Posted on 05/13/2015 9:39:52 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
The federal voter registration form has zero safeguards. She was only caught because she accidentally self-reported.
Last week, the Department of Justice Board of Immigration Appeals upheld a decision to deport Margarita Del Pilar Fitzpatrick for voting in a federal election. Fitzpatrick registered to vote in Illinois using the federal “Motor Voter” registration form.
Fitzpatrick’s criminal act is one more example demonstrating that non-citizens voting in American elections is not a myth. The opinion by the Board of Immigration appeals stated:
On August 5, 2005, she applied for an Illinois driver’s license and signed a voter registration application in which she checked a box indicating that she was a United States citizen.
Fitzpatrick was caught by pure accident. When she submitted her application for naturalization in 2007, she indicated on the form that she had registered to vote and had voted in a U.S. election. DHS opened an investigation proceeding based only upon her voluntary red flag. (By law, voting by a noncitizen is a deportable offense, and there is no intent requirement: it doesn’t matter whether the person knew what they were doing was illegal.) Of course, most illegal foreign voters never admit that they have voted. Fitzpatrick would otherwise have never been caught, and she was only caught several years after her illegal vote was counted as legal.
Some states have enacted citizenship qualifications, and have asked the federal government to amend the federal form which currently does not require any proof of citizenship beyond self-reporting. But many don’t want to amend the form, including the Obama Justice Department. A case is now before the Supreme Court, brought by Kansas and Arizona. A federal bureaucrat had earlier denied the request by those states to amend the federal form and to block aliens from voting.
This isn’t the only area where election integrity is under attack. Some advocate for voter registration forms to be made available and pushed everywhere, and then fight against Voter ID laws and against states that wish to ask for proof of citizenship upon registration. How can they expect fraud and deportation not to be the result? Because of Motor Voter laws, the form is available and pushed in all kinds of places. It was perfectly legitimate for this person to get a driver’s license. But why was a voter registration form even made available to her?
That checkbox is the only verification required with the federal form. No other proof of citizenship is required. And in most states, no ID is required at the polls.
Will the Supreme Court return power to the states to enforce their own qualifications? The case, Kobach v. EAC, is headed to the Supreme Court, and the Public Interest Legal Foundation has submitted an amicus brief explaining why the Court should take it.
The time to catch foreigners trying to vote is when they register to vote, not after they voted.
That would probably be deemed racist, so it will never happen.
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it doesn’t matter, it’s too late. It is their children that will be the final downfall of our nation. They are entitled to vote legally when they are of age and the wave will be hitting in the 2020’s and grow exponentially from there. The seeds are already spilled and you can’t stop it now. liberals sold their souls for a couple of decades of power. Soon, they will be considered just another gringo like the rest of us. America will be lost, I do not believe there is any way to stop it now. The invasion is in full swing and not a single shot was fired... we gave it away
Bingo! We gave it away. Vote GOPe to prevent????????
LOL
Overall votes?
10 % is probably a high number...my guess would be 2% to 3 % across the board...still too high...
In certain purple districts, especially where dems hold the ballet counting authority...could be as high as 50 % or whatever number is needed to win...
In a place like Florida, I have a decent level of assurance that the voting process is pretty legit...
Must show your Fl. license or State issued ID and then it's scanned through a credit card type machine to verify who you are...
You can do a provisional ballot which is checked against the voting rolls ...
Probably the biggest issue in Florida is part time residents voting here and then in the crap liberal state they came from...
Not deported but sent back on the US taxpayers’ dime to bring back more voters for the boy king’s third run.
Last month, wifey had to go to the DMV in person for license renewal here in Kalifornia. The place was packed full of Mexicans, because effective earlier this year illegals can now obtain drivers licenses......each and every piece of paper involved in any transaction there had voter registration applications.
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Note to Jeb Bush.
The SINGLE illegal alien that will vote for you has been deported.
Jebbie still expects to sweep the Hispanic vote in 2016.
The American people are just too uninformed to know much of anything and have been for a long time.
Nikita S. Khrushchev predicted all of this c. 1959, but Nixon didn’t believe him.
Does that apply to POTUS?
Only if they self report, it seems.
I see no evidence that she has been booted out of America. No proof
so ...the law worked and the left is upset?
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