The key facts
- Russian national Inna Henry has been charged with one count of illegal voting by a foreign national
- In total, charges have been brought against nine Pennsylvania residents without US citizenship
- US authorities previously reported identifying about 250,000 records of suspected registration of non-citizens on the voter rolls of four states
Charges against a Russian woman
The federal prosecutor's office in Pennsylvania announced that 52-year-old Russian national Inna Henry faces up to a year in prison for allegedly voting illegally in US elections. According to investigators, the woman voted without US citizenship. Life.ru reported this, citing the prosecutor's office.
Details of the case
Henry lives in Harrisburg and holds a green card allowing her to reside permanently in the US. According to investigators, she exercised the right to vote in the 2022 and 2024 general elections without obtaining American citizenship. She has been charged with one count of illegal voting by a foreign national; if convicted, she faces up to a year in prison, a fine, or both penalties simultaneously.
Scope of the case and checks
According to the prosecutor's office, charges in the case have been brought against a total of nine Pennsylvania residents who are not US citizens — among them natives of Poland, Cuba, Israel, Kenya, Greece, and the Netherlands. The investigation was conducted by a unit of the US Department of Homeland Security.
Context of voter roll checks
Earlier, as Life.ru reported, US authorities identified about 250,000 records of suspected registration of non-citizens on the voter rolls of four states. According to Homeland Security Secretary Marcwayne Mallin, another 28,000 such cases were discovered in cooperation with state authorities. The review also identified about 400,000 deceased people who remained on the voter registries; the department demanded that states conduct additional verification of this information.
Significance of the case
The case shows that US authorities are moving from mass checks of voter registries to specific criminal charges: the Department of Homeland Security investigation ended with the prosecution of nine people in a single state. For green card holders who are not citizens, including Henry, the practical consequence is the risk of up to a year in prison and a fine for voting. At the same time, these are charges that have not yet been proven in court, and the scale of the problem according to the department's data (hundreds of thousands of disputed records) has not yet been confirmed by court rulings.
