Ian Andre Roberts, the fired Des Moines, Iowa, schools superintendent whom the feds say is in the country illegally, twice claimed to be a citizen when he registered to vote in Maryland.

Mr. Roberts checked the “Yes” box on the citizenship question in his 2011 registration, and selected “Yes” when he completed an electronic registration five years later, according to documents obtained by the Public Interest Legal Foundation.

In fact, Homeland Security says, Mr. Roberts is in the country illegally and has never held citizenship, making him ineligible to vote in federal elections.

Election officials had previously released versions of the forms with Mr. Roberts’ citizenship answers redacted. PILF prodded Prince George’s County, where Mr. Roberts was registered, and the county coughed up the unredacted version Monday. PILF shared the documents with The Washington Times.

The case highlights a major problem with some states’ registration systems: They rely on would-be voters to be honest about their citizenship status.

Logan Churchwell, PILF’s research director, said the state could have avoided the issue by using the federal government’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements program, which could have flagged Mr. Roberts’ noncitizen status.

“Election office staffers in Prince George’s County had no option but to accept Mr. Roberts’ claims to U.S. citizenship as true without a tool like SAVE,” he said in a letter to the State Board of Elections. “It’s simply unacceptable to millions of Americans for this pattern to repeat.”

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Mr. Roberts became a focal point for questions after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers tracked him down in September in Iowa, where he was the superintendent of public schools in Des Moines.

ICE said he lacked legal status and officers found him in possession of guns in his vehicle and home when they finally caught up with him. His arrest produced an initial outcry from immigrant rights advocates, but as details emerged suggesting Mr. Roberts had repeatedly misled about his status, those defendants were largely silenced.

He now faces federal charges for lying about his legal status on his I-9 work authorization form, filled out for the superintendent’s job. He also faces a federal gun charge.

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Records show Mr. Roberts twice filled out forms to register to vote in Maryland. One was a registration card in December 2011. His voter record indicates he was moved to the state’s inactive voter rolls in 2016.

He submitted an electronic registration in December of that year, and in 2017, was moved back to the active list. The place of registration is still redacted from the documents, but the State Board of Elections hinted earlier this year that it was done at a motor vehicle office.

Records show election officials processed and mailed absentee ballots for Mr. Roberts’ address on file, even after he was living and working in other states — including Iowa.

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