by Dave Williams | Mar 28, 2022 | Capitol Beat News Service
ATLANTA – The first citizenship audit of voter rolls in Georgia history has turned up 1,634 people who tried to register to vote but could not be verified as U.S. citizens.
The noncitizens identified in the audit conducted by the secretary of state’s office were placed into “pending citizenship” status and not allowed to vote.
“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 Monday. “As liberal states and cities around the country are changing their laws to allow noncitizen voting, I will continue to take steps to ensure Georgia’s elections are executed with integrity. Leading the state’s first citizenship audit of the voter rolls is an important part of that effort.”
Fifteen U.S. cities – including New York City and San Francisco – allow noncitizens to vote in local elections. Most of those cities are in Maryland.
The audit consisted of gathering data from the state Department of Driver Services and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services through the federal agency’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program.
In all, 2,258 voter registration applications are currently in “pending citizenship” status. The difference between the two numbers is because the secretary of state’s office was unable to obtain the required information on 624 noncitizens who were flagged by the DDS. Those 624 remain in “pending citizenship” status.
None of these individuals have cast ballots in Georgia elections.
This story is available through a news partnership with Capitol Beat News Service, a project of the Georgia Press Educational Foundation.
Way to bury the lead-None of these individuals have cast ballots in Georgia elections.
ut that wasn’t your goal-yours was to flame the Big Lie of voter fraud…
He’s toast anyway and won’t be reelected. He’s trying to save face.
So you’re saying that voter fraud was NOT committed? It doesn’t matter if they didn’t vote in Georgia, they got caught. Hopefully, they will be flagged if they try to vote in Georgia! I wish all states would attack voter fraud instead of sweep it under the rug and hope someone else catches it. “Oh, we know you didn’t mean it. We’ll just let it go. No consequences necessary. See ya next time!”
If you are not a US citizen it is a crime to register to vote.
You should realize and accept that he followed the law for and certified the election instead of “finding “ the votes that Trump thought he was entitled to. Exactly why is that “toast”?
This doesn’t address how fraud can be committed by absentee ballots and satellite voting boxes. There should never be any doubt that our voting process is beyond reproach. Our last election made us look like a 3rd world country. Any concerns should be addressed and no non citizen should be allowed to vote in ANY election whether local, state or federal!!