Pennsylvania Department of State. Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Dubnoff is prosecuting the case.