Session #105 · 1997–99

Speech #1050177554

Just to share with you. a Committee on House Oversight task force uncovered serious voter fraud in California during the 1996 election. They conducted an exhaustive yearlong examination and found 820 individuals who were not citizens at the time of registration that likely voted. In 1996 the California Secretary of State found over 700 noncitizens on the California voter rolls and invalidated their registrations. and he would like this legislation to help him do that more effectively. Texas Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Tom Harrison reports that 750 resident aliens from Guadalupe. Texas filed applications for absentee ballots in November of 1994 elections. after campaign workers told them that their green cards enabled them to vote by mail. The Los Angeles Times reported in May of 1994 that Jay McKama. an undocumented immigrant. was sentenced to 16 months in State prison for registering noncitizens to vote. The bounty hunter worked for Steve Martinez. a Los Angeles political activist who paid $1 per registration. The practice of paying bounty hunters to register individuals to vote has contributed to an increase in noncitizen voting. In some cases noncitizens have been targeted by those bounty hunters. Every time someone votes illegally. they cancel our vote. They cancel a good vote.
Keywords matched
undocumented immigrant noncitizens noncitizen green cards

Classification

Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Security threat Criminal

Speaker & context

Speaker
JOHN PETERSON
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
PA
Gender
M
Date
1998-07-30
Speech ID
1050177554
Paragraph
#0
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