White House correspondent for PBS NewsHour Yamiche Alcindor has been accused of illegally voting in Florida, according to a complaint.
The American Accountability Foundation filed a complaint last week addressed to the Florida Department of State, Office of the General Counsel demanding that Florida investigate the matter.
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The complaint alleges that Alcindor, who also serves as a Washington correspondent for NBC, is a registered voter in Broward County, Florida. “Public information indicates that Mrs. Alcindor is a resident of the District of Columbia, and therefore ineligible to vote in the State of Florida. Despite this, Mrs. Alcindor is registered to vote and has voted in the State of Florida,” it details.
The foundation further claims that Alcindor voted in Florida as recently as Monday. The group sent a tweet it claimed proved the allegation.
The complaint notes that Alcindor publicized a move to Washington, D.C., in 2017, attaching a tweet of hers.
“Some news: I moved to DC this week to cover social safety net issues and how Trump’s administration impacts everyday people’s lives,” she wrote at the time.
Some news: I moved to DC this week to cover social safety net issues and how Trump’s administration impacts everyday people’s lives.
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) January 13, 2017
According to the complaint, Alcindor’s husband, Nathaniel Cline, with whom she lives, is registered to vote at their Washington address. However, it claims that she remains registered in Florida. The organization raises a concern as to why her husband considers their home to be his permanent residence, according to voting records, but Alcindor does not, as evidenced by her Florida registration.
“This raises the obvious question of why Mrs. Alcindor does not vote at the [redacted] address like her husband. There is no evidence that Mrs. Alcindor and Mr. Cline do not intend to spend the remainder of their lives together as a married couple,” the complaint continues. “How can Mr. Cline believe that their permanent residence is [the D.C. address] while Mrs. Alcindor supposedly believes it is [the Florida address]?
According to the foundation, both cannot be true. It asks Florida to investigate the matter.
“If individuals are allowed to pick and choose where they vote, based on personal preference and not on their residency, then residency requirements become hollow. More importantly, when out of state residents vote in Florida, the votes of actual residents of the State of Florida are diluted and their constitutional right to vote is undermined,” it concludes.
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Neither Alcindor nor PBS responded to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.
