{"id":2318045,"date":"2024-08-02T07:18:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T11:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ohio-sos-review-finds-499-more-noncitizens-registered-to-vote\/"},"modified":"2024-08-02T07:26:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T11:26:15","slug":"ohio-sos-review-finds-499-more-noncitizens-registered-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ohio-sos-review-finds-499-more-noncitizens-registered-to-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio SOS Review Finds 499 More Noncitizens Registered To Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fohio-sos-review-finds-499-more-noncitizens-registered-to-vote%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2318045&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses recent discoveries of noncitizen voter registrations on Ohio&#8217;s voting rolls, highlighting an announcement \u2062by Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose about directing local officials to remove nearly 500 foreign national registrations. This comes amid a statewide audit of voter registration in anticipation of the upcoming presidential election. Concerns are raised about the high number\u200b of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-blames-trump-for-border-crisis-touts-biden-admins-extreme-progress-on-immigration-in-border-speech\/\" title=\"Kamala Harris Blames Trump For Border Crisis, Touts Biden Admin\u2019s \u2018Extreme Progress\u2019 On Immigration In Border Speech\">illegal immigrant encounters<\/a> at the U.S. border under\u200d President Biden, and\u2062 the potential\u200d impact\u2063 of noncitizen voting\u2062 in battleground states.<\/p>\n<p>The article argues that it is alarmingly easy\u2062 for noncitizens to register and vote due \u200cto the\u2062 lack of requirements for proof\u2064 of \u2062citizenship \u200bduring the voter registration process. \u200dCritics, including U.S. Senator Mike Lee, emphasize the vulnerability of elections to foreign interference. The issue of noncitizen registrations is \u2062depicted as a\u200c serious threat to election integrity, \u200bwith various states reported to be providing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-democrat-governor-candidate-touts-endorsement-from-group-that-committed-voter-fraud-supports-defunding-police\/\" title=\"Virginia Democrat Governor Candidate Touts Endorsement From Group That Committed Voter Fraud, Supports Defunding Police\">voter registration forms<\/a> to migrants without \u200brequiring proof of citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>In response, LaRose has initiated a comprehensive audit of Ohio\u2019s \u200cvoter database, aiming to verify that registrations comply with the requirement that only U.S. citizens are eligible to vote.\u2062 The piece \u2064highlights that during this audit, numerous fraudulent registrations were \u200bdiscovered, leading to their removal. The situation underscores ongoing\u200b debates around voter integrity, immigration policies, and the\u2063 administration of\u200d elections in the U.S.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Another day, another bundle of noncitizen voter registrations discovered on state voting rolls. But there&rsquo;s still nothing to see here &mdash; so say the left and their election integrity-denying accomplices in corporate media.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohiosos.gov\/secretary-office\/biography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose<\/a> announced he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohiosos.gov\/media-center\/press-releases\/2024\/2024-08-01\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">directing<\/a> local elections officials to remove nearly 500 foreign national registrations from Ohio&rsquo;s voter rolls. The suspected illegal registrations were detected as part of a statewide audit of Ohio&rsquo;s voter registration database.<\/p>\n<p>With a little more than three months to go before November&rsquo;s presidential election and a little more than two months before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohiosos.gov\/elections\/voters\/current-voting-schedule\/2024-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/homeland.house.gov\/2024\/05\/22\/startling-stats-factsheet-biden-administration-on-track-to-reach-10-million-encounters-nationwide-before-end-of-fiscal-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">projected 10 million<\/a> illegal immigrant encounters at the U.S. border on President Joe Biden&rsquo;s watch, the very real possibility that some noncitizens could vote in November&rsquo;s election could tip the balance in the outcome &mdash; particularly in critical battleground states.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Shockingly Easy for Noncitizens to Vote&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Democrats dismiss the idea that illegal aliens and other foreign nationals will break the law and risk felony charges by violating the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/13\/without-the-save-act-the-only-thing-keeping-foreigners-from-voting-is-the-honor-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">honor system<\/a> that&rsquo;s supposed to bar noncitizens from voting in federal elections. At the least, they delude themselves and others.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Those making this argument ignore a glaring problem: the government officials who register voters and conduct federal elections aren&rsquo;t allowed to require proof of citizenship,&rdquo; wrote U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, in a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/13\/without-the-save-act-the-only-thing-keeping-foreigners-from-voting-is-the-honor-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">column<\/a> for The Federalist. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s therefore shockingly easy for noncitizens to vote in federal elections, leaving our elections dangerously vulnerable to foreign interference. Anyone &mdash; even an illegal alien or other noncitizen &mdash; can register to vote in federal elections, just by checking a box and signing a form.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As the New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/06\/14\/us-news\/how-non-citizens-are-getting-voter-registration-forms-across-the-us-and-how-republicans-are-trying-to-stop-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> in June, government agencies in the vast majority of U.S. states &ldquo;are providing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/03\/25\/us-news\/city-council-asks-highest-court-to-allow-non-citizens-to-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">voter registration forms to migrants without requiring proof of citizenship<\/a>.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In May, a spokesman for South Carolina&rsquo;s Department of Health and Human Services <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/07\/south-carolina-agency-the-feds-force-us-to-give-voter-registration-to-foreign-nationals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> The Federalist that the department, as the state&rsquo;s Medicaid agency, is mandated to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2-more-gop-states-exit-national-voter-verification-coalition\/\" title=\"2 More GOP States Exit National Voter Verification Coalition\">provide voter registration information<\/a> under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/crt\/national-voter-registration-act-1993-nvra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">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<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OversightPR\/status\/1818762209667035562\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video<\/a> shared Thursday by the Heritage Foundation&rsquo;s Oversight Project shows noncitizens admitting that they are registered to vote.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There 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,&rdquo; the Oversight Project wrote on X. &ldquo;For context, Joe Biden &lsquo;won&rsquo; the state of Georgia by less than 12,000 votes in 2020.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>&#128680;NON-CITIZENS REGISTERED IN GA&#128680;<\/p>\n<p>Footage obtained by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realmuckraker?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realmuckraker<\/a> shows numerous non-citizens admitting to being registered voters.<\/p>\n<p>A staggering 14% of the non-citizens spoken to admitted to being registered to voters. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0p38irDBZH\">pic.twitter.com\/0p38irDBZH<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Oversight Project (@OversightPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OversightPR\/status\/1818762206806217099?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>That&rsquo;s why elections officials serious about election integrity are working overtime to remove noncitizen voter registrations from their voter rolls.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Preventing an &lsquo;Illegal Vote&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>LaRose is leading on that front. His office earlier launched what the secretary of state has described as a &ldquo;multi-phase, comprehensive&rdquo; audit of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ohio-moves-to-clean-voter-rolls-after-finding-137-foreigners-registered-to-vote\/\" title=\"Ohio Takes Action to Purge Voter Rolls: 137 Foreign Registrations Detected\">statewide voter registration database<\/a>. In May the agency&rsquo;s Public Integrity Division and Office of Data Analytics and Archives began a review of voter records to confirm that registrations complied with Ohio&rsquo;s constitutional citizenship requirement. In 2022, Buckeye State voters <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Ohio_Issue_2,_Citizenship_Voting_Requirement_Amendment_(2022)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">overwhelmingly approved (77% to 23%)<\/a> a constitutional amendment specifying that only U.S. citizens shall vote in local and state elections.<\/p>\n<p>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 &ldquo;to either confirm their citizenship status or cancel their registration.&rdquo; Those registrations are being scrubbed from the rolls, LaRose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohiosos.gov\/media-center\/press-releases\/2024\/2024-08-01\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Ohio&rsquo;s 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&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/publication\/systematic-alien-verification-entitlements-save-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE)<\/a> database system, the secretary of state&rsquo;s office reported.<\/p>\n<p>LaRose noted any individual whose registration is removed may submit a provisional ballot. If they can prove citizenship, their ballot will be counted.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I want to give these folks the benefit of the doubt and say that most of them didn&rsquo;t intend to break the law,&rdquo; LaRose said in the press release. &ldquo;We want to make sure a mistaken registration doesn&rsquo;t 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.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>Cleaning Up Ohio&rsquo;s Voter Rolls<\/h2>\n<p>In May, the secretary of state ordered county election administrators to begin a &ldquo;routine but enhanced&rdquo; search of voter lists. County election boards as of last week, at LaRose&rsquo;s direction, had removed nearly 155,000 inactive and abandoned registrations &mdash; many based on address changes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-secretary-of-state-there-will-be-a-recount\/\" title=\"Georgia Secretary of State: &#039;There Will Be a Recount&#039;\">county election officials<\/a> are using a new &ldquo;digital dashboard tool&rdquo; to track voter registration discrepancies, from illegal characters in name fields to unreasonably high ages.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Every 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,&rdquo; LaRose said in rolling out the clean voter roll initiative. &ldquo;This work is not only critical to keeping our elections honest, but it&rsquo;s also essential to making sure our election officials can properly plan for the right number of ballots, voting machines, polling places and poll workers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day brings another discovery of noncitizen voter registrations on state voting lists. However, the left and their allies in corporate media insist there\u2019s nothing to worry about. On Thursday, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose revealed that he is instructing local election officials to eliminate nearly 500 foreign national registrations from Ohio&#8217;s voter rolls. These suspected illegal registrations were uncovered during a statewide audit of the voter registration database.<\/p>\n<p>With just over three months until the presidential election in November and less than two months before early in-person and absentee voting starts in Ohio, the urgency to clean up the voter rolls is increasing daily. Given that there are projected to be 10 million encounters with illegal immigrants at the U.S. border during President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration, there&#8217;s a legitimate concern that some noncitizens could participate in November&#8217;s election, potentially influencing outcomes\u2014especially in key battleground states.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats tend to dismiss concerns about illegal aliens or foreign nationals breaking laws by voting illegally, often underestimating the issue. U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) pointed out this oversight in a recent column for The Federalist: \u201cThose making this argument ignore a glaring problem: government officials who register voters and conduct federal elections aren\u2019t allowed to require proof of citizenship.\u201d He emphasized how easy it is for noncitizens to vote due to these regulations.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by the New York Post earlier this year, most U.S. states do not require proof of citizenship when providing voter registration forms to migrants. In South Carolina, for instance, a spokesperson from its Department of Health and Human Services noted that they must provide voter registration information as mandated by federal law\u2014this includes all applicants for benefits like Medicaid, which can encompass foreign nationals.<\/p>\n<p>A video released by Heritage Foundation\u2019s Oversight Project shows noncitizens acknowledging their registered status as voters; they estimate around 339,000 non-citizens reside in Georgia alone\u2014if 14% are registered voters statewide\u2014that would mean over 47,000 registered non-citizens\u2014a significant number considering Joe Biden won Georgia by fewer than 12,000 votes in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>This situation has prompted serious efforts from election officials focused on maintaining electoral integrity who are working diligently to remove these unauthorized registrations from their lists.<\/p>\n<p>LaRose has taken charge on this front with what he describes as a &#8220;multi-phase&#8221; audit process aimed at ensuring compliance with Ohio\u2019s constitutional requirement that only U.S citizens may vote locally or statewide\u2014a measure overwhelmingly approved by voters (77% support) last year.<\/p>\n<p>In an initial sweep using identification records from state motor vehicle databases, agents found 136 individuals who had confirmed they were not U.S citizens among registered voters; many did not respond when asked about their citizenship status after being notified officially regarding their registrations&#8217; validity. As part of ongoing efforts announced Thursday by LaRose&#8217;s office additional investigations revealed another set of nearly 500 suspect registrations linked directly back through verification systems confirming individuals\u2019 statuses as non-citizen residents.<\/p>\n<p>LaRose stated those whose names have been removed still have an opportunity\u2014they can cast provisional ballots which will be counted if they prove their citizenship afterward: \u201cI want them given every benefit possible,\u201d he said while emphasizing his commitment towards preventing any mistaken registration leading into unlawful votes while ensuring lawful participants face no barriers during upcoming elections especially if changes occurred recently regarding one\u2019s legal standing within America itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In May LaRose ordered county administrators across Ohio begin enhanced routine checks against existing registries resulting thus far into almost155 thousand inactive entries being purged primarily due address discrepancies identified through new digital tools designed specifically track irregularities ranging everything improper characters appearing within name fields age-related anomalies etc., asserting \u201cEvery state must maintain accurate records but we\u2019ve established protocols here considered most advanced nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2318046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-02-at-12.18.11-AM.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[36987,4333,36986],"class_list":["post-2318045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-noncitizen-voting","tag-ohio","tag-sos-review"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-02-at-12.18.11-AM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2318045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2318046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2318045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2318045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2318045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}