When a clerk in Comanche County asked a group of students on a field trip whether they wanted to register to vote, Joe Ceballos raised his hand. It was an act that would set him on a path to being charged with voter fraud more than three decades later. Ceballos, the twice-elected mayor of Coldwater, Kansas, says he didn’t understand that as a Mexican immigrant he couldn’t vote in the United States. An honest mistake, he said. But now he’s found himself in legal trouble that threatens to upend the life he’s spent half a century building. He now faces felony charges for voter fraud, filed by Kris Kobach, the state attorney general.
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