This, from the Washington Times:
The State Department has issued an urgent call to its diplomats worldwide to volunteer for monthlong assignments in U.S. passport offices, offering to pay their expenses if they return home and help clear a backlog of 3 million passport applications that has forced thousands of Americans to cancel trips abroad this summer.
Anyone who registers to vote in California sees this right away:
Q. Am I eligible to vote?
Yes, if you are a U.S. citizen at least 18 years of age by Election Day a resident of California registered at least 15 days before the election not in prison or on parole for the conviction of a felony, and not currently judged mentally incompetent by a court of law. You must be registered in order to vote and to sign petitions placing initiatives on the ballot.
A legal resident of the U.S., who never became a citizen and obviously knew she was ineligible, registered to vote and voted in 2004. Yet the Associated Press’ headline reads: Unwitting woman votes, faces deportation. Here’s their sad version of the story:
