{"id":12766,"date":"2024-09-18T03:40:35","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T03:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12766"},"modified":"2024-09-18T03:59:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T03:59:25","slug":"wisconsin-leaders-push-to-prevent-noncitizens-from-registering-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12766","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Leaders Push to Prevent Noncitizens From Registering to Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-leaders-push-to-prevent-noncitizens-from-registering-to-vote\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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(The Center Square) \u2013 Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney said Wisconsin needs a proper process to check its voter rolls for noncitizens and remove them, ensuring election integrity in the state.<\/p>\n

Currently, election commissions cannot check their rolls with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation to ensure an estimated 90,000 individuals who are currently legally in the state, who can get a drivers license, do not register to vote.<\/p>\n

Toney was one of several officials statewide to take part in a Tuesday morning press conference from the John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy about Wisconsin election integrity.<\/p>\n

Wisconsin election managers recently pushed for an Office of Election Transparency and Compliance, with a $2 million budget request<\/a> for the office approved by the Wisconsin Election Commission.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to make sure that it is easy to vote but hard to cheat,\u201d said Republican Congressman Tom Tiffany, who holds the state\u2019s Seventh Congressional seat.<\/p>\n

Tiffany pointed to the SAVE Act, pushed by Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil<\/a>, Chairman of the Committee on House Administration. The bill passed the House in July with a 221-198 vote but has not been taken up by the Senate.<\/p>\n

Tiffany said that the bill would setup a process ensuring that only citizens are registered to vote and that states must check voter rolls to ensure that is true. Ohio<\/a> and Arizona<\/a> were just some of the states where noncitizens have been removed from rolls.<\/p>\n

Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt, meanwhile, said that it\u2019s essential that each citizen gets just one vote and that election laws are followed. He pointed to a Supreme Court ruling that only the voter can put their own ballot in a ballot drop box as one way to ensure that.<\/p>\n

Dodge County does not use drop boxes because it did not have proper monitoring to ensure that only the voter was dropping a ballot. The only exception to the rule comes if a person is bedridden.<\/p>\n

\u201cElection laws are just like any other laws, they must be followed,\u201d Schmidt said.<\/p>\n

Toney called election and ballot integrity a nonpartisan issue that all in Wisconsin should want to ensure. He said that it would be more difficult for someone in the country illegally to vote because they cannot get a driver\u2019s license but it essential to have a process in place to check those who are in the country legally but are not allowed to vote.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a felony to do this and it is a deportable offense,\u201d Tiffany said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-leaders-push-to-prevent-noncitizens-from-registering-to-vote\/ (The Center Square) \u2013 Fond du Lac County District…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":1639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12768,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12766\/revisions\/12768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}