All posts tagged "Noncitizen Voting"

President Donald Trump's Department of Justice dropped a threat for election officials on Tuesday, prompting a red state's top election official to reject the demand, Democracy Docket reported.

Republican Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson called out the federal agency for its attacks on election officials in multiple states after the DOJ warned that the leaders could face criminal prosecution over potential noncitizen voting. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon sent the letters to Michigan, Nevada, and Utah, saying that these states had five days to prove how they plan to "comply with federal voter eligibility laws."

"Got another love letter this morning from the DOJ sprinkled throughout with threats of criminal prosecution," Henderson wrote in a post on Threads. ...

Rep. Scott Krug (R-Nekoosa), the chair of the Assembly’s committee on campaigns and elections, says he’s making progress in his effort to find whether or not noncitizens are voting in large numbers in Wisconsin.

In May, Krug said during a joint hearing of both legislative chambers’ elections committees that it would be his “mission” this summer to find a way to get state agencies to share data that would help ensure noncitizens aren’t voting.

The state Department of Transportation (DOT) maintains a database of all the non-U.S. citizens in Wisconsin who are here legally and have obtained driver’s licenses. Separately, the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) maintains the statewide voter registration list. ...