Before Election Day, right-wing social media was awash with claims about noncitizens voting. Once it was clear President-elect Trump would win, those claims dried up.
People wait in line to vote outside a polling station on Election Day in Nazareth, Pa. on Nov. 5, 2024.the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones as he shared the video with his 3 million followers on X, the social media platform once known as Twitter.
Lang said rather, the unfounded claims were motivated by “partisan, self-serving” interests to “potentially undermine their election if they didn't like the results.”U.S. citizens are among the voters removed in Virginia’s controversial purge All the initiatives passed, including in North Carolina, where volunteers with the North Carolina Election Integrity Team have been scouring voter rolls for possible ineligible voters and noncitizens.obtained a video where Womack included"Hispanic-sounding last names" as a factor to consider when deciding whether someone on the voter rolls is suspicious.
When NPR spoke to Womack on Thursday, he said he did not yet know how many early voting challenges his organization’s volunteers would be filing with county officials in the coming days. There is one pending case of alleged noncitizen voting that has been publicized so far this election cycle. Law enforcement in Michigan have filedA sign informs voters to have their ID ready to check in on Election Day at the town offices in Lancaster, N.H. on Nov. 5, 2024.
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