Noncitizens and illegal immigrants found in North Carolina voting and jury pools

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Noncitizens and illegal immigrants
found in North Carolina voting
and jury pools






by Paul Bedard,
Washington Secrets Columnist
December 07, 2020 02:19 PM



Noncitizens are embedded in North Carolina jury and
voting pools, raising new questions about the integrity
of elections, according to an immigration reform group.

The Immigration Reform Law Institute on Monday said
it had uncovered examples of noncitizens, and likely
also illegal immigrants, in the pools in Charlotte,
North Carolina, and other key areas dating back to 2012.

Working with the Voter Integrity Project, IRLI conceded
that the numbers were not enough to overturn election
results but point to the lack of “political will” by
government officials to clean up their rolls.

Voter Integrity Project co-founder Jay Delancy said,
“The fact is that every state has mountains of evidence
that would make it easy to get noncitizen voters off
the rolls and possibly deported. But so far, all parties
have lacked the political will.”

In North Carolina, potential jury members are picked
from voter rolls and motor vehicle department
registrations. During the study period, some 6,000
noncitizen names were found in one county.

“Delancy and VIP co-founder John Pizzo began analyzing
the state’s voter rolls in 2012. The pair obtained jury
records from the Clerk of Courts in Wake County,
the state’s second most populous county at that time,
and discovered that, during a three-year window
of time, roughly 6,000 prospective jurors disqualified
themselves by notifying to the court that they were
not U.S. citizens,” said the group in its report.

“This was not the end of their discovery. Delancy and
Pizzo then compared these names to the voter rolls,
uncovering a total of 532 registered voters who had
informed the court that they were not U.S. citizens.
VIP’s investigative work had found that, of this group,
130 participated in an election at least once before
being disqualified,” it added.

For the latest presidential election, they found dozens
on the rolls.

“In Mecklenburg County, the state’s second most
populous county which includes metropolitan Charlotte,
a total of 51 individuals were removed from the jury
pool list because of non-citizenship between
October 28, 2019 to July 7, 2020, the county’s Jury Office
confirmed to IRLI. The Cumberland County Clerk of
Superior Court, which operates in the state’s fifth
most populous county, revealed that 18 potential
jurors were removed for non-citizenship between
October 1, 2019 to July 7, 2020. And lastly,
Forsyth –- the state’s fourth most populous
county -- reported a total of 16 potential jurors
removed for non-citizenship from
December 19, 2019 to October 6, 2020.”

Dale L. Wilcox, the executive director and general
counsel of IRLI, said, “it is evidence of the larger
crisis of noncitizen voting on the national level.
Every vote by a legal or illegal alien cancels
out the vote of an American citizen. It is a
violation of the core principles of our constitutional
republic. If we, as a nation, cannot remedy
the problem of election fraud, then we have
surrendered the right to choose our representatives
and will instead live under the permanent
rule of unaccountable political elites.”