A voter rolls assessment revealed 20 noncitizens who had registered to vote, and almost half of them had already apparently voted in an election, according to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, on Wednesday.
After conducting a citizen inspection this summer, Raffensperger claimed the state discovered 20 noncitizens on its vote rolls. The assessment also discovered that “nine of those 20 noncitizens cast votes in the past, while the other 11 were registered but never really voted”, according to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution.
The director said the express used data from” county authorities, the Georgia Department of Driver Services, and the U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services”. The 20 noncitizens on the spins were discovered after they submitted documents claiming they were no residents when asking for a departure from jury work, according to Gabe Sterling, the secretary’s office’s chief operating officer. The people came from seven Georgia districts: Fulton, Cobb, Bibb, Clayton, Henry, Gwinnett, and DeKalb, Sterling said.
All 20 voting registrations, according to Raffensperger, were “going to be referred to local pursuing law enforcement.”
The state also discovered 156 people whom Raffensperger says “require]s ] additional human investigation” into their citizenship status. According to Rapffensperger, his company “opened a event file into these people.”
In subsequent weeks, some other states have discovered noncitizens on their voting rolls.
Oregon’s secretary of state just announced that the state also found nine noncitizens who had voted in previous elections, along with “more than 300 noncitizens]who] were falsely registered to vote”, as my partner Logan Washburn explained. Further investigation revealed the country’s “motor voting” system registered 1, 259 possible noncitizens to vote.
Attorney General of Ohio, Dave Yost, announced on Tuesday that his company had arrested six noncitizens for allegedly casting ballots in previous elections, while Alabama announced in August that it had found more than 3, 000 potential voters who had registered to vote. Voting for candidates outside the United States is prohibited.
Democrats and the misinformation press continue to make the case that noncitizen ballot is “rare” despite current trends. But even if the issue were “rare“, that would n’t mean it should be swept under the rug. The Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility Act, which amends the 1993 National Voter Registration Act and requires people to give video proof of citizenship, was passed by House Republicans in response to this requirement. Potential voters now have to simply check a rectangular box on a national registration form to confirm their citizenship under the purview of the law.
Democrats pledged to eliminate the costs that would have guaranteed election integrity, with Joe Biden declaring he would oppose it if it were to pass his desk. Republicans attempted to pass the policy by putting it in a continuous solution to keep the government funded for six weeks. The majority of House Democrats and 14 Republican cast ballots against it.
Just one condition, Arizona, requires video proof of citizenship to vote in statewide elections. People who do n’t provide supporting documentation of citizenship when registering to vote are referred to as “federal-only” voters and are limited to casting ballots in federal elections.
The Federalist’s Brianna Lyman is a journalist for primaries. With a degree in International Political Economy, Brianna received her diploma from Fordham University. Her job has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Observe Brianna on X: @briannalyman2