DHS, DOGE Work Together To Track Down Election Fraudsters

The Federalist ^ | 05/02/2025 | M.D. Kittle

[SeekAndFind]

The Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency has referred 57 cases of potential voter fraud to the DOJ, an official told NBC News.

“Voter Rights” activists, like the leftists at the Brennan Center Justice, and their pals in the accomplice media have spent a lot of time and credibility telling us that foreign nationals never vote in U.S. elections. If they do, it’s extremely rare. A myth.

But we’ve seen a lot of “extremely rare” pop up in recent years on the battleground of election integrity. 

“It amounts to a vanishingly rare phenomenon that is not going to impact the outcome of our elections in any real way, and where the people who actually are violating the law are held accountable,” Sean Morales-Doyle of the Brennan Center, a group of election integrity deniers that claims to be nonpartisan, told ABC News just days before November’s election. The organization is about as nonpartisan as ABC News is unbiased.

Of course, it’s amazing what you’ll find — if you’re willing to look. 

President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security is looking. 

‘She Wanted to Make a Difference’

This week, the U.S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida announced charges against two Ukrainian women, a mother and a daughter, accused of voting in November’s presidential election. 

“In partnership with DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency], Immigration & Customs Enforcement arrested two Ukrainian nationals for illegally VOTING in the 2024 election,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement to The Federalist. 

Svitlana Demydenko, 53, and her daughter, Yelyzaveta Demydenko, 22, appeared in federal court this week in West Palm Beach on charges of unlawfully voting in a presidential election as an illegal alien. In an affidavit provided to The Federalist, Special Agent of Homeland Security Investigations Ashley Olson details the alleged crimes. Olson states the Florida Supervisor of Elections revealed that the women registered to vote on Aug. 18. Svitlana and Yelyzaveta each voted on Oct. 31 in Boynton Beach, Palm Beach County, in the Southern District of Florida, the affidavit asserts.

In consensual interviews with the suspects at their residence, Yelyzaveta said she accompanied her step-father and mother to vote at a library in Boynton Beach, Olson stated. Yelyzaveta told law enforcement authorities she had to show her ID to vote. She provided them with her voter registration card, claiming that “she voted in the election because she wanted to make a difference,” according to the affidavit in support of the criminal complaint. 

“Svitlana Demydenko confirmed that she had registered to vote online a few months before she voted in November 2024,” the affidavit states. The Ukrainian woman claimed that she did not know that she couldn’t vote. 

She could not. The Demydenkos were admitted to the United States on nonimmigrant visas in April 2021, according to the affidavit. They became lawful permanent residents of the United States more than two years later. 

While permanent residents have the right to live and work in the U.S. through their alien registration cards, or “green cards,” they continue to hold citizenship of their native countries. And they are not allowed to vote in federal elections. Only U.S. citizens are allowed to vote in U.S. elections, although several communities in left-led states allow foreign nationals, including illegal immigrants, to vote in local elections.

DOGE Assisting the ‘Wheels of Justice’

But an increasing number of noncitizens have been showing up on state voter registration rolls, even as Democrats and leftist “nonpartisan” organizations vehemently fight against passage of the SAVE Act, a bill that aims to ensure only U.S. citizens vote in federal elections. As my Federalist colleague Brianna Lyman reported earlier this week, the Department of Justice in recent weeks has charged multiple foreign nationals for illegally voting in U.S. elections.

In one case, 32-year-old Uzbekistan national Sanjar Jamilov pleaded guilty to “conspiring to submit fraudulent voter registrations” in Florida, the DOJ announced Tuesday.

The plea agreement states that the 45-year-old Russian national Dmitry Shushlebin “hired Jamilov and others to submit more than 100 fraudulent voter registration applications to the Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections in February and March 2023.” The applications were rejected after a county election supervisor detected fraud.

Homeland Security agents tracking election integrity crimes have gotten a huge assist of late from the seemingly omnipresent DOGE. Department official Antonio Gracias told NBC News that the government fat-and-fraud-fighter has referred 57 cases of potential voter fraud to the DOJ.

Trump advisor and face of DOGE Elon Musk told Fox News Digital this week that the “wheels of justice turn slowly but, hopefully, surely.”

“When we find cases of fraud, we refer those cases to the DOJ — it is not DOGE prosecuting anyone,” he said. 

‘You Will Face the Consequences’

The U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Florida said multiple agencies assisted in the case of the Ukrainian mother and daughter, including Homeland Security Investigations, DOGE, the Florida Department of State, Office of Election Crimes and Security, the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections, and the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service. 

As Musk put it, the wheels of justice turn slowly, particularly when it comes to election crimes. Foreign nationals vote in U.S. elections. That’s an indisputable fact. It happens more than leftist “voter rights” groups acknowledge. The Trump administration, unlike its predecessors, seems committed to investigating election law crimes and prosecuting them. 

“Under President Donald Trump, if you come to our country and break our laws, you will face the consequences,” Noem said. 

For more election news and updates, visit electionbriefing.com.

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Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.

[Liz]

“Voter Rights” activists at the Brennan Center Justice, and their lefty pals in the accomplice media tell us that foreign nationals “never vote” in US elections......it’s extremely rare. A myth. But a lot of “extremely rare” voting pops up in recent years.

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In one case, 32-year-old Uzbekistan national Sanjar Jamilov pled guilty to “conspiring to submit fraudulent voter registrations” in Florida, the DOJ announced. The plea agreement states that
<><>45-year-old Russian national Dmitry Shushlebin
<><>“hired Jamilov and others to submit more than 100 fraudulent voter registration apps
<><>fraudulent apps went to the Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections in Feb and March 2023.”
<><>The apps were rejected after a county election supervisor detected fraud.

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According to DOGE, 6,300 illegals on the terror watchlist received Medicaid and unemployment insurance, social security benefits, and food stamps. A Social Security number gets you registered to vote....over and over again.

[Liz]

A presidential memorandum signed on April 15 directed multiple federal agencies to take steps to prevent ineligibles, such as illegal immigrants, from receiving social security benefits. An executive order issued Feb. 19 asked agencies to ensure “no taxpayer-funded benefits go to unqualified aliens” and to “prevent taxpayer resources from acting as a magnet and fueling illegal immigration to the US.”

The Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts have been met with challenges:
<><>a federal judge blocked stripping federal tax dollars from “sanctuary cities.”
<><>State and local govts blocked local officials from enforcing federal laws wrt immigration.
<><>over a dozen cities filed suit over cessation of federal funding for “sanctuary cities.”

[JohnnyP]

Where is the mother lode? Onesy-twosey prosecutions won’t do it. We need to rub the media’s face in mountains of fraudulent ballots.

[TigersEye]

Cleaning up Florida is great but don’t forget Colorado.
Start with Tina Peters’ case and you’ll open a can of worms that goes right to the top.

[RandallFlagg]

Bookmarking

My tagline applies.

[Liz]

npr.org
November 9, 2024
Heard on All Things Considered
Shannon Bond

Once debunked 2020 election fraud claims are
coming back due to Trump’s awesome 2024 victory

Transcript——Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory is fueling claims of fraud on both sides of the political divide. His right-wing supporters claim the outcome vindicates their debunked claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him. To a smaller degree, those on the left are circulating their own baseless claims casting doubt on this year’s results.Trump and allies have primed supporters to falsely believe he has no chance of losing. The election denial movement Trump inspired has spent the past four years building an infrastructure and community around false claims that 2020 was rigged. This year, it invested heavily in raising similar alarms that voting would again be compromised — only for those claims to evaporate as returns came in.

Untangling Disinformation. Crowdsourced voting fraud claims could become grist for Republican lawsuits. The narrative twist emerging in the wake of Election Day shows how the movement is continuing to sow doubt about the voting process even after their preferred candidate won. The new claims center on comparing popular vote totals in 2020 and 2024: Four years ago, Joe Biden received around 81 million votes; as of Friday afternoon Vice President Harris’ total stood at 69 million, according to the Associated Press.

Election deniers have framed the difference as “missing” Democratic ballots that validate their suspicions about cheating in 2020. Some recirculated disproven theories about late-night ballot “dumps” that resulted in states that had early leads for Trump in 2020 shift to Biden as more votes were counted.

This year’s Electoral College map may show another ‘blue shift.’ Here’s why: There are a couple straightforward reasons for the gap between Harris’ and Biden’s totals. First of all, votes are still being tallied, including in the most populous state, California. “Most people just don’t really understand how election administration and the tabulation of election results actually works in this country,” said Kathy Boockvar, who oversaw elections in 2020 in Pennsylvania as its secretary of the commonwealth. “And that of course leads, unfortunately, to susceptibility to conspiracy theories and false information.”

The process of certifying votes varies from state to state. In many cases it takes weeks to complete, as officials process overseas and military ballots, review provisional ballots, and conduct audits. Jennifer Morrell, a former elections official who now runs the advisory firm the Elections Group, says when considering claims about “missing” ballots, it’s important “to recognize that there are these checks and balances and audits and tests that happen throughout the election.”

Numerous investigations and audits, often led by Republicans, were conducted after the 2020 election and no evidence of widespread fraud was discovered. Those checks will continue for the 2024 election over the coming weeks.

Turnout also varies from election to election. In 2020, 160 million people voted — a record high. While turnout in 2024 is expected to be close to that, Trump made gains across the country, even in Democratic states Harris won. That means she will almost certainly fall short of Biden’s total number of votes.

Boockvar said there are many times in U.S. political history where “the country went in a drastically different direction” from one election to the next. “Where Democrats might vote for Republican candidates or Republicans vote for Democratic candidates, or people come out more in force [or] people come out less,” she said. “This is normal.”

Posts about the gap first emerged on X, formerly Twitter, overnight on Election Day and into the early hours of Wednesday, Nov. 6, according to research by the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, which tracks rumors about election administration.

Soon, pro-Trump influencers began sharing them to their own large audiences. Their numbers varied — some said there were 20 million “missing” Democratic votes, while some put it at 15 million, depending on how many votes had been counted for Harris at the time they were posting. But the message was consistent. “Where did those 20 million Democratic voters go? The truth is, they never existed. I think we can put the lie about Biden’s 80 million votes to rest once and for all,” wrote Dinesh D’Souza, who popularized conspiracy theories about ballot boxes after the 2020 election. His post has been viewed more than 4 million times on X. A similar post from YouTuber Benny Johnson was viewed more than 22 million times.

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[Liz]

More than a third of US adults say Biden’s 2020 victory was not legitimate

Martin Pengelly in Washington, Tue 2 Jan 2024, theguardian.com

More than a third of US adults believe Joe Biden was not legitimately elected president in 2020, according to a new poll. According to the Washington Post and the University of Maryland, 62% of American adults say they believe Biden’s win was legitimate – down from 69% in the same poll in December 2021. Thirty-six per cent say they do not accept Biden’s win.

Maintaining his lie that Biden’s win was the result of electoral fraud, and using four federal and 13 state criminal election subversion charges (alongside 74 other criminal counts and assorted civil threats) to motivate supporters, Trump dominates polling for the Republican nomination this year.

Reporting its poll, the Post said that among Republicans, only 31% now say Biden’s win was legitimate – down from 39% in 2021. The poll also showed Republicans becoming more sympathetic to the January 6 rioters and more likely to absolve Trump of responsibility for the attack, the Post said. Analysing the poll, Aaron Blake, a senior political reporter for the Post, said it mostly showed that Trump’s message over the 2020 election and January 6 had resonated with voters already disposed to believe it.

Nonetheless, Michael J Hanmer, director of the Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement at the University of Maryland, told the paper: “From a historical perspective, these results would be chilling to many analysts.”

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oversight.house.gov committee
Published: Oct 2, 2020

Democrats want to use mail-in ballots to steal election and deny Trump second term

WASHINGTON – In an op-ed published by Fox News, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) outline how Democrats are pushing belated and risky changes toward all-mail balloting in key states to boost their political chances and sow uncertainty in a President Trump victory. Ranking Members Comer and Jordan highlight that the best and surest guarantee of electoral integrity is for Americans to vote in person where safe and possible.

Democrats want to use mail-in ballots to steal election and deny Trump second term. Democrats around the country are attempting to force last-minute changes to election laws and expand universal mail-in voting procedures, under the guise of public health and safety. But don’t be fooled. Infectious disease experts and members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force Dr. Deborah Birx and Dr. Anthony Fauci have repeatedly gone on the record noting that in-person voting can be done safely with appropriate health protocols. So if in-person voting is safe, then why are Democrats pushing belated and risky changes toward all-mail balloting in key states?

The answer is quite simple: Democrats believe that all-mail voting will boost the political chances of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and sow chaos and uncertainty in case of a victory by President Trump. In other words, Democrats are aiming to steal the election — after the election.

A joint Republican report released by the House Judiciary and Oversight and Reform Committees last week found that last-minute shifts toward all-mail balloting and relaxed election safeguards come with serious consequences. Democrats claim there is little evidence of fraud associated with all mail-in ballots. Don’t buy it. There is plenty of evidence of election crimes and administrative errors associated with mail-in voting. Look no further than a recent New York congressional primary, when Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s late shift to mail-in voting led to chaos. Election officials disqualified thousands of ballots for not having timely postmarks and the election was not certified for six weeks.

All mail-in balloting is not to be confused with the time-tested absentee ballot process where a voter specifically requests, and is mailed, a ballot. Soon, as many as 44 million Americans will automatically receive a mail-in ballot, with zero assurances the envelopes reach their intended recipient or are accounted for properly. It doesn’t take an election lawyer to know that this last-minute shift to all-mail voting will leave our electoral process ripe for potential crime and administrative errors.

Problems with mail-in voting are not new. In 2005, the bipartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform found mass voting by mail remains “the largest source of potential voter fraud.” And just this month, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger revealed at least 1,000 Georgians voted twice in the primary this year. In 2016, a former city commissioner in Texas, Guadalupe Rivera, pleaded guilty when charged with filling out mail-in ballots for voters in his race for reelection. Rivera won that race by only 16 votes. These examples underscore the consequences of all mail-in voting on a mass scale.

Democrats are also pushing for diminished safeguards around the mail-in electoral process just weeks before the election. The changes sought by Democrats put election integrity at risk and increase the risk of litigation following the election. In Pennsylvania, the Democratic majority on the state Supreme Court extended the state’s deadline to receive mail-in ballots if mailed by Election Day and decreed that ballots without postmarks would be presumed to have been mailed by Election Day.

In Wisconsin, Michigan, and elsewhere, Democrats want to extend deadlines for mail-in ballots to be counted after the election. In other states, Democrats seek to weaken witness and notary measures to ensure the person returning the ballot is the actual voter. These last-minute Democratic changes are especially risky as states move toward providing prepaid return postage of mail-in ballots. The U.S. Postal Service typically does not postmark prepaid mail and, although it claims to have a policy to do so for election-related mail, the Postal Service failed to postmark thousands of ballots in a contested New York congressional primary.

A similar Postal Service error in November could result in massive disenfranchisement and litigation. Recently, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee voted down a proposal to increase penalties for tampering with a postmark on a 2020 ballot, showing they are not interested in ensuring a secure and fair election.

Widespread mail-in balloting enables Democrats to expand their weaponized voting scheme called “ballot harvesting.” Ballot harvesting allows far-left activists to solicit and collect entire batches of ballots from 2020 voters. We’ve seen this tactic before. Ballot harvesting led to Democrats eking out victories in several 2018 congressional races, literally weeks after Election Day. America cannot afford lingering uncertainty about election results or fraudulent activity, which would only bring confusion, distrust, inaccuracy, and delay in the final outcome.

The best and surest guarantee of electoral integrity is for Americans to vote in person where safe and possible. Voting at a dedicated site comes with knowledgeable poll workers, identity verification, and secure ballot submission practices. These safeguards will minimize any delay in election results and ensure the integrity of the outcome. But for Democrats, the prospect of removing President Trump from office — by any means necessary and by stealing the election after the election — outweigh their commitment to election integrity.

[SMARTY]

S’cuse me...What? Don’t they have enough evidence?

[cuz1961]

this is the lefts “ progressive “ mantra.

vote/election fraud is a myth

vote/election fraud doent exist

vote/election fraud isnt widespread

vote/election fraud happens not not enough to affect elections

vote/election fraud is in every election but we cant stop it without trampling folks civil rights

vote/election fraud happens, get used to it

vote/election fraud happens, get over it

vote/election fraud happens , move on

vote/election fraud happens , so sdstfu.

vote/election fraud is here to stay you nazis who are killing democracy in the dark.

[subterfuge]

Dumping of hundreds of thousands of ballots that are pre printed and filled out for democrats with no signatures in “certan” states.

Rigged electronic voting machines.

Until those things are fixed deep state will continue to steal elections. Just like in 2024 senate and house seats that were stolen.

[moreisee]

Fifteen million more votes in the 2020 election than any other Presidential election in history and somehow all went to Biden?

[TigersEye]

vote/election fraud is here to stay you nazis who are killing democracy in the dark.

Definitely their most compelling argument.

It compels me to lobby for allowing DJT to run for a third term.