Comments on: The Accidental Voter http://isgreaterthan.net/2008/12/the-accidental-voter/ Literary-minded culture blog Sun, 25 Sep 2011 06:38:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Steve Kirby http://isgreaterthan.net/2008/12/the-accidental-voter/comment-page-1/#comment-7321 Steve Kirby Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:57:31 +0000 http://isgreaterthan.net/?p=8674#comment-7321 My fiance is going thru this now, she is from the Philippines has been here since 1992, in 2003 she went to the DMV in Waukegan IL, to get a state ID and went thru the assembly line asking would you like to be a organ doner, register to vote, she said yes and a card was pushed in front of her and the person said sign here, she was not asked to make any check marks, was not asked to read it, just sign. After a few weeks her voter card came in the mail and she went and voted in 2004 for the president. Just to let you know I'm a citizen was born and raised here, and I didn't know that you have to be a citizen to vote, and she didn't know that either, the main reason I didn't know is because I do not vote never have. I have taken a lot of flack on this from this other forum where I have explained our situation, you don't vote your not an American they just cannot believe that this is true, and they cannot believe how she made a mistake. We decided in 2006 to go for her citizenship we filed and went to her interview and test, she passed with flying colors, but then a big flag was raised, the Immigration officer said I see you voted why, she explained and then he told her do you know you have to be a citizen to vote, she said no I did not know that. This is when we both learned the truth. Well she was denied citizenship for being Immoral and lying, giving false testimony and lying. She did not know she did anything wrong so we filed an appeal under form N336 this took a year before they called her back in for the appeal hearing. During this hearing the Immigration officer asked for more evidence on how she became registered to vote, they asked her to get a copy of the form she signed at the DMV and then asked her how all of this happened and she explained, but all of this was already in her appeal statement. We sent that form in and now we are waiting to see what happens. Do you have any dealings with this and know of the outcome. Thanks My fiance is going thru this now, she is from the Philippines has been here since 1992, in 2003 she went to the DMV in Waukegan IL, to get a state ID and went thru the assembly line asking would you like to be a organ doner, register to vote, she said yes and a card was pushed in front of her and the person said sign here, she was not asked to make any check marks, was not asked to read it, just sign. After a few weeks her voter card came in the mail and she went and voted in 2004 for the president. Just to let you know I’m a citizen was born and raised here, and I didn’t know that you have to be a citizen to vote, and she didn’t know that either, the main reason I didn’t know is because I do not vote never have. I have taken a lot of flack on this from this other forum where I have explained our situation, you don’t vote your not an American they just cannot believe that this is true, and they cannot believe how she made a mistake. We decided in 2006 to go for her citizenship we filed and went to her interview and test, she passed with flying colors, but then a big flag was raised, the Immigration officer said I see you voted why, she explained and then he told her do you know you have to be a citizen to vote, she said no I did not know that. This is when we both learned the truth. Well she was denied citizenship for being Immoral and lying, giving false testimony and lying. She did not know she did anything wrong so we filed an appeal under form N336 this took a year before they called her back in for the appeal hearing. During this hearing the Immigration officer asked for more evidence on how she became registered to vote, they asked her to get a copy of the form she signed at the DMV and then asked her how all of this happened and she explained, but all of this was already in her appeal statement. We sent that form in and now we are waiting to see what happens. Do you have any dealings with this and know of the outcome.

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