Oregon DMV data error registered 1,259 noncitizens to vote, nine voted

[RandySF]

Oregon erroneously added more than 1,200 people without documented proof of citizenship to its voter rolls in the past few years and nine of those people voted, state officials announced Monday.

Those numbers, the result of a lengthy review over the past two weeks, are far higher than the Secretary of State’s Office or the Driver and Motor Vehicle Services division of the Oregon Department of Transportation initially acknowledged. However, they’re still a drop in the bucket compared to Oregon’s more than 3 million total registered voters, and state officials stressed that the error will not affect the 2024 general election.

None of the 1,259 wrongly registered voters will receive ballots unless and until they reregister to vote as citizens.

“We really appreciate the work the DMV did to catch this error and correct it, and we did catch it in time. I am pleased to say with certainty this issue will have no impact on the 2024 election,” said Ben Morris, chief of staff to Secretary of State LaVonne Griffin-Valade.




https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/09/23/oregon-dmv-data-error-registered-1259-noncitizens-to-vote-nine-voted/

[dpibel]

1. Headline and body don't match

Pretty sure there's a major difference between "noncitizen" (a person who is verifiably not a citizen) and "without documented proof of citizenship."

Could be wrong, but seems to me the latter allows for the possibility that a person could be a citizen but did not have, or did not provide, documented proof of that.