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| Schmidt: Could Be ‘Tens Of Thousands’ Of Non-Citizens Who Registered To Vote In Pennsylvania | |
| 2017-12-21 | |
[PHILADELPHIA.CBSLOCAL] Philadelphia election Commissioner Al Schmidt told state politicians this past week that there may be tens of thousands of non-US citizens who have registered to vote in Pennsylvania...
Commissioner Al Schmidt told a Senate committee that many of the non-US citizens who registered to vote in Philadelphia, perhaps unwittingly, did so through a glitch in the state’s motor voter system. While the known cases number only several hundred, he says they are all self-reported. Schmidt says more than 100,000 PA driver’s license numbers with Immigration and Naturalization Service indicators match with voter registration records. That doesn’t mean that there are that many non-citizens registered to vote, but... "We’re not talking about an insignificant number here," said Schmidt. "We’re talking about a potentially very significant number of thousands and tens of thousands." Schmidt says those people should be contacted. Besides the issue of election integrity, he says registering to vote ‐ even unintentionally ‐ will derail an immigrant’s path to US citizenship. | |
| Posted by:Fred |