Watchdog groups seeks investigation into RFK Jr. for voting from a ‘sham’ address

By MICHAEL HILL

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York election officers are being urged to analyze whether or not Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dedicated voter fraud by casting his November poll from a discredited tackle, as the previous impartial presidential candidate seeks Senate affirmation for a prime public well being position within the Trump administration.

Accountable.US, a progressive watchdog group, this week requested the state Division of Election Legislation Enforcement to find out whether or not Kennedy dedicated any felony by utilizing an tackle in New York Metropolis’s well-to-do suburbs to vote by mail within the final election.

A state decide final summer season knocked Kennedy off the presidential poll in New York after discovering the rented bed room in Katonah he claimed as his residence was a “sham” tackle. The decide stated proof confirmed the scion of the famed Democratic political dynasty really resided in California, the place he has a house along with his spouse, “Curb Your Enthusiasm” actor Cheryl Hines.

Kennedy unsuccessfully appealed the decide’s ruling.

The grievance filed with the elections workplace stated public information present Kennedy was registered to vote final November on the identical tackle the decide invalidated and that he voted by mail.

“Because the defendant on this case, Mr. Kennedy was clearly conscious of the verdicts holding that he was not a authorized resident of this Katonah tackle. Regardless of this undisputable information, Mr. Kennedy voted from the property anyway,” based on the grievance dated Monday.

Kennedy is now President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to guide the Division of Well being and Human Companies. He’s anticipated to face powerful questioning for selling anti-vaccine views.

An electronic mail looking for remark was despatched Thursday to New York’s election enforcement division.

A name was made to Trump’s transition workforce and a textual content was despatched to RFK Jr.’s former marketing campaign spokesperson additionally looking for remark.

Kennedy testified within the preliminary case that he moved to California a decade in the past so he might be along with his spouse, and that he all the time deliberate to return to New York. He stated he rented a room in a buddy’s dwelling in Katonah, about 40 miles (65 kilometers) north of Midtown Manhattan, although had solely slept in that room as soon as attributable to his fixed marketing campaign journey.

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