Democrats insist Republicans' claims about non-citizen voting in U.S. elections is election denialism, despite states reporting hundreds of non-citizens were found and removed from their voter rolls.
As House Republicans passed bills ensuring that only U.S. citizens vote in federal elections, Democrats claimed that concerns over non-citizens voting is merely a GOP effort to undermine faith in elections ahead of the November presidential election.
J. Christian Adams, president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, testified at the hearing last week, saying, "Non-citizens are getting onto American voter rolls, and some of them are voting. The data show that most often non-citizens are getting on the rolls through the motor voter registration process or third-party registration drives."
During the House Administration Committee hearing last week, committee chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., said that 500 non-citizens are registered to vote in Washington, D.C. According to a PILF report from last May, Chicago records show that 394 foreign nationals were removed from the city's voter rolls since 2007, with 20 of them recorded as casting 85 ballots.
Prior to Georgia's audit, at the end of 2021, then-Texas Secretary of State John Scott released the results of the first phase of his audit of the states's voter rolls, which found that 11,737 potential non-U.S. citizens were identified as being registered to cast ballots, with many located in the counties around Texas' two largest cities of Houston and Dallas.
Last week, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose directed all 88 counties to begin a removal process for non-citizens on Ohio's voter rolls following a review by his office's Public Integrity Division and Office of Data Analytics and Archives.
Another PILF report noted that ahead of the 2014 midterm elections, North Carolina found that 1,454 individuals on state voter rolls were not naturalized U.S. citizens.
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