More people in California accused of voter fraud

A couple more people are accused of voter fraud in California. The Trump administration believes there could be thousands of others. Fox 11's Ross Palumbo caught up with one of the people accused. He's live now in Woodland Hills with the interview you'll see only on Fox LA. Ross? I'm getting intense. 24 hours left in this election and we have seen a steady stream of people driving in. Woodland Hills Library to drop off their ballots right here in this box. So many people working hard, even at this hour, to get out the votes. There are some people though that are working to get out the voters. Today, U.S. Attorney Bill Asayli arresting six more people. That now brings a grand total to 34 people arrested for voter fraud. Now he says they are all non-citizens who voted illegally in prior elections. We caught up with one of those accused and he says tonight he's just confused. Mr. Nixodo illegally voted twice in 2024, casting ballots in both the presidential primary and general elections. Before doing so, he registered to vote and certified that he was a United States citizen. Have you voted in a prior election here in the United States? No. You've never voted? Actually, I don't have any understanding about what they tell me, what the allegations. Have you ever filled them out or voted? I'm not sure. I don't know. I didn't What this paper is and the DMV sent it to my house. I didn't know that what is this. Maybe I fill it. I don't know. I don't know that if I fill it or not. You don't remember if you filled out a ballot for an election here? I don't remember. Well, you can see right there. He is very confused. He was arrested. Today, his first day in court is not for a month, so of course he has been not convicted of any crime yet. Democrats say this is all, Christine and Laura, voter intimidation. And the Supreme Court today actually shot down the Trump administration's attempt to hold off on those 20,000 ballots we've been talking about for a few days now. You'll remember this case originally went to the 9th District Court in San Francisco. And the Trump administration lost there. Today, they lost in the Supreme Court. So it looks like those 20,000 ballots that have been in question will all be counted tomorrow after the polls close at 8 p.m. Well, Ross, isn't it clear in the law that it's the states that actually watch over the elections, not the federal government? You know, Laura, you're absolutely right. It's actually in the Constitution verbatim. It's one of the few things that the Constitution is explicit about. And that's why the administration lost at the federal court and at the Supreme Court today. There really seems to be very little basis for holding these 20,000 votes. Remember, the Trump administration had claimed that they had some sort of evidence that the 20,000 contained votes from non-citizens. But in front of the courts... They've never really been to explain exactly how they came up with that number, how they determined which ballots were allegedly fraudulent, and that's precisely why they lost that case. So the gentleman you interviewed, does he have a lawyer, a representation, or is he trying to just navigate this himself? Well, he's trying to navigate at the moment himself, but he's getting an attorney, he says. You know, he admits that as a new immigrant to this country, when he got his driver's license about five years ago, that he may have checked. The voter motor box there where you get a ballot sent to your address, you can register to vote all at once. That's designed for convenience for all Californians and it's helped more people get out to the polls. He believes that he may have done that, not understanding completely what he was doing. He even admits at one point that some documents did come to his house, but he wasn't sure exactly what they were. He didn't know whether it was a ballot or whether it was more information being requested from the DMV. That's what he says. So he seems completely unsure, as you just saw, whether he allegedly voted or not. He doesn't believe in the end that he actually cast a ballot for anyone. He believes that maybe the worst thing he possibly did was do the automatic registration. But he's not even sure of that, Laura and Christine, because he says there's a major language barrier. And when he first got here is when he signed those documents and checked that box. So as you heard, The U.S. attorney said that he voted illegally, though, in the 2024 election some two years ago. So it remains really unclear exactly what happened there. Well, this is the second person we've interviewed who's been facing this. It's very interesting to hear their backstories and what they're saying about it. All right. Thanks so much.