CAPE CORAL, Fla. – A Cape Coral woman is accused of notarizing the signatures of dead people during a Colorado House of Representatives campaign.

According to an affidavit of probable cause, Diana Watt was arrested after working for Grassfire LLC and notarizing campaign petition signatures from dead people, forged signatures, and duplicated voters’ names.

In 2022, Colorado’s Attorney General’s Office began investigating allegations of misconduct by petition circulators employed by Grassfire.

Carl Andersen was running to be placed on the 2022 Republican primary ballot for Colorado’s US House of Representatives 7th Congressional District seat.

In order to run, he needed 1,500 signatures.

Upon investigation, Anderson’s petition had an unusually high number of signatures. 21 of them were from dead people.

He never qualified to get on the Republican primary ballot due to not having enough valid signatures.

During a phone interview, Watt confirmed she worked for Grassfire’s 2022 projects for Andersen in Colorado.

According to the interview, she admitted that Grassfire circulators cheated and committed fraud in Colorado.

The affidavit states that Watt insisted Grassfire was not at fault but the people they hired to circulate petitions.

Watt states that she lost her job over it. The fraud was discovered after the petitions were turned in.

Although Watt did not do any petitioning for the campaign, she admits her name is on some that are “very bad.”

Watt signed off in front of a notary for someone else who obtained the false signatures because the company felt that that person was a trusted circulator.

According to Watt, it was not until after she signed, she stated she realized they were fraudulent signatures.

Watt stated she knew at the time she should not have done it. She said she “knew it was wrong” and that “she would pay for it.”

She said she thought an older voting list accounted for the number of names of dead voters that appeared on the Andersen campaign.

“So there you go. Go ahead and charge me. I don’t give a f*** at this point. That’s what happened. I put my name on Stephanie (Lucas)’s illegitimate petitions. That’s what happened. There you go,” said Watt in the affidavit.

Another person on the campaign stated that Watt was never asked to sign off for someone else.

As a result of the false signatures, she was fired.

Watt was arrested on an out-of-state warrant by the Lee County Sheriff’s Office.