by Natalia Mittelstadt
With less than six weeks until the November election, states and localities are organizing voter rolls and sending ballots to voters. However, many jurisdictions are experiencing problems in the run-up to Election Day.
As voters in some states have already begun the early and mail-in voting process, several jurisdictions have recently identified problems with the administrative process, such as the presence of non-citizens on voter rolls and duplicate ballots being mailed to voters.
Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Wis., chairman of the House Administrative Committee that oversees elections, said, “Only news, no noiseTuesday’s telecast showed that one of the most essential issues in this election cycle is the non-citizen vote.
“Washington and other municipalities across the country not only allow non-citizens to vote in local elections, they actually use taxpayer dollars to encourage non-citizens to vote in our elections,” Steil (pictured) said.
Washington state law states that “a person who has resided in our nation’s capital for only 30 days is eligible to vote,” he explained. “So a person working at the Russian embassy who is a Russian citizen, if he has lived in Washington for 30 days, can come to a polling place in November and vote in local elections.”
“Now, on paper, voting in U.S. elections at the federal level is illegal. That said, crossing the border is illegal, and yet millions of people do it. It’s about enforcing the law, about preventing individuals from taking illegal actions,” Steil added.
Non-citizens were found on state voter rolls, and many states removed them when detected. But noncitizen voting isn’t the only election integrity issue Steil says should be focused on, and most Democrats oppose reforms over such issues.
“That’s what’s so frustrating – when we have an opportunity to increase Americans’ confidence in elections, we continue to see liberal Democrats oppose common sense reforms,” Steil said. “This is the same opposition we saw when Democrats opposed photo IDs. Identification with a photo when you go to the polls is an absolute no-brainer.”
Below is a list of 12 states and jurisdictions across the country that are struggling with election-related issues:
Alabama
Earlier this month, an illegal immigrant he agreed to plead guilty The Department of Justice has filed charges of stealing a U.S. citizen’s identity to illegally vote in multiple U.S. elections and illegally obtaining a passport. The undocumented immigrant registered to vote in Alabama in 2016 and voted in the primary and general elections in 2016 and 2020. Last month, Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen instructed boards of county registrars to do so remove 3,251 people from vigorous voter rolls and set their registrations to inactive relative to their citizenship status.
Arizona
Last week, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D-state) said nearly 98,000 voters voted for him incorrectly registered in this state as proof of U.S. citizenship even though they have not done so. In April 2023 – PILF reported Maricopa County, Arizona records show that since 2015, 222 non-citizens have been removed from the county’s voter rolls, and nine of them cast 12 ballots in four federal elections. According to February report Pima County has removed 186 noncitizens from its voter rolls since 2021, with most of them registered to vote through third parties, according to PILF.
Georgia
Last month The Georgia Board of Elections voted Ask state Attorney General Chris Carr to reopen an investigation into Fulton County’s 2020 election recount after an independent investigation found the county likely scanned thousands of ballots twice as part of the 2020 election recount. The board also demanded its own the executive director is investigating how boards of elections in eight counties dealt with voter registration challenges. Athens-Clarke, Cobb, DeKalb, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Jackson and Macon-Bibb counties.
Iowa
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird (R) a person who is not a citizen of the country has been accused last week for illegally voting in the July city council elections.
North Carolina
North Carolina State Board of Elections 747,000 people removed from state voter rolls from the past 20 months because they were ineligible to register.
Ohio
In May, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (right) directed all 88 counties began the process of removing non-Ohioans from Ohio’s voter rolls after 137 registered voters were found to include non-US citizens who had double-certified their lack of US citizenship. Also chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan wrote a letter on Friday demanded that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas respond to LaRose’s requests to DHS for federal citizenship information to ensure Ohio voters are U.S. citizens.
Oklahoma
In fact 456,309 voter registrations have been removed from the Oklahoma voter rolls as of 2021.
Oregon
Oregon removed 1,259 voters this month from state rolls of voters who were registered to vote without proof of U.S. citizenship due to errors made by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Department of State announced in September 2017 records show that since 1972, 1,160 noncitizens have requested to have their voter registrations canceled.
Texas
Last month, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) announced that over 1 million ineligible voters have been removed from the voter rolls from 2021.
Illinois
According to the PILF report from May 2023. Chicago Records show that since 2007, 394 foreigners have been removed from the city’s voter rolls, of which 20 of them cast 85 votes.
Wisconsin
In Madison, Wisconsin, 2,215 duplicate ballots it went to voters by mistake. US Department of Justice sued two rural Wisconsin towns after they switched from turning on electronic voting machines to using only paper ballots in elections and counting them manually.
Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wisconsin, said Thursday in “Only news, no noiseTelevision program saying the city of Madison should take greater precautions to prevent duplicate ballots from being counted.
“They say the city of Madison, ‘we’re going to go to all 2,215 voters and make sure they know this.’ They just need to obtain a duplicate ballot and make sure it hasn’t been cast. Because remember, Madison, Dane County, is the center of the universe in Wisconsin where Democrats are collecting ballots. We must make sure this election is in good standing, especially in one of the most critical states in the upcoming election: Wisconsin,” Tiffany said.
“An error was made, the Clerk’s Office acted quickly to correct it and reassure voters, but there is NO possibility that a double absentee ballot was counted,” Madison spokesman Dylan Brogan told Fox News on Wednesday.
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Natalia Mittelstadt is a reporter for Just the News.
