Rensselaer County, NY Board of Elections to give ICE voter registration information

July 19, 2019

The Rensselaer County Board of Elections plans to share voter registration information with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to check if anyone who registered to vote is in the U.S. illegally, county Republicans said Thursday. County Democrats called it “political grandstanding” and said they were not informed of the Republicans’ action. Mallory Moench and Kenneth C. Crowe II, The Times Union.

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