More Than 11,000 Non-Citizens Are Registered To Vote in
Pennsylvania, by Conservative Zone, 1/8/19.
Only U.S. citizens should be able to vote. That goes without
saying. But someone in Pennsylvania apparently didn’t get the memo.
It has come to light that in Pennsylvania, more than 11,000
people who are not citizens managed to register to vote. Even worse, Governor
Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania used legal tricks to block that information from being
released.
“Pennsylvania officials have admitted to finding names of 11,198
non-citizens registered to vote on the state’s rolls — though top lawmakers
suspect the number could still be higher,” the Washington Times reported.
Some in Pennsylvania are speaking out against the problem. “I believe that we need to take action and have those people
removed immediately from the tolls. They were never eligible to vote,”
Pennsylvania State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe said.
And the problem isn’t just that so many people who were not
citizens were registered to vote. It’s also a serious issue that the governor
was so deceptive that he withheld the information from the public, and did so
until after the 2018 midterm elections.
“Making this problem worse isn’t the fact that there are that
many non-citizens registered to vote, but that the Governor fought tooth and
nail to prevent this information from going public until after the election,”
Hot Air’s Jazz Shaw said. “The original investigation took place in plenty of
time for the news to be released last year, but the Governor dragged his feet
until a hearing was scheduled for December. Once the election was safely out of
the way, the Governor withdrew his objections.”
Many might be wondering how in the world a “non-citizen” could
manage to register to vote. It’s a good question. What happens is that in many
states, people who are not citizens are allowed to get driver’s licenses. And
voter registration is often tied to getting a vehicle registration or a
driver’s license. So, people who are citizens might register to vote when they
get their vehicle registration or driver’s license.
If those numbers of “non-citizens” voting in Pennsylvania seem
bad, and they are, they are even worse in Texas, where an investigation
discovered that 95,000 people who are not citizens are on the voter rolls, and
58,000 of those voted using those registrations.
“Every single instance of illegal voting threatens democracy in
our state and deprives individual Texans of their voice,” Texas Attorney
General Ken Paxton said. “Nothing is more vital to preserving our Constitution
than the integrity of our voting process, and my office will do everything
within its abilities to solidify trust in every election in the state of
Texas.”
It really makes no sense that people who are not citizens of the
United States could be permitted to vote. Voting is a privilege, and in this
country, it’s a privilege that only citizens should have.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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