Posted on 08/24/2024 4:48:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber
On Thursday, the Ohio Secretary of State’s office referred 138 illegal aliens for prosecution after they were discovered to have been registered to vote.
According to Fox News, the announcement of prosecutions is the culmination of a months-long auditing of the crucial swing state’s voter rolls by Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R-Ohio). Hundreds of other illegal aliens were already purged from the voter rolls earlier this year as the state takes steps towards securing election integrity ahead of the November election.
“I’m duty-bound to make sure people who haven’t yet earned citizenship in this country do not vote in our elections,” said LaRose in a statement. “We’ve so far identified 597 individuals who’ve registered to vote in Ohio despite not being citizens of the United States, as our state constitution requires.”
Of those 597, LaRose said, 148 cases occurred in 2022, while 117 happened in 2021 and 354 occurred in 2019.
“The evidence includes 138 individuals who appear to have cast a ballot in an Ohio election during the time state and federal records show they lacked citizenship status,” LaRose continued. “The law requires me to refer these individuals to the attorney general, and that’s what we’re doing today.”
LaRose’s audit has primarily utilized cross-referencing records from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles, the Social Security Administration, and the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database, as well as federal jury pool data.
Thus far, over 155,000 voter registrations that were found to be abandoned or inactive have been purged from the voter rolls under LaRose’s audit.
Ohio, which is worth 17 electoral votes, is widely seen as one of the most important swing states in the country. After twice voting for Barack Obama, Ohio voted for President Donald Trump by an 8-point margin in 2016, the highest margin of victory for any candidate in the Buckeye State since George H.W. Bush in 1988, despite polls predicting a close race. President Trump then won the state again by roughly the same margin against Joe Biden in 2020, defying the polls once more. The state is now considered to be reliably in favor of Trump for a third consecutive time against Democratic nominee Kamala Harris (D-Calif.).
How about going after the NGOs that organized the voter registration efforts and trafficked the invaders from state to state to register them to vote. I think RICO charges are in order.
I’m sure there are a lot more than 100 illegals registered to vote in Ohio. Is this just a stunt to mollify the Right?
Just the tip of the iceberg.
“How about going after the NGOs that organized the voter registration efforts and trafficked the invaders from state to state to register them to vote. I think RICO charges are in order.”
Yes, NGOs are leftist termites funded by the deep state to undermine the foundations of our country and the rule of law.
They absolutely need to be fumigated!
Yes, but you have to start somewhere, loud and publicly.
Perhaps the RNC should run PSAs on Telemundo and Univision reporting the consequences of noncitizens voting.
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Right! I see more and more of them all the time. AND did you ever notice, they will NOT look you in the eye?
So fundamental to the Republic is the integrity of the vote that illegal voting of any kind and any other form of election fraud should be punished by fortiture of any opportunity to become a US citizen, if not a citizen, and by at least 50 years in prison for anyone.
I’d rather expel them with no right of return. Fines OK in addition. Prison housing is expensive.
Some will immediately claim this to be draconian. It's not. Election integrity is vital and fundamental to the US Republic. Nothing is more important.
One doe snot “accidentally” sign up to vote, an illegal alien who registers to vote should be facing life in prison or permanent expulsion under penalty of death upon return.
Furthermore any US citizen guilty of election fraud should have his citizenship permanently revoked and receive the same penalties as an illegal alien or any other non-citizen.
But any repeat offender should be incarcerated for a very long time and then expelled.
*Yes, but you have to start somewhere, loud and publicly.* That’s the only way.
LaRose deserves the senate nomination for that one but he probably would lose so they went with someone else. Hopefully he can be rewarded in some way.
Can they plead ignorance?
Pinochet them over Mexico. That’ll send a message.
The communists fear losing so much they import ghost voters must not be enough dead people to count as a voter.
The punishment must be very brutal and very public.
Word needs to get out to such criminals (all illegal aliens = criminals) that this evidence will result in deportation. No trial, just dump them somewhere south.
You can pick that many up in any neighborhood.
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