More than 500 noncitizens are registered to vote in Tuesday’s Washington, D.C., Council elections.
As of May 29, which is the latest available count, 523 noncitizen Washington, D.C., residents are registered to vote, Sarah Graham, a spokeswoman for the District of Columbia Board of Elections (DCBOE), told Fox News Digital.
That includes 310 registered Democrats, 28 Republicans, 16 with the D.C. Statehood Green Party, and 169 unaffiliated noncitizen voters who are registered with no party, Graham said.
Graham said the DCBOE does not collect data on the nationalities of noncitizen voters, but The Washington Post spoke to noncitizen voters from El Salvador, Iran and Ethiopia.
Just days before the June 4 Washington, D.C., primary, 52 House Democrats voted with Republicans on a bill to overturn a 2022 Washington, D.C., law that allows noncitizens to vote in local elections. Though it is unclear if the Democrat-controlled Senate will take on the legislation, the margin of House Democrats who supported the bill increased from the 42 who voted to strike down the law last year.
The House Administration Committee has held two hearings in recent weeks dedicated to discussing how noncitizen voting impacts confidence in American elections and risks possible foreign interference.
