Watchdog Reveals How Easy It Is for Non-Citizens to Vote

From mail-in balloting to motor voter eligibility and harvesting, illegals are flooding the rolls.

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A watchdog group has provided further confirmation for what many Americans already suspect: Mail-in balloting, motor voter eligibility, and massive third-party ballot harvesting are enabling non-citizens to vote in US elections.

The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) has “litigated cases that have created a body of favorable jurisprudence and real wins for election integrity” since its founding in 2012, states its website. The organization certainly has its hands full keeping an eye on all the shenanigans going on across the country these days.

Broken Voter Rolls and Ballots Unaccounted For

“Pennsylvania has been covering up for years, the tens of thousands of aliens who got on the voter rolls there for 20 years,” PILF President J. Christian Adams told Just the News in a recent interview. Acting Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt “knows the truth and won’t tell it,” Adams asserted.

“In 2017, Schmidt, a Republican who was a Philadelphia city commissioner at the time, told a Pennsylvania Senate committee that there were over 100,000 matches of voter registration records to state driver’s license numbers with Immigration and Naturalization Service indicators,” Just the News noted.

“The matches don’t mean that all of those people were registered to vote, but Schmidt argued:  ‘We’re not talking about an insignificant number here. We’re talking about a potentially very significant number of thousands and tens of thousands.’”

The “Reports” page on the PILF website reveals an astonishing array of disturbing items.

“As states expand mail voting, Nevada’s 2022 midterm elections offer an alarming case study of close results as they relate to rejected, unreturned, and undeliverable ballots,” begins a March report. “Nevada’s U.S. Senate race was ultimately called four days late on a margin of 7,928 votes, which determined party control for the chamber. In 2023, the Secretary of State finally published figures showing that 95,556 ballots were sent to undeliverable or ‘bad’ addresses and another 8,036 were rejected upon receipt. Another 1.2 million ballots never came back to officials for counting.”

Just southeast of Nevada lies another hornet’s nest.

“Since 2015, government records show 222 foreign nationals residing in Maricopa County, Arizona, were removed from the local voter registration roll. From this group, nine individuals are recorded casting 12 ballots across four federal elections,” states an April report.

Maricopa County was the epicenter of controversy last fall over extremely tight US Senate and governor races. According to various news reports, dozens of voting machines in the county failed to work on Nov. 8, preventing voters who showed up on Election Day from casting their ballots. Supporters of anti-establishment Republican candidates Kari Lake (gubernatorial nominee) and Blake Masters (Senate nominee) had encouraged red backers to vote in person in a slap at mail-in voting, which they regarded as unreliable and prone to tampering.

Motor voter registration makes it far too easy for foreigners to get on the rolls.

“States subject to the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (Motor Voter) provide the most common pathway to the voter roll” for foreigners in the US, PILF observes. “States that automate Motor Voter, not giving the immigrant the chance to decline registration, exacerbate the problem. States giving driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants only increase traffic to DMVs.”

Nineteen states currently allow illegal aliens to acquire driver’s licenses, and an organized and concerted effort to increase that figure is gaining momentum. Massachusetts and Minnesota both passed new laws to license illegals in the past year.

They’re Not Citizens and They Vote

The group highlights just how sloppy the vetting process can be.

“Since 2007, Chicago city records show the sporadic removals of 394 foreign nationals from the voter registration roll,” a May PILF report reads. “From this group, 20 individuals are recorded casting 85 ballots. This is not an inventory of every non-citizen vote, but only those who informed election officials they were not an American citizen.”

The Chicago report details, “One of the most damning examples of officials failing to keep foreign nationals off the rolls was when an immigrant honestly declared her status but mistakenly claimed her date of birth as the date of registration. This person failed the two most critical questions for establishing eligibility but was still registered for nearly a year before the errors were resolved.”

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When it comes to checking voter eligibility, illegals are truly “undocumented” as far as local officials are concerned.

“Contrary to popular belief or assumption, the federal government does not have an all-inclusive database election officials can query to identify non-citizens masquerading as citizens in voter rolls,” PILF writes. “Even the Department of Homeland Security’s alien entitlements database known as SAVE has use restrictions. It also does not have every non-citizen in the United States. This leaves election officials waiting for non-citizens to out themselves – an act that can get them charged with a federal felony.”

Adams explained to Just the News why non-citizens seek to get themselves off the voter rolls, painting an utterly damning picture of electoral integrity in the United States today:

“What are they confessing about? They’re writing to get off the voter rolls because they want to naturalize … And there’s provisions in the forms to naturalize that say, ‘Are you registered to vote? If so, get yourself off the rolls, or you’re never going to naturalize.’ And so people end up writing these letters, and getting off the voter rolls, who are not US citizens …

“And Maricopa, which is Phoenix, alone had hundreds of people self-confessing, saying take me off the rolls … Clearly that’s the tip of the iceberg. There’s gonna be lots of people who don’t write in and say I’m a non-citizen.”

“So these folks out there who say non-citizens aren’t participating, they’re liars, period,” Adams exclaimed. “They don’t do the research, they don’t want to do the research. We’ve done the research. And we’re showing that non-citizens are getting on the voter rolls. We also kind of know how it’s happening.”

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