{"id":313252,"date":"2026-10-24T07:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T07:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313252\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T07:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T07:50:07","slug":"israeli-citizen-among-us-residents-charged-with-illegally-voting-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313252\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli citizen among US residents charged with illegally voting in Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli citizen Yehuda Peer was one of nine Pennsylvania residents charged with illegally voting in the 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/us-elections\/article-907569\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US election<\/a>, the US Department of Justice announced on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Peer, a lawful permanent US resident but not a US citizen, has been charged with one count of voting by an alien.<\/p>\n<p>Citizens of Poland, Cuba, Kenya, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-912669\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russia<\/a>, Greece, and the Netherlands have also been charged with voting in the 2024 and 2022 elections.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">If convicted, they face a maximum possible sentence of a fine, one year in prison, or both.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese cases are important because the crime of illegal voting undermines the integrity of our elections and harms citizens by stealing the power of our votes,\u201d said Brian Miller, United States Attorney for the Middle District of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-912481\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cIllegal voting is not a victimless crime but a serious affront to the principles of our democratic republic,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cIllegally casting a ballot in a federal election corrupts the electoral process and diminishes the voice of every lawful voter. These alleged violations undermine public confidence in our democratic institutions and harm the citizens whose votes are entitled to determine our nation\u2019s future,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-912638\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Homeland Security<\/a> Investigations Philadelphia Special Agent in Charge Nathan Abel.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli citizen Yehuda Peer was one of nine Pennsylvania residents charged with illegally voting in the 2024 US&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31,902,10716,28,30,29,127937,66,127938],"class_list":["post-313252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-crime","tag-elections","tag-fraud","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-the-department-of-homeland-security","tag-united-states","tag-us-elections-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}