{"id":2348916,"date":"2024-10-02T17:16:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T21:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-demand-answers-from-oregon-over-registering-noncitizen-voters-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-02T19:14:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T23:14:39","slug":"house-republicans-seek-clarification-from-oregon-regarding-the-registration-of-noncitizen-voters-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-seek-clarification-from-oregon-regarding-the-registration-of-noncitizen-voters-2\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans seek clarification from Oregon regarding the registration of noncitizen voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fhouse-republicans-seek-clarification-from-oregon-regarding-the-registration-of-noncitizen-voters-2%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=2348916&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>House Republicans are demanding\u200b answers from Oregon&#8217;s Secretary \u2064of State regarding the registration status of over 1,000 noncitizens who \u2062have \u2064been on the state&#8217;s voter rolls for three \u200cyears. This \u200dinquiry is part of broader GOP efforts to ensure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/speaker-johnson-unveils-election-bill-to-ban-noncitizens-from-voting\/\" title=\"Speaker Johnson introduces bill to prohibit noncitizens from voting\">election integrity ahead<\/a> \u2063of the upcoming 2024 \u2063elections. Representatives Bryan Steil and Lori \u200cChavez-DeRemer\u200d expressed concerns \u200dabout 1,259 noncitizen voters identified in a recent audit, which revealed a significant increase from \u2063an earlier estimate. They are seeking details on which elections these noncitizens participated in \u200dto maintain\u2062 voter confidence.\u2063 The request highlights issues with Oregon&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zuckerberg-used-a-tax-exempt-foundation-to-help-biden-fix-the-2020-election\/\" title=\"Zuckerberg Used a Tax-Exempt Foundation to Help Biden Fix the 2020 Election\">automatic voter registration system<\/a> and calls for improved \u2062oversight of the Department of Motor Vehicles to prevent similar occurrences. Federal law mandates that voter registration requires proof of citizenship, and Oregon\u2019s processes are undergoing revisions following the discovery of these issues. While cases of noncitizen voting are statistically rare,\u200d the lawmakers&#8217; concerns reflect ongoing tensions \u200cover election security and\u2062 integrity.  <\/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<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">House Republicans demand answers from Oregon over registering noncitizen voters<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1774108\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>EXCLUSIVE &mdash; <\/strong>Two <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/house-republicans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>House Republicans<\/a> are demanding <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/oregon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Oregon<\/a>&lsquo;s secretary of state provide information on how the state is handling over 1,000 noncitizens who have been on voter rolls for three years, the latest step from GOP lawmakers to crack down on election integrity ahead of the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>2024 election<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil (R-WI) and Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR) are requesting that Oregon provide answers to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meet-the-conservative-initiative-using-content-creators-to-gotv\/\" title=\"Meet The Conservative Initiative Using Content Creators To GOTV\">current registration status<\/a> of 1,259 noncitizen voters that were identified following an audit released last week. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/politics\/2024\/09\/oregon-dmv-mistakenly-registered-more-than-1200-non-citizens-to-vote-complete-audit-finds.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>number quadrupled<\/a> from the agency&rsquo;s previous estimate of 306 announced earlier in September, according to the <em>Oregonian<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers are demanding to know what elections nine of the 1,259 noncitizens voted in, &ldquo;in the interest of ensuring that voter confidence in our elections processes and outcomes is protected in the next federal election this November&rdquo; in a letter sent Wednesday and shared exclusively with the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The letter does not request the information of a 10th individual identified in the audit as a noncitizen, who the Secretary of State&rsquo;s Office confirmed to have legally voted after becoming a U.S. citizen, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Oregon &ldquo;must rectify&rdquo; automatic voter registration problems concerning noncitizens, Steil and Chavez-DeRemer said. The Republicans approved of the state&rsquo;s decision to double-check its voter rolls after initially finding 306 noncitizen registrants but said more needs to be done to ensure accountability.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is of great concern that some of these individuals have been on the voter rolls for three<br \/>years,&rdquo; said Steil and Chavez-DeRemer.<\/p>\n<p>The House GOP is also asking for Oregon to detail additional steps to ensure there is oversight over the Department of Motor Vehicles as it works to prevent noncitizens from registering to vote, as well as the steps taken to make sure there are no citizenship problems with other voters.<\/p>\n<p>Steil and Chavez-DeRemer are asking for answers and information to be delivered to the committee&rsquo;s elections council by Oct. 11.<\/p>\n<p>Federal law requires voter registration forms to compel voters to swear under penalty of perjury that they are citizens of the United States. Additionally, individuals must provide proof of a driver&rsquo;s license or Social Security number so election officials can verify their identity in U.S. databases.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For nearly a decade, Oregon automatically registered to vote anyone who obtains or updates a driver&rsquo;s license or state ID and isn&rsquo;t already a voter. However, in 2021, the law changed after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-seek-clarification-from-oregon-regarding-the-registration-of-noncitizen-voters\/\" title=\"House Republicans seek clarification from Oregon regarding the registration of noncitizen voters\">state lawmakers authorized driver&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s licenses for undocumented residents. <\/p>\n<p>DMV Administrator Amy Joyce said earlier this month that the agency had a two-step process for verifying license applicants who had a U.S. passport or a birth certificate, but has since added a third step after the errors of noncitizen voting were revealed. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;While we regret this situation has occurred, we moved swiftly to correct the issue before the coming election and implemented swift corrective action to ensure the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wi-congressman-wants-answers-on-2200-duplicate-ballots\/\" title=\"WI Congressman Wants Answers On 2,200 Duplicate Ballots\">data processing error<\/a> will not impact the (November) election or future elections,&rdquo; Kris Strickler, director of the Oregon Department of Transportation, told local reporters last week.<\/p>\n<p>Instances of noncitizens voting in federal elections are typically few and far between. A fraud database housed by the conservative Heritage Foundation found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/2995998\/johnson-unveils-election-bill-noncitizens-voting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>only 100 cases<\/a> of noncitizens voting between 2002 and 2022 among a sample of more than a billion ballots.<\/p>\n<p>The letter sent Wednesday is the latest step by House Republicans to prevent noncitizens from voting in federal elections, which is already illegal. The House passed an election integrity bill in July, dubbed the SAVE Act, that would amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require people to provide proof of citizenship before registering to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Republican leadership attempted to attach the SAVE Act to a continuing resolution in September&nbsp;to force a Senate vote on the election integrity bill,&nbsp;but it failed on the floor after 14 Republicans joined all Democrats in voting down the spending deal.&nbsp;A final spending package extending the deadline to Dec. 20 passed last week without the SAVE Act.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The clean stopgap spending measure that extends appropriation levels until Dec. 20 was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3166365\/congress-punts-fight-government-funding-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>passed last week without the SAVE Act<\/a>, much to the dismay of hard-line Republicans such as Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), the bill&rsquo;s author.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> reached out to Oregon Secretary of State LaVonne Griffin-Valade for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1774108\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1774108\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans seek info from Oregon on noncitizen voters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2648,"featured_media":2348964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/bryan-steil-lori-chavez-deremer-oregon-sos-noncitizen-voting-1024x680.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[32920,40097,6642,6431],"class_list":["post-2348916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-house-republicans","tag-noncitizen-voters","tag-oregon","tag-voter-registration"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/bryan-steil-lori-chavez-deremer-oregon-sos-noncitizen-voting-1024x680.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348916","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\/2648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2348916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2348964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2348916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2348916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2348916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}