{"id":446941,"date":"2026-08-29T05:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446941\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T05:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:52:08","slug":"non-citizen-charged-with-fraudulently-registering-to-vote-in-la-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446941\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Citizen Charged With Fraudulently Registering To Vote In LA County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Following a declaration under penalty of perjury warning, the voter registration application deadline was dated Nov. 4, 2025. The birthplace listed under Rivera&#8217;s name was &#8220;United States of America.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> Officials said there is no record of Rivera seeking or obtaining U.S. citizenship. Rivera also has not voted in an election. <\/p>\n<p> If convicted, Rivera would face up to five years in federal prison on each charge, prosecutors said. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Non-citizens who commit fraud so they can vote in American elections do so in violation of federal law and should expect to be prosecuted,&#8221; Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department&#8217;s Civil Rights Division said Friday. &#8220;Let this criminal complaint serve as a reminder that the Justice Department stands ready to enforce the laws Congress enacted to ensure only American citizens vote in federal elections.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> Copyright 2026, City News Service, Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a declaration under penalty of perjury warning, the voter registration application deadline was dated Nov. 4, 2025.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-446941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}