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> Virginia purged 1600 non-citizens from their voter rolls and a Chinese student actually voted in Michigan. Clearly requiring citizenship to register as a vote
by btreecat 2y ago
> Virginia purged 1600 non-citizens from their voter rolls and a Chinese student actually voted in Michigan. Clearly requiring citizenship to register as a voter is not sufficient. Poll volunteers should be verifying citizenship.
Over the last 20 years there's no record of a non citizen voting in VA.
As a poll worker myself, there's nothing we would check election day that was that wasn't already checked during registration. Asking me to "verify" day of, beyond what we already do, isn't really feasible.
Recommend you work the polls and educate yourself on how your particular locale operates.
- _heimdall 2y agoThis would be my expectation as well. Poll workers can verify that a person is registered to vote in this election, whether the registration was valid is an upstream problem. If a state is allowing intelligible people to register to vote that's a much, much bigger issue and one that can't be solved by poll workers.
- tastyfreeze 2y agoUnderstood. The point of verifying citizenship at the polls is a stop gap response to intelligible voters being on the rolls. The registration is broken. To ensure everybody is a legal voter something additional needs to be done until the rolls can be fixed.