Noncitizen snared in Californias biggest ever voter fraud bust reveals exactly how he did it

One of the accused in the Department of Justice’s massive California voter fraud bust revealed Monday how shockingly lax the state’s voting system was.Kamlesh Shah, a 67-year-old green card holder in Sacramento, was one of 28 noncitizens who allegedly voted illegally despite not being US citizens.Shah, an Indian national, allegedly registered to vote on the day of the November 2024 general election and did vote that day.The biggest news, opinion and culture shaping California right now.

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Never miss a story “All 28 foreign nationals charged are lawful permanent residents (LPRs), or ‘green card’ holders.Although LPRs have legal immigration status in the United States, they are not US citizens and are not permitted to vote in US elections,” the Justice Department said.Shah told KCRA he had gone to the community center on Election Day.

He was asked if he was ever told that he was not eligible to vote.“No, nobody told me,” he said.“See, that’s very confusing because when I went there, the office there — the election officer over there — didn’t say anything about it.”“He just asked for my ID and my number,” he said.

The California Post reached out to the Sacramento County’s election division for comment.California Democrats on the state level have responded to the voter fraud bust with dismissal, calling it a “drop in the bucket.”State Attorney General Rob 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 fra...