Flint City Councilman Leon El-Alamin walked into a Michigan courtroom and pleaded guilty to election fraud, then added a no-contest plea to felony assault charges on the very same afternoon. Democrats told us for years that election fraud is a myth. Somebody forgot to tell Leon.
El-Alamin signed and notarized an affidavit on April 12, 2024, swearing he lived on East Mott Avenue in Flint’s First Ward so he could run in a special election for that seat. The woman actually renting that house testified that in nearly four years, El-Alamin never lived there, never spent a night there, and kept nothing on the property but a lawnmower and some appliances. He was her landlord, not her neighbor, and he sat in that council seat voting on her community’s money for more than two years.
It gets better. El-Alamin is an ex-felon who served time under his birth name, Leon Wilson, and changed his name while he was in prison. Michigan’s “Clean Slate” expungement law wiped his record before he ever filed for office. So the state handed a convicted felon a clean record, he used it to grab a council seat he wasn’t even eligible for, and then endorsed progressive darling and now Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed on his way out the door. What a résumé.
You can read more about Leon El-Alamin’s election fraud plea and the full timeline of charges from the original reporting.
The assault case piled on top of the fraud charge stems from a July 2025 incident. Prosecutors say El-Alamin dragged a woman by her hair, punched her in the head, and choked her at a house he owns in Mount Morris Township. That trial got delayed repeatedly throughout 2025, right up until the moment he decided a plea deal was a better idea. No contest carries the same legal weight as a conviction, even if it isn’t technically an admission.
Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton said it mattered that El-Alamin admitted to the false affidavit so “we maintain election integrity in this community, this state, and this country.” Hard to argue with that. The voters of Flint’s First Ward already did their part, tossing El-Alamin out on November 3, before the plea even happened. Good for them.
Sentencing is set for January 4. Until then, El-Alamin is on a GPS tether, with probation expected to follow. A man who lied under oath on a notarized legal document to seize a public office he had no right to hold is looking at probation and check-ins. The left spent years insisting no one ever commits election fraud and the paperwork always gets checked. One landlord with a conscience just blew that talking point straight into the Flint River.
Every county clerk in Michigan should probably be pulling residency affidavits right about now, because if one tenant speaking up took two years and a plea deal to produce a single guilty finding, the question is how many other affidavits nobody ever looked at twice. Democrats will get back to you on that, right after they finish explaining how this guy was a perfectly fine council member.
