{"id":2318180,"date":"2024-08-02T11:54:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T15:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ohio-elections-chief-finds-499-more-noncitizens-registered-to-vote\/"},"modified":"2024-08-02T12:00:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T16:00:58","slug":"ohio-elections-chief-finds-499-more-noncitizens-registered-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ohio-elections-chief-finds-499-more-noncitizens-registered-to-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Elections Chief 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-elections-chief-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=2318180&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 \u2064article \u2063discusses the recent discovery of nearly 500 noncitizen voter registrations on Ohio&#8217;s voter rolls, a revelation announced \u2063by \u200cthe Ohio Secretary\u2062 of State Frank LaRose during a statewide audit. With the upcoming presidential election \u200cin November, there\u200c is an\u200b increasing urgency \u2064to clean up voter registrations to\u200b ensure election integrity, particularly given the projected high number of\u200d illegal immigrant encounters at the U.S.\u2064 border under the Biden administration. Some politicians argue\u2064 that it is alarmingly easy for noncitizens to register and vote\u2064 due to \u200bthe\u200d lack of requirements for proof of citizenship\u200d in most states. LaRose&#8217;s office is actively working to remove \u2062these noncitizen\u200b registrations, having already identified and initiated the\u2064 removal process of several confirmed noncitizen voters. The \u2063article highlights concerns about potential foreign interference \u200din \u200delections and the broader implications \u2062of noncitizen voting,\u2063 particularly in battleground states where election \u2063outcomes can be tight.  <\/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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ohio-sos-review-finds-499-more-noncitizens-registered-to-vote\/\" title=\"Ohio SOS Review Finds 499 More Noncitizens Registered To Vote\">14% proportion holds true state wide<\/a>, 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 county election officials 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 rolls, yet the left and their allies in corporate media insist there&#8217;s 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 voting begins in Ohio, the urgency to clean up the voter rolls is increasing. 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 is a legitimate concern that some noncitizens could participate in November\u2019s election, potentially influencing outcomes in key battleground states.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats tend to dismiss concerns about illegal aliens and other foreign nationals breaking laws by voting illegally, often underestimating or ignoring this issue entirely. U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) pointed out a significant flaw: government officials responsible for registering voters and conducting federal elections are not permitted to require proof of citizenship. This makes it alarmingly easy for noncitizens to vote, leaving elections vulnerable to foreign interference.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by the New York Post in June, most U.S. states do not require proof of citizenship when providing voter registration forms to migrants. In South Carolina, for instance, a spokesperson indicated that their Medicaid agency must provide voter registration information as mandated by federal law\u2014this includes information sent out even to foreign nationals applying for benefits.<\/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 this proportion holds true statewide, it would mean over 47,000 registered non-citizens exist there\u2014a notable figure 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 of this initiative with his office launching what he describes as a &#8220;multi-phase&#8221; audit of Ohio&#8217;s statewide voter registration database aimed at ensuring compliance with constitutional citizenship requirements established after voters overwhelmingly approved an amendment stating only U.S citizens can vote in local and state elections.<\/p>\n<p>In an initial sweep using identification records from the Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV), officials found 136 individuals who had confirmed they were not U.S citizens among registered voters; many did not respond when asked whether they wished to confirm their status or cancel their registration\u2014these entries will be removed accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday alone, LaRose announced an additional detection of nearly 499 more noncitizen registrations linked directly back through BMV confirmations and further verified through federal databases designed for such checks.<\/p>\n<p>LaRose emphasized that anyone whose registration is canceled still has an opportunity: they can submit a provisional ballot which will be counted if they can prove their citizenship afterward. He expressed his belief that most individuals likely did not intend any wrongdoing but stressed the importance of preventing mistaken registrations from leading into illegal votes while ensuring lawful citizens can participate without issues related especially if there have been recent changes regarding their citizenship status.<\/p>\n<p>In May LaRose ordered county election administrators across Ohio begin enhanced searches within existing lists; since then nearly 155 thousand inactive or abandoned registrations have been purged based largely on address changes identified through new digital tools designed specifically track discrepancies within these records\u2014from erroneous characters entered into names all way up unreasonably high ages listed therein too!<\/p>\n<p>LaRose stated every state must maintain ongoing processes verifying accuracy within its own respective rolls but noted how Ohio possesses some most advanced protocols nationwide aimed at keeping elections fair while also allowing proper planning regarding ballots needed polling places required poll workers necessary!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2318181,"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":[6571,13833,4333,5894,6431],"class_list":["post-2318180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-elections","tag-noncitizens","tag-ohio","tag-politics","tag-voter-registration"],"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\/2318180","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=2318180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2318181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2318180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2318180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2318180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}