Posted on 09/14/2024 2:20:50 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
What’s happening in Ohio. A bit closer to home, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose is working in the same vein. He’s recently urged state lawmakers to impose similar proof-of-citizenship requirements at the state level following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing an Arizona law to remain in place. And Wednesday he called on Congress to support his efforts to find alleged noncitizens on the voter rolls.
Earlier this week he referred old cases to the Attorney General. Since taking office, LaRose stated in a press release, his office has sent more than 600 incidents of alleged election fraud to law enforcement.
An Ohio Capital Journal investigation showed almost none of those allegations have resulted in charges, and LaRose’s release acknowledges that track record. But instead of seeing shortcomings on his end, LaRose placed the blame on county prosecutors.
“Unfortunately, many of these referrals have not been pursued by law enforcement, sometimes by choice and other times due to limited prosecutorial capacity,” he said.
LaRose noted the Attorney General can step in when a prosecutor doesn’t act “within a reasonable time,” and insisted “the only way to maintain Ohio’s high standard of election integrity is to enforce the law whenever it’s broken.” Hun Yi, who leads investigations for LaRose’s public integrity division, argued prosecutors have had their chance.
“We respect prosecutorial discretion,” he wrote in a letter to Attorney General Dave Yost, “and we don’t necessarily expect all 633 referrals to lead to criminal charges, but only 12 out of 633 shows a second set of eyes might be needed here to determine whether prosecution of these crimes is justified.”
The referral of warmed-over cases comes on the heels of two other noncitizen audits in which LaRose wound up flagging recently naturalized citizens. Some of them argue LaRose’s audit took a shortcut — lumping them in even though they hadn’t made a legally required assertion of noncitizenship to the BMV.
Becker argued that heightened scrutiny is simply not warranted.
“Disenfranchising citizens is wrong,” he said. “It’s particularly troubling to disenfranchise citizens who become naturalized and as their first act as a naturalized citizen registered to vote.”
“So, until they bring any evidence,” he added, “I think we don’t have anything to discuss here. Because this is not a problem.”
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This why election cheaters CHEAT.
This is happening in Conservative Ohio where only 12 out of 633 non-citizen referrals have been looked at by the OHIO PROSECUTORS.
Yeah, let’s all just ignore all the government sponsored voter registration of non-citizens and pretend its not a problem until they manage to steal another election.
All is well that ends well, eh.
Fear Mongering?!?!
How do you fear monger about something that is ILLEGAL and violate that very basic values of the republic?!!?
Do people fear monger about rape? murder? assault?
“Those people are zealots when it comes to murder” Never hear that.
I dont believe this country anymore...at least a too large size of it.
it’s like some kind of waking nightmare....tg children...gay marriage....illegals skipping over to the US by the 10s of millions at this point...35 trillion debt...”inclusion, diversity (and another one)” departments in every major company...
No wonder why I drink so much dam JD!!
Is it fear mongering? Really? Or could it possibly be trusting a group about as far as you can throw them?
The brainwashing continues...
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