Alabama Secretary of State finds over 3,000 non-citizens registered to vote

Allen found 3,251 non-citizens who were registered to vote, 742 of them were from north Alabama. “We got the information, we cross-checked it with our centralized data files here in the state of Alabama and found those 3,200 individuals,” Allen said. The information he’s talking about is people with alien registration numbers. Those are issued to immigrants who intend to live in this country permanently and have already applied for a green card. you’re not eligible to vote with just an alien identification number. When WAFF 48 asked Allen how 3,000 plus were able to register in the first place he could not give us the answer. “It’s our belief that only American citizens should be allowed to vote,” Allen said. “Non-citizens, whether their legal or illegal cannot register to vote. It’s a federal offense.” To vote here in Alabama you need one of these things: a driver’s license, a passport, a voter photo ID or any other type of photo ID. But Mike Nicholson with the voter’s rights group Alabama Arise is now questioning the state’s system as a whole. “It just leaves me with questions, How could that many people supposedly register to vote when you need a photo ID or a social security number, there’s all these barriers in place that wouldn’t allow that to happen,” Nicholson said. “So I would ask the Secretary of State to be more transparent with that because we know in other states that similar actions like that have purged other voters from the polls.”

Reference: www.waff.com