A Chinese national studying at the University of Michigan faces criminal charges after voting illegally — but the vote will still count.
While the Michigan secretary of state portrayed the 19-year-old’s illegal vote as “an extremely isolated and rare event,” the vote was self-reported, not ferreted out by election officials.
The student is charged with perjury and voting illegally.
“The student’s ballot is expected to count in the upcoming election — although it was illegally cast — because there is no way for election officials to retrieve it once it’s been put through a tabulator, according to two sources familiar with Michigan election laws. The setup is meant to prevent ballots from being tracked back to an individual voter,” the Detroit News reports.
