Daryl Metcalfe and Garth Everett, two Pennsylvania Republican legislators, recently issued a statement saying that they had confirmation that 11,198 foreign nationals had registered to vote in Pennsylvania.
This figure came from the Pennsylvania Department of State, which reported last July that it had identified that number with some indication that they might not be citizens.
The Department of State then reached out to the people on the list to find out what the facts were. 1,915 responded that they were eligible to vote. About 300 canceled their registration. The rest were forwarded to county officials to check. About 2,550 were in the process of being removed because they hadn’t voted or did not respond to efforts to contact them.
County officials are still working on the list. In the meantime it is possible that non-citizens, who, by the way are paying taxes, may have cast a few hundred ballots out of 93 million votes over the past 18 years.
Metcalfe is one of the main architects of Pennsylvania’s gerrymandered districts and an opponent of making absentee voting easier. He does not believe in government by the people.
The statistics are from an article by Mark Levy in the Pocono Record, Feb. 3, 2019,. pp. 1, 2.
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