{"id":242787,"date":"2026-07-14T02:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242787\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T02:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:44:07","slug":"pennsylvania-officials-respond-to-federal-warning-on-non-citizen-voter-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242787\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania officials respond to federal warning on non-citizen voter registration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPennsylvania election officials are responding to a federal government warning about the potential prosecution of non-citizens who are registered or able to vote in the state.  In a statement, Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt said, &#8220;I take seriously the obligations under both federal and Pennsylvania law to ensure that only eligible voters have access to the ballot box.&#8221;  He added, &#8220;The department refers instances of suspected voter fraud to our state and federal law enforcement partners.&#8221;  Schmidt also said, &#8220;We have worked closely with the Department of Justice on matters that have led to criminal charges as recently as this year.&#8221;\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t, Pa. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania election officials are responding to a federal government warning about the potential prosecution of non-citizens who are registered or able to vote in the state.  <\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt said, &#8220;I take seriously the obligations under both federal and Pennsylvania law to ensure that only eligible voters have access to the ballot box.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>He added, &#8220;The department refers instances of suspected voter fraud to our state and federal law enforcement partners.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Schmidt also said, &#8220;We have worked closely with the Department of Justice on matters that have led to criminal charges as recently as this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania election officials are responding to a federal government warning about the potential prosecution of non-citizens who are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[104107,104108,104109,28,104106,30,29,104110,53338],"class_list":["post-242787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-federal-government-warning","tag-federal-warning","tag-non-citizens","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-election-officials","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-potential-prosecution","tag-secretary-of-the-commonwealth-al-schmidt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}