In Macomb County Michigan, the county clerk noticed that a lot of folks being called for jury duty were begging off because they are green card holders (who cannot serve on juries). So he decided to look further and check those folks’ voting records.
Mr. Forlini asked his team to cross-check the 239 non-citizens who refused to perform jury duty with the voter rolls, and what he found is that, according to Michigan’s QVF (Qualified Voter Rolls), 14 of them were registered to vote at some point, with 10 of them still remaining on the voter rolls. Of the 10 non-citizens found on Michigan’s voter rolls (from a very small sample), 4 appear to have voted, and one of them has voted multiple times. Forlini said the voter who cast multiple ballots could face felony charges.
It looks like this crack in the system is caused by ‘motor voter’ where a person signs up to vote when they get their drivers license.
The Macomb County clerk explains, “Currently, someone who applies for a driver’s license automatically is registered to vote unless they choose to decline. If someone is presented with a voter registration form, there is a checkbox for citizenship. If the checkbox is checked “yes” for “I am a United States citizen,” the form is processed even if the applicant is not a U.S. citizen or doesn’t understand the question.
Unlike some states, Michigan does not currently use a federal citizenship database or systematic federal verification to confirm the status at the time of registration.”“We must find a way for the Driver’s License database to confirm citizenship. Many times there may be a language barrier, and applicants do not understand what they are signing. If this is not addressed, we risk compromising our jury trials and our elections,” said Clerk Forlini.
Of course he’s looking at the system, but the question that occurred to me when reading the above was if they can’t understand the question then how the heck are they passing a driver’s test?
And of course, we have been assured that non-citizens aren’t voting, but somehow they keep finding them.
if 100% of eligible voting-age citizens were registered to vote in Michigan, the state would have 7.9 million registered voters. Somehow, Michigan miraculously has 8.4 registered voters, according to state data.
Enough to tip elections, right?
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