New York state woman charged with voting illegally says she recently learned she wasn’t a citizen

An upstate New York woman who says she only recently learned she wasn't born in the U.S. has been charged with voting illegally, one of the latest arrests touted by the Trump administration as it hunts for noncitizen voters ahead of the midterm elections. Marva Cook was adopted as a toddler and had always assumed she was a U.S. citizen, she told Homeland Security investigators earlier this month, according to the criminal complaint. READ MORE: DOJ orders some California counties to set aside ballots from suspected noncitizens But in searching for her biological mother, the 66-year-old Syracuse resident, who starred on Syracuse University's women's basketball team decades ago, said she discovered she had a German birth certificate. Federal prosecutors say Cook has had a green card for several years now, but she still cast ballots in recent elections despite not having citizenship. She faces a single federal charge of voting by an alien stemming from her vote in the 2022 midterms.

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