PA-AUD: Auditor General Tim DeFoor announced an audit of Pennsylvania's motor voter system.

Pennsylvania’s top auditor is investigating the state’s automatic voter registration system, coming as some GOP lawmakers in Harrisburg baselessly suggest that the “motor voter” program allows non-U.S. citizens to participate in elections.

Noncitizens who are in the country legally are eligible to get their driver’s license in Pennsylvania; officials with both the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and the Department of State say there is no evidence that they are abusing the nonpartisan motor voter program.

The program has aided voter registration at driver’s license centers across the state since the mid-2000s and was streamlined by Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration last year via executive order.

A year later, Auditor General Tim DeFoor — one of Harrisburg’s highest-ranking Republicans — announced that his office would investigate the program for possible noncitizen use.



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