Republicans’ non-citizen voting myth sets stage to claim stolen election
by Rachel Leingang and Sam Levine from US news | The Guardian on (#6R6R7)
As some Americans are informed they need to prove their citizenship, Trump and other Republicans are spreading the false idea non-citizens could vote in vast numbers
James Cozadd, a 49-year-old plumber born in Montgomery, Alabama, has no idea why he got a letter from Alabama's top election official telling him he's potentially ineligible to vote. He was born in the US, yet the letter said he was suspected of being a non-citizen and he would have to prove his citizenship to vote.
I've been racking my brain to try to figure out how I ended up on the list of purged voters, but I have no clue," Cozadd said in a court filing in September.
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