Maryland County Heavily Revises Illegal Alien Voter Registration Documents

A legal battle is brewing over a Maryland county board of elections’ heavy redactions to the voter registration records of an illegal immigrant who was superintendent of Iowa’s largest school system until he was arrested by federal authorities this year, Fox News Digital has learned.

“It was shocking,” Justin Riemer, CEO and president of the conservative legal group Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (RITE), told Fox News Digital in a Zoom interview Friday. “When I saw the news reports and they showed screenshots of the records requests with all this information redacted, I was just shocked.”

Riemer was reacting to the Prince George’s County Board of Elections’ recent release of voter registration materials belonging to illegal alien Ian Andre Roberts, which included barring Roberts’ gender, whether he checked the citizenship box, his date of birth and other information. The Election Lawyer represents RITE and the conservative research group American Accountability Foundation (AAF) in their efforts to receive voter registration materials with fewer redactions.

Roberts, a native of Guyana who first entered the United States in 1994, was working as superintendent of the Des Moines Public School District when Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested him in September. Roberts was not legally allowed to work in the country after a work authorization card expired in 2020, Fox News Digital previously reported.

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Former Des Moines Superintendent Ian Andre Roberts arrested by ICE in September. (Polk County Sheriff)

The arrest of an illegal immigrant in such a prestigious position shocked conservatives and others. Additional details about his lengthy criminal record surfaced as journalists and other investigators looked into his story. It was quickly discovered that he was a registered Democratic voter in Maryland, where he previously lived, and had been convicted of reckless driving in 2012, the Department of Homeland Security reported in October.

The Maryland State Board of Elections previously said Roberts did not vote in the election.

“I’m an election law expert, not an immigration expert, but it doesn’t take one to see how broken the system is,” Riemer told Fox Digital. “He’s facing several criminal charges. He’s worked in several school districts where, if they had done the proper citizenship and work authorization checks, this should have been detected. It’s truly amazing how this guy has managed to travel across the country, working in school districts where he’s around kids.”

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As concern grew around Roberts, the American Accountability Foundation filed a public records request with Prince George’s County seeking his voter registration application. The county elections board granted the request but redacted key information, sparking what could turn into a legal showdown.

“The American Accountability Foundation called out the county and said, ‘…you are not allowed to redact this information,'” Riemer said, adding that it is understandable for the county to redact information such as a person’s Social Security number or driver’s license number, but not a person’s gender or whether they responded affirmatively that they are a U.S. citizen.

RITE released copies of the redacted documents, which show 18 black boxes blocking information on just two pages of documents. Riemer explained that the request was made under the National Voter Registration Act – a federal law that streamlines voter registration processes when an eligible person renews their driver’s license – which includes a provision allowing public access to these records.

Riemer sent a letter to the Prince George’s County Board of Elections on Tuesday demanding that the county return records to its clients with fewer redactions as allowed by law. The elections attorney, who previously served as a senior adviser to the Republican National Committee, gave the county board until Dec. 1, while noting that legal action could occur in the future if the elections board does not comply.

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Republicans say illegal alien Ian Andre Roberts being registered to vote in Maryland raises serious concerns about the state’s voting processes. (Keith Srakocic/AP Photo and ICE)

“Please provide the records to my clients no later than Monday, December 1, 2025. If you redact or withhold any portion of the requested records beyond the limited exceptions above, we will immediately respond to written notice of your violation of 52 USC § 20507(i). If you do not cure this violation within 90 days, my clients will sue you in the federal district court of Maryland and will be paid reasonable attorneys’ fees, litigation costs and other costs,” Riemer’s letter. to the county the board of elections said.

Riemer said he has not yet heard from the board of elections and speculated that the county board is talking with the state board of elections and the state attorney general’s office about next steps.

“If they noticed that restoring integrity and confidence in elections was part of this effort to get this information, they should have done so, because we sued Maryland last year for violating the National Voter Registration Act for restricting public access to registration records, just like they are doing here and won that lawsuit in March. And so they continually resort to these practices that are not transparent, that’s not what federal law requires, that is not what the public deserves,” he added.

Fox News Digital reached out to the Prince George’s County Board of Elections Friday afternoon for comment on the letter and the deletions, but did not immediately receive a response.

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Roberts was criminally charged Oct. 2 with being an illegal alien in possession of firearms, according to DHS. (John Moore/Getty Images)

Riemer said the case is one of several that show concern over noncitizens filling voter roles is not “political theater” as Democrats have claimed amid conservatives rallying behind stricter voter integrity laws nationwide.

“We know it’s happening in the thousands. Oregon, for example, reported registering a few thousand non-citizens through their DMV,” he said.

Roberts was taken into the custody of U.S. Marshals after his arrest in September and is expected to face criminal charges, DHS announced in October. The federal agency made public the suspect’s long history of run-ins with the law dating back to 1996, when he was charged with criminal possession of narcotics with intent to sell in New York, a third-degree unauthorized use of a vehicle charge in Queens, New York, in 1998 that was later dropped, and a 2012 conviction for reckless driving in Maryland.

Most recently, Roberts was indicted in 2020 for second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and other weapons-related charges, as well as a 2022 conviction for unlawful possession of a loaded firearm in Pennsylvania.

Roberts also faces charges related to his arrest in September, which included his attempt to flee law enforcement, according to DHS. At the time of his arrest, he was in possession of $3,000 in cash, a Glock 9mm pistol and a hunting knife. Roberts was criminally charged Oct. 2 with being an illegal alien in possession of firearms, according to DHS.

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The Iowa Board of Educational Examiners revoked Roberts’ license after his arrest and he is no longer authorized to serve as a superintendent in the state.