DOJ announces charges against 16 people, including illegal aliens, foreign nationals, in voting fraud crackdown

Patrick Perea, 62, has been charged in the District of New Mexico with fraudulent voting after allegedly attempting to cast his deceased wife’s absentee ballot in the November 2024 general election.

Four people have been charged in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania: 48-year-old Hacina Saadi, an illegal immigrant from France; 50-year-old Jamil Ahmad, a Pakistani national and lawful permanent resident; 47-year-old Nighat Jamil, a Pakistani national and lawful permanent resident; and 54-year-old Paulo Silva, a Portuguese national and lawful permanent resident. All four have been charged with voting by an alien during the 2024 election.

Two lawful permanent residents have been charged in the Southern District of Alabama with voting as an alien. Peruvian national Silvia Delgado Phelps, 78, has allegedly unlawfully voted in multiple elections in Baldwin County, Alabama, while Jamaican national Staciann Pollion Davis, 42, is accused of voting in the 2024 general election in Clarke County despite not being a US citizen.

Forrest Schott Woody, 68, of Hendersonville, North Carolina, has been charged in the Northern District of Alabama with illegally voting more than once. He is accused of voting twice in the general election, once in Henderson County, North Carolina, and once in Calhoun County, Alabama.

Andres Garcia, a 64-year-old lawful permanent resident from Cuba, has been charged in the Western District of Missouri with two counts of illegally voting in federal elections in November of 2022 and 2024. He allegedly claimed to have been a US citizen when registering to vote in 2004 and again in 2013, and has allegedly voted regularly in at least the last 15 elections, including 13 federal elections.

A Canadian national and lawful permanent resident, 82-year-old Stanley Walton, has been charged in the District of Idaho for illegally voting in the 2022 general election despite not being a US citizen.

In the District of New Jersey, 24-year-old Lizabeth Almonte Rosa, a naturalized US citizen from the Dominican Republic, has been charged with voting by an alien in a federal election and unlawfully procuring citizenship. She was not a US citizen when she registered to vote, the DOJ said.

Cary Ann Patterson, a 59-year-old British national and lawful permanent resident, has been charged in the Southern District of Ohio with illegally voting in a federal election as an alien. She allegedly voted in the November 2024 election, and indicated in a 2005 voter registration card that she was a US citizen. The DOJ said that Patterson has voted illegally in at least 10 elections.

Two lawful permanent residents have been charged in the Northern District of Ohio with unlawfully voting ina federal election: 69-year-old Pakistani national Arshed Zuberi, and 63-year-old Filipino national Eliza M. Moss.

Zuberi allegedly registered to vote in September 2015 and August 2016, where he marked that he was a US citizen. He has allegedly unlawfully voted in at least six elections. Moss registered to vote in September of 2004 and February of 2023, marking that she was a US citizen. She allegedly voted in several elections, and told investigators that a person who had helped her fill out her registration had said she could vote despite not being a citizen.

In the District of Hawaii, Polish national Dawid Nalepa, 45, has been charged with unlawfully voting as an alien. He came to the US in 2020 through the Visa Waiver Program, overstayed, and applied for permanent resident status. He voted in the November 2024 election despite not being a citizen.

Sandra Madeline Watson, a 59-year-old Canadian national and lawful permanent resident, has been charged with illegal voting by an alien in a federal election in the Western District of Kentucky.