INTERVIEW — HANS VON SPAKOVSKY — former counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights in the Justice Department, former commissioner for the Federal Election Commission from 2006 to 2007 and senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation
- Pennsylvania admits to 11,000 non-citizens registered to vote
- State Reveals More Than 11,000 Illegal Registered Voters; Lawmaker Says There Are Likely Even More. There are more than 11,000 foreign noncitizens illegally registered to vote in Pennsylvania, according to the Pennsylvania Department of State. That information was demanded through legal action by Butler County lawmaker Daryl Metcalfe. But in a statement Tuesday, Metcalfe- who is a state representative overseeing the 12th district- said he expects the real number of ineligible voters to be even higher than 11,000. “Approximately 11,198 illegally registered to vote foreign nationals were confirmed when the Pennsylvania Department of State and the Wolf administration finally decided to withdraw its obstructive appeal against disclosing this information in December 2018,” Metcalfe said in a statement released Tuesday. “However, since Pennsylvania’s most progressive and least transparent governor lacks the desire to take any substantive action to get non-citizens off our voting rolls, even a figure as significant as 11,198 is far from full disclosure.”
