Trump nominee accused of committing voter fraud

Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human services has been accused by a watchdog group of committing voter fraud.

The left-leaning watchdog group Accountable.US filed a complaint Wednesday morning with the New York State Board of Elections alleging that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. committed felony election fraud when he cast a ballot in the 2024 election, reported Politico.

"The complaint states that Kennedy voted by mail and his ballot was received by the Westchester County board of elections on Nov. 2," the website reported. "The primary residence listed on the ballot was to a home in Katonah — an address about 45 miles outside of New York City that has been central to previous court challenges from Democratic-leaning groups arguing Kennedy did not actually live there and should not be eligible to be on the ballot in the state when he ran as an independent candidate."

Kennedy ended his own long-shot White House bid last summer and threw his support behind Trump, who tapped him to lead health and human services after winning the Nov. 5 election, and the controversial nominee will meet again with senators this week to shore up support for his upcoming confirmation hearings, when his views on vaccines and other unconventional positions will face likely scrutiny.

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“Senators should [also] press Kennedy on whether he intends to play by his own rules and thumb his nose at the law as HHS Secretary, like President-elect Trump is wont to do,” the watchdog complaint states.

Kennedy has argued that he was renting a room from a childhood friend in Katonah, but that individual's spouse testified that he had spent only one night there, and New York courts ordered him removed from the state ballot — which triggered a series of appeals that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court declining in September to restore him to the ballot.

“Not actually living in New York in the eyes of the law allegedly did not stop RFK Jr. from casting his election ballot there illegally,” said Tony Carrk, the executive director of Accountable.US, in a statement.