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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Rachel Leingang and Sam Levine

Republicans’ non-citizen voting myth sets stage to claim stolen election

Voter Purging
‘This is about setting the stage to claim an election was stolen.’ Composite: Rita Liu/The Guardian/Getty Images

James Cozadd, a 49-year-old plumber born in Montgomery, Alabama, has no idea why he got a letter from Alabama’s top election official telling him he was potentially ineligible to vote. He was born in the US, yet the letter said he was suspected of being a non-citizen and he would have to prove his citizenship to vote.

“I’ve been racking my brain to try to figure out how I ended up on the list of purged voters, but I have no clue,” Cozadd said in a court filing in September.

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