PolitiFact: “Rogers is wrong.”
LANSING — PolitiFact today reported that Mike Rogers made an “inaccurate claim” about election integrity. This is the latest in a series of reports on Rogers casting more “election skepticism.” Rogers “told a Detroit News columnist that he expected cheating this fall and Republicans needed ‘an overwhelming win so there’s no question about our victory’” and he refuses to “directly address whether he believes Biden won in 2020.”
“Mike Rogers will sell out anything and anyone to advance his own interests, even if it’s at the expense of our democracy. Rogers is only in this race for himself as he undermines America’s democracy,” said Michigan Democratic Party spokesperson Sam Chan.
Read PolitiFact’s reporting on Mike Rogers spewing “inaccurate” information about the election process:
PolitiFact: Michigan Republican surfaces inaccurate claim about noncitizen voters in Senate race
- Michigan Republican Mike Rogers claimed on the campaign trail that his Democratic opponent for U.S. Senate voted to allow noncitizens to vote.
- Rogers said Rep. Elissa Slotkin “just voted recently to let illegals vote in U.S. elections.” The claim was made at a rally outside Big Rapids, Michigan, on Aug. 27, alongside Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance.
- Rogers is wrong; Slotkin never voted to allow immigrants in the country illegally to vote in U.S. elections.
- But federal law already prohibits anyone who isn’t a U.S. citizen, including immigrants in the country illegally, to vote in federal elections. Cases of noncitizens voting are extremely rare.
- “Non-citizens are legally prohibited from voting in Michigan, and Mike knows it,” Slotkin spokesperson Austin Cook said, calling Rogers’ claim “disinformation about the integrity of our elections.”
- Michigan law requires people who register to vote to be a U.S. citizen, and voters must state, multiple times in the voting process and under penalty of perjury, that they are eligible to vote. According to the Michigan secretary of state, there are multiple checks in place to identify mistaken voter registrations.
- States and local governments have safeguards to prevent noncitizens from registering and voting in elections, Sean Morales-Doyle, the director of the Voting Rights Program at the… Brennan Center for Justice, said in a July press conference.
- “The reality is that states have multiple systems in place to deter noncitizen voting,” Morales-Doyle said. “It is already a crime many times over for noncitizens to vote in state and federal elections.”
See also: Washington Post: In top races, Republicans try to stay quiet on Trump’s false 2020 claims, Heartland Signal: FACT CHECK: Mike Rogers mischaracterizes voting process for Michiganders without photo IDs.
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