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Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Noncitizens voting across U.S., Frederick County count suggests

Lawsuit on behalf of Marylanders compared jury pools

The debate over noncitizens voting was a hot topic a few years ago in Frederick County, a prosperous Maryland suburb wedged between Washington’s urban metropolis and the state’s rural western gateway to the rest of America.

Conservative activists went to court to show that noncitizens were registering fraudulently to vote. A court employee met their request by turning over pages of residents’ names disqualified from jury duty because of alien status.

When those lists were compared with voting records for just three years — 2007, 2008 and 2011 — nearly 180 noncitizens were found to have registered to vote. Of those, 63 had voted, some in multiple elections. The 180 registered votes came from 1,400 disqualified noncitizens in those three years, a rate of 12.8 percent.

The issue of noncitizen voters has taken on national importance. President Trump, who said 3 million or so voted illegally in November, plans to name a federal task force to investigate.

Frederick County’s numbers offer a limited snapshot from a handful of jury pools, but they indicate that noncitizens are registered to vote and are casting ballots in states, which administer federal, state and local elections.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

If 12.8% were the average than 1.5 - 2.3 million are illegal votes!

Anonymous said...

this is exactly what sanctuary is all about...Md is a blue and Democrats want to keep it that way. Next illegals will be allowed to vote. Keeping it blue keeps them in power and thats what it is all about...Keeping Md blue! They shot down redistricting without even hearing it. Then vote in sanctuary state, its all about the votes to keep them in power. We the people will be the ones to pay for their mess....again. Illegals voting will be next up.

Anonymous said...

WHy are our leaders selling out US citizens? Who controls them? Whos funding them? Do they worship satan? are they communist? I think they are part of an evil cabal. It sure looks that way. They are becoming the enemy of the people!!! Makes no sense unless your motive is to utterly destroy us.