Will your vote count or be neutralized by the opposing vote of a noncitizen?
Allegheny County is being sued by Public Interest Legal Foundation for not enforcing the Voting Rights Act. From 2006 to 2018, the foundation says it uncovered 139 instances of noncitizen voter registration, 63 percent through the state Department of Transportation’s licensing program. Most voted an average of six years before being removed.
It seems that only through lawsuits can we get action in the country’s 3,142 counties to prevent noncitizen voters, dead voters, repeat voters and voter identity fraud from canceling your vote. One testimony contends that Pennsylvania has more than 100,000 immigrants here illegally registered to vote.
California and a growing number of states allow automatic voter registration for anyone who gets a driver’s license, including green card and visa holders. There are an estimated 20 million noncitizen aliens in the U.S. In 2005, the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that up to 3 percent of 30,000 people called for jury duty in one U.S. district court weren’t U.S. citizens.
So do the math. Nine hundred out of 30,000 in just one district were potential noncitizen voters.
Judicial Watch won a Supreme Court case to get Ohio to clean up its voting rolls. Left-wing groups put up millions to prevent the purging of voter rolls in Ohio and elsewhere.
Can we believe the Carl P. Leubsdorf Sept. 24 column (“Trump failing to pursue actual voter rights violations”) criticizing the moves/changes to guarantee your vote counts?
Richard Swomley
Manor Township
