Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger says Democrats have tipped their hand to their desire to unleash noncitizen voting by opposing his state’s citizenship verification in court and he is urging elections chiefs in other states to fight such lawsuits.
Georgia’s citizenship verification system has prevented noncitizens from getting on state voter rolls, but the state had to defend it in court against a group founded by former Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.
Georgia compares naturalized citizens’ voter registrations with the state’s Department of Driver Services (DDS) to verify citizenship. If the citizenship of a person who registers to vote cannot be verified, then they have 26 months to provide documented proof, or else their registration application will be canceled.
What left-wing groups “want to do is stop us from doing citizenship verification during the driver's license process that we do with DDS. And we have a robust citizenship verification process — they wanted us to stop that, we won in court, and now we can continue to do citizenship verification.”
Raffensperger told other secretaries of state regarding non-citizens getting on voter rolls, “You need to stop it, and you need to stop it now.”
He added that those on the left who are for non-citizens voting “want to wait till it's a big problem, then all of a sudden, what do you do? So we pushed back hard, we won our case.”
Raffensperger also referenced when Abrams ran against Brian Kemp for Georgia governor in 2018 and said, “the blue wave is … comprised of those who are documented and undocumented.”
“She talked about the blue wave, that she was going to have undocumented immigrants voting in our elections,” Raffensperger said.
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