{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://moolenaar.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/moolenaar-statement-chinese-national-illegally-voting-michigan", "Moolenaar Statement on Chinese National Illegally Voting in Michigan", "2024-10-30", "2024", "2024-10", "Republican", "House", "MI", "John R. Moolenaar", "M001194", "moolenaar.house.gov", "moolenaar", "https://moolenaar.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "Today, the Michigan Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson, and the Washtenaw County Prosecutor's office announced charges against a Chinese national for election fraud in Michigan. The Chinese national is a student at the University of Michigan, and illegally registered to vote and cast a ballot on Sunday, October 27 in Ann Arbor.\n\n\u201cSecretary Jocelyn Benson has hurt the public\u2019s trust in Michigan elections as her department failed to prevent this illegal vote from being cast and will count it in the results next week. The University of Michigan should expel this student for violating our laws and our state\u2019s leaders need to take serious action against the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s attempts to influence our state. Secretary Benson must tell us how she will prevent similar election fraud in the next week, and how she will secure our elections against CCP interference. Governor Whitmer must cancel the state\u2019s $715 million giveaway of taxpayer money to CCP-affiliated Gotion and end its plans to build near Camp Grayling. Finally, U-M President Santa Ono needs to shut down his university\u2019s institute with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which collaborates with China\u2019s military. Until these actions happen, our state's security, elections, universities, and auto supply chains will remain vulnerable to CCP influence,\u201d said Congressman John Moolenaar.\n\nAccording to reporting from the Detroit News, the illegally cast ballot is expected to be counted in the 2024 election results, \"because there is no way for election officials to retrieve it once it's been put through a tabulator.\"", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:57:20Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://moolenaar.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/moolenaar-statement-chinese-national-illegally-voting-michigan"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4552399516105652, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}