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Former Assembly candidate gets probation after pleading guilty to faking signatures on nomination papers

By: CBS 58 Newsroom

Posted: Dec 19, 2018 8:29 PM CST

NOW: Former Assembly candidate gets probation after pleading guilty to faking signatures on nomination papers

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MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- A former Democratic State Assembly candidate has been sentenced to a year's probation.

Charisse Daniels of Watertown pleaded guilty to faking signatures on her nomination papers. She could have faced up to three and a half years in prison and a $10,000 fine. The state elections commission determined about two dozen people's names on her nomination papers had not signed them.