U.S Attorney Essayli: California Voter Rolls ‘Vulnerable’ After Non-Citizen Arrested
“They basically allow anybody to register to vote on the honor system. There’s nobody in government that is checking to confirm you’re a citizen…”
First Assistant United States Attorney Bill Essayli said that the arrest of the Honduran national in California for allegedly unlawfully registering to vote shows the state’s vulnerability.
Essayli told Bill Melugin on Fox News:
This case really highlights the vulnerability in California’s voter rolls. They basically allow anybody to register to vote on the honor system. There’s nobody in government that is checking to confirm you’re a citizen, and in fact, in this case, he on the form put down a California driver’s license and a social, which he had because he has a visa that does not prove you’re a citizen. And according to the Secretary of State, they say at least half a million people don’t even provide that information when they register to vote.
OUTRAGEOUS: Central California First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli on a Honduran non-citizen registering to vote in the Golden State: “This case really highlights the vulnerabilities in California’s voter rolls. They basically allow anyone to register to vote on the HONOR… pic.twitter.com/o6pnTqSTvs
— RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) August 31, 2026
Darwin Jonathan Rivera Flores faces two felony charges: false claim to U.S. citizenship and fraudulent voter registration.
Rivera Flores is a lawful permanent resident in California’s San Fernando Valley. But he is not a citizen and therefore cannot vote.
Rivera Flores has not voted in an election. The voter registration was dated November 4, 2025.
Authorities believe Rivera Flores intended to vote in November.
Rivera Flores appeared on the FBI’s radar due to harassing an agent after he disrupted ICE operations in February.
“Your not the good guy I can’t wait until the mid terms you dont have qualified immunity then we can start and indict all you guys one bye one,” Rivera Flores texted to the federal agent.
Essayli blasted Democrats for “emboldening” non-citizens:
I think Democrats are really emboldening these lawbreakers. They feel like there’s no consequences. So he had no fear whatsoever harassing an ICE agent, letting him know how he’s planning to vote in the midterms and wants to take their immunity away. And so that obviously got the agent interested to see whether he was registered to vote or not. So that’s how he came on their radar. But yeah, there’s a culture here, Bill, where people aren’t afraid of law. And Darwin found out very quickly that there are consequences. He’s looking at multiple felonies, and now he’s looking at deportation if convicted.
The Honduran national busted for illegally registering to vote in California was an anti-ICE agitator and started texting an ICE agent, talking trash and bragging about the midterms—so the agent looked into Darwin Jonathan Rivera Flore and found he had committed two felonies.… pic.twitter.com/abcFqO56EX
— RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) August 31, 2026
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CA “government” doesn’t care, because they know all the fraudulent votes will go to democrat-communists.
Bye, Bye, Green card.
One has to wonder by what percentage the D:R ratio would change if we sterilized our voting lists nationwide?
My guess? 20%.
Nearly 80% of Americans support passing the SAVE Act, yet an unpopular Senate is letting it die in Congress. Meanwhile, 50% of young adults (ages 18–29) skip elections altogether. They are sending a clear message, the process feels like a mockery where real results rarely happen.
Golly gee whiz. With the voter registration lists so tainted how can Congress vote to seat members elected from these States? Be a shame if Congress refused to seat them.
Generally when a house of congress has doubts about the validity of one member’s election, the rest of the house decides whether to accept it. But what happens if multiple members’ elections are challenged? For a maximum example, suppose the GOP were to challenge all the Dems? And suppose the Dems were to challenge all the Reps? How could that possibly be resolved?
Note that the houses of congress do not have plenary power to refuse to seat a member. They can only refuse to seat someone is they seriously doubt that he is indeed the elected member, or if they seriously doubt his eligibility. If the House says yes, this person is 25, is a US citizen, currently lives in the same state as his district, and did win his election, then it has no choice but to seat him no matter what else it objects to.
Having seated him, if 2/3 of the house want to expel him they can try doing that, but for well over 100 years both houses of congress have taken the position that they can only expel a member for an offense committed since the last election. The Supreme Court has taken official note of this position, while carefully not saying whether it agreed.
Is it truly a “vulnerability” when the Demsocialists are willingly holding the gun to the head of the states of Commufornica, Minnezuela, NY, etc? Or when the deluded voters of these states line up like sheep voting for the slaughterhouse?
The term “useful idiot” is woefully inadequate when considering the deliberate ignorance that lefties routinely display…
And that’s the way they like it! Uh huh! Uh huh!
Darwin Award? Not the traditional but we’ll take it. Hopefully (yeah I know) hopefully this prompts some massive cleaning up by November.
“I can’t wait until the mid terms…..we can indict all you guys one bye one,” Flores texted
“I can’t wait to line all you illegals up and say to every one: bye, bye, bye,” Paula texted
Yeah, the thing that Communists say never happens, it’s definitely happening
Start throwing these people in the slammer, publicize it, and it will end.
This isn’t just a CA problem, it is nationwide – including in R governed States.
Federal Motor Voter law. ANYONE that gets a drivers license can check a box saying they want to be registered to vote. Then, check another box “affirming” that they are eligible to vote.
That’s it. Honor system. That person gets registered to vote.
When they show up to vote, or request a mail in ballot, the only check that is made is if they are registered to vote. They are, so they get a ballot.
Also, this isn’t just illegal aliens – there are >50 Million legally present foreign nationals in the US that can, and often do, register to vote this way. Since legally present foreign nationals are able to get drivers licenses nationwide, the problem with having them illegally register to vote, and to actually vote illegally, is more widespread than for illegal aliens.
His first name is Darwin. How funny is that?
So much for survival of the fittest.
News flash: It’s not just California, it’s every state, even ones that hate the situation and would like to change it.
Year ago Arizona changed its law to require proof of citizenship on new voter registrations. That was all very well, except that by law all states are required to accept the uniform federal voter registration form, which doesn’t require proof of citizenship.
Voters who use the federal form are only entitled vote in federal elections; the state doesn’t have to let them vote in state elections. But the states must accept them for federal elections, even though they don’t provide proof of eligibility.
Arizona asked the federal government to change the form to require proof of citizenship if one wants to register in a state that requires such proof. The form should say something like “If you are registering in one of the following states, provide proof of your citizenship”. The feds refused, and Arizona sued them and lost. SCOTUS upheld the feds’ right to design the form however it likes, and AZ’s obligation to accept it.
So if the current administration wants to plug the hole, the first thing it needs to do is redesign the federal form. It can’t require states to demand proof of citizenship on their own forms, but at least it can demand it on its form, and that would allow states like AZ to finally secure their rolls.
The shenanigans cut the other way, too.
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