Non-U.S. citizens may have voted in N.C. elections

which is the first year, I believe that 18 year olds could register to vote in NC.  My birthdate is on my original registration card in the local board of elections office.  This was verified today.  Since legal age is a requirement of voter registration why would you think that your birthdate was not on a registration card. 

Obviously you are trying to justify someone 110 years old voting so I will give you another problem to work on:  How do you justify a person voting in 2009 using their dorm address from 1996?  My answer would be:  another slow learner.

For the person who mentioned Civitas' view of illegal voters, Civitas is junk!  It is infested with rightwing liars and fools, all of whom are funded by Art Pope and other rich kids who bought the last elections and are preparing to buy 2012.  Civitas is for third rate minds.  When I see Civitas quoted, I know that the posting/cite is likely (92%) a simple and direct lie - they cannot help themselves-they are compulsive.  And to think that the General Assembly is being infected by the likes of Civitas and that astroturf trash, Americans for Prosperity (not in your life).  Americans for Prosperity are paid for by the Koch brothers who have sponsored the morons who are trying to bring
Wisconsin and Ohio to their knees.  I also read widely from the Locke people, another group which could not find a simple truth if assaulted by it.  It is painful but some rational folks have to keep a watch on the rightwing in this state and others. 

We do NOT have a voter fraud problem!  NCBOE has proven that time and time again.  A slippage rate of less than .01% is far better than one gets in large commercial operations and reflects the care and good jobs done by the BOE.  The Republicans are listening to the dog whistle which their corporate masters use to alert them to bark and run around--for the simple purpose of intimidating and suppressing old, infirm, minority and lower class voters (all of which the Republicans have decided are Democrats and if eliminated will give them some further chance to screw up government, as they are in the process of doing now).  I keep asking Republicans and their legislators, "Where are the jobs"?  Instead they insist on idiocies like the voter photo ID; ruining our public schools with a voucher program and uncapped charter schools which will have some friendly business types running them, unaccountably; and insuring that corporations do not pay taxes, rather that we ruin the state through such things as TABOR-which ruined Colorado; making NC safe for the Christian Taliban and their maddrassas.

The only thread running through all the legislation introduced by the Republicans is to punish and defund Democrats!  They are not interested in the finer points of governing.  This not ready for prime time group is flailing and will leave the state in a condition where it will flail for decades over the destruction being wrought through petulance and ignorance.

So at what point will the number be enough for those of you who can't be bothered to care that non-citizens are being allowed to vote in our elections? Seriously, you people make me sick. Your pathetic apathy is why we're in the state we're in as a country.

Sure I registered to vote in my county, but that wouldn't update the DMV database.

I am one of the 637 people who would have been flagged by this check.

As the story says, lots of people will become US citizens between the eight-yearly renewals of their drivers license... I got my NC license five years ago, when I was a legal permanent resident (aka green card holder), but became a citizen two years ago. I didn't need to get my drivers license renewed until recently, so the information kept by the DMV would have been out of date for quite a while. 

Well over half a million people become naturalized citizens each year across the US, so you would expect upwards of 15,000 to 20,000 of those to be in North Carolina. Not all of those are of voting age, of course, but I strongly suspect that new citizens are more likely to vote than average (naturalization is an expensive and bureaucratic process). So, with drivers' licenses renewed every 8 years, I'm kind of surprised there weren't more than 637 people...

the constitution - that says voting is limited to citizens.

Legal alien residents went through proper channels and paperwork to live and work in the US.  They met the criteria for doing so....and pay all taxes the same as a US Citizen. 

637 folks found during an automated check of 2 databases. This is only the TIP of the ICEBERG folks. Civitas discovered that over 2000 110 year olds cast ballots in the 2010 General Election;

"So far in early voting 110 year olds have made a pretty good showing; 2214 of them have voted either by mail or at a one-stop site (214 by mail and 2,000 at early voting sites).  There are 1,420 Democrats in this group, 717 Republicans and 77 Unaffiliated voters."

And then we have this info;

"A Granville County senior citizen cast their ballot here in NC during early voting. I mean a REALLY SENIOR CITIZEN. They were 11 years old when the US Civil War began in 1861."

Source:  

http://silencedogood2010.wordpress.com/2010/11/04/civil-war-child-casts-2010-ballot-in-nc/

People are being turned away at Loaves & Fishes because they do not have a picture ID. They cannot afford the ID. Do you think these people will spend the $ to have a picture ID when it comes to that versus food? 

Poll workers have the right to ask for proof of ID when you go to vote, so why don't they just do their job and ask?

Unfortunately, One Political Party in the US is protecting and encouraging Illegal voting.[ This is the same one which has Dead people voting in the Chicago elections.], So that they can get a political advantage.

 To vote you should need to have proof of citizenship to vote.. Do your civic duty and have it. Just like you need a Driver's license to drive and need to have it with you when you drive or face penalties. Have your voter's registration card, passport , Drivers license or birth documents with you.

Again the defenders of Illegal voting are the same ones who want to have the "Whole World" voting in the US election.

Another Sad Day in History Since the Democrats would get most of those votes Common Semse would dictate that we change the way to Register to vote To Elections Offices and not in Back Alleys with Ordinary Citizens.. We also need a Picture I.D. or Better still a Finger Print ID..This would elimate a lot of Fraudulent voting at the Polls.And also with many of the Hispanic voters The Pendulom can swing to the Republican side at any time.

Let’s check the math: If the Number of registered voters is 6,092,473 and If all 637 voted illegally, what percentage would that represent?

Well, 637,000 would be 10% of registered voters; 63,700 would be 1%; 6,370 woud a tenth of a percent; and 637 would represent one one-hundredth of a percent.

What would it cost to provide standard identification cards, with photographs, for every registered voter? Would that remedy justify the expense? 

Just asking.

I hope this is not a push for voter ID law. Registered voters in North Carolina for the 2009 year was 6,092,473 so 637 illegally REGISTERED voters is a little over 1%. Not enough to warrant the cost of instituting a Voter ID law, not to mention the man hours that will go into it. 

Also, just because they registered illegally does not mean they voted. The people at the voting polls have a right to ask for ID/proof, I for one was questioned when I went to the polls, and I am a white woman with blond hair.

Cathy