More than 1,600 noncitizens attempted to register to vote in Georgia in the state’s first-ever citizenship review of its voter rolls, the Georgia secretary of state announced Monday.
The audit found that 1,634 noncitizens were caught trying to register and have since been placed in “pending citizenship” status, removing them from consideration to be added to the state’s voter rolls. None of the flagged individuals had cast a ballot in recent elections.“Ensuring that only citizens are voting in Georgia’s elections is key to upholding the integrity of the vote in Georgia,” Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said in a statement.
“As soon as you see that they were born in a foreign country, then the next question logically was going to be the proof of your citizenship,” Raffensperger told the Washington Examiner. “If they don't present that, then they are not registered to vote.” Other states have had issues with independent citizenship audits, including an effort by Texas in 2019 to purge its voter rolls of noncitizens that led to three federal investigations into the process. The review flagged nearly 100,000 registered voters because the data did not take into account immigrants who gained citizenship, falsely labeling them as illegitimate.“I think Georgia, we did it right,” he said. “The proof is, we did have that many noncitizens who attempted to register.
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