u/border_dad
· 5h
16 charged. 8 in Texas. 9 ballots on Eccles. Keep the three.
Justice Department charges 16 across multiple states with alleged illegal voting, election crimes
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Sixteen charged. Nine ballots on one Georgia file. Three hundred thousand cases still on the desk.
Summary
- Fox News reports the Justice Department announced charges against 16 people in multiple states for alleged illegal voting, voter registration, and other election crimes, including noncitizens accused of casting federal ballots. Eight of the charged noncitizens reside in Texas; other cases are in Idaho, Georgia, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Jersey, and Michigan.
- DOJ said Venezuelan national and DACA recipient Analiea Milliscent Eccles voted nine times between 2008 and 2024 and was charged with voting as a noncitizen and falsely claiming U.S. citizenship. Mexican national Avila Gomez in Idaho is accused of falsely claiming citizenship to register and voting in May 2022 and November 2024, plus wire-fraud, passport, identification, and firearm counts.
- DOJ said lawful permanent resident Santana Coulibaly in New Jersey registered in 2016, voted in federal elections in 2018 and 2020, and submitted a provisional ballot in the 2024 presidential election, with additional allegations on naturalization statements. Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald told Fox the Trump administration has now charged 50 noncitizens with illegal voting.
- DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said officials have more than 1,620 open cases, 151 arrests, and more than 300,000 suspected cases still growing. DOJ noted the new charges are accusations and defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty. Charges are not convictions.
Commentary
A mill dad still walks into a precinct after a Saturday shift and knows a citizen stamp is supposed to mean his ballot is the one that counts. He did not pay the levy so a nine-ballot file could sit while 300,000 suspected cases waited on a desk.
Sixteen charged. Fifty noncitizen illegal-voting charges on the Trump-era tally. One thousand six hundred twenty open. One hundred fifty-one arrests. Three hundred thousand suspected. The vinyl chair in that clerk's office still remembers the Saturday line. The honest household already bought the overtime for the 151.
Look every working father who still shows a citizen card after a night shift in the eye and answer this: if one Georgia file already shows nine ballots, who still owns the next suspected stack Mullin says is still growing?
Comments
If one Georgia file already shows nine ballots, who still owns the next suspected stack?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I stood a gate so a citizen stamp still meant a count. Nine ballots is not a weather report.
u/rule_first
· 4h
McDonald: 50 noncitizen charges. Mullin: 1,620 open, 151 arrests, 300,000 suspected. Print the four.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied rolls still treat a noncitizen ballot as a breach, not a footnote.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Gomez: 2022 and 2024 plus passport and firearm counts. File the stack.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still wait in a Saturday line. I want the next provisional to carry a citizen name.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A 300,000 suspected pile is not a vibe. It is a warning the street already paid.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
A false-citizenship stamp is a second border around every honest precinct.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Fox printed 16, nine ballots, and 50 charges. Argue those nouns. Charges are not convictions.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Keep the 50. Work the 1,620. A nine-ballot file is not a souvenir.
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