A legal throwdown of epic proportions is gearing up concerning a Maryland county board of elections taking it upon themselves to heavily redact the voter registration records of an illegal immigrant who served as the superintendent of the largest school district in the state of Iowa until finally being busted by federal authorities this year. The shocking revelation here is that not only was an illegal immigrant working in a government job as an educator, but was also voting in American elections despite not being a citizen.
Andre Roberts, who hails from Guyana, first came to the United States back in 1994. He was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in September. Roberts did not have legal permission to be working in the country as his employment authorization card expired in 2022.
Justin Riemer, who serves as the CEO and president of a conservative legal organization known as Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (RITE) recently weighed in on the recent release of Roberts’ voter registration documents, totally stunned by the hatchet job the Prince George’s County Board of Elections did on the information they contained. Roberts’ sex, whether he checked the citizenship box, his date of birth, and other important information had all been blacked out.
“This was shocking,” Riemer told Fox News. “When I saw the news reporting, and they showed screenshots of the registration applications with all this information redacted, I was just shocked.” Riemer, an election attorney, is representing his organization, RITE, along with the American Accountability Foundation (AAF) in a legal case to get Roberts’ documents with fewer redactions.
As more information about Roberts came to light, his shockingly long rap sheet was revealed. Solid work by journalists also discovered he was a registered Democrat voter in the state of Maryland, the state he previously called home before moving to Iowa, and had a conviction for reckless driving dating back to 2012, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Previously, the Maryland State Board of Elections said Roberts had not participated in any elections. “I’m an election law expert, not an immigration expert, but it doesn’t take one to see just how… broken the system has been,” Riemer said during his interview with Fox Digital. “He has multiple criminal charges. He has worked in multiple school districts where, if they were doing the proper citizenship and work authorization checks, this should have been caught. It’s really just unbelievable how this guy has managed to jump around the country, working in school districts where he’s around children.”
The American Accountability Foundation soon filed a public records request with Prince George’s County to get their hands on Roberts’ voter registration application. Ultimately, they decided to comply with the order, but not before blacking out critical information, which has brought them to the edge of a major legal battle.
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“The American Accountability Foundation called the county out on it and said, ‘… you’re not allowed to redact this information,'” Riemer explained. He then added that it’s perfectly acceptable to redact certain bits of information, such as a person’s Social Security number or driver’s license number, but not their gender and whether they checked the box stating they are a U.S. citizen.
According to copies of the records published by RITE, a total of 18 boxes were blacked out across several pages of information. The request for the documents was made under the National Voter Registration Act, which includes a provision to allow the public to have access to the records. Riemer wasted no time sending a letter to the Prince George’s County Board of Elections demanding they hand over records to the groups he represents. He’s given the county board until December 1 to comply, making it clear failure to do so could result in further legal action against the election board in the future.
As of this writing, Riemer has not heard a response from the board of elections, though he believes this may be due to the county board speaking to the state board of elections and the state attorney general about whether they should comply with the request.
“If they noticed that Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections was part of this effort to get this information, they should have, because we sued Maryland last year for violating the National Voter Registration Act for restricting public access to registration records just like they’re doing here and won that lawsuit in March. And so they just continuously are doing these practices that are not transparent, they’re not what federal law requires, it’s not what the public deserves,” he further elaborated.
According to Riemer, this is far from an isolated incident. He explained during the interview that concerns Americans have over the participation of illegal immigrant voters isn’t “political theater,” as many Democrats have claimed. Conservatives and common sense American voters have been coming out in large numbers to support voter integrity laws across the country. “We know it happens in the thousands. Oregon, for example, reported registering a couple thousand non-citizens through their DMV,” he stated.