Feds charge 19 noncitizens with illegally voting in 2016

[Old Mack]

The Justice Department announced charges Friday against 19 noncitizens who they say illegally voted in the 2016 election — putting a major spotlight on one of President Trump’s pet issues. Among those accused of voting are illegal immigrants and legal residents alike — though none of them were citizens and therefore weren’t allowed to register to vote or cast ballots.

 

While far from the millions of votes Mr. Trump has said were illegally cast in 2016, the 19 indictments by a grand jury in North Carolina do highlight a problem that Democrats say doesn’t exist in any significant measure. Those charged include four Mexicans, two from Haiti, two from the Dominican Republic and one each from Italy, Grenada, Korea, Guyana, Germany, Poland, Japan, El Salvador, Panama, Nigeria and the Philippines.

 

In the case of the Dominican man, he was ordered deported from the U.S. in the 1980s, but obtained a false identity and continued to live here, winning citizenship in the 1990s under his bogus persona, the government charged. He then registered to vote and cast ballots under the false ID. One of the Mexicans, meanwhile, was in the U.S. legally, having been granted a green card in 2009. In 2012 she registered to vote, claiming she was actually a citizen, the indictment says. She later would apply for citizenship and lied on her forms, saying she had never claimed citizenship. She voted in the 2016 election despite not having been granted citizenship, the government says. Her naturalization application was denied in 2017.

 

The indictments were announced by U.S. Attorney Robert J. Higdon Jr. in the Eastern District of North Carolina. His office said the cases stemmed from a new framework of the Document and Benefit Fraud Task Force, led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations, and aided by ICE’s deportation office and the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service.

 

The statement announcing the indictments said the investigation into voter fraud “is ongoing.”

 

[Old Mack]

 

[LoreD]

Oh, Wow.  We need a recount. 

[Z09]

The DOJ needs to start in California

[drvoke]

19  LOL

[benson13]

I know 30 people in Atlanta that voted for the AWOL Oil Puppet in Ga....then drove to Fla and voted again for he and cheney

[harryramar]

that would explain why Hillary got 3,000,000 more votes than trump. bwahahahhahahahahahaaaaa

 

[Old Mack]

10 hours ago, LoreD said:

Oh, Wow.  We need a recount. 

 

LoreD...it was so close in the race...Al Franken asked for a recount and the necessary votes he needed to win turned up.

 

So recounts can matter !