Illegal aliens canvassing for votes in Washington State

teapartysamurai · Oct 23, 2010

When Maria Gianni is knocking on voters' doors, she's not bashful about telling people she is in the country illegally. She knows it's a risk to advertise to strangers that she's here illegallybut one worth taking in what she sees as a crucial election.

The 42-year-old is one of dozens of volunteersmany of them illegal immigrantscanvassing neighborhoods in the Seattle area trying to get naturalized citizens to cast a ballot for candidates like Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, who is in a neck-to-neck race with Republican Dino Rossi.

Pramila Jayapal, head of OneAmerica Votes, says the campaign is about empowering immigrants who may not feel like they can contribute to a campaign because they can't vote.

"Immigrants really do matter," Jayapal said. "If we can't vote ourselves, we're gonna knock on doors, or get family members to vote."
So far the illegal immigrants going door-to-door aren't meeting opposition. Craig Keller, an organizer for Respect WA, a group pushing for stricter immigration law in the Washington, said he doesn't mind illegal immigrants volunteering for vote drives, he just wants to make sure mistakes on the voter rolls don't allow them to vote.

"Anybody can go out and wave a sign, but when it comes to who's making the choices, there's no question they need to be citizens," Keller said. In close elections across the country, the immigrant and minority vote is considered key for candidates, especially Democrats.

In Wash., illegal immigrants canvassing for votes

Oh yeah, they "can't vote."

That's why Democrats were so desperate to stop needing an ID to vote in Ohio, because illegals can't vote.

That's why they had acorn signing up everyone from Mickey Mouse to Mary Poppins, and flooding the polls with "provisional ballots" because they can't vote.

Yeah Democrats "only" want citizens to vote. Which is why they keep saying illegals are really Americans.

November is coming. Time to stop this crap!

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