And a second report from Maine.
The registrar was INSTRUCTED to allow illegal foreign voter registrations.
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The State of Maine welfare office in Portland attempted to help a Venezuelan illegal alien vote on Sept. 23, according to the non-citizen’s Spanish-language interpreter, who works with immigrants in Maine seeking welfare benefits. “She was applying for MaineCare and Food Stamps, and they asked...
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Maine Welfare Clerk Gave Voter Registration Forms to Paroled Illegal Alien from Venezuela, Says Spanish Interpreter
The State of Maine welfare office in Portland attempted to help a Venezuelan illegal alien vote on Sept. 23, according to the non-citizen’s Spanish-language interpreter, who works with immigrants in Maine seeking welfare benefits.
“She was applying for MaineCare and Food Stamps, and they asked her if she wanted to register to vote,” said the interpreter, Doris Rodriguez, a 72-year-old resident of the greater Portland area.
Rodriguez, who intervened to prevent her client from potentially committing a deportable offense, said a Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) employee told her that welfare clerks had been instructed to offer voter registration documents to any non-citizen applying for benefits.
“I said, ‘What do you mean? She can’t vote. She’s here illegally,'” Rodriguez recalled.
Rodriguez declined to identify her client or the welfare clerk. She said this was the first time she had seen a welfare clerk attempt to provide a non-citizen with voter registration documents despite clearly understanding that the client was ineligible to vote.
“I said, ‘Why would you ask her that?’ I mean, if she votes, she goes to prison. It’s a federal offense,” said Rodriguez.
Only U.S. citizens and naturalized U.S. citizens are allowed to vote in national, state, and local elections in Maine.
Non-citizens who nonetheless register to vote risk prosecution, deportation, and possible adverse judgement against any claim for asylum or refugee status.
Rodriguez has served Spanish-speaking clients in the Portland area for more than a year. She said the welfare clerk informed her she had been instructed to offer the voter registration forms by someone higher ranking than her at the welfare agency.
“he kind of looked down at the paper and she said, ‘Well, that’s what I was told to do, to ask,’ you know,” said Rodriguez.
“She said that she was told by the head of by DHHS to ask the clients that are requesting benefits if they want to register to vote, even if they’re not legal citizens,” Rodriguez said. . . .