State Board of Elections admits non-U.S. citizens may have voted illegally in 2018 - www.wcia.com

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...SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (NEXSTAR) - The Illinois State Board of Elections acknowledged that out of 574 non-U.S. citizens who were inadvertently registered to vote in Illinois, an unknown number of them may have voted illegally in the 2018 election.

..."We do know that some of them voted" in the 2018 election, spokesman Matt Dietrich said in a phone call on Monday afternoon, though his office was not immediately able to determine how many of them may have voted, or how many may have been legal citizens who simply filled out their state form incorrectly.

...Update: 10:48 a.m. The State Board of Elections says 19 people who self-identified as non-citizens voted in Illinois in 2018.

...Update: the State Board of Elections says out of the 547 non-citizens, 19 of them voted in 2018.

...White's office sent a letter to the State Board of Elections on December 18th notifying them that despite several safeguards, a programming malfunction in the agency's electronic keypads improperly registered 574 non-American citizens to vote.

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