Noncitizens Removed from South Dakota Voter Roll 

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Noncitizens Removed from South Dakota Voter Roll 

 PIERRE, S.D. – Today, 273 noncitizens are being removed from the South Dakota voter roll. The removal is being executed by the South Dakota Secretary of State’s Office (SOS). This discovery was part of a review to ensure the integrity of South Dakota’s elections and safeguard against improper voter registration. 

The South Dakota Department of Public Safety (DPS) discovered the need for this correction and worked with the South Dakota Bureau of Information and Telecommunications to implement a fix and ensure election integrity. 

“Ensuring the integrity of our elections is our highest priority,” said South Dakota Secretary of State Monae Johnson. “We are proud of the thorough work done to safeguard South Dakota’s voter rolls. We worked closely with DPS to resolve this issue, and we’re constantly working to make sure that only eligible citizens are participating in our elections.” 

There are 682,031 total registered voters in South Dakota, and 617,396 are considered active voters by the SOS. 

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19 thoughts on “Noncitizens Removed from South Dakota Voter Roll ”

    1. The envelopes their ballots are in should still be sealed with their names, right?
      I havent voted yet but it seems to me when I have voted early my ballot goes into an envelope which I seal, and it has my name on the outside.

    2. Any absentee voter still has to be eligible on Election Day. If they were removed due to being a non citizen their absentee envelope would be pulled, not opened, and their ballot not counted on Election Day. Same if you pass away before Election Day or are convicted of a felony and have already voted an absentee ballot, those ballots don’t count.

  2. Is it soothing or terrifying that the State Secretary cannot do this herownself, and that the Department of Public Safety (cops) and the Department of BIT (computers) can actually edit and nullify voters?

    grudznick is pondering.

    1. I hope those other agencies are pulling the list and pushing the names of the voters out to the auditor of that county so the auditor can remove….

      Of course maybe SOS cannot trust minnehaha to get this done and therefore may have to complete on their own

      1. It is just scary that cops and nerds can pull voters from the rolls. grudznick has ruled.

        Cops and nerds are a bad combination. Very bad.

    1. A wound with WP wouldnt be opened, it would be cauterized due to the burning. Even the analogies you use make you look like an imbecile. Good god, you are so damn stupid it physically pains me.

  4. They need to clarify this. When they say non citizen, it is likely a US citizen that isn’t a SD citizen. How many of our snowbird elders got removed?

  5. Wow! Massive voter fraud? As most non-conspiracy people already knew, we have a pretty high level of integrity in our voter rolls. So 273 voters out of approx. 669,000 total individuals. That is .04%. We should be proud to have data that clean.

    2. Massive voter fraud? I don’t think that term was used in this ‘article’.

      Most people paying attention at the time and watching Senate hearings are not conspiracy theorists. Just realists. If you didn’t acknowledge it by paying attention, that’s on you.

      I doubt it was ‘massive’ in SD and won’t make a difference but why not clean up where you can??

  6. Secretary Johnson could perform a public service as well as allay some concerns, by disclosing the breakdown of persons who relocated out of state as bd maybe didn’t notify election officials g th hat they were moving from any potentially fraudulent registrations.

  8. Given the election integrity narrative the current Secy. of State ran her campaign on, is it any surprise that this public statement is purposely vague? With Trump on down, the GOP publicly claims illegal immigrant voting is at crisis levels and will be one of (given the day of the week) any number of reasons why Trump could lose in November. In this case, a half-truth serves the same purpose as a lie.

    Here, non-citizen voters are most likely US citizens who may have residency confusion (aka snowbirds and the like). If anyone in the election denier community thinks that an illegal immigrant, non-citizen of the US would register to vote in order to cast a ballot, they have no concept of risk vs. reward calculations. For it to be some kind of Democratic Party concocted get out the vote effort is also far-fetched. After all, the SD Dems are not that organized.

    1. Many non citizens get Drivers Licenses through DPS. When someone gets a DL and registers to vote a human at DPS makes that entry. Guessing through sloppy work they accidentally entered 273 that should not have been entered

  9. I’m trying to find any specific clarification:
    Were the non-citizens that were removed not US citizens or not South Dakota citizens
    I mean…both should absolutely be removed, but they could mean either. There were past SoS’s that I would just accept this press release on as meaning people who were not citizens of the US.
    I don’t really trust our current SoS not to play word games to try to start a controversy…

  10. darn it all, this will make it that much harder for leah anderson to muddy the waters next month, but she seems like the type to enjoy a good challenge. can’t wait to see what happens.

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