Ohio Sec. Of State Refers 1,084 Cases Of Suspected Fraudulent Voter Registration to DOJ

 Via American Greatness,

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose says he’s found 1,084 alleged cases of noncitizens who appear registered to vote and is referring them to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) after county prosecutors failed to act.

LaRose said his office has also uncovered instances of 167 people who have allegedly voted in a federal election as far back as  2018.

“In these cases, the county prosecutor has decided for whatever reason not to take them up. In some cases they’ve been referred to the attorney general as well, and we’re sending them along to the federal government to see if they want to prosecute these cases,” LaRose said.

LaRose had asked county prosecutors to act on 633 cases of suspected voter fraud last year but prosecutors took up just 12 of them, saying the others lacked evidence to pursue indictments.

The number of election fraud allegations in Ohio are a direct challenge to Democrat claims that noncitizens registering to vote in U.S. elections never happens.

The real amount of illegal voting is vastly greater than this.

Consider that California and New York banned the use of ID for voting! They legalized fraudulent voting. https://t.co/aprvhBu3Bf

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2025

Secretary LaRose gave credit to a special investigative unit in his office for uncovering the cases, although he noted that, while unusual, there does not appear to be a pattern to them.

LaRose stated:

What we know is that noncitizens registering is exceedingly rare. It’s even more rare for noncitizens to actually cast a ballot, especially now that we’ve got a really good process in place for identifying that at the time of registration and checking for that. But in some cases it has happened. And we’re talking about hundreds of cases, not thousands and thousands of cases.

A press release from LaRose’s office says the Ohio Sec. of State is also referring to the DOJ, 99 individuals who appear to have voted in two states in the same federal election, 16 individuals who appear to have voted twice in Ohio in the same federal election and 14 individuals who appear to have voted in a federal election after the date of their deaths.

Four individuals also are suspected of ballot harvesting and 2 individuals appear to have registered to vote at a residence where they were not entitled to register.

In his letter to the DOJ Criminal Division, LaRose wrote:

I have made numerous criminal referrals throughout my administration, with much of the evidence related to unlawful registration and voting activity. These cases have encountered varying degrees of adjudication from Ohio’s 88 county prosecutors. We now have an executive administration at the White House and the Department of Justice that has expressed an interest in actively reviewing and potentially prosecuting evidence of federal election crimes.

The Secretary’s letter also gives credit to constructive feedback from state and local prosecutors in helping his office improve the quality of evidence referred for investigation.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ohio-sec-state-refers-1084-cases-suspected-fraudulent-voter-registration-doj

Arrest Zohran Kwame Mamdani

 

By Huck Davenport

Arrest Zohran Kwame Mamdani. Not because he may have lied on his immigration documents. Not because he’s a self-proclaimed communist set on overthrowing the country. Not because he’s an Israel-hating Islamist hellbent on Sharia Law. He should be arrested because he broke federal law.

Repeatedly, Mamdani has threatened, intimidated, and harassed Benjamin Netanyahu. Let’s go to the videotape:

“Mayor Mamdani, will you welcome Prime Minister Netanyahu to NYC … given the U.S. is not signatory to the IC? Would a Mayor Mamdani welcome Benjamin Netanyahu to the city?”

“No, as Mayor, NYC would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu. This is a city whose values are inline with international law, it’s time our actions are also.”

“Even though the U.S. is not a signatory to the ICC.”

“No, it’s time that we actually step up and make clear what we are willing to do to showcase the leadership that is sorely missing in the federal administration.”

Free speech is not absolute: there are guardrails when speech threatens, intimidates, and harasses, especially when it’s obviously not hyperbolic rhetoric but rather a cold, calculated, consistent, credible, and unmistakable threat. After watching the video, could there be any doubt as to Mamdani’s intent?

SCOTUS has a high bar for criminalizing speech: it must be speech that not only incites violence but must also produce imminent lawless action. However, do not confuse the Brandenburg v. Ohio standard on ordinary speech with threats. Threats need not incite immediate violence. In Virginia v. Black—the cross burning case—the standard was that a threat need only be a true threat: a serious expression of an intent to commit an unlawful act of violence.

However, true threats are not limited to threatening violence. In Planned Parenthood v. American Coalition of Life Activists, “wanted-style” posters targeting abortion doctors were held to be a criminal threat—intimidation itself was enough.

When foreign officials are involved, the same principles apply under 18 U.S.C. §112. Thus, in U.S.A. v. Glenn Glan, which involved throwing containers with paint at ambassadors—to humiliate, not injure—the Second Circuit ruled threats against diplomats were such that, “neither the plain language of §112(a) nor judicial construction of similar assault statutes requires proof of injury or intent to injure.”

Under 18 U.S.C. §112, Mamdani’s hatred for Israel has crossed over from mere rhetoric into criminality. “Whoever willfully intimidates, coerces, threatens, or harasses a foreign official or an official guest or obstructs a foreign official in the performance of his duties...shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.”

Let’s understand why this is so important. In the late 1960s and mid-1970s, terror against diplomats had become the instrument of choice to undermine foreign relations. The Soviet embassy in DC and the Soviet Mission in NY were both bombed. In a synchronized attack, the Yugoslavian embassy in DC, and its consulates in Chicago, NY, and San Francisco, as well as locations in Canada, were all bombed. The Cuban and the Portuguese embassies in DC were both bombed. The Chilean Ambassador was assassinated by a car bomb in DC. Around the world, there were over 50 bombings or attacks on diplomatic missions during this period.

The nations that fell victim to these attacks were livid, claiming the United States had violated Article 22 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which the Senate had ratified, making it de facto U.S. law.

Ambassadorial violence ran in the other direction, too. America’s standing in the world was plummeting, as violence abroad soared. U.S. Ambassadors were killed in Guatemala, Argentina, Sudan, Cyprus, and Lebanon.

The need to protect foreign officials was not merely an act of law enforcement; it was a vital geopolitical necessity in an increasingly dangerous world.

Later, Congress was so worried that §112 would not be enforced that it passed 18 U.S.C. §878, which governs “Threats and extortion against foreign officials.” The statute armed Diplomatic Security Service agents and empowered them to make arrests (the DSS language later migrated to 22 U.S.C. §4803).

Clearly, threatening “internationally protected persons” —i.e., Benjamin Netanyahu—is not just against U.S. and international law. It is also an assault on the State Department, destabilizes global international relations, and puts American lives at risk.

The DOJ can get creative here. Mamdani not only threatened Netanyahu but, additionally, to prove it was no slip of the tongue but rather deadly serious—and to ensure Netanyahu saw it—he doubled down and posted the interview to his X account. 18 U.S.C.§875 (Interstate Communication) makes it a crime to threaten to kidnap a person over the internet.

By using the internet to threaten to arrest a foreign head of state without any lawful authority, Mamdani was, in substance, threatening an unlawful seizure and detention. Under federal law, that is indistinguishable from a threat to kidnap. While courts have traditionally limited § 875(c) to threats of physical injury or abduction, the DOJ could reasonably argue that Mamdani’s statements fall within its scope, particularly when paired with §112. Coincidentally, §875(c) comes with a five-year prison term, while the mayorship is four years.

Threats against internationally protected persons are not political theater. They are federal crimes that jeopardize U.S. treaty obligations and global security and must be punished. And the higher the profile of the prosecution, the greater the deterrent effect.

Pam Bondi, call your office.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/11/arrest_zohran_kwane_mamdani.html

Mamdani camp hosts ed roundtable with woman who called standardized tests ‘eugenics’

 Radical socialist Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign hosted a closed-door roundtable to craft his prospective administration’s education policy, and stocked it with anti-merit leftists — one of whom once bashed standardized tests as “eugenics.”

Groups pushing for academic rigor were left off the guest list, which contained a veritable who’s who of radical advocates opposed to gifted and talented programs, as well as figures with troubling antisemitism accusations, critics said.

“The floodgates are opening to radical indoctrinating propaganda coming into the classroom,” said Karen Feldman, cofounder of New York City Public School Alliance — a group that fights antisemitism in city public schools.

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Zohran Mamdani’s campaign hosted a closed-door education roundtable.Gabriella Bass

Included at the roundtable was the Education Council Consortium, a group that once called NYC’s gifted and talented programs “an oddity in the nation” and also accused them of “systematically” segregating black students.

The ECC has hosted a rally featuring Linda Sarsour, an activist with a long history of antisemitic remarks and a mentor of Mamdani’s.

Shino Tanikawa, ECC’s treasurer, has ranted against “toxic whiteness” on social media.

The Alliance for Quality Education, which has similarly come out against gifted and talented programs, was also at the meeting, as was former Manhattan Panel for Educational Policy member Kaliris Salas-Ramirez, according to Chalkbeat.

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Mamdani has vowed to end gifted and talented programs in schools.Stephen Yang for the New York Post

Salas-Ramirez is a member of Opt Out, an organization that advocates against standardized tests, which she has claimed originated as a part of the “eugenics movement” at a 2021 Chancellor’s Parents Advisory Council meeting. She has long faced accusations of antisemitism.

“Israel is a terrorist state,” she posted Oct. 1.

The Rutgers University medical school professor was the subject of a parental letter-writing campaign urging Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine not to reappoint her to the PEP. She left the panel in 2024, according to her LinkedIn.

Anti-Israel Mamdani has faced criticism for not yet providing a detailed education policy, but has vowed to eliminate gifted and talented programs starting at kindergarten.

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PLACE co-president Yiatin Chu said Mamdani would be worse than the second coming of De Blasio.Helayne Seidman

Parent Leaders of Accelerated Curriculum and Education, an organization that advocates for higher standards in the NYC public school system, was not given a seat at the table, nor was the New York City Public School Alliance.

“[Mamdani] is probably going to be worse than De Blasio 2.0 from all the signals that we’re seeing,” said Yiatin Chu, co-president of PLACE.

Also in attendance was former Squad Rep. Jamaal Bowman, who is rumored to be in the running to be Mamdani’s schools chancellor and has a history of antisemitism accusations.

“Jamaal Bowman, which is kind of the scary one,” Chu mused regarding Mamdani’s potential chancellor picks, “[He was] a middle school principal that really was kind of abysmal.”

“Public school high-stakes standardized testing is a form of modern-day slavery,” Bowman, former principal of Cornerstone Academy for Social Action, wrote in 2015.

Bowman infamously pulled the Capitol building’s fire alarm in 2023 as Democrats attempted to delay a spending vote, and was subsequently censured by the House.

“How’s he going to tell kids not to pull the fire alarm?” wondered Chu.

Bowman and the Mamdani campaign did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.

https://nypost.com/2025/11/01/us-news/mamdani-campaign-hosts-education-roundtable-featuring-woman-who-called-standardized-tests-eugenics/

Obama calls Mamdani, offers to be ‘sounding board,’ but no endorsement: report

 Former President Barack Obama had an extended phone call with mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani on Saturday and offered to be a “sounding board” for the socialist candidate — but didn’t officially endorse him for mayor, according to a report.

The pair had a 30-minute phone call in which Obama praised Mamdani for his campaign and stated he was invested in the 34-year-old’s success beyond Tuesday’s election, according to two people familiar with the call who spoke to The New York Times.

“Your campaign has been impressive to watch,” Obama told the Democratic candidate, further offering to be a “sounding board” after he takes office.

Former president Barack Obama heaped praise on Mamdani and said he was invested in his political future beyond Tuesday’s election.Aristide Economopoulos

The former prez consulted the anti-cop state assemblyman on the challenges of staffing a new administration and on being able to achieve his lofty promises on making the city more affordable, the report claimed.

The two Democrat pols made plans to meet in person at some point in Washington DC, that report stated.

During the call, Mamdani said he drew inspiration for his recent speech on Islamophobia from Obama’s speech on race during his first presidential run in 2008, the report claimed.

“Zohran Mamdani appreciated President Obama’s words of support and their conversation on the importance of bringing a new kind of politics to our city,” a spokesperson for Mamdani told The Times.

Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is the front runner in Tuesday’s mayoral election.James Keivom

Despite the nice-making phone call, the Democratic Socialist previously trashed Obama as “pretty damn evil” in a series of tweets from 2013.

“Hasn’t Obama shown that the lesser evil is still pretty damn evil?” he wrote in a post directed at then Democrat Sen. Ed Markey.

“I can’t trust quotes from @BarackObama, not since his continued lying the face of Snowden’s #NSA revelations,” the post said.

Obama also called the lefty-pol after his shocking win in the Democratic primary in June.

https://nypost.com/2025/11/01/us-news/obama-has-extended-phone-call-with-mayoral-fronter-runner-zohran-mamdani-offers-to-be-sounding-board-report/