Jose Ceballos never attained U.S. citizenship, yet voting records show he managed to cast ballots in at least two dozen elections dating back to 2006.
He may have been voting before that, but that is as far back as the Kansas secretary of state’s records go.
That Mr. Ceballos was serving as mayor of Coldwater, a town near the Oklahoma border, makes the case all the more astonishing.
His case arose just weeks after Ian Roberts, then the superintendent of public schools in Des Moines, Iowa, was arrested as an illegal immigrant. It quickly became clear that he had been registered to vote in Maryland for years despite having worked outside the state since at least 2015. He last re-registered to vote in Maryland a year after that, in December 2016.
They were the marquee examples of illegal voting, but by no means the only ones in 2025.
Federal authorities brought voting cases against at least 10 other immigrants this year, accusing them of casting ballots despite not having attained U.S. citizenship.
That included Carlos Jose Abreu, sentenced to 65 months in prison for illegal voting, aggravated identity theft and firearms violations, and Haoxiang Gao, who authorities said voted in 2024 and then called election officials trying to recant his vote. He then fled the U.S. to avoid prosecution.