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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/ohio-secretary-state-refers-597-noncitizens-prosecution-after/
Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose announced the referral of
597 noncitizens for possible prosecution after they were found to have
either registered to vote or cast a ballot illegally.
This significant number, which surpasses previous years, underscores
the ongoing efforts by Ohio’s Republican leadership to combat voter
fraud and protect the sanctity of the ballot box.
Of these cases, 138 noncitizens were found to have illegally cast
ballots, while another 459 registered to vote but did not participate in
the election, according to AP.
These individuals were identified through a rigorous review process
and have been referred to Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost for further
action. The numbers are telling: compared to 148 noncitizen cases
referred in 2022, 117 in 2021, and 354 in 2019, it is clear that the
state’s efforts to crack down on illegal voting are gaining momentum.
Secretary LaRose has been at the forefront of this battle, making
voter integrity a cornerstone of his office’s mission. His recent audit
of the state’s voter registration database resulted in the removal of
nearly 155,000 outdated and inactive registrations, further ensuring
that Ohio’s voter rolls remain accurate and up-to-date.
Appearing on War Room with Benjamin Harnwell, LaRose highlighted the challenges and successes of these efforts.
Below is the transcript:
Frank Laroze: We’re removing
non-citizens from the voter rolls and actually referring them for
prosecution because the law that’s not followed is… well, it’s not a
law; it’s a suggestion. And so, if people break the law in Ohio, they’re
going to face the consequences for it.
Benjamin Harnwell: Tell me a bit more about that
because you gave an initial exposition, I think on Monday here on the
show. Tell us some more about the process of removing people. How is
that going? How are you identifying them, and how are you removing them?
Frank Laroze: Well, first of all, the process is
much harder than it needs to be because of a lack of cooperation from
the federal government. We’re using every resource we have, but it’s
still not a full process that it could be.
If, for example, we’re able to pass Chip Roy’s SAVE Act, this process
will improve dramatically. Because it’s so hard, because it involves so
many different steps, a lot of other states are not bothering to do it.
But we’ve had an all-hands-on-deck approach where we’ve worked with our
State Bureau of Motor Vehicles. That’s the first filter that we go
through.
Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles, when you get a state driver’s license
or you get a state ID, we at that point establish your status. You’re
either a citizen or a non-citizen. So we use that. With that, I was able
to remove hundreds of non-citizens from the voter rolls. We then are
left with some cases where we have a question. At one point, they were a
non-citizen.
They may have naturalized since. If they did, if they’ve taken the
oath of citizenship and done it the right way, we don’t want to pester
them. And so, we then go through the federal SAVE database, and they
charge us a fee to use that.
We have to manually enter all of these. We have to get what’s called
an alien registration number in order to do it. We have to notify this
individual by mail that we’re searching their status. But then that
helped us take another few hundred off the voter rolls. And then we’re
still left with some that we have a question about. For those, I sent a
round of mailings to them.
I said, “Listen, I want to know if you’re a citizen, tell me. If
you’re not a citizen, please understand that you are risking being
charged with a felony, which makes you subject to immediate deportation.
So don’t mess around with this. Don’t mess around and find out, because
if you are a non-citizen, you should remove your voter registration
right now.”
And we’ve gotten some good responses from that as well, as well as
some hand-wringing from people saying, “Oh, this is suppressing the
vote.” It’s no such thing. We’re simply trying to establish who’s a
citizen and who’s not because Ohio’s Constitution requires it, and
federal law requires it.
WATCH:
(Yep.....dishonest?.... Throw them in Jail for a Long time.)
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