Florida Governor Ron DeSantis asked immigration officials about the citizenship of some people who have shown up on Florida’s voter rolls, but officials don’t believe they are citizens.
New numbers show that last month, 144 non-citizens were found to be on the state’s voting records. Democrats are calling it a waste of time.
But groups like the Only Citizens Vote Coalition (OCVC) say it is an important issue that could threaten accurate election outcomes.
“It is a violation of federal law for noncitizens to vote in our elections,” said OCVC. “But like so many laws regularly broken, these statues are being shredded as noncitizens (foreign nationals here lawfully and illegal immigrants) are already on voter rolls or currently registering to vote ahead of the November elections.”
Florida isn’t the only state where elected officials have found problems with noncitizens on their rolls. OCVC says several states have already found and removed noncitizens—many with voting histories — from their voter rolls.
“There are currently about 24 million noncitizens in the U.S. If they voted only at the same rate of 6.4% this year as they have reported to have done in 2008, they would account for 1.5M votes and within 39 months of the Biden/Harris Administration coming into office in 2021, the noncitizen population increased by more than 6.6 million and at least 4.6M of those are here illegally – roughly 58 percent,” said OCV Coalition senior advisor Kerri Toloczko.
Toloczko says the biggest problem is there are no federal requirements for a registrant to present documentary proof of citizenship.
“DMVs, social service organizations, and leftwing voter registration groups regularly hand voter registration cards to people with no regard to their citizenship status,” she notes. “Many of these individuals are not proficient in English and have no idea that these bureaucrats or activists are drawing them into a federal felony.
Toloczko also points out that illegal votes cancel out legal votes, but noncitizens are also putting themselves at risk of penalties such as jail, fines, and immediate deportation.”
Florida Secretary of State Cord Byrd says his office has put forth measures to eliminate voter fraud.
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