How a Jamaican citizen got away with voting in NC

Damien Omar Sullivan admitted in court that he registered to vote at DMV, using his Jamaican passport as ID and later voted while not a US citizen, but was acquitted by Judge Ken Crow, over the question of intent.

 

May 24, 2016 (Carthage, NC)–Damien Omar Sullivan was a Jamaican citizen in 2005, when he registered to vote in Aberdeen, NC and then voted in 2008’s primary and general elections; but according to court records of his Feb, 2016 bench trial, the charges were dismissed.

The surprising dismissal came, in part, because a DMV employee had been the person who asked Sullivan if he “wished to register to vote,” and this was immediately after issuing him a Legal Presence” (LP) driver’s license. He even used his official Jamaican passport to confirm his identity, but nobody at DMV seemed to care about election law.

Sullivan’s illegal status was first discovered during a 2011 State Board of Elections audit of DMV records, reported by VIP yesterday (linked here).

The law seems clear on the matter, since NCGS § 163-275 (18) declares it a felony, “[f]or any person, knowing that a person is not a citizen of the United States, to instruct or coerce that person to register to vote or to vote.”

But, while it’s a felony for anybody to help him get registered and it’s a felony for him to vote, his admission of those facts was not enough evidence for the (now) retired Judge Ken Crow to allow a full hearing on the evidence.

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Like a casino, the game is rigged and the “house” always wins.

David DeGerolamo

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HippocratesIsDead
8 years ago

The lampposts and overpasses will hopefully be covered up soon….

Rani
Rani
8 years ago

I’m a Jamaican who has watched the USA CIA use Jamaica as a Petri Dish with importation of guns, child sex, political, violence and culturing ignorance and illiteracy. I’m not surprised that we are being used here too. My old country is your country in the future. American Government World Bank and the IMF turned my island into a place of horror.

When Marcus Garvey and Eric Williams warned people of African descent to beware of the propaganda in the USA we didn’t listen.

This Jamaican man shows the voting systems to be what it is. The British won, The Nazi won and the wolves are in charge of the sheep and the shepherd.