
Kentucky’s Top Elections Official Quells Lawmakers' Concerns About Non-Citizens Voting
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Kentucky’s top elections official quells lawmakers' concerns about non-citizens voting.
How many non-citizens are voting in Kentucky's elections? None, according to Kentucky’s top elections official, who spoke before lawmakers Wednesday. Kentucky voters will decide this fall if they want to ban non-citizens from voting in state and local elections. It's already illegal but a ballot measure would make it explicit in Kentucky's constitution.
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Kentucky’s Top Elections Official Quells Lawmakers' Concerns About Non-Citizens Voting
Clip: Season 3 Episode 13 | 1m 51sVideo has Closed Captions
How many non-citizens are voting in Kentucky's elections? None, according to Kentucky’s top elections official, who spoke before lawmakers Wednesday. Kentucky voters will decide this fall if they want to ban non-citizens from voting in state and local elections. It's already illegal but a ballot measure would make it explicit in Kentucky's constitution.
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How many noncitizens are voting in Kentucky's elections?
Non according to the state's top elections official.
>> During my tenure in office, I have seen no evidence that noncitizens have voted.
We're tempted to vote.
In our elections.
But that does not mean we should not be concerned about this issue and failed to take proper precautionary measures.
Every voter registration card prompts a voter to provide a Social Security number.
Illegal immigrants to not get a Social Security number.
In some circumstances, though, illegal immigrant can get a Social Security number if authorized to work in the U.S. by the Federal Department of Homeland Security.
I think our best tool in preventing non-citizen voting is our photo ID to vote law.
You can get a driver's license in Kentucky.
If you're a legal immigrant.
So it is important that the Bush administration's drivers licensing centers, which also can register persons to vote exclude legal immigrants from their pitch for voter registration.
>> Kentucky voters will decide this fall if they want to ban non-citizens from voting in state and local elections.
It's already illegal.
But a ballot measure would make it explicit in Kentucky's constitution.
A committee of state lawmakers led by Republican Senator Robby Mills question education, health care and law enforcement officials on how often they encounter undocumented immigrants.
The numbers are unclear.
They said the Department of Education officials said they never ask a students immigration status because all students are federally guaranteed a public education.
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