Meanwhile, in North Carolina
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State elections officials have identified nine possible non-citizens registered to vote in North Carolina — out of more than 7.7 million total voters — due to a new law passed by the Republican-led state legislature ahead of the 2024 elections.
A spokesman for the State Board of Elections, however, cautioned on Thursday that there's no proof yet the nine people they flagged actually are immigrants. Investigations are underway now to confirm their legal status.
The announcement came Thursday as the elections board also announced it has removed nearly 750,000 people from the list of voters in North Carolina since 2023.
The board conducts what it calls "list maintenance" of the voter rolls regularly, to ensure that the people registered to vote in North Carolina are still eligible voters.
About half of the 747,274 people removed from the voter lists are people who have recently moved or died.
Most of the rest were removed because they haven't voted in years, and state law says that makes them ineligible to remain registered.
A small percentage were removed for various other reasons, including people recently convicted of a felony, or those who simply asked to not be a voter anymore.
Following the 2022 and 2023 elections, which saw millions of ballots cast, the elections board referred a combined 22 cases for prosecution. It's unclear how many, if any, of those were taken up by prosecutors or what the outcomes have been. The accusations included:
13 people trying to vote twice.
6 for voting while on probation or parole for a felony.
1 for voter impersonation.
1 for lying on a form.
1 for photographing a completed ballot.
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North Carolina must a lot of extra money.
