Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,
A top Washington state official said on Oct. 29 that the state has no way to confirm whether people are U.S. citizens when registering them to vote.
"We don't have a system that can identify whether someone is an actual noncitizen," Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs said during a press conference in King County.
Hobbs also said that "it's not unusual for noncitizens to actually be on voter rolls" and that "we never said that there are none on there."
Federal officials recently said they identified more than 400 people registered to vote in Washington state who are suspected of being noncitizens.
They said they would send Hobbs's office a list of the people and ask him to set aside ballots from those individuals until their citizenship status could be confirmed.
Hobbs, responding in a letter on Wednesday, said a preliminary analysis showed that some of the people on the list are not currently registered to vote and that others are U.S. citizens, "based on information of which Washington is aware." Hobbs asked the federal government for "individualized proof that certain registered voters in Washington are ineligible."
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