Chinese Student Charged With Illegally Voting in 2024 Election

Federal prosecutors filed a criminal complaint on June 3, charging Chinese student Haoxiang Gao with illegally voting in the 2024 presidential election. Michigan officials had charged Gao for casting an illegal vote last year, after he approached a city clerk and tried to retract his ballot. They said Gao was studying at the University of Michigan and made a false affidavit that he had U.S. citizenship when registering for early voting in Ann Arbor, Michigan. State officials said Gao’s vote had already been tabulated and it was impossible to retract. The news drew criticism of the university’s partnership with China from Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), who chairs the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party. The committee had previously released a report naming the University of Michigan as one of the public universities that has a partnership with a Chinese university, and the lawmaker had called on the university to end the partnership. The university wrote in a letter to the lawmakers committee in January that it was ending its joint program with China’s Shanghai Jiao Tong University....