Citizenship verification in Georgia finds that 1,600 noncitizens attempted to register to vote but were stopped by the verification
As we recently posted, Democrats now openly acknowledge their goal is to give citizenship to all illegal aliens. But, apparently, some can’t wait for non-citizens to vote. Secretaries of State Brad Raffensperger (R-GA), Adrian Fontes (D-AZ), and Jocelyn Benson (D-MI) had a lively discussion on NBC’s “Meet the Press” with host Kristen Welker about noncitizens attempting to vote. Raffensperger pointed out that Georgia’s citizenship verification had discovered 1,600 non-citizens who had attempted to vote.
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Welker asked Raffensperger why the issue of noncitizens voting in the election is such an urgent matter if its quite rare and illegal.
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“Because I believe only American citizens should be voting in our elections. And I ran back in 2018 saying the same thing. I’m the first secretary of state in Georgia to ever do 100 percent citizenship verification,” Raffensperger responded.
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He said the state found about 1,600 people that attempted to register to vote but they could not find citizenship verification.
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“So, my fellow Georgians asked me, ‘Are noncitizens voting in Georgia?’ I can say, ‘No, they aren’t’ because we’ve checked it,” Raffensperger said. . . .
Strangely, Secretary Fontes used the fact that verification was done and prevented non-citizens from voting as an argument not to verify voters’ citizenship instead of noting that 1,600 had tried to register:
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Fontes addressed Raffensperger saying he proved his own point with that example.
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“You did an audit, and you found that there were attempts. But none of those folks were actually registered, and none of those folks actually voted. And that means that elections have been safe and secure from noncitizen voting in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona and across the country,” Fontes said. “So, I think this is a red herring.”
