English: Ballot Box showing preferential voting (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Surprise, surprise, surprise.
Secretary of State: 4K noncitizens on voter rolls
By Chad Livengood
Detroit News Lansing BureauLansing — One day after being sued over a controversial ballot box citizenship question, Secretary of State Ruth Johnson said Tuesday there are an estimated 4,000 noncitizens on Michigan’s voter rolls.
The estimate is based on the state’s access to citizenship information for one-fifth of the population, Johnson said, adding the federal government won’t give her access to more citizenship data.
Johnson said the results of a “very tedious” analysis of 58,000 driver’s licenses and state-issued identification cards found 963 noncitizens registered to vote.
Department of State employees cross-referenced those noncitizens with voting records and found 54 have a voting history and have voted a total of 95 times, Johnson said.
Using census estimates that 305,000 noncitizens live in Michigan, Johnson’s office extrapolated that 5,064 could be noncitizens and then lowered its estimate to 4,000 to account for children, spokeswoman Gisgie Gendreau said.
Read more at The Detroit News.
How can this be a surprise. For those in Wisconsin, just ask Tom Barrett in Milwaukee for a list of names. He keeps asking for names of illegal voters.
Good for Michigan trying to clean up their voter rolls.
September 19, 2012
Michigan