And this material only should go to citizens. And clearly. that it should only be by request. There is an interesting study that was found by the U.S. attorney in 1980 who investigated voter registration drives that were allegedly registering noncitizens out in San Francisco. He found that at least 27 percent and possibly as many as twothirds of the registrants investigated were noncitizens. Investigation revealed that registration of noncitizens stemmed from a translation error in the multilingual registration materials. It did not make it clear to them that only citizens could register to vote. that noncitizens could not. It would make sense. then. it seems to me to make clear to the registrars. to everyone else that this multilingual material is only to be for citizens because only citizens normally have the right to vote. And again. we do not encourage otherwise. in fact. discourage it. and that again only by request.
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Noncitizens are registering to vote due to translation errors.