President-elect Donald Trump has once again been vindicated after an elections judge in Minnesota was charged with letting unregistered people vote - after consistent warnings from Trump that the U.S. electoral system is seriously compromised.

64-year-old Timothy Michael Scouton, of Nevis was charged with one count of accepting the vote of an unregistered voter and one count of neglect of duty by an election official, both felonies.

Election judge arrested

Scouton was the head election judge in Badoura Township Precinct. The judge completed his training in July.

But, according to witnesses, he told judges not to require voter registration forms from new voters. Instead, he said voters could sign the back of a book.

A Hubbard County election auditor flagged eleven voters to police who did not complete voter registration forms. The auditor told police that she contacted Scouton, who said he could not find the forms.

When the auditor located the forms, Scouton said election officials did not use them.

Election judges told police that Scouton instructed them not to use the forms - and one judge said he did not even know that the registration forms were required or existed, Fox 9 reported.

Another judge said that Scouton's son is also an election judge, and he was the first person voters saw when they walked in. Minnesota's Democratic secretary of state Steve Simon called the charges "extremely serious."

"Election judges take an oath to administer elections in accordance with the law, a deliberate failure to do so is unlawful and a betrayal of the public trust," the office said in a statement.

Broken process

While 11 is a small number of votes, impropriety on any scale is enough to damage trust in the electoral system. And while we don't know if Scout had a malicious motive or not, he is an election judge, so he must have known better than to let people cast a ballot without registering properly.

This cannot be written off as an isolated incident, either - sadly, it is becoming the norm.

In Pennsylvania, local Democrats have admitted to counting illegal ballots in defiance of a court order. Pennsylvania Democratic senator Bob Casey has refused to concede a race he clearly lost to Republican Dave McCormick.

Shockingly blunt

A county official in the state was shockingly blunt about her motivations for bucking a court ruling.

“People violate laws any time they want,” Bucks County Commissioner Diane Ellis-Marseglia said. “So for me, if I violate this law, it’s because I want a court to pay attention. There’s nothing more important than counting votes.”

Of course, voter fraud is nothing new. But recent changes in the system have made election results more prone to manipulation. In Democrat-run California, mail-in votes are still being tallied nearly two weeks after Election Day.

President-elect Trump is completely correct about the deeply broken state of our elections and the need for reform. It's no wonder so many Americans have lost trust in the system.