CHICAGO ID CARD FOR ILLEGALS
VALID FOR VOTER REGISTRATION, 'You are signing
a legal document that says, 'Yes, I am a citizen'', 2/28/18, WND
Chicago’s new CityKey ID card,
designed to provide legal identification to illegal aliens, the homeless and
those recently released from prison will qualify as a legal
form of ID for the Illinois Board
of Elections to accept, said a spokesman for the agency.
But don’t worry about illegal aliens
voting, he assured.
State Board of Elections spokesman
Matt Dietrich told Illinois News Network the 109 local election authorities in
the state have final word on which documents to accept when someone registers
to vote, but as far as his agency is concerned Chicago’s CityKey will be
acceptable.
The local authorities are “the ones
who actually handle the registration, the checking of IDs and keeping the
documentation. We maintain an electronic database of voter registrations that
we get from them.”
Illinois has no state requirement to
prove citizenship when registering to vote. “When you go to register to vote,
you do check a box that attests to your citizenship,” Dietrich said. “You are
signing a legal document that says, ‘Yes, I am a citizen.’ But no one who
registers to vote is required to bring in, for example, a birth certificate or
other proof of citizenship. That’s something that you check the box, and you
attest to it.”
During Fox News’ Tucker Carlson’s
interview with Chicago Alderman Ameya Pawar, who wrote the law that created
CityKey, Pawar claimed registrants in the state had to produce a birth
certificate to register to vote – a claim shown to be untrue. Watch it here:
Dietrich sees two reasons the
CityKey ID shouldn’t result in a spike in illegal registrations. First, while
the ID is new, the process of attesting to citizenship is the same as that used
in the past. Second, he believes the potential penalty is sufficient to deter
illegal registration.
“The main thing that would happen is
deportation,” Dietrich said. “If you’re not a citizen, and you have any
thoughts of ever attaining citizenship, registering to vote is almost an instant trigger that when you
apply for citizenship, you will be deported. That’s one of the first things
they check.”
Illegals and others wanting a
CityKey card can submit a current driver’s license, state ID, expired foreign
passport, foreign driver’s license or high school or GED diploma, among others,
to identify themselves.
Dietrich’s confidence that the
threat of deportation is sufficient to deter illegal registrations has not been
borne out in Pennsylvania where the state is being sued after an analysis
identified more than 100,000 active registrants who are noncitizens.
Following revelations last year by a
Philadelphia city commissioner of a “glitch” at the state’s Department
of Motor Vehicles that enabled noncitizens to
register to vote when applying for or renewing driver’s licenses, the Public
Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), an election integrity group, requested to
inspect the data relating to noncitizens on the state’s rolls.
The state refused. Adding to the
intrigue was the abrupt resignation of then-Pennsylvania secretary of state
Pedro Cortes a month after the “glitch” was made public.
“For months, Pennsylvania
bureaucrats have concealed facts about noncitizens registering and voting –
that ends today,” said J. Christian Adams, president and general counsel of
PILF.
“Before this lawsuit, the State
admitted to a ‘glitch’ that exposed thousands of driver’s license customers to
voter registration offers despite their noncitizen status since the 1990s. The
secretary of state abruptly resigned. DOS officials blocked federal public
inspection rights. The PILF hopes to finally get answers about the true scale
of noncitizen voting in Pennsylvania and assist lawmakers in crafting reforms
that fix it.”
“Time has run out on Pennsylvania’s
effort to hide embarrassing data about how the state failed citizens and
immigrants alike,” said PILF’s spokesman Logan Churchwell. “The electorate
deserves an informed debate on how we address unlawful noncitizen participation
in our elections. Seeking this information is step one.”
Pennsylvania’s “glitch” should be of
concern to California officials who, after a WND
report, insisted a new policy that automatically registers as voters adults
obtaining or renewing a driver’s license would not allow illegal aliens to
vote.
Ruth Weiss, vice president of the
Election Integrity Project of California, isn’t convinced. With California and
some localities explicitly refusing to comply with federal immigration law and
declaring the state a sanctuary for illegal aliens, her organization has called
on the DMV to allow an unbiased third party to monitor the department’s
voter-registration process.
“What other laws are we not
following?” she asked.
“Based on what we have observed in
terms of the state’s reliability in effectively following other laws, we have
reason to doubt on this one,” she said.
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