Maryland Democrats suddenly have nothing to say. And it’s not hard to see why. The state’s own Freedom Caucus revealed that Ian Andre Roberts — the illegal alien recently arrested by ICE after attempting to flee with a loaded Glock, $3,000 in cash, and a hunting knife — is listed as an active Democratic voter in the state of Maryland.
Roberts, a Guyanese national who entered the U.S. on a student visa in 1999, has a rap sheet that includes a 2020 weapons charge and a final order of removal issued last year. Yet despite his illegal status, he not only managed to become superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district — he was also quietly listed on Maryland’s voter rolls as a Democrat.
When Fox News Digital reached out to Gov. Wes Moore, Senators Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks, and Rep. Glenn Ivey, not one offered a comment. The silence is deafening.
The State Board of Elections (SBE), confronted with Roberts’ registration, issued a lawyerly statement. They admitted Maryland law makes it “not a crime” for an ineligible individual to register to vote “unintentionally.” They also refused to confirm whether Roberts was registered, citing privacy restrictions — despite the fact that his name can be found in the state’s public voter system. The SBE even offered a sanctimonious reminder that the “right to vote is sacred,” while side-stepping the core issue: how did a noncitizen fugitive, absent from the state for years, wind up on the rolls as an active Democrat?
Delegate Matt Morgan, chair of the Maryland Freedom Caucus, isn’t buying the excuses. “Basically, the board of elections has the excuse that Mr. Roberts was registered accidentally, and therefore he didn’t break a law,” Morgan said. “This leads me to ask how many other people are accidentally automatically registered? Why was he automatically registered as a Democrat?”
That question cuts to the heart of the scandal. Automatic voter registration systems, which Maryland Democrats have championed, are vulnerable to abuse. When paired with their hostility to cooperating with federal immigration enforcement — including a letter from the SBE to the DOJ warning against sharing voter data for immigration enforcement — the optics grow even worse.
Roberts’ case exposes gaping holes in the system. A man with a deportation order, illegal weapons charges, and no legal status was not only hired to run a major school district but also held active eligibility to vote in federal, state, and local elections in Maryland.
This is not just a paperwork glitch. It is evidence that Maryland’s election integrity framework is broken — and that Democratic leadership, who have spent years opposing safeguards, own that failure.
And yet, those same leaders, who earlier this year traveled to El Salvador to advocate for an imprisoned MS-13 suspect, now fall silent when asked to explain why an illegal alien under ICE custody was an “active Democratic voter” in their state.
