Legal threat cracks open voter records for illegal school superintendent nabbed by ICE
A Maryland board of elections backed down in the face of legal threat from conservative groups and released unredacted voter registration records belonging to an illegal immigrant who served as...
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A Maryland board of elections backed down in the face of legal threat from conservative groups and released unredacted voter registration records belonging to an illegal immigrant who served as the superintendent of Iowa’s largest school system, Fox News Digital has learned. The records showed illegal immigrant Ian Andre Roberts, who is originally from Guyana, claimed to be a U.S. citizen. "The records show us what we all know - Maryland is not serious about keeping noncitizens off the voter rolls," American Accountability Foundation (AAF) chief Tom Jones, a conservative research group that advocated for the release of the voter registration records, said in a press release provided to Fox News Digital. "Sadly, there are likely thousands more non-citizens on Maryland’s voter rolls." The Prince George's Board of Elections provided conservative legal group Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (RITE) and AAF with unredacted versions of Ian Andre Roberts' registration documents after initially releasing heavily redacted versions of the documents that blacked out Roberts' sex, whether he checked the citizenship box, his date of birth and other information. HEAVILY REDACTED VOTING RECORDS FOR SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT NABBED BY ICE SPARK OUTRAGE The fresh documents, RITE said in a press release provided to Fox News Digital on Tuesday, show "Roberts affirmatively claimed U.S. citizenship on his voter-registration application, and that Maryland election officials took his word for it." A copy of the unredacted documents reviewed by Fox News Digital on Tuesday morning show Roberts checked the "yes" box when asked "Are you a U.S. citizen?" Roberts, who first entered the U.S. in 1994, was working as the superintendent of the Des Moines public school district when Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested him in September. Roberts was not legally permitted to work in the country after an employment authorization card expired in 2020, Fox News Digital previously reported.…