Jose “Joe” Ceballos, newly reelected mayor of a tiny Coldwater, Kansas, is facing six criminal counts related to voter fraud for allegedly voting in the state since 2022 despite being a Mexican citizen.
State Attorney General Kris Kobach filed the charges Wednesday, the day after Ceballos was reelected in the small town in southwestern Kansas.
“In Kansas, it is against the law to vote if you are not a U.S. citizen,” Kobach said in a statement. “We allege that Mr. Ceballos did it multiple times.”
Although the criminal indictment only alleges voter fraud since 2022, Kobach said the mayor had been registered to vote before then….