Nigerian National Accused of Voting in Federal Elections
Gladys Adaeze Okafor, 56, allegedly voted in the 2022 midterm elections and the 2024 Presidential primary election.
I was told this never happens!
Authorities arrested a Nigerian national living in Lynn, MA, for allegedly voting in federal elections.
Gladys Adaeze Okafor, 56, allegedly voted in the 2022 midterm elections and the 2024 Presidential primary election.
Okafor was born in Aba, Nigeria. She received her lawful permanent resident status in December 2022.
In other words, Okafor holds a green card. She is not a U.S. citizen and has never applied for citizenship.
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Gladys Adaeze Okafor allegedly voted illegally in at least two elections. On voter registration forms, she allegedly lied, checking a box to say she's a U.S. citizen.
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From the criminal complaint authored by Special Agent Andrew DePatto:
I have reviewed records from the City of Lynn Election Office that include two voter registration forms submitted by OKAFOR. The first voter registration form is a mail-in voter registration dated July 18, 2022, which was mailed to the City of Lynn and received by the City of Lynn’s Election Office on August 4, 2022 (the “2022 Voter Registration Form”). This date is confirmed by the Election Office’s date and time stamp they put on the mail-in voter registration form.
The election records show that Okafor voted on November 8, 2022, the day of the midterm elections.
On January 6, 2023, Okafor filed a “Petition for Alien Relative” I-130 form with DHS:
On the form, OKAFOR provided her Alien Registration Number, her name, her Lynn address and P.O. box, her phone number, her social security number, and her date of birth.
In response to a question regarding whether she was a U.S. citizen or a Lawful Permanent Resident, OKAFOR checked the box “Lawful Permanent Resident.” OKAFOR also checked the box confirming she could read and understand English, and she signed and dated the application.
Okafor submitted another voter registration form ten months later:
According to voter registration records maintained by the City of Lynn that I have reviewed, on or about October 18, 2023, OKAFOR submitted a Massachusetts Official Voter Registration Form (the “2023 Voter Registration Form”). The form was completed in-person and was received by the City of Lynn’s Election Office.
On the 2023 Voter Registration Form, in response to the question, “Are you a Citizen of the United States of America?” OKAFOR checked “Yes.”
Towards the bottom of the Voter Registration Form, there is a box that reads (emphasis in original):
I hereby swear (affirm) that I am the person named above, that the above information is true, that I AM A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES, that I am not a person under a guardianship which prohibits my registering to vote, that I am not temporarily or permanently disqualified by law from voting because of corrupt practices in respect to elections, that I am not currently incarcerated for a felony conviction, and that I consider this residence to be my home. Signed under the penalty of perjury.
OKAFOR signed the form directly under that box, falsely claiming under penalty of perjury to be a United States citizen.
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Golly gee whiz, its almost as if it would be a good idea to cross reference voter registration list data with other databases such as immigration status, jury duty questionnaire responses re Citizenship status. While we’re at it bounce it off the physical address self reported to USPS and IRS along with SSA death data or even (gasp) the voter registration data of other States and the self reported physical address of State DL/ID and State tax and professional licensing forms. Pretty sure that would reveal all sorts of bad, outdated and legally insufficient voter registrations.
It would be an excellent idea. I don’t think anyone disputes that. The only question is whether the federal government can compel the states to do so. Whether Congress can require it by legislation, and failing that whether there’s any way for the executive to do so without legislative authority. At first glance it appears to be “no”, but it deserves more attention by the courts. But that’s what the USPS lawsuit is about; can the administration use the USPS to achieve what it can’t do in the normal way, and what even Congress may not be able to do?
Congress, IMO, definitely could for elections to Federal offices. Perhaps the easiest way is to stop playing the Calvinball of the States and require a separate registration list for ‘Federal elections’.
Set it up so that everyone goes to the local SSA office to register. For initial set up their State could hand over the complete state level voter registration list (all data fields including partial SSA# and DL/ID # and physical address). After set up folks would only have to worry about it when they move and their physical address changes. Assuming that their State gov’t cooperated and handed over the unredacted state level voter registration list. If they choose not to do so and thereby create a burden for the folks in their State ….that’s on the State leadership. Who’s ‘disenfranchising’ folks now?
IMO the current case re USPS regs rolled out for mailing ballots to simply require adding basic tracking/barcodes and a bit of additional security/voter registration list maintenance follow up by Feds seem unobjectionable. Hand over some $ to compensate the States and what is the objection other than ‘we don’t wanna/you can’t/shouldn’t make us’? Especially considering the States already have a duty to perform voter registration list maintenance and the Federal Gov’t own interest in securing elections to Federal offices. Then there’s the unquestioned fact that States don’t HAVE to use vote by mail at all if they find costs or requirements burdensome …the objecting States could always choose to go back to holding elections on ‘Election Day’ as many States still do today.
No, the only real question here is why WOULDNT States want to ensure that only American citizens can vote 🤔
Oh, that’s easy. Because they’re Democrats and they suspect that cleaning up their rolls would hurt them overall. They (probably) don’t know that for an actual fact, but they’re not stupid and they make a reasonable assumption that it’s so, so they’d rather keep things as they are.
It’s not that we’re morally superior to them. If we believed that having a dirty roll helped us we wouldn’t want to clean it up either. But both we and they believe that the dirty roll helps them and cleaning it would help us, so obviously they’re against cleaning it.
That’s not a relevant question at all. The relevant question is whether we can do anything, directly or indirectly, to force them, and if so, what is it that we can do?
Oh they know for an actual fact “it would hurt them”
Please
Oh please Milhouse, the democrats know fecking well that cleaning up the voter rolls would present them with a tremendous disadvantage as they couldn’t cheat their way into winning elections as easily as they do now. That’s why they fight so darn hard to prevent it from happening. Because there’s just no advantage for them to do so. So they won’t. And they’ll resist doing so at every opportunity.
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No, they don’t know it for a fact, any more than we do. It’s just an educated guess on both our parts. But the fact that we both agree on it makes it more likely to be true. It’s possible that we’re all mistaken, and in fact there are too few aliens on the rolls to matter, but that’s very unlikely.
It would be interesting to compile data on illegals who vote in states where party registration exists and is public information. I wonder how many of them enroll in each party?
Henry, this isn’t about illegals, it’s about all aliens. Note that this woman only registered to vote after she became a legal resident.
Illegal voters, not necessarily illegal aliens.
I hope this doesn’t put a damper on non-citizens voting.
“The only question is whether the federal government can compel the states to do so.”
I don’t think there is any question whether the federal government can OBTAIN the state voter registration data. The feds can then run that against various other databases to determine whether people who are registered to vote are US citizens. At the very least, the feds can make that information available to the public.
The feds may also be able through lawsuits to force the states to prevent non-citizens from voting in federal elections.
Frankly, I have no idea why these steps are not being taken.
That’s precisely an issue being litigated now. The states claim that providing the feds with that information would violate privacy laws. And generally that the constitution doesn’t allow the feds to order the states around.
Their motive is because they like fraud. They agree with our analysis that on the balance fraud helps them, so they want to enable it. But of course that’s not their legal argument.
In my former experience in NYS any political party can get access to the voter registration data. Why can’t the Republican Party get the data and hand it to the feds?
For the same reason that the FAIR Act can’t even seem to make it to the Senate floor.
Not possible. I have been told over and over that this doesn’t happen and that any allegations of such activity have been debunked.
It’s a fig newton of your imagination.
I like fig newtons. The real ones not the imaginary ones although as a child I did have an imaginary newton.
Came here to say exactly that, except use my favorite word for situations like this: Unpossible!
And what we’ve been told about non-citizens voting is that there’s no proof it happens.
Why is there no proof? Because nobody investigates it. Why does nobody investigate it? Because there’s no proof.
Round and round.
The usual defense in such cases is that the defendant misunderstood, or was even misled. Perhaps that someone filled the form in for her and gave it to her to sign. Or that she just didn’t read the declaration of citizenship carefully enough, and wasn’t clear on the difference between citizen and permanent resident.
Especially in this case, where she registered soon after receiving her legal residence permit, I predict that she will claim she had honestly thought this gave her the right to vote, either through her own honest mistake or because someone told her. Maybe she signed up at the DMV when receiving her driver’s license, and the clerk told her to just check the box and sign. She can claim something like that happened, and who knows, it may even be true.
Note that “honest mistake” is a completely valid defense to a charge of perjury. Perjury requires an intentional lie, about a material fact. It’s an element of the crime. If you’re under oath and say what you think is the truth, you have not committed perjury even if you turn out to have been mistaken.
This is why prosecutions in such cases are rare, and convictions even rarer. Not because it doesn’t happen often but because it’s so hard to detect and even harder to prove beyond reasonable doubt. As I often say, it’s like fishing for five-inch fish with a six-inch net; there may be no such fish in the water, or it may be teeming with them, either way you won’t catch many.
Seems pretty cut and dried. Either she presented herself as a US Citizen or she didn’t. That’s a separate immigration offense FWIW beyond the perjury charge(s) and the violation(s) of the VRA.
Its like trespass out in the countryside and someone claiming they ‘thought’ it was public land. You know dang well if:
1. You saw a sign at your point of entry saying public access or State park/Federal Park
2. Whether you hold title to that land
If either of those are true you’re good to go. Without either of those you’re not good to go. If you got sold the ‘Brooklyn bridge’ by some fraudster and can produce the docs and financial transactions to prove you got hoodwinked I’m willing to cut you a break. What I’m not willing to do is listen to sob stories about ‘I didn’t know it was private property’ b/c that’s irrelevant; you knew you didn’t own it and that no-one invited you with signage. Especially if they crossed a fence or marked boundary.
That would explain why she’s being charged for voting, not for falsely registering. The false registration charge would require specific intent. The voting charge only requires general intent; she had to know that she was voting, and that she was an alien, but not that it’s illegal for an alien to vote. (There’s an exception for someone who reasonably but mistakenly believes that they’re a citizen, but that doesn’t apply here.)
I’d argue that if we’re not gonna accept prima facie that checking the box to become a registered voter isn’t clear enough intent to prosecute then its equally unclear enough to void the registration. Either the individual, by checking the box/answering affirmatively, intended to become registered to vote or they didn’t. Can’t have a single bar to clear for ‘intent’ but interpret it differently based on whether it is +/- for the individual.
The registration rules are made by the states, not by the feds. The state says “checking a box is valid”, there’s nothing the feds can do about it.
But when you prosecute the person for perjury you have to prove beyond reasonable doubt that they intentionally lied, and that’s difficult to do because they can always claim they didn’t and convince at least one juror.
A drunk driver can honestly claim that he thought he was under the legal limit, and he could even demonstrate that he could handle his vehicle properly, but if he blows > 0.08, he’s going to get arrested and booked.
Intentions don’t matter when there is demonstrable proof that the individual broke the law.
Not in the case of perjury. Intentionally lying is an element of the crime. Any defect in the intent means it’s not a crime. So the prosecution has to prove the intent beyond reasonable doubt.
You were not told it never happens. You were told it doesn’t happen often enough to make a difference. And that may even be true, but if so it’s only by accident, and it’s not at all likely or plausible.
The plain fact is that no one knows how often it happens. There’s a way to find out, but it needs the states’ cooperation, and the Dem-controlled states don’t want to know, and don’t want us to know, so they refuse.
They don’t know that it’s common, but they suspect it, and they’re happy for it to be so, so they try to sabotage any attempt to answer the question. They’d rather we all just remain ignorant, so they can point to the scarcity of verified examples and pretend that’s all there are.
No, that is not correct. We were all told this thing that never happens never happens.
You are correct sir!
No, you have never ever been told that. The Dem line has always been that it doesn’t happen often enough to matter, and that any attempt to fix it will inevitably result in suppressing more valid votes than invalid ones.
Use of the word “never” is inappropriate, both by politicians and by you.
I’ll bet $100 she voted for Kamala.
What I would like to know is what that first voter registration card (2022) was even accepted as the very first question was not answered:
Failure to answer that question should have meant automatic rejection of the application but the City of Lynn’s Election Office accepted the registration card and placed Okafor on the voter rolls and then she allegedly voted in the 2022 midterm elections and the 2024 Presidential primary election. But there you go and here we are.
It was answered. She checked “yes”. But she can claim that whoever filled it out for her checked it without asking her, or that whoever helped her fill it out told her to check it.
Consider the form that George W Bush filled out when joining the Texas Air National Guard, which asked “Do you want to be deployed overseas, yes or no”, and whoever filled in the form for him checked “no”. He later said they did so without asking him. And the record shows that at a later time he actually asked to be deployed overseas, but was turned down; that doesn’t prove he didn’t check “no” himself on his original application, but it tends to support that claim.
Great Maker Milhouse, are you just a fecking idiot? Look at question number 1 on the fist voter registration card posted and tell me if she answered the question posed.
Question number one asks:
And she did not answer that question. If you can’t see it then here’s a link to a larger version of the voter registration Okafor completed. And she darn well didn’t answer question number one. Which should have invalidated the
Question Number 1 not completed
And no Milhouse, it doesn’t count she signed the statement at the bottom. She didn’t complete the form so it should have been rejected.
I am looking at the voter registration form dated Oct-10-2023. Question 1, “yes” is clearly checked.
Oh! It’s checked in the PBS version! Well then!
Hey, it it possible that someone at PBS “checked it for her” (a week or so ago) and never bothered to tell her?
This is a process of education. Education can be painful. Painful education can help educate others.
The complexity of the election system designed by our wonderful but imperfect Constitution requires a certain level of competence from those who inhabit our country. Grifters love complexity because it makes auditability and accountability difficult if not impossible.
We have too many grifters, and too little competence.
We need better people, and the best way to make better people is through the Gospel of Jesus – one person at a time.
Lynn, Lynn, the city of sin,
You never come out the way you came in.
Ain’t it the truth. Greatest site in Lynn is was and will always be the Golden Banana, I did prefer
Cabaret (I think thar is what it was called) across the street though.
Ah, the Route 1 strip! Pun intended. According to Google Earth, it is actually in Peabody, though.
Presuming that info is important to anyone….you’d stay out of trouble by going to the Kowloon restaurant in Saugus.
That would a stop. That or the steak place (I forget the name and I think its closed) with the big steer out in front (someone stole it) that only took cash (suspected money laundering for mafia).
Why is it that everything the Commie Dems tell us will NEVER happen, or never did, actually does, and everything they tell us that happened never did?
I am sensing a trend here.