State Reveals More Than 11,000 Illegal Registered Voters; Lawmaker Says There Are Likely Even More

There are more than 11,000 foreign noncitizens illegally registered to vote in Pennsylvania, according to the Pennsylvania Department of State.

That information was demanded through legal action by Butler County lawmaker Daryl Metcalfe. But in a statement Tuesday, Metcalfe- who is a state representative overseeing the 12^th district- said he expects the real number of ineligible voters to be even higher than 11,000.

“Approximately 11,198 illegally registered to vote foreign nationals were confirmed when the Pennsylvania Department of State and the Wolf administration finally decided to withdraw its obstructive appeal against disclosing this information in December 2018,” Metcalfe said in a statement released Tuesday.  “However, since Pennsylvania’s most progressive and least transparent governor lacks the desire to take any substantive action to get non-citizens off our voting rolls, even a figure as significant as 11,198 is far from full disclosure.”

Metcalfe was chairman of the House State Government Committee in 2017 when he filed the request for information after revelations that an issue with software at PennDOT was offering noncitizens the option to register to vote.

Secretary of State Pedro Cortes resigned shortly afterward.

“Whether it’s 11,198 or more than 100,000, in Pennsylvania there is undeniable real interference by non-citizen voters that will continue to influence the outcome of future election cycles until swift and meaningful action is taken,” current Pennsylvania House State Government Committee Chairman Garth Everett (R-Lycoming/Union) said in a statement. “This is about election integrity and making sure that the votes of the hard-working taxpayers of the United States are not infringed upon. As the new House State Government Committee chairman for the 2019-20 legislative session, I am committed to working alongside Chairman Metcalfe to ultimately enact legislation which ensures that non-citizen foreign nationals cannot vote anywhere in this Commonwealth, and that the votes of citizens are fairly and equally counted.”