{"id":38028,"date":"2020-01-22T20:54:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T01:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38028"},"modified":"2020-01-22T20:54:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T01:54:42","slug":"election-integrity-would-be-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38028","title":{"rendered":"Election Integrity Would Be Nice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wgntv.com\/2020\/01\/21\/hundreds-of-non-citizens-registered-to-vote-in-illinois-due-to-technical-glitch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WGN9<\/a> in Chicago reported yesterday that hundreds of non-citizens were registered as voters and could have cast ballots illegally in the 2018 election.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>In a letter, Secretary of State Jesse White\u2019s office said a \u201cprogramming error\u201d in a signature pad at driver services facilities led to hundreds of non-U.S. citizens accidentally being registered as voters.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Secretary of State\u2019s Office said the problem has been fixed Tuesday, but state lawmakers and election authorities are just beginning to raise concerns.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cWe view it as a significant problem,&#8221; said Matt Dietrich of the Illinois State Board Of Elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>In 2017, then-governor Bruce Rauner signed the \u201cAutomatic Voter Registration\u201d bill into law. It requires eligible Illinois citizens to be automatically registered to vote when they apply for or renew a driver&#8217;s license or ID, unless they choose to opt out.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cFor whatever reason that technological programming error did not properly remove the individuals,&#8221; the letter said. &#8220;The individuals who are applying for driver&#8217;s license were inadvertently pooled into the automatic voter registration.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>A spokesman for the Secretary of State\u2019s Office says the non-citizens who were registered to vote are here legally. They are not undocumented immigrants, and they did not lie on their forms; it was the state error that signed them up to vote.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chicago does not have a reputation for voter integrity, and this &#8216;glitch&#8217; does nothing to change that reputation. Voter id laws will not help this problem. This is simply another way elections in America can be compromised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WGN9 in Chicago reported yesterday that hundreds of non-citizens were registered as voters and could have cast ballots illegally in the 2018 election. The article reports: In a letter, Secretary of State Jesse White\u2019s office said a \u201cprogramming error\u201d in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38028\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[739,3443,2208,8538,8803,3566,10764,3568,12480],"class_list":["post-38028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chicago","tag-drivers-license","tag-election-integrity","tag-immigrants","tag-secretary-of-state","tag-state-board-of-elections","tag-voter-integrity","tag-voter-registration","tag-wgn9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38029,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38028\/revisions\/38029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}