Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske, responding to requests Wednesday for details on allegations of Nevada voter fraud, said her office obtained evidence that three non-citizens voted in Clark County in last year’s election. Her pronouncement comes after the Republican secretary of state on Friday sent a letter to the head of the Department of Motor Vehicles, claiming voter registration procedures at the DMV led to non-citizens being allowed to register illegally to vote. At an event in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Cegavske declined to say if her office would attempt to prosecute the three voters. “As things roll out, we’ll keep everyone abreast,” she told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Cegavske said the DMV should “cease” providing registration applications to people who do not have paperwork proving citizenship. That drew pushback from DMV Director Terri Albertson, as well as Gov. Brian Sandoval.
Both said the DMV is required under federal law to provide registration applications to people who renew or apply for a driver’s license, and the DMV acts solely as a conduit in the process. Under the current procedures, information is passed on to election officials to verify eligibility to vote.
“The DMV does not have the authority to discard an application, they must forward all signed applications to the appropriate registrar,” Sandoval said in a statement Wednesday. “I’ve asked the DMV to review its processes with the Secretary of State again to ensure the Department remains in full compliance with recently signed MOUs, state and federal laws and to better understand what the Secretary of State’s Office is requesting of the Department.”
Full Article: Investigation finds that 3 non-citizens voted in Nevada’s 2016 election – Las Vegas Review-Journal.