Three aliens – including one living in Dawsonville – face federal charges for allegedly voting illegally in recent federal elections in north Georgia.
Pauline Lewis, 65, is charged with voting by absentee ballot in the November 5, 2024, January 5, 2021, and November 3, 2020, federal elections. Lewis is a citizen of Antigua and Barbuda who entered the U.S. on a student visa in 1979 and remained in the country but never applied to become a U.S. citizen.
Gabriel Covarrubias, 44, an alien residing in Lawrenceville, is alleged to have voted in person using a false name in the November 5, 2024, election. Covarrubias is a citizen of Mexico who falsely claimed in a U.S. passport application submitted in March 2023 that he had a different name and was born in Puerto Rico. He is charged with making a false statement on a passport application and voting as a non-citizen in a federal election.
Analiea Milliscent Eccles, 43, an alien residing in Morrow, allegedly voted nine times between 2008 and 2024. She isa citizen of Venezuela who entered the U.S. on a temporary visitor visa in 1991 and remained in the country, applying for and receiving Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status in 2013. Although she reportedly sought to renew that status earlier this year, she has never applied to become a U.S. citizen. Eccles is charged with voting as a non-citizen in a federal election and making a false claim of U.S. citizenship to vote in an election.