State Official Admits No System to Identify Whether Voters Are Noncitizens
31st October 2026
A top Washington state official said on Oct. 29 that the state has no way to confirm whether people are U.S. citizens when registering them to vote.
“We don’t have a system that can identify whether someone is an actual noncitizen,” Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs said during a press conference in King County.
Hobbs also said that “it’s not unusual for noncitizens to actually be on voter rolls” and that “we never said that there are none on there.”