Many social media users were wondering if this actually happened and if what he said about the "honor system" of registering to vote online in California is correct; yes, it did, and yes, he's correct. Shakir Khan, a Pakistani immigrant and now-former city councilman from Lodi, California, was arrested in February, 2023 and charged with 14 felonies related to election fraud. RedState covered the news at that time; the original story can be viewed here. https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2023/02/21/ca-dem-city-councilman-arrested-for-election-fraud-registered-70-ineligible-voters-fraudulently-cast-votes-n706541

But the details of what Khan allegedly did are even more alarming than what's stated in this weekend's viral tweets. This case is a grab bag of every worst-case scenario that can come out of the combination of online voter registration, universal mail ballots, and ballot harvesting. //

• In the fall of 2021, officials noticed 70 people were registered to vote at one address in Lodi, which they recognized as Khan's.
• Sheriff's investigators determined that Khan had used the state's online voter registration system to re-register existing California voters from other districts to his address, and at least a few non-citizens living in foreign countries (including his brother in Pakistan) to vote using his address, email address, or phone number.
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Even under federal law, a voter is only required to attest under penalty of perjury that they are a U.S. citizen. Sure, California requires either a drivers license number, state ID number, or the last four of a Social Security Number to be provided, but those aren't verified against any database that would definitively determine citizenship (especially since California is a sanctuary state).

Once the registration is active, since California is now has universal mail-in ballots for each election, those mail ballots will go to the voter's address on file.

So, as the Sheriff pointed out, in Shakir Khan's case, he fraudulently re-registered existing voters, many of them Pakistani immigrants, to his address, then forced them to vote the way he told them to.