A woman who moved to Georgia from the Bahamas 30 years ago and is not a citizen admitted during a Dec. 9 State Election Board (SEB) hearing that she has voted multiple times. It is illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections.
Clayton County resident Melanie Pickett is a Bahamian native but has lived in the Peach State for approximately 30 years.
According to Pickett, she does not “know” “how it happened.”
“I got a driver’s license … and then I started getting” voting-related information “in the mail, and I said, ‘Oh, OK.’ And then I got a jury duty [summons]. So I went to jury duty, and at the end of the information [sheet] you had to fill out, it said, ‘Are you a U.S. citizen,’ and I said, ‘no’ and they told me I could go home,” Pickett said.
“This year, I think, this was my second time trying to vote, and this year they told me I couldn’t vote, and that was about it,” Pickett said during the Dec. 9 SEB hearing. Pickett said, however, that she was informed she was ineligible to vote, apparently due to her noncitizen status.
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