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ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) - Georgia’s top elections official say a check of voter rolls found that 20 of the 8.2 million people ed to vote in the state are not U.S. citizens.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger says the voter registrations for those people had been canceled and that they will be referred to local prosecutors for potential criminal charges.
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His office said none of those people has cast a ballot in November’s general election, but nine of the 20 had voted in previous elections and the other 11 had no record of voting.
Additionally, there are 156 people whose citizenship status requires additional investigation and his office has opened case files for those individuals, Raffensperger said.
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While the potential for noncitizens to or vote has gotten a lot of attention as a Republican talking point in this election year, data indicates that voting by noncitizens is rare.
The Georgia secretary of state’s office announced in July that it was in the process of checking the voter rolls for noncitizens using state and federal databases. Raffensperger said the 20 people who were conclusively identified as noncitizens lived in seven counties, mostly in metro Atlanta, and had filled out a sworn statement saying they were not citizens to get out of jury duty.
the state is still seeing a high election turnout.
Raffensperger says he expects 65% of voters to vote early and about 5% to vote absentee.
He says lines are moving quicker than in past years.
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Early voting began last Tuesday with a state record for voter turnout during the start of the advance voting period. The records have continued.
“We are not seeing long lines moving through, but during early voting, if you see a longer line and you think well how long is that going to take well even though it may look like it’s going to take a while, people are still getting through in 20 minutes,” says Raffensperger. “It’s still probably going to be less than an hour.”
Raffensperger says he expects to see higher numbers next week and they expect to have 70% of results by 8 p.m. election night.
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