Case Document 187-5 Filed 06/14/19 Page 2 of 7 Page D# 10678

no. not. 

Dear Ms. Powell,

I am responding to the most recent request by your organization, the Pu blic Interest Legal Foundation,
for the non-citizen cancellation report for the dates 1f1;?11 to present. To clarify charges you make in your
letter dated January 31, 2017, we did not deny your request. Your representatives appeared in my office on
the first day of absentee?voting. Our office is a two person office that was in the midst of serving our
registered voters by conducting the election with professionalism and integrity. Your purported concerns
about the integrity of elections should have ta ken into consideration that significant deadline to serve
registered voters and made them a priority. Upon requesting contact information from your representatives
so i could respond to them, they refused to even provide their names or contact information. All of these
events render your accusation that we denied your request invalid.

i would also like to remind your organization that the Department of Elections provided the report you
are requesting including clarifications, in September of 2016 {see Attachment A). Your article in the Daily
giggj? titled "Hundreds of Noncitizens on Voting Rolls in Swing State of Virginia?(Attachment B) dated
September 28, 2016 grossly misrepresented the facts and further eroded voter confidence in the processes
election administrators are required to follow in accordance with legislation.

Attached (Attachment C) you will find the report you have requested. As you were informed by the
Department of Elections, this report is not all inclusive and there are false positives. Each voter on this report
was a different circumstance. i have researched each one ofthem since I wasn?t appointed to this position or
employed in this office until late 2012. in many instances, voters miss checking the tiny box indicating they
are citizens. In this instance, we are required to deny their registrations or cancel them ifthey are registered
and submitting an application to change their address or name etc. without completing that part of the
application. We send a letter notifying them of the cancellation and the reason and in the majority of
instances, they provide valid photo idr'proof of citizenship and their registration is reactivated. in one instance
i found that my predecessor erroneously cancelled the voter, noting that the voter had failed to check the
citizen box when in fact the voter had. This report only shows the canceliations and insinuates that hundreds
or thousands of non?citizens have voted when you don?t have the whoie history of the voters you are
referencing statewide.

There are many more serious concerns in the administration of elections nationwide. i remain
concerned about your potential misinterpretation of the reports and your propensity to misrepresent those
results to our voters.

Please note, i do not give you permission in any way to quote me, reproduce, forward, or attribute
anything i have written in this letter. Rappahannock County has now complied with your request and a copy
of ail correspondence regarding this matter is now in the custody of our Commonweaith Attorney and County

Attorney.



Respectfully,

   

 


cKiernan, VREO
bi"hector of Elections, Rappahannock County, VA
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