A Single 2022 Vote Brings a Federal Charge and a ‘Rampant’ Fraud Claim
An upstate New York woman has been charged with voting illegally, PBS NewsHour reports — one of the latest arrests touted by the Trump administration as it hunts for noncitizen voters ahead of the midterm elections.
Marva Cook told Homeland Security investigators earlier this month that she was adopted as a toddler and had always assumed she was a U.S. citizen, according to the criminal complaint.
She faces a single federal charge of voting by an alien stemming from her vote in the 2022 midterms. Sarcone III, whose upstate New York office is prosecuting the case, said her arrest showed “voter fraud is rampant” in the state.
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“Rampant” describes a pattern; the charge describes one vote in one election.
The mismatch is fair, but it doesn’t make the individual allegation trivial. Prosecutors say Cook had a green card for several years and cast ballots without citizenship; she told Homeland Security investigators she had always assumed she was a citizen.