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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Georgia citizenship audit finds few noncitizens on voter rolls

Ballots and Battlegrounds - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Georgia's top elections official said Wednesday that a check of voter rolls found that 20 of the 8.2 million people registered to vote in the state are not U.S. citizens.

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said during a news conference that the voter registrations for those people had been canceled and that they will be referred to local prosecutors for potential criminal charges. His office said none of those people has cast a ballot in November's general election but that an investigation into whether they had voted in past elections was ongoing.

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