October 31, 2010

NOTE TO GALEO: Some state voters
 aren’t U.S. citizens, oops, si?

Posted by D.A. King at 9:21 pm - Email the author   Print This Post Print This Post  

Some state voters
 aren’t U.S. citizens

AJC Exclusive:( except for WSB TV that broke the story)

For years, Georgia’s method of registering voters allowed some non-U.S. citizens to register and some to cast ballots.

And while state officials say they’ve fixed the problem with new voters, there’s nothing to stop noncitizens who registered before the changes from voting Tuesday.

The Secretary of State’s Office, which oversees Georgia’s voter rolls, does not know how many noncitizens are registered to vote. But state officials acknowledged there are some. And an Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Channel 2 WSB-TV investigation found noncitizens who have voted.

“It doesn’t surprise me but it does concern me, obviously,” Secretary of State Brian Kemp said in an interview after being presented with the AJC’s findings. ..

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