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The Oregon DMV admitted on Friday to wrongfully registering at least 306 non-citizens to vote in U.S. elections.The DMV says the wrongful registrations have occurred since 2021 and were the result of a program that automatically registered anyone who obtained a driver's license or state ID. State officials say they expect to find more wrongful registrations ahead of Election Day.Oregon has allowed non-citizens to obtain diver's licenses since 2019. Of the 306 people identified, just two have cast ballots in an election since 2021.Oregon Secretary of State LaVonne Griffin-Valade says the 306 people "will be notified by mail that they...

[audio] This is a 2-minute summary of Oakland’s Measure S on the November 8, 2022 ballot. If passed, Measure S would allow Oakland’s non-citizen parents and legal guardians the right to vote in school board elections. Measure S authors are council members Dan Kalb and Treva Reed. They want to ensure that noncitizen parents' voices are heard and that their children's educational needs are better met through advocacy and given resources. Oakland is demographically diverse. In fact, about 60,000 people in Oakland are non-citizens. Over 13,000 of these parents send their kids to school in Oakland.

Electoral cheating is not the "myth" the Left pretends it is ... More than 14 percent of non-citizens in both the 2008 and 2010 samples indicated that they were registered to vote. ... Because non-citizens tended to favor Democrats (Obama won more than 80 percent of the votes of non-citizens in the 2008 CCES sample), we find that this participation was large enough to plausibly account for Democratic victories in a few close elections. Non-citizen votes could have given Senate Democrats the pivotal 60th vote needed to overcome filibusters in order to pass health-care reform and other Obama administration priorities...

UCLA law professor Joaquin Avila believes that the continued exclusion of non-citizens in California from political participation is detrimental to achieving a more "cohesive society." Avila, an expert on minority voting rights issues, was at the UCD law school on Monday for a panel discussing whether non-citizens in California should be excluded from voting and participation in the political process. Avila also discussed his recently-published document "Political Apartheid in California: Consequences of Excluding a Growing Population." Also accompanying him on the law panel was UC Davis law professor Kevin Johnson and Adela De La Torre, chair of the Chicana/o studies...