For The Enjoyer
How did a Chinese citizen come to vote in the Nov. 5 election? Same-day voter registration, lies on his paperwork, and a student ID card, Michigan Enjoyer can report exclusively.
In Michigan, voters who don’t show ID can sign a form attesting that they are who they claim to be. The University of Michigan student, Haoxiang Gao, signed the form.
On Sunday, Oct. 27, Gao registered to vote, and voted.
Then he called the Ann Arbor city clerk’s office and asked about the rights of green-card holders to vote. The clerk’s office advised him there are no rights, that people with green cards can’t vote. Gao told the clerk’s office he had heard of someone doing this at U‑M.
When the clerk’s office called the voting site at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, workers there said nobody had voted using a green card. They had used driver’s licenses, passports, or MCards, the U‑M student ID. But no green cards.
Gao called back 20 minutes later, Beaudry wrote, and admitted that he was the person who voted improperly. To prove local residency, Gao had used his MCard and his directory entry in Wolverine Access, an online resource portal.
