Pakistanis Who’ve Never Set Foot In America Voted In U.s. Elections

A captain with the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office publicly confirmed what voters have long suspected: California’s election system allows people outside the United States to register and vote — including individuals in Pakistan.

Speaking at a September 2025 press conference, the sheriff’s captain said the system is riddled with flaws. “You’re able to register and cast a vote even if you don’t live in the country,” he explained, citing a case involving a voter whose brother resides in Pakistan. Investigators identified two or three additional voters outside the country, along with others living outside the district, who were nonetheless on the rolls.

ELECTION FRAUD ALLEGED: A California sheriff says investigators found people from Pakistan and overseas casting ballots.

California’s voter system uses an “honor system” — no citizenship checks, just a checkbox, with ballots mailed automatically.pic.twitter.com/SzDoprnnqG

— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) January 23, 2026

The problem, the captain said, is structural. California’s online voter registration operates on an honor system. Anyone can enter information, check a box swearing they’re telling the truth, and—presto—receive confirmation from the California Secretary of State. Once on the rolls, ballots are automatically mailed for every election. “We found that a little bit problematic,” he said. That’s an understatement.

This wasn’t theoretical. In San Joaquin County, the scheme played out in real life. Former Lodi City Council member Shakir Khan pleaded no contest in 2024 to dozens of felony charges tied to election fraud. Investigators found 41 completed mail-in ballots at his home and roughly 70 voter registrations linked to his address, phone, or email—an absurd number for a single household. Some registrations were tied to individuals not living in the United States, including at least one linked to Pakistan.

Khan targeted vulnerable members of the local Pakistani immigrant community—pressuring them, forging signatures, filling out ballots, and submitting fraudulent registrations. Some victims didn’t even know they had “voted.”

This is not a conspiracy theory. It’s sworn law-enforcement testimony, felony convictions, and a system that invites abuse. When ballots are mailed automatically and verification is optional, the fraud isn’t accidental — it’s baked in.

Voter fraud is so easy in California that a Pakistani man who was elected to City Council registered dozens of people to vote at his own address—including relatives who lived in Pakistan

The fraud was only caught incidentally during an unrelated illegal gambling investigation https://t.co/LXUImu9sUw pic.twitter.com/iRlQKKvxbC

— skepticalifornia (@skepticaliblog) May 23, 2025

Chat GBT has this:

• The case centers on San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office and a local election-fraud prosecution, not a hypothetical or online rumor.

• In 2023, Sheriff Patrick Withrow announced the arrest and charging of Shakir Khan, who won a Lodi City Council seat in 2020 by just 282 votes.

• Investigators uncovered:

  • 41 sealed, completed mail-in ballots at Khan’s residence

  • ~70–71 voter registrations tied to his address, phone number, or email

  • Registrations far exceeding any normal household pattern

• Sheriff’s investigators stated that some registrations involved individuals not living in the United States, including at least one family-linked case involving Pakistan. This is the factual basis for the “Pakistan vote” claim.

• Khan was charged with dozens of felonies, including:

  • Fraudulent voter registration

  • Procuring and assisting unqualified voters

  • Submitting false nomination papers

  • Aiding and abetting fraudulent voting

• In early 2024, Khan pleaded no contest, resigned his seat, and faced roughly 77 criminal charges across election fraud and related crimes.

• Separately — and critically — a Sheriff’s captain publicly explained that California’s online voter registration system functions as an honor system, where checking a box is enough to be placed on the rolls and receive ballots by mail, creating systemic vulnerability.

Bottom line:
This is not a theory about foreign elections influencing California. It is a documented local election-fraud case, with law-enforcement testimony, physical ballots, criminal pleas, and acknowledged systemic flaws — including registrations tied to individuals outside the U.S., including Pakistan.

What remains unresolved — and what law enforcement has explicitly warned about — is how many similar cases go undetected in a system built on self-attestation and automatic ballot distribution.