Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced Wednesday that an audit of Georgia’s voter rolls found 20 noncitizens registered to vote — and nearly half of them reportedly previously voted in an election.
Raffensperger said the state found 20 noncitizens on its voter rolls after it launched a citizenship audit this summer. The audit also discovered that “nine of those 20 noncitizens cast ballots in the past, while the other 11 were registered but never actually voted,” according to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution.
The secretary said the state used records from “county courts, the Georgia Department of Driver Services, and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.” Gabe Sterling, the chief operating officer for the secretary’s office, said the 20 noncitizens on the rolls were discovered after they signed affidavits confirming they were not citizens when seeking dismissal from jury duty. The individuals came from seven Georgia counties: Fulton, Cobb, Bibb, Clayton, Henry, Gwinnett, and DeKalb, Sterling said.
Raffensperger said all 20 voter registrations were canceled and were “being referred to local prosecuting law enforcement.”
The state also discovered 156 people whom Raffensperger says “require[s] additional human investigation” into their citizenship status. Raffensperger said his office opened a “case file into these individuals.”
Several other states have also discovered noncitizens on their voter rolls in recent weeks.
Oregon’s secretary of state recently announced that the state similarly found nine noncitizens who had voted in past elections, along with “more than 300 noncitizens [who] were erroneously registered to vote,” as my colleague
