The Oklahoma Senate on Feb. 22 approved legislation aimed at helping county election boards remove illegal aliens from voter registration rolls in a move that lawmakers say will prevent unlawful voting from taking place.
The bill, known as SB 377, was authored by state Sen. Brent Howard (R-Dis. 38) at the request of Oklahoma’s Secretary of the State Election Board.
Specifically, under the legislation, the voter registration of anyone who has been excused from jury duty for not being a U.S. citizen would be canceled.
According to the bill (pdf), the county court clerks would each month prepare a list of all individuals “excused from jury duty for not being a citizen of the United States and provide the list to the secretary of the county election board.”…