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   EXCLUSIVE — Two House Republicans are demanding Oregon's secretary of   
   state provide information on how the state is handling over 1,000   
   noncitizens who have been on voter rolls for three years, the latest   
   step from GOP lawmakers to crack down on election integrity ahead of   
   the 2024 election.   
      
   House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil (R-WI) and Rep.   
   Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR) are requesting that Oregon provide answers   
   to the current registration status of 1,259 noncitizen voters that were   
   identified following an audit released last week. The number quadrupled   
   from the agency's previous estimate of 306 announced earlier in   
   September, according to the Oregonian.   
      
   The lawmakers are demanding to know what elections nine of the 1,259   
   noncitizens voted in, "in the interest of ensuring that voter   
   confidence in our elections processes and outcomes is protected in the   
   next federal election this November" in a letter sent Wednesday and   
   shared exclusively with the Washington Examiner.   
      
   The letter does not request the information of a 10th individual   
   identified in the audit as a noncitizen, who the Secretary of State’s   
   Office confirmed to have legally voted after becoming a U.S. citizen,   
   according to the outlet.   
      
   Oregon "must rectify" automatic voter registration problems concerning   
   noncitizens, Steil and Chavez-DeRemer said. The Republicans approved of   
   the state's decision to double-check its voter rolls after initially   
   finding 306 noncitizen registrants but said more needs to be done to   
   ensure accountability.   
      
   "It is of great concern that some of these individuals have been on the   
   voter rolls for three   
      
   years," said Steil and Chavez-DeRemer.   
      
   The House GOP is also asking for Oregon to detail additional steps to   
   ensure there is oversight over the Department of Motor Vehicles as it   
   works to prevent noncitizens from registering to vote, as well as the   
   steps taken to make sure there are no citizenship problems with other   
   voters.   
      
   Steil and Chavez-DeRemer are asking for answers and information to be   
   delivered to the committee's elections council by Oct. 11.   
      
   Federal law requires voter registration forms to compel voters to swear   
   under penalty of perjury that they are citizens of the United States.   
   Additionally, individuals must provide proof of a driver’s license or   
   Social Security number so election officials can verify their identity   
   in U.S. databases.   
      
   For nearly a decade, Oregon automatically registered to vote anyone who   
   obtains or updates a driver’s license or state ID and isn’t already a   
   voter. However, in 2021, the law changed after state lawmakers   
   authorized driver's licenses for undocumented residents.   
      
   DMV Administrator Amy Joyce said earlier this month that the agency had   
   a two-step process for verifying license applicants who had a U.S.   
   passport or a birth certificate, but has since added a third step after   
   the errors of noncitizen voting were revealed.   
      
   “While we regret this situation has occurred, we moved swiftly to   
   correct the issue before the coming election and implemented swift   
   corrective action to ensure the data processing error will not impact   
   the (November) election or future elections,” Kris Strickler, director   
   of the Oregon Department of Transportation, told local reporters last   
   week.   
      
   Instances of noncitizens voting in federal elections are typically few   
   and far between. A fraud database housed by the conservative Heritage   
   Foundation found only 100 cases of noncitizens voting between 2002 and   
   2022 among a sample of more than a billion ballots.   
      
   The letter sent Wednesday is the latest step by House Republicans to   
   prevent noncitizens from voting in federal elections, which is already   
   illegal. The House passed an election integrity bill in July, dubbed   
   the SAVE Act, that would amend the National Voter Registration Act of   
   1993 to require people to provide proof of citizenship before   
   registering to vote.   
      
   Republican leadership attempted to attach the SAVE Act to a continuing   
   resolution in September to force a Senate vote on the election   
   integrity bill, but it failed on the floor after 14 Republicans joined   
   all Democrats in voting down the spending deal. A final spending   
   package extending the deadline to Dec. 20 passed last week without the   
   SAVE Act.   
      
   The clean stopgap spending measure that extends appropriation levels   
   until Dec. 20 was passed last week without the SAVE Act, much to the   
   dismay of hard-line Republicans such as Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), the   
   bill's author.   
      
   The Washington Examiner reached out to Oregon Secretary of State   
   LaVonne Griffin-Valade for comment.   
      
   https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-republicans-demand-   
   answers-from-oregon-over-registering-noncitizen-voters/ar-AA1rBDIw   
      
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