NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FROM DELEGATE PAT McDONOUGH

FOR WEEK OF OCTOBER 17, 2016

TITLE: MASSIVE VOTING FRAUD IN UPCOMING MARYLAND ELECTION

Delegate Pat McDonough, Candidate for Congress, is charging that Maryland will be in victim
of massive voter fraud in the upcoming election. A few years ago, members of Voters
Alliance, a volunteer group, conducted an investigation in Frederick County, that uncovered a
large number of non-citizens voting in Marylands elections. The group discovered that these
non-citizens were called in for Jury Duty. When the non-citizens arrived at the Jury office, they
admitted that although they were registered voters, they were not citizens. They confirmed
they were violating the law by signing a required legal document at the Jury office.
Under present Court rules and state law, the information contained in the documents
confirming a non-citizen is registered to vote is to be forwarded to the State Election Board.
Step 2 requires the Election Board to remove this individual from the voting list and provide the
information to the State Prosecutor for future action. None of these mandated actions are
being initiated at this time. This means the law is not being enforced and the violators are not
being punished. The system is broken and some public figures may need to be called on to
provide answers. Remember, at the federal level, these violations are a felony.
Multiplying the number of non-citizen voters discovered in Frederick County by the other 23
sub-divisions brings us to the conclusion that the number of non-citizen voters could be in the
thousands in Maryland. This scandal is not a Democrat, Republican or partisan issue. This
challenge is about great leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King and Susan B. Anthony who put their
lives on the line to maintain equality and integrity in the voter process.
It is hard to believe in this day and age with modern technology, the non-citizens are voting
unlawfully. It is even more difficult to believe that these unlawful voters are getting away with
this violation and are remaining on the voters rolls.
This scandal is a form of suppression of voters rights. Our votes are being cancelled or
diluted by a non-citizen who is voting at the same time.
Delegate Pat McDonough attempted to remedy this situation with legislation in the 2016
session of the Maryland General Assembly. The Delegates House Bill 1122, the Voter
Disclosure Act, would introduce a common sense chain of actions that would protect the
voting rolls of Maryland. The State Jury system would be compelled to forward any information

discovered about non-citizens voting within 5 business days to the Election Board. The Election
Board would then be required to remove the violators names from the voting lists and forward
their information to the State Prosecutor for appropriate actions. House Bill 1122 failed in
committee by a vote of 12 to 8, along partisan lines.
Delegate Pat McDonough is now demanding that several key actions must be initiated in
order to protect Maryland voters during the upcoming election.
#1. He is sending a letter of complaint to the State Prosecutors office requesting that they
summon information from all Jury clerks in every sub-division requiring them to provide any
information related to non-citizens being called to Jury Duty and rejected.
#2 In the spirit of bipartisanship, Delegate McDonough will be providing this information to
his opponent in this current election and requesting that Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger
contact Maryland U.S. Attorney Rosenstein to investigate this matter because it is a violation of
federal law. Delegate McDonough stated, I am asking Congressman Ruppersberger to join me
in a partnership to protect the voting rights of Marylands citizens.