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Judi Lynn

(162,784 posts)
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 07:31 AM Monday

Brit arrested in Florida for voting six times in elections since 2000, authorities allege


‘Wightman is an illegal alien from the United Kingdom’, said FDLE officials

Madeline Sherratt
Monday 27 January 2025 05:41 EST

A British pensioner is in custody in Florida accused of illegally voting six times in elections over three years, authorities in the Sunshine State allege.

James Ross Wightman, 65, a resident of glamorous Miami Beach, voted in both local and national elections in 2022, 2023, and 2024 before being arrested in Miami Beach Friday, according to a release from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. It’s not clear for how the elderly man voted for.

Wightman, who authorities said was an “illegal alien” from the UK, was caught just as President Donald Trump signed an executive order “that suspends [the] physical entry of aliens [illegal immigrants] engaged in an invasion of the United States through the southern border”, as per The White House.

The Brit has a colorful track record, as authorities shared he was voluntarily deported from the U.S. in 1989 for a drug offense arrest in Hawaii and was found to have overstayed on his visitor visa.

More:
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/british-man-arrested-florida-illegal-voting-b2686837.html
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Brit arrested in Florida for voting six times in elections since 2000, authorities allege (Original Post) Judi Lynn Monday OP
Where's ICE? When is he being deported? sinkingfeeling Monday #1
Not in Florida? Not with our strong voter ID laws. Not possible. In It to Win It Monday #2
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