DAYTON — Agents from the Department of Homeland Security were in Dayton on Monday to investigate an allegation of voter fraud at a high school.
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News Center 7’s Mike Campbell spoke with Dayton Public Schools Superintendent Dr. David Lawrence about the allegations. He’ll have the latest tonight on News Center 7 at 5:00.
Dayton Public Schools Superintendent, Dr. David Lawrence, confirmed that he was alerted that three Homeland Security agents were at Ponitz Career Technology High School while in a meeting on Monday.
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Lawrence and the district’s chief of security got to the school and were met by the agents who were investigating a claim made by a former student regarding the district’s voter registration drive.
For at least the past 15 years, the district has held a drive to register 18-year-olds to vote.
“They interviewed a former student, and that the student said to them that they were told or forced to fill out the form and told who to vote for,” Lawrence said.
He went on to say that the district doesn’t have evidence of anything like that happening.
Lawrence said he was able to have about a 15-minute conversation with the agents and explain to them what the district does with the program.
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