Rob Bontas astonishing response when grilled on biggest voter fraud bust in California history
California Attorney General Rob Bonta was defiant when asked about the massive voter fraud operation carried out by federal agents Monday morning — arguing the alleged noncitizen voters are just a “drop in the bucket” given the state’s tens of millions of registered voters.Asked about the early-morning raids, in which 11 California residents were arrested over allegations of noncitizen voting, Bonta said “voter fraud is illegal, voter fraud is wrong” and claimed the number of people arrested proves that fraud is rare at a press conference in San Francisco.
“Every count, recount, hand count, case audit shows that,” the attorney general said.“It’s .0001% of all of the registered voters and it makes the point there is no widespread voter fraud and that there is, at times, isolated one-off examples of voter fraud,” Bonta added, referring to the 28 people facing charges related to the federal operation, dubbed “Operation Protect the Vote.”“These are arrests, we’ll see what the facts show, whether they’ll have to drop charges or be able to prosecute,” he said.
Federal prosecutors made the arrests in a coordinated statewide action, also announcing in a press release that 28 noncitizens are facing charges for allegedly making false statements on naturalization paperwork or illegally registering to vote.People arrested in the voter raids included José Probitsado Amaro, 51, a citizen of the Philippines living in San Diego County’s National City, whom federal authorities said registered to vote by falsely claiming to be a US citizen.City of Commerce resident Alexander Muñoz, 72, was also snared in a 6 a.m arrest witnessed by The California Post.
The Belizean national is accused of fraudulently registering to vote in September 2019, then voting in US elections in 2020, 2022 and 2024.Bonta argued at the Monday presser that the number of people arrested is small in light of the 23 million registered voters in California.“The announcemen...