The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released the voter registration documents that show a small-town mayor in Kansas lied when he claimed to be a U.S. citizen.
Last week, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach charged Coldwater Mayor-elect Jose Ceballos with voter fraud. Elected mayor with more than 80 percent of the vote, Ceballos is not a citizen, yet claimed he was on forms. He voted in three elections, Kobach alleged.
The documents appear at the DHS website.
“Joe” Ceballos
The end of Ceballos’ illegal career in politics began when Kansas prosecutors filed a criminal complaint on November 5.
On August 6, 2024; November 7, 2023; and November 8, 2022, the complaint alleges, Mexican citizen Ceballos “did unlawfully, feloniously, and knowingly vote or attempt to vote without being qualified, at an election by a person, to-wit: Jose Ceballos, who was not a citizen of the United States or who did not otherwise meet the qualifications of an elector.”
Ceballos committed perjury by claiming he was qualified to vote. He faces three counts of voting without being qualified and three counts of election perjury.
Kobach said the crimes can end in 68 months imprisonment and up to $200,000 in fines, the Kansas Reflector reported.
Kansas law, Kobach said, requires public officials to be citizens. As well, one must be a citizen to vote.
DHS Docs
But that isn’t the case with Ceballos, documents show.
In 1999, on his Kansas voter registration form, Ceballos stated that “I am a citizen of the United States” and that “I have told the truth on this application.”
He answered “yes” to the question, “Are you a citizen of the United States of America?”
He also lied on his naturalization application, but admitted that he voted in an election, the document shows. To the question “Have you EVER claimed to be a U.S. citizen (in writing or any other way)?,” Ceballos answered “No.”
Ceballos answered “Yes” to this question: “Have you EVER registered to vote or voted in any Federal, state, or local election in the United States?”
DHS also reported Ceballos’ full name and criminal record. “This is not the first time Ceballos-Armendariz broke our nation’s laws,” DHS disclosed:
In 1995, he was convicted of battery.
Ceballos-Armendariz was granted a green card in 1990. He applied for U.S. citizenship in February 2025.
He was reelected with 83 percent of the vote.
Voted 29 Times
Five days after the complaint was filed, a watchdog website published what it said was Ceballos’ voting record. He’s voted many more times than the three times alleged in the complaint.
The Watchdog Lab’s Earl Glynn reported that “Ceballos’ voter registration was captured in 41 voter files from July 2008 through Sept. 2025. He was a registered Republican.”
“Voter history information from voter files shows Ceballos voted 29 times from the presidential general election in Nov. 2000 … through the presidential election in Nov. 2024,” Glynn reported.
Ceballos did not vote in 2018.
Other Cases
Ceballos isn’t the only alien charged with illegal voting.
Canadian Denis Bouchard committed the same crimes Ceballos is alleged to have committed. In August, the federal prosecutors charged him with illegally voting.
The 69-year-old Canuck “falsely claimed to be a United States citizen to vote in federal elections, including the most recent 2024 presidential election,” DOJ reported of the indictment:
Bouchard, who has resided in the United States since the 1960s, never obtained U.S. citizenship. … Bouchard certified that he was a U.S. citizen on voter registration applications in 2022 and 2024, when he cast a ballot in the 2024 presidential election and 2022 congressional election.
DOJ did not report Bouchard’s immigration status.
In May, authorities arrested Jamaican Jacqueline Dianne Wallace, 52, on the same charges.
Wallace is an illegal alien who entered the country in 2010 on a tourist visa but did not go home. In August 2024, “Wallace registered to vote in federal elections using an online system that required certification of United States citizenship,” and submitted the fraudulent registration on a community college computer, DOJ reported. She voted in the 2024 Florida presidential primary.
