{"id":113771,"date":"2024-11-01T18:04:19","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T18:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/chinese-national-in-michigan-casts-irretrievable-ballot-in-us-election-now-faces-charges-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2024-11-01T18:04:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T18:04:19","slug":"chinese-national-in-michigan-casts-irretrievable-ballot-in-us-election-now-faces-charges-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/chinese-national-in-michigan-casts-irretrievable-ballot-in-us-election-now-faces-charges-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese national in Michigan casts irretrievable ballot in US election, now faces charges – USA TODAY"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Chinese national studying at the University of Michigan is facing serious charges after officials say he voted this past weekend in the battleground state.
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Washtenaw County Prosecutor Eli Savit announced the charges<\/a> against the student on Wednesday. They did not name the student.
Reporting from the Detroit News, part of the USA TODAY Network<\/a>, identified the student as a 19-year-old from China who is legally in the U.S. but isn’t a citizen, and therefore ineligible to cast a ballot,\u00a0
The voter registered to vote on Sunday using his identification from the University of Michigan signed a document identifying himself as a U.S. citizen and his ballot was entered into a tabulator, the Michigan Secretary of State\u2019s Office told the Detroit News.
“We\u2019re grateful for the swift action of the clerk in this case, who took the appropriate steps and referred the case to law enforcement,” according to a joint statement from Benson\u00a0and Savit.
Sign-up for Your Vote:<\/strong> Text with the USA TODAY elections team.<\/a>
The vote was cast at an early-voting site at the University of Michigan and is expected to still count even though it was illegally cast. That is because there is no way for election officials to retrieve it once it’s been put through a tabulator, which is done so ballots cannot be traced to an individual voter.
Neither Benson’s nor Savit’s office immediately responded to USA TODAY’s question about whom the non-citizen voted for.
“Anyone who attempts to vote illegally faces significant consequences, including but not limited to arrest and prosecution,\u201d Benson and Savit said.
The unidentified Chinese national faces two charges: being an unauthorized elector attempting to vote and perjury.
They face up to 19 years in prison if convicted of both charges
\u201cLet this be clear: Voting records are public \u2013 any noncitizen who attempts to vote fraudulently in Michigan will be exposing themselves to great risk and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,\u201d Benson and Savit said.
While voter fraud grabs headlines when it does occur, it is rare, according to election experts. Of 42 voting jurisdictions in the 2016 election, officials only referred 30 suspected cases of noncitizens voting out of 23.5 million votes cast, according to research from the nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice<\/a>.
The center concluded that noncitizen votes accounted for just 0.0001% of those jurisdiction\u2019s votes in that presidential election.
Contributing: Melissa Cruz<\/em>
Fernando Cervantes Jr. is a trending news reporter for USA TODAY. Reach him at fernando.cervantes@gannett.com and follow him on X @fern_cerv_.<\/em><\/p>\n

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