{"id":2418249,"date":"2025-04-01T05:05:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T09:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-dem-donor-led-group-allegedly-pushed-a-noncitizen-to-vote\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T05:06:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T09:06:41","slug":"a-dem-donor-led-group-allegedly-pushed-a-noncitizen-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-dem-donor-led-group-allegedly-pushed-a-noncitizen-to-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dem Donor-Led Group Allegedly Pushed A Noncitizen To Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-dem-donor-led-group-allegedly-pushed-a-noncitizen-to-vote%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2418249&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Haoxiang Gao, a green card holder studying at the University of Michigan, allegedly registered and voted illegally on October 27, following encouragement from a worker at the early voting center. gao, who believed he was eligible to vote, completed a registration form provided to him without being asked about his citizenship status.His roommate, Nan Xiang, informed authorities that they had <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">encountered volunteers distributing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-secretary-of-state-investigating-voter-registration-group-run-by-democrat-raphael-warnock\/\" title=\"Georgia Secretary Of State Investigating ... Group Run By Democrat Raphael Warnock\">voter registration applications<\/a><\/a>, and noted that he was not asked about his citizenship when he declined to participate. Gao later reported his actions to the authorities, expressing his uncertainty about the legality of his vote after learning that non-citizens are ineligible. Consequently, Gao faces felony charges for false swearing and voting as an unqualified elector. The voting center where he registered was reportedly managed by individuals with affiliations to Democratic causes, raising allegations about nonpartisan voter engagement initiatives facilitating potential voter fraud. <\/p>\n<p>Gao&#8217;s registration was not annulled until February of the following year, despite his attempts to rectify the situation immediately after voting. The incident has highlighted ongoing concerns regarding non-citizen voting and the adequacy of voter ID laws, particularly in contexts where college campuses, like the University of Michigan, are targeted for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-democrats-push-reformed-voting-rights-laws\/\" title=\"Biden administration, Democrats push re...ed ... rights laws\">increasing voter turnout<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>When Haoxiang Gao saw a crowd gathered at the University of Michigan&rsquo;s early voting center, a worker handed him a registration form, according to documents obtained by The Federalist. In just minutes, he allegedly registered and voted illegally.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gao is a green card holder who was studying at UM, as The Federalist previously <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/12\/10\/exclusive-chinese-national-who-allegedly-voted-in-michigan-is-still-on-the-voter-rolls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>. He allegedly cast his ballot on Oct. 27 and now faces two <a href=\"https:\/\/micourt.courts.michigan.gov\/case-search\/court\/D15\/case-details?caseId=2024-24F5-5687-FY-01&amp;tenantKey=D15-81-0620133-00-00&amp;searchUrl=%2Fcourt%2FD15%2Fsearch%3FlastName%3DHaoxiang%26page%3D1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">felony<\/a> charges: false swearing to register to vote and trying to vote as an unqualified elector. According to documents obtained by The Federalist, a worker at the voting center &mdash; run by Democrat donors &mdash; encouraged Gao to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Gao registered and voted from a &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2024\/11\/08\/chinese-university-of-michigan-student-who-voted-in-michigan-presidential-election-arraigned\/76134433007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">get out the vote<\/a>&rdquo; site at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), according to The Detroit News. As The College Fix previously reported, the center &mdash; which served as a &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/u-michigan-art-museum-sets-up-election-office-with-button-making-station-costume-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one-stop-shop<\/a>&rdquo; for boosting voter turnout on campus &mdash; was run by Democrat donors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a written, first-person account of what happened, Gao &mdash; who goes by &ldquo;Neil&rdquo; &mdash; wrote that he and his roommate were passing the crowded voting station and stopped by &ldquo;out of curiosity.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s near election and you get asked to vote by volunteers everywhere you go on the street,&rdquo; Gao wrote. &ldquo;A lady asked me if I am here to register or to vote, before I said anything and was still figuring out what is the relationship between registering and voting, she passed me a form and a pen. I took it naturally without asking myself what I am doing, and start filling out the form.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Gao&rsquo;s roommate, a Chinese freshman named Nan Xiang, confirmed that volunteers were passing out voter registration applications, according to a police report.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Nan told the employee that he is an international student and is not able to vote. Nan was surprised that the person did not even ask if he was a United States citizen prior to giving him the Michigan Voter Registration Application,&rdquo; wrote UM Police Sgt. Ryan Cavanaugh in a report. &ldquo;Neil began to fill out the State of Michigan Voter Registration Application as he stood next to him.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Xiang said Gao had mentioned voting beforehand, according to the report. According to Gao&rsquo;s account, he saw the section on the forms asking whether or not he was a citizen, and previous experiences led him to believe &ldquo;I am a citizen, and I can vote,&rdquo; as the Michigan Enjoyer <a href=\"https:\/\/enjoyer.com\/university-michigan-chinese-student-voted-us-citizen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<div>\n<p>Gao&rsquo;s registration application<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<div>\n<p>Gao&rsquo;s early voting application<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p>A copy of the voter registration form notes &ldquo;MCard Wolverine Access&rdquo; on the upper-left corner, as Gao used a student identification to satisfy state <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/-\/media\/Project\/Websites\/sos\/05mcalpine\/photo_id_flyer.pdf?rev=831b0a8e20d84f559444306b26eb6584\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ID requirements<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For the Chinese national, voting was a &ldquo;quick&rdquo; 15-minute task, according to his account. But after he went back to his dorm, he began to second-guess his actions. His roommate told Cavanaugh that after arriving in the dorm room, Gao &ldquo;posted something on a Chinese app&rdquo; about voting &mdash; and then learned it was illegal for a green card holder to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Gao reported himself to Ann Arbor police, UM police, and the city clerk&rsquo;s office. According to a university report, he also tried calling the voting station, which &ldquo;said there was nothing they could do&rdquo; but report the illegal voting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Days afterward, Gao considered trying to cancel his voter registration, according to his account. But he was only removed from Michigan&rsquo;s voter rolls by February this year, according to Qualified Voter File <a href=\"https:\/\/checkmyvote.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">data<\/a> from Check My Vote Co-Founder Phani Mantravadi &mdash; even though The Federalist <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/12\/10\/exclusive-chinese-national-who-allegedly-voted-in-michigan-is-still-on-the-voter-rolls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">exposed<\/a> this issue in December.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>A Leftist Vote Mill<\/h2>\n<p>Hannah Smotrich and Stephanie Rowden, <a href=\"https:\/\/stamps.umich.edu\/people\/hannah-smotrich\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">associate<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stamps.umich.edu\/people\/stephanie-rowden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">professors<\/a> at the Stamps School of Art and Design, ran the on-campus &ldquo;election hub&rdquo; at UMMA where Gao reportedly voted. Together, they have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/donor-lookup\/results?name=Hannah+smotrich&amp;order=desc&amp;sort=D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">given<\/a> more than $17,000 total to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/donor-lookup\/results?name=stephanie+rowden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democrats<\/a> and leftist causes, according to OpenSecrets data.<\/p>\n<p>Smotrich has given more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/donor-lookup\/results?name=Hannah+smotrich&amp;order=desc&amp;sort=D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$12,000<\/a> to Democrats and leftist groups, including Sen. Elissa Slotkin, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, Sen. Raphael Warnock, and former President Joe Biden since 2020. And since 2017, Rowden has given more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/donor-lookup\/results?name=stephanie+rowden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$1,800<\/a> to such causes, including Slotkin and the left-wing group <a href=\"https:\/\/votersnotpoliticians.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Voters Not Politicians<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat donors&rsquo; group, the supposedly nonpartisan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.creativecampusvoting.org\/our-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Creative Campus Voting Project<\/a>, partnered with the Ann Arbor city clerk and UMICH Votes to operate the voting station that enabled Gao to vote. Such get-out-the-vote groups often target likely-Democrat voters, and Pew Research found last year that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2024\/04\/09\/age-generational-cohorts-and-party-identification\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">66 percent<\/a> of college-aged voters leaned Democrat and just 34 percent leaned Republican.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Creative Campus Voting Project has hosted various get-out-the-vote campaigns and &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/umstamps\/posts\/stamps-associate-professors-stephanie-rowden-and-hannah-smotrich-founders-of-the\/10162012617454465\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">election hubs<\/a>&rdquo; in the past, starting with a 2018 project called &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.creativecampusvoting.org\/2018-campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Voting is Sexy<\/a>.&rdquo; The project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.creativecampusvoting.org\/2018-campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">referred<\/a> students to leftist group Vote411, which <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/01\/vote411-feeds-voter-info-to-leftist-data-harvesting-machine-while-masquerading-as-nonpartisan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">harvests data<\/a> for left-wing groups, as The Federalist reported.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Creative Campus Voting Project <a href=\"https:\/\/record.umich.edu\/articles\/culture-of-student-voting-fostered-by-design-at-u-m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">registered<\/a> more than 9,300 voters and captured more than 13,000 ballots in 2020 and 2022, and nearly 15,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.creativecampusvoting.org\/faq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">votes<\/a> in 2024, according to its website.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Things are getting busy at the Voting Hubs&ndash;we couldn&#8217;t be more thrilled to report that&#10071;&#65039;over a THOUSAND&#10071;&#65039;people voted at the Campus Voting Hubs over the weekend! It&#8217;s incredible to see so many student getting out to vote early! &#9200; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zbf5TsYsek\">pic.twitter.com\/zbf5TsYsek<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Creative Campus Voting Project (@ArtDesignVote) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArtDesignVote\/status\/1851345975790497966?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Leftists have repeatedly taken advantage of supposedly nonpartisan get-out-the-vote activities. Perhaps the most prominent example is the &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/zuckbucks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zuckbucks<\/a>&rdquo; scandal of 2020, when Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shuttled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/for-profit\/chan-zuckerberg-initiative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nearly $350 million<\/a> through leftist nonprofits to election offices to boost Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/05\/12\/wapo-accidentally-admits-zuckbucks-were-used-to-turn-out-likely-democrat-voters-in-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">turnout<\/a>. In 2024, then-President Joe Biden co-opted federal agencies to engage in a similar effort, which took the nickname &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/bidenbucks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bidenbucks<\/a>.&rdquo; The latest effort was ultimately not enough to overcome now-President Donald Trump&rsquo;s landslide victory.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Democrats routinely enable noncitizen voting &mdash; like in Oregon, where the DMV registered <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/11\/22\/oregon-dmv-busted-allowing-people-of-unknown-citizenship-to-register-to-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">thousands<\/a> of voters of unknown citizenship, as The Federalist previously reported. They also constantly oppose voter ID laws, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/issues\/ensure-every-american-can-vote\/vote-suppression\/voter-id\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claiming<\/a> noncitizen voting doesn&rsquo;t really happen that often. Should it come as a surprise, then, that this Democrat donor-led get-out-the-vote operation apparently helped a Chinese national vote?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Logan Washburn is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawsuit-clark-county-keeps-commercial-addresses-on-voter-rolls\/\" title=\"Lawsuit: Clark County Keeps Commercial Addresses On ...\">staff writer covering election integrity<\/a>. He is a spring 2025 fellow of The College Fix. He graduated from Hillsdale College, served as Christopher Rufo&#8217;s editorial assistant, and has bylines in The Wall Street Journal, The Tennessean, and The Daily Caller. Logan is from Central Oregon but now lives in rural Michigan.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haoxiang Gao, a green card holder at UM, allegedly registered and voted illegally at an early voting center<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":2418250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/UM.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[5521,36987,38930,32570],"class_list":["post-2418249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-democracy","tag-noncitizen-voting","tag-political-donations","tag-voting-rights"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/UM.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2418249"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2418253,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418249\/revisions\/2418253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2418250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2418249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2418249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2418249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}