A jury on Friday found a longtime political volunteer guilty of forging signatures in a bid to help a Democratic congressional hopeful get on the ballot in 2022.

Kirk Rice, 66, of Harmar was convicted of 38 criminal counts, including 14 counts of forgery and multiple counts of identity theft, perjury and submitting false signatures. Prosecutors withdrew an additional 36 counts.

Allegheny County Common Pleas Court Judge Jennifer Satler is scheduled to sentence Rice on Aug. 17.

Most of the 38 charges on which Rice was found guilty were misdemeanors.

Three identity theft charges, however, were third-degree felonies.

Over the span of three days in a Downtown Pittsburgh courtroom, prosecutors from the state Attorney General’s Office presented multiple witnesses to back their case against Rice, who they allege passed off the bogus signatures to make money and get congressional hopeful Steve Irwin on the ballot in 2022.

Irwin ultimately lost a primary race to then-state Rep. Summer Lee.

“This defendant deliberately undermined the integrity of Pennsylvania’s election process by falsifying signatures for financial gain,” Attorney General Dave Sunday said in a statement.

“This type of conduct is taken very seriously as it threatens the foundation of our democracy.”

Rice’s attorney, Tom Fitzgerald, told jurors during closing remarks Thursday that evidence implicating his client was thin — or lacked key details. He invoked the phrase “no evidence” dozens of times.

“All you’re going to be doing is speculating,” Fitzgerald told the jury during his closing argument.

Prosecutors repeatedly hammered home the allegations.

According to testimony, Rice was paid $1,340 after submitting 34 pages of signatures, with a total of 437 signatures. These petitions were turned over to the campaign and officially filed in support of Irwin’s nomination. Rice was paid per signature.

Those signatures — including one allegedly by a federal judge — were falsified by Rice, Deputy Attorney General Alex Cashman said. Four witnesses took the stand Tuesday and denied ever signing the nominating petitions in question.

Rice told investigators he had volunteered in politics for 40 years.

“You can’t argue with these facts,” Cashman said Thursday in his closing. “These are the facts of the case — and they are not contested.”

“Everything here adds up.”