{"id":32012,"date":"2024-08-05T15:13:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T15:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cincinnatirighttolife.org\/?p=32012"},"modified":"2024-08-05T15:13:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T15:13:06","slug":"ohio-secretary-of-state-finds-499-more-noncitizens-registered-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cincinnatirighttolife.org\/ohio-secretary-of-state-finds-499-more-noncitizens-registered-to-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Secretary Of State Finds 499 More Noncitizens Registered To Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By: M.D. Kittle, originally published August 2, 2024, The Federalist<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With three months to go before November\u2019s presidential election, the need to clean up the voter rolls is becoming more urgent every day.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another day, another bundle of noncitizen voter registrations discovered on state voting rolls. But there\u2019s still nothing to see here \u2014 so say the left and their election integrity-denying accomplices in corporate media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Thursday,\u00a0Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose<\/a>\u00a0announced he was\u00a0directing<\/a>\u00a0local elections officials to remove nearly 500 foreign national registrations from Ohio\u2019s voter rolls. The suspected illegal registrations were detected as part of a statewide audit of Ohio\u2019s voter registration database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a little more than three months to go before November\u2019s presidential election and a little more than two months before early in-person and absentee voting begins<\/a> in the Buckeye State, the need to clean up the rolls is becoming more urgent every day. With a projected 10 million<\/a> illegal immigrant encounters at the U.S. border on President Joe Biden\u2019s watch, the very real possibility that some noncitizens could vote in November\u2019s election could tip the balance in the outcome \u2014 particularly in critical battleground states. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Shockingly Easy for Noncitizens to Vote\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Democrats dismiss the idea that illegal aliens and other foreign nationals will break the law and risk felony charges by violating the honor system<\/a> that\u2019s supposed to bar noncitizens from voting in federal elections. At the least, they delude themselves and others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThose making this argument ignore a glaring problem: the government officials who register voters and conduct federal elections aren\u2019t allowed to require proof of citizenship,\u201d wrote U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, in a recent column<\/a> for The Federalist. \u201cIt\u2019s therefore shockingly easy for noncitizens to vote in federal elections, leaving our elections dangerously vulnerable to foreign interference. Anyone \u2014 even an illegal alien or other noncitizen \u2014 can register to vote in federal elections, just by checking a box and signing a form.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the New York Post\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0in June, government agencies in the vast majority of U.S. states \u201care providing\u00a0voter registration forms to migrants without requiring proof of citizenship<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In May, a spokesman for South Carolina\u2019s Department of Health and Human Services told<\/a> The Federalist that the department, as the state\u2019s Medicaid agency, is mandated to provide voter registration information under Section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act Of 1993<\/a>. The information apparently goes out to everyone applying for the benefits, including foreign nationals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A video<\/a> shared Thursday by the Heritage Foundation\u2019s Oversight Project shows noncitizens admitting that they are registered to vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are an estimated 339,000 non-citizens living in Georgia. If the 14% proportion holds true state wide, this would equate to over 47,000 registered non-citizens,\u201d the Oversight Project wrote on X. \u201cFor context, Joe Biden \u2018won\u2019 the state of Georgia by less than 12,000 votes in 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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That\u2019s why elections officials serious about election integrity are working overtime to remove noncitizen voter registrations from their voter rolls.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Preventing an \u2018Illegal Vote\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

LaRose is leading on that front. His office earlier launched what the secretary of state has described as a \u201cmulti-phase, comprehensive\u201d audit of the statewide voter registration database. In May the agency\u2019s Public Integrity Division and Office of Data Analytics and Archives began a review of voter records to confirm that registrations complied with Ohio\u2019s constitutional citizenship requirement. In 2022, Buckeye State voters overwhelmingly approved (77% to 23%)<\/a> a constitutional amendment specifying that only U.S. citizens shall vote in local and state elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During a first sweep, using identification records from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles database, agents discovered 136 voter registrations from individuals who twice confirmed that they are not U.S. citizens, according to the secretary. Of the total, 80 failed to respond when sent official notices \u201cto either confirm their citizenship status or cancel their registration.\u201d Those registrations are being scrubbed from the rolls, LaRose said<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Thursday, Ohio\u2019s top elections official said an additional 499 noncitizen registrations have been detected. Registrants removed include individuals who confirmed that they are not U.S. citizens to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, a status further confirmed by the federal\u00a0Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE)<\/a>\u00a0database system, the secretary of state\u2019s office reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LaRose noted any individual whose registration is removed may submit a provisional ballot. If they can prove citizenship, their ballot will be counted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI want to give these folks the benefit of the doubt and say that most of them didn\u2019t intend to break the law,\u201d LaRose said in the press release. \u201cWe want to make sure a mistaken registration doesn\u2019t become an illegal vote. We also want to make sure that lawfully registered citizens can participate seamlessly in the process, especially if their citizenship status changed recently.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cleaning Up Ohio\u2019s Voter Rolls<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In May, the secretary of state ordered county election administrators to begin a \u201croutine but enhanced\u201d search of voter lists. County election boards as of last week, at LaRose\u2019s direction, had removed nearly 155,000 inactive and abandoned registrations \u2014 many based on address changes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And county election officials are using a new \u201cdigital dashboard tool\u201d to track voter registration discrepancies, from illegal characters in name fields to unreasonably high ages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEvery state is required to have an ongoing process to verify the accuracy of its voter rolls, but Ohio has the most advanced and effective protocols in the nation,\u201d LaRose said in rolling out the clean voter roll initiative. \u201cThis work is not only critical to keeping our elections honest, but it\u2019s also essential to making sure our election officials can properly plan for the right number of ballots, voting machines, polling places and poll workers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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