Watchdog group accuses RFK Jr of voter fraud
Does Kennedy also plan to ‘thumb has nose at the law’ as Trump’s secretary of Health and Human Services? asked the head of the organization
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Your support makes all the difference.The watchdog group Accountable.US filed a complaint Wednesday accusing RFK Jr. of voter fraud, a potential felony, when he cast his ballot in the 2024 presidential election.
The complaint comes just as the former presidential candidate is set to meet this week with senators ahead of his confirmation hearings to become President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head Health and Human Services (HHS).
“If RFK Jr. is so dismissive of the law in his personal matters, how can he be trusted to properly apply the law when it comes to our public health?” Accountble.US Executive Director Tony Clare asked in a statement. “Senators should press Kennedy on whether he intends to play by his own rules and thumb his nose at the law as HHS secretary.”
The complaint against Kennedy, filed with the New York State Board of Elections, calls on the agency’s Division of Election Law Enforcement to investigate Kennedy for “registering for and voting” from a “New York residence at which he does not legally reside.”
Accountable.US states in the filing that Kennedy sent his vote by mail to the Westchester County (New York) Board of Elections, and listed an address in Katonah, New York as his primary residence.
Kennedy’s lawyers have yet to comment on the complaint.
The issue of Kennedy’s actual address was “recently litigated” in New York, and not in his favor, Accountable.US noted in the complaint.
Kennedy’s primary residence claim was also challenged last year when he was fighting to stay on the state’s ballot, even though he had suspended his presidential campaign and endorsed Trump. That complaint, by Super PAC Clear Choice Action, argued that Kennedy, who is married to “Curb Your Enthusiasm” actress Cheryl Hines, lived in California.
Kennedy claimed then that he was renting a room from a friend in Katonah, though the friend’s wife testified that he only spent a single night in the home, according to court records.
Nevertheless, Kennedy declared in a court filing: “I am, at the very fiber of my being, a New Yorker.”
Yet the Albany Supreme Court found last August that RFK Jr. did not legally reside at the Katonah address he listed on the paperwork to appear on the ballot and was removed. The decision was upheld all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The address was the same one Kennedy used again as his primary address months later to vote in the presidential election, Accountable. US argued.
Kennedy “knowingly voted from an address several New York courts had already determined was not his legal residence,” and “blatantly” violated election laws, stated the Accountable.US complaint.
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