Aliens Voting We’ve seen the invasion of our border. Are we going to stop the invasion of our voter rolls? by J. Christian Adams
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The southern border crisis has reached new heights under President Biden. Now, viral footage shows migrants rushing the National Guard and cutting down border fencing. The data backs up the images Americans are seeing on TV. Arrests for illegal border crossings from Mexico have reached an all-time high.
I could just as easily be describing our border in 2015 or even a decade before. Some of these foreigners will get drivers licenses and, therefore mistakenly get added to American voter rolls. We have researched this issue for years, and there is hard data to back it up.
We already have government records from states across the country that reveal aliens have been registering and voting in American elections. Yes, you read that right: foreigners are casting ballots in American elections. It is not a myth or Bigfoot. It is happening.
The number one source for alien registration is the DMV registration system. The overwhelming majority of foreigners who end up registered to vote come through the DMV. The second most prevalent is student visas. Illegal border crossers comprise a smaller percentage of aliens to get registered. Data support these conclusions.
For over a decade, the Public Interest Legal Foundation has been harvesting records from election offices in Texas, California, North Carolina, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and many more states that reveal the extent of the problem of aliens getting registered to vote and why it is happening.
The National Voter Registration Act, more commonly known as Motor Voter, is the federal law that requires states to offer voter registration at local drivers license agencies.
As aliens go to get drivers licenses, they will be asked if they would like to register to vote. If they say yes, all that they need to do is fill out the voter registration form and check the box “yes” I am a United States citizen.
After the form is filled out, election officials are required to register the individual to vote in federal elections. States are not allowed to ask for citizenship verification such as a birth certificate, passport, or naturalization documents. Only an honor system prevents aliens from registering to vote.
The process can be as simple as an alien checking the wrong box or signing the wrong form handed to them by a state employee – sometimes in a different language.
Sometimes aliens get registered because of mistakes by election officials. For instance, Pennsylvania admitted that due to what election officials referred to as “glitch” they had been accidentally registering aliens to vote for two decades. They have been fighting for over five years to conceal details including the number of aliens the Commonwealth registered to vote by mistake.
Additionally, some of the voter registration forms disclosed to the Public Interest Legal Foundation show that aliens have marked “no” I am not a U.S. citizen and were still registered to vote by election officials. These types of errors should never happen.
What can be done about aliens registering to vote?
Unfortunately, as evidenced by a U.S. Senate hearing earlier this month, the Left has no problem with aliens voting. Not a single Democrat invited witness agreed that only citizens should vote in federal elections.
Congress can solve the problem by allowing states to validate citizenship effectively. This could be as easy as providing a passport, birth certificate, or other evidence of being an American. Another easy fix is for Congress to add citizenship to Motor Voter’s reasonable list maintenance requirements for states. Motor Voter does not put the same obligation for states to keep voter rolls free from foreigners as it does from deceased individuals.
With a record number of aliens entering the country, we must take action to ensure they are not registering and voting this November.
We’ve seen the invasion at the southern border. We have to stop the invasion of our voter rolls.
J. Christian Adams is a current commissioner on the United States Commission for Civil Rights, a former Justice Department Voting Section attorney and the President of the Public Interest Legal Foundation.
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