NBC News: Battleground state election officials push back against noncitizen voting ‘myth’

Jane C. Timm of NBC News reports on election officials discussing the efforts to ensure the integrity of the 2024 vote.

The officials — brought together by longtime election lawyers Bob Bauer and Ben Ginsberg and the nonprofit groups Keep Our Republic and Pillars of the Community, which seek to support the American election system — spent hours Thursday talking about everything from voter registration to result certification.

In Arizona, voters must show documentary proof of citizenship to cast ballots in state elections; those who don’t show proof but swear to their citizenship are able to vote in federal elections. A system quirk recently discovered nearly 100,000 Arizona residents who had registered to vote before the documentary proof of citizenship was required. Maricopa County has sued seeking clarity about whether those voters can vote in state and local elections this fall.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, stressed the proactive audits his office has taken to verify citizenship. He advised other states to implement photo ID requirements and constitutional amendments that would explicitly state that only citizens can vote.