Media Matters denies left’s efforts to use DMV to “register” Non-Citizens to Vote in Elections
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Excerpt from www.mediamatters.org
Right-wing media and Republicans have pushed false claims about noncitizens widely voting in elections for years, even though it has long been illegal for noncitizens to make a false claim of citizenship on a voter registration form or to vote in federal elections. As Republicans try to pass the SAVE Act — which would further require voters to provide “documentary proof of United States citizenship” — right-wing figures are now baselessly claiming that state departments of motor vehicles are being used in a scheme to “register illegals to vote” throughout the country, with some suggesting this is part of a conspiracy at the direction of Democrats in the federal government.
