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It was recently discovered that former Iowa school superintendent and Baltimore principal Ian Andre Roberts appeared on the state’s voter rolls despite being in the country illegally. A failure, prompting further investigation from our friends at the American Accountability Foundation.
“We really wanted to get to the bottom of what went wrong here and see if it tells us more about what's wrong with Maryland's election system,” Tom Jones, President of the American Accountability Foundation, told FOX 45 News.
After filing a public records request with Prince George’s County — where Roberts registered — Jones uncovered not one, but two voter registration applications. One from 2011, the other 2016. On both, Roberts clearly signed under penalty of perjury that he was eligible to vote. But one key section remains unclear: his answer to ‘Are you a U.S. citizen?’ was redacted.
“What immediately stood out to us was that the County went to pains to black out whether Mr. Roberts had told them that he was in the country legally,” said Jones.
However, even with the redaction, Jones says it raises serious concerns over Maryland’s election integrity. Whether Roberts lied, or the County made a mistake, a non-citizen was still wrongfully added to the rolls, observed FOX 45 News reporter Rebecca Pryor.
“We can't rely on the honor system to hope that illegal aliens won't lie to us,” said Jones, “I guarantee that there are hundreds, if not thousands of illegal aliens registered to vote in Maryland. And as Prince George's County showed us, they don't care about this.”
“There are no safeguards,” said Jones, “It tells us that, frankly, Governor Moore and Democrats in the state of Maryland are not serious about election integrity.”
Ms. Pryor further reported “This has happened once. I don't think it's so crazy that it couldn't happen again,” said Republican Del. Matt Morgan. “The simple fact that he [Ian Andre Roberts] registered to vote, in and of itself is a huge problem. So, there needs to be more checks in place,” echoed Republican Del. Ryan Nawrocki.
"The Maryland Freedom Caucus looked him up in the system, and found that he had been an active voter for more than a decade, it looks like," said Del. Lauren Arikan told CBS News.
"What's going on with our voter rolls, and how has someone who has not been — by their own LinkedIn profile admission — living in Maryland for more than a decade, could someone still be considered an active voter in the state of Maryland?" Akiran questioned.
"It exposed a flaw that we have felt like existed for a while in this system, and that is, not only can people who are here illegally very easily register to vote, but they also aren't being removed," Arikan further stated to CBS News.
Thankfully, the Maryland Freedom Caucus blew the whistle on illegal alien Ian Andre Roberts being listed as an active Democratic voter on the state’s official elections board website despite not being a U.S. citizen and not having lived in Maryland for years.
Meanwhile, Maryland Democratic Gov. Wes Moore and other Democratic leaders have fallen silent after it was discovered that Roberts, who was recently arrested by ICE, is registered as an active Democratic voter in the state.
Fox News Digital’s Peter Pinedo reached out to Moore’s office and the offices of Maryland’s two Democratic senators, Sen. Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks, and Rep. Glenn Ivey, D-Md., asking for their response to an illegal alien being a registered Democratic voter in their state, but did not receive a response by the time of publication.
- noncitizen voting
- American Accountability Foundation
- Ian Andre Roberts
- Prince George's County
- Voter registration applications
- illegal immigration
- elections integrity
- Trump immigration policy
- illegal alien voters
- Republican Del. Matt Morgan
- Republican Del. Ryan Nawrocki
- voter rolls cleansing
- Democratic Gov. Wes Moore
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