One of the four people charged this week with illegally voting in U.S. federal elections was not merely caught. She was rewarded.
Jacenth Beadle Exum, a Jamaican national who overstayed her visa, voted in the 2020 presidential election, lied about it under oath, and was granted U.S. citizenship in 2022. The system didn’t catch her. It promoted her. That citizenship, obtained through documented false statements on a federal naturalization application, may now be subject to revocation.
We’re told this never happens. We’re told that illegal aliens voting is a myth. And yet here we are again, with federal charges, court filings, and sworn admissions that say otherwise.
Federal prosecutors in New Jersey charged four people this week: David Neewilly, 73, of Liberia; Idan Choresh, 43, of Israel; Beadle Exum, 70, of Jamaica; and Abhinandan Vig, 33, of India, with illegally voting across the 2016, 2020, 2022, and 2024 election cycles and lying about it on their citizenship applications. Each one falsely certified U.S. citizenship to register and cast ballots in federal elections, then checked “No” on their N-400 naturalization forms when asked whether they had ever voted, some repeating that lie under oath in sworn USCIS interviews. Lying on an N-400 is itself a separate federal offense, independent of the underlying vote. Beadle Exum’s lie worked. She got citizenship anyway.
“As alleged, the defendants broke federal law by voting in elections they were not eligible to participate in, and then made false statements under oath to conceal that conduct,” said U.S. Attorney Robert Frazer.“Noncitizens voting is a federal crime, period,” added FBI Director Kash Patel.
These four are not anomalies. They are a trend. A Mauritanian national in Philadelphia allegedly voted in every election from 2008 through 2024 before agents arrested him last month. A Chinese student at Michigan who voted in 2024 was charged, fled to China, and remains an active registered voter there today. Pennsylvania acknowledged a motor voter glitch that allowed approximately 100,000 illegal aliens to register.
“I wish it were a conspiracy plot because it would be easier to bust,” said J. Christian Adams of the Public Interest Legal Foundation. “This is systemic failure.”
That pattern has a legislative answer. The SAVE Act, which would require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections, has passed the House and polls above 70 percent nationwide. It is stalled in the Senate, blocked by a Democratic filibuster. The same party that calls illegal aliens voting a myth is blocking the bill that would stop it.
Last week, a Boca Raton mayoral race flipped to a Democrat in a reliably Republican stronghold, on a five-vote margin after a recount.
“Every illegal vote cast is an attack on a legitimate vote cast by a real citizen,” said Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT).
The Senate needs to pass the SAVE Act. These cases — and the ones we haven’t found yet — are exactly why.
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