How A Democrat Donor-Led Voting Group Allegedly Pushed A Chinese National To Cast His Ballot

When Haoxiang Gao saw a crowd gathered at the University of Michigan’s first election center, a contractor handed him a subscription type, according to documents obtained by The Federalist. In only minutes, he allegedly registered and voted improperly. &nbsp,

Gao is a green card holder who was studying at UM, as The Federalist originally reported. He reportedly cast his vote on Oct. 27 and presently faces two misdemeanor expenses: false shouting to register to vote and trying to vote as an unfit voter. According to records obtained by The Federalist, a worker at the voting center — run by Democrat donors — encouraged Gao to vote.

Gao registered and voted from a “get out the vote” site at the University of Michigan Museum of Art ( UMMA ), according to The Detroit News. As The College Fix recently reported, the core — which served as a “one-stop-shop” for boosting voter participation on campus — was run by Democrat sponsors. &nbsp,

In a written, first-person account of what happened, Gao— who goes by” Neil”— wrote that he and his companion were passing the packed voting place and stopped by “out of curiosity” .&nbsp,

” It’s near election and you get asked to vote by individuals everywhere you go on the street”, Gao wrote. ” A girl asked me if I am here to register or to vote, before I said anything and was still figuring out what is the connection between registering and voting, she passed me a kind and a pencil. I took it inevitably without asking myself what I am doing, and start filling out the form”.

Gao’s companion, a Taiwanese rookie named Nan Xiang, confirmed that individuals were passing out voting membership applications, according to a police report. &nbsp,

” Nan told the personnel that he is an international student and is not able to vote. Nan was surprised that the people did not even question if he was a United States citizen prior to giving him the Michigan Voter Registration Application”, wrote UM Police Sgt. Ryan Cavanaugh in a document. ” Neil began to fill out the State of Michigan Voter Registration Application as he stood next to him” .&nbsp,

Xiang said Gao had mentioned voting advance, according to the report. According to Gao’s consideration, he saw the area on the types asking whether or not he was a member, and past experience led him to believe” I am a member, and I may vote”, as the Michigan Enjoyer reported.

A version of the voter registration kind notes “MCard Wolverine Access” on the upper-left spot, as Gao used a student recognition to meet state Identification requirements. &nbsp,

For the Taiwanese nationwide, election was a “quick” 15-minute work, according to his accounts. But after he went up to his bedroom, he began to second-guess his steps. His companion told Cavanaugh that after arriving in the dorm room, Gao “posted things on a Chinese software” about voting — and therefore learned it was unlawful for a green card holder to vote.

Gao reported himself to Ann Arbor police, UM police, and the city clerk’s office. According to a university report, he also tried calling the voting station, which” said there was nothing they could do” but report the illegal voting. &nbsp,

Days afterward, Gao considered trying to cancel his voter registration, according to his account. But he was only removed from Michigan’s voter rolls by February this year, according to Qualified Voter File data from Check My Vote Co-Founder Phani Mantravadi— even though The Federalist exposed this issue in December. &nbsp,

A Leftist Vote Mill

Hannah Smotrich and Stephanie Rowden, associate professors at the Stamps School of Art and Design, ran the on-campus “election hub” at UMMA where Gao reportedly voted. Together, they have given more than$ 17, 000 total to Democrats and leftist causes, according to OpenSecrets data.

Smotrich has given more than$ 12, 000 to Democrats and leftist groups, including Sen. Elissa Slotkin, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, Sen. Raphael Warnock, and former President Joe Biden since 2020. And since 2017, Rowden has given more than$ 1, 800 to such causes, including Slotkin and the left-wing group Voters Not Politicians. &nbsp,

The Democrat donors ‘ group, the supposedly nonpartisan Creative Campus Voting Project, partnered with the Ann Arbor city clerk and UMICH Votes to operate the voting station that enabled Gao to vote. Such get-out-the-vote groups often target likely-Democrat voters, and Pew Research found last year that 66 percent of college-aged voters leaned Democrat and just 34 percent leaned Republican. &nbsp,

Creative Campus Voting Project has hosted various get-out-the-vote campaigns and “election hubs” in the past, starting with a 2018 project called” Voting is Sexy“. The project referred students to leftist group Vote411, which harvests data for left-wing groups, as The Federalist reported. &nbsp,

The Creative Campus Voting Project registered more than 9, 300 voters and captured more than 13, 000 ballots in 2020 and 2022, and nearly 15, 000 votes in 2024, according to its website.

Leftists have repeatedly taken advantage of supposedly nonpartisan get-out-the-vote activities. Perhaps the most prominent example is the” Zuckbucks” scandal of 2020, when Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shuttled nearly$ 350 million through leftist nonprofits to election offices to boost Democrat turnout. In 2024, then-President Joe Biden co-opted federal agencies to engage in a similar effort, which took the nickname” Bidenbucks“. The latest effort was ultimately not enough to overcome now-President Donald Trump’s landslide victory. &nbsp,

Democrats routinely enable noncitizen voting — like in Oregon, where the DMV registered thousands of voters of unknown citizenship, as The Federalist previously reported. They also constantly oppose voter ID laws, claiming noncitizen voting doesn’t really happen that often. Should it come as a surprise, then, that this Democrat donor-led get-out-the-vote operation apparently helped a Chinese national vote? &nbsp,

Logan Washburn is a staff writer covering election integrity. He is a spring 2025 fellow of The College Fix. He graduated from Hillsdale College, served as Christopher Rufo’s editorial assistant, and has bylines in The Wall Street Journal, The Tennessean, and The Daily Caller. Logan is from Central Oregon but now lives in rural Michigan.

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