by WorldTribune Staff, September 23, 2024 Contract With Our Readers
Non-citizens are being added to voter rolls in several states through motor vehicle departments, according to a new report by an election integrity group.
The individuals are being added to the voters rolls sometimes even after they have explained that they are not U.S. citizens, the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) told Just the News.
While non-citizens are prohibited from voting in federal, state, and most local elections, municipalities in California, Maryland, and Vermont, and Washington, D.C., allow non-citizens to vote in local elections.
Thousands of non-citizen voters have been discovered on voter rolls this year.
Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Louisiana, North Dakota, and Ohio have all included language in their state constitutions that prohibits non-citizen voting. Meanwhile, Iowa, Idaho, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Wisconsin all have ballot measures for voters to decide in the November general election whether non-citizens should be prohibited from voting in state elections.
“Pennsylvania had been registering non-citizens, by admission – this wasn’t some conspiracy on the Internet – and they admitted they had been registering non-citizens for 20 years at PennDOT, and it was a glitch, they called it,” PILF’s president, J. Christian Adams, told Just the News. “So we use the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) to go in to try to get the records of how bad the problem was, the records of how they fixed the problem, or allegedly fixed it, and they’ve been stonewalling us for about seven years.”
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In 2017, Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt, a Republican, told a Pennsylvania Senate committee that there were over 100,000 matches of voter registration records to state driver’s license numbers with Immigration and Naturalization Service indicators.
The matches don’t mean that all of those people were registered to vote, but Schmidt argued: “We’re not talking about an insignificant number here. We’re talking about a potentially very significant number of thousands and tens of thousands.”
PILF filed a federal lawsuit in February in California against the Alameda County Registrar of Voters for allegedly violating the NVRA by not disclosing records of foreign nationals registering to vote and voting for more than 20 years.
“[W]e’ve collected over the years of the data on how non-citizens get in, and it’s largely by not telling the truth in the motor voter process. And it includes people here on green cards, people here legally,” Adams said.
“Most of the people who get registered to vote, according to the data we’ve collected, are actual, legal residents, like 90% of them, 95%. And so they get sucked into the system, through motor voter, through DMV, and they get registered to vote that way, and it’s a big problem,” he continued.
Non-citizens still get on states’ voter rolls despite explaining their citizenship status.
“People get registered to vote when they tell, on their voter registration form, the election officials, that they are not a citizen,” Adams said. “We have hundreds where they actually mark on the form, ‘hello, not a citizen,’ and they still get registered to vote.”
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