Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird just brought voter fraud charges against a noncitizen for voting.
Bird charged Jorge Oscar Sanchez-Vasquez with two counts of election misconduct last week — “registering to vote and illegally voting on the same day, July 16, 2024, in a special election for the Marshalltown City Council,” as outlined in a Friday press release. Bird’s office says Sanchez-Vasquez legally resides in the United States.
The charges come after Republicans and election integrity advocates have been sounding the alarm about noncitizen voting — one of the primary drivers behind the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act recently killed by both parties in the House, along with the government funding measure to which it was attached. There have also been statewide efforts to strengthen election integrity safeguards, such as the New Hampshire no-excuse voter ID and citizenship law recently enacted — though, that will not take effect until after this year’s election.
The Federalist has also reported on the growing threat of noncitizen voting, particularly in light of the border crisis. Earlier this month, for example, The Federalist reported that the federal government only prosecuted 35 cases of illegal aliens voting in U.S. elections in 21 years, despite the fact that untold millions have poured across the southern border at the same time — and that at least tens-of-thousands had been illegally registered to vote.
Sanchez-Vasquez allegedly signed a voter registration form swearing under oath he is a U.S. citizen, the Des Moines Register reported.
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