Illegal Immigrant Arrested for Allegedly Voting in 5 Presidential Elections

The Department of Justice has busted an illegal immigrant who is accused of voting in five presidential general elections since 2008.

Mahady Sacko, 50, was arrested and charged on March 5 with fraudulent voting in the 2024 federal election by an illegal immigrant, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

“In this case, Mahady Sacko was not a U.S. citizen, lied about being a U.S. citizen in order to register to vote, and therefore cast a fraudulent ballot under both federal and state law … [on] November 5, 2024,” according to an affidavit submitted by a special agent who was assigned to the FBI’s Philadelphia Field Office.

Sacko allegedly voted in the 2008 general election, the 2012 general election, the 2016 primary election, the 2016 general election, the 2020 primary election, the 2020 general election, and the 2024 general election.

The criminal complaint filed in court against Sacko does not reveal which candidates he allegedly voted for during the elections.

“SACKO’s illegal conduct in 2024 was not an isolated incident but a pattern of illegal voting over the years by an alien under active immigration supervision,” the complaint states.

The FBI said that after it reviewed data from the Philadelphia City Commissioners and the Pennsylvania Department of State, it discovered that Sacko had been registered as an active voter in Pennsylvania for more than two decades.

“SACKO initially registered to vote on January 24, 2005,” the FBI alleged in court documents.

“His current registration information includes his actual date of birth, a social security number ending in 5951, a driver’s license number ending in 390, his current phone number, and his home address. All of this information is consistent with the actual known biographical information for SACKO.”

Sacko’s legal team did not respond to a request for comment.

Federal officials said Sacko is a native and citizen of Mauritania, which is a country in northwest Africa.

Sacko first arrived in the United States when he flew to Miami in 1998.

He received a notice to appear for removal in January 1999, and an immigration judge ordered him to leave the United States in June 2000. He challenged through the Board of Immigration Appeals and lost.

Instead of flying back to Mauritania, as ordered by the immigration judge, he stayed in the United States, and did not have a current passport at the time of his arrest in January 2007, court documents alleged.

Court documents state that Sacko had multiple check-ins with Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities between 2011 and 2025 while he was voting in federal elections.