A foreign national has pleaded guilty to submitting more than 100 fraudulent voter registration applications in Florida, the Justice Department announced.

“United States Attorney Gregory W. Kehoe announces that Sanjar Jamilov (32, Uzbekistan) has pleaded guilty to conspiring to submit fraudulent voter registrations. Jamilov faces a maximum penalty of 5 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Middle District of Florida stated.

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From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Middle District of Florida:

According to the plea agreement, Dmitry Shushlebin (45, Russia) hired Jamilov and others to submit more than 100 fraudulent voter registration applications to the Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections in February and March 2023. These applications were submitted in names other than their own, in envelopes with return and address labels that were identically formatted, including containing the same typographical error, and bore various indicia of fraud including, among other things, repeating dates of birth and addresses and nearly sequential Social Security numbers. Change of address forms were also submitted to the U.S. Postal Service to route mail to the names and addresses on the fraudulent applications to three locations that Shushlebin and Jamilov allegedly controlled. The Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections was able to detect the fraud and rejected the fraudulent applications.

Dmitry Shushlebin has been charged for his alleged role in this case. The case is currently pending.

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Oh, look, Dems. A noncitizen engaged in voter registration fraud. Who’d a thunk it?!

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Miami Herald reports:

Jamilov, a citizen of Uzbekistan, had his plea hearing at the Tampa federal courthouse on April 24, court records show.

His criminal defense attorney, David Haas, told McClatchy News in an emailed statement on April 30 that Jamilov “is deeply remorseful for the limited role that he played in the scheme perpetrated by Mr. Shushlebin.”

Shushlebin, 45, and Jamilov were charged in a seven-count indictment in connection with fake voter registrations submitted to the Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections in February and March of 2023, according to court documents.

The elections supervisor denied the registrations, which had the identities of various ”fictitious” individuals, after realizing the information provided was fraudulent, prosecutors say.

Haas told McClatchy News that “the creation of these identities was never intended to be used for voting or for influencing any election.”

Following the indictment, Shushlebin pleaded not guilty to all counts against him, court records show.