Immigrant from the Bahamas charged with casting illegal ballots in North Carolina
Immigrant from the Bahamas charged with casting illegal ballots in North Carolina
Noncitizen voted in Democratic primaries
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Early voters form a long line while waiting to cast their ballots at the South Regional Library polling location in Durham, N.C., Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020. Some waited almost three hours to vote. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times -
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
An immigrant from the Bahamas has been voting illegally in North Carolina for nearly two decades, federal prosecutors said Monday, including casting ballots in repeated Democratic primaries and in the 2020 presidential election.
Garbart Piquant also used a U.S. passport based on a Virginia birth certificate that was faked, the U.S. Attorney’s office said. And he applied for a REAL ID-compliant identification in North Carolina, also claiming he was a citizen, the government said.
It is the latest in a series of cases involving noncitizens who managed to register and vote in North Carolina.
Mr. Piquant remained active in the state’s election records Monday, according to records that listed all the same details but with a slightly different first name of “Gabart.”
Those records show he signed up in 2005 and has been voting in Wake County as far back as 2006.
He cast ballots in that year’s general election and again in 2008, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2018 and 2020. He also voted in Democratic Party primaries in 2008, 2014, 2016 and 2020. He never voted in a GOP primary.
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