Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) has asserted that she possesses unequivocal proof that metropolis officers are actively working to allow unlawful immigrants to get registered to vote.
Malliotakis submitted a request below the Freedom of Info Regulation (FOIL) to entry the settlement between New York Metropolis and Houses for the Homeless, which manages the migrant facility on Staten Island.
Homes for the Homeless (HFH) is a nonprofit group tasked with erecting emergency shelters for migrants amidst a deepening border disaster. Inside this contract’s appendix, the Consultant noticed language that appeared to instruct the nonprofit to produce voter registration paperwork to the shelters’ migrant residents.
Throughout a press briefing in Staten Island, Malliotakis introduced that she had acquired a portion of a contract between New York Metropolis’s Division of Social Providers and Houses for the Homeless.
She discovered that it obligates contractors of migrant shelters at hand out voter registration playing cards, assist migrants in registering to vote, and flow into marketing campaign supplies throughout the shelter premises.
“This is the smoking gun that proves what we’ve been saying all along, that the city intends to register noncitizens to vote, and even those who are residing in these migrant shelters for just 30 days,” Malliotakis mentioned per FOX News. “It is extremely concerning. It should be concerning to every citizen.”
In an X put up, Malliotakis wrote, “My office has uncovered #NYC’s secret scheme to potentially register tens of thousands of migrants to vote in our elections. Take a look at this contract between HFH NYC, the “non-profit” that kicked out seniors to deal with migrants, & the Metropolis of New York.”
NEWS: My workplace has uncovered #NYC‘s secret scheme to probably register tens of 1000’s of migrants to vote in our elections. Check out this contract between @HFH_NYC, the “non-profit” that kicked out seniors to deal with migrants, & the Metropolis of New York ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/Hr1Vzx17fw
— Workplace of Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (@RepMalliotakis) December 3, 2023
“There is nothing more important than preserving the integrity of our election system,” Malliotakis mentioned in a statement.
“The right to vote is a sacred right given only to United States citizens, and certainly not one provided to those who crossed over our border illegally and made their way to New York City last month. The City better not be acting in violation of the judge’s ruling that struck down the noncitizen voting law that would have allowed 800,000 noncitizens with a Green Card or Work Authorization and who have resided in New York City for 30 days, to vote. The only thing that may be stopping the registration of these noncitizens is our lawsuit that halted the law from taking effect, but it’s very disturbing that in their own contracts, the City is requiring contractors to distribute registration forms while prohibiting them from asking citizenship status.”
The detailed contract appendix specifies the contractors who routinely work together with the general public as a part of their every day operations are required at hand out voter registration types offered by the town. These laws mandate the contractors be prepared to provide types in Spanish or Chinese language and procure an ample amount of such types from the town.
In keeping with the FY14 Discretionary Contract:
Distribution of Voter Registration Varieties
In accordance with Constitution § 1057-a, the Contractor, if a contractor having common contact with the general public within the every day administration of its enterprise below this Settlement, hereby agrees as follows:
(1) The Contractor shall present and distribute voter registration types to all individuals along with written purposes for providers, renewal or recertification for providers and alter of tackle referring to such providers. Such voter registration types shall be offered to the Contractor by the Metropolis. The Contractor ought to be ready to supply types written in Spanish or Chinese language, and shall receive a adequate provide of such types from the Metropolis.
(2) The Contractor shall additionally embody a voter registration type with any Contractor communication despatched by way of the USA mail for the aim of supplying shoppers with software, renewal or recertification for providers and alter of tackle referring to such providers supplies. If types written in Spanish or Chinese language will not be offered in such mailing, the Contractor shall present such types upon request.
(3) The Contractor shall, topic to approval by the Division, incorporate a chance to request a voter registration software into any software for providers, renewal or recertification for providers and alter of tackle referring to such providers offered on laptop terminals, the World Huge Internet or the Web. Any individual indicating that they want to be despatched a voter registration type, by way of laptop terminals, the World Huge Internet or the Web shall be despatched such a type by the Contractor or be directed, in a way topic to approval by the Division, to a financial institution on that system the place such a type could also be downloaded.
(4) The Contractor shall, on the earliest practicable or subsequent commonly scheduled printing of its personal types, topic to approval by the Division, bodily incorporate the voter registration types with its personal software types in a way that allows the voter registration portion to be indifferent therefrom. Till such time when the Contractor amends its type, the Contractor ought to affix or embody a postage paid New York Metropolis Board of Elections voter registration type to or with its software, renewal, recertification and alter of tackle types.
(5) The Contractor shall prominently show in its public workplace, topic to approval by the Division, promotional supplies designed and accredited by the New York Metropolis or New York State Board of Elections.
(6) For the needs of Half A of this text, the phrase “contractor” shall be deemed to incorporate subcontractors having common contract with the general public within the every day administration of their enterprise.
(7) The provisions of Half A of this text shall not apply to providers that have to be offered to forestall precise or potential hazard to life, well being or security of any particular person or of the general public.
Help in Finishing Varieties
In accordance with Constitution § 1057-a, the Contractor hereby agrees as follows:
(1) Within the occasion the Division offers help in finishing distributed voter registration types, the Contractor shall additionally present such help, within the method and to the extent specified by the Division.
(2) Within the occasion the Division receives and transmits accomplished registration types from candidates who want to have the types transmitted to the New York Metropolis Board of Elections, the Contractor shall equally present such service, within the method and to the extent specified by the Division.
(3) If, in reference to the availability of providers below this Settlement, the Contractor intends to supply help in finishing distributed voter registration types or to obtain and transmit accomplished registration types from candidates who want to have the types transmitted to the New York Metropolis Board of Elections, the Contractor shall accomplish that solely by prior association with the Division.
(4) The availability of Half B providers by the Contractor could also be topic to Division protocols, together with one on confidentiality.
Regardless of these accusations, officers from NYC’s Division of Social Providers have rebutted Malliotakis’s claims. In keeping with them, the incriminated contract part strictly pertains to “eligible clients” who’re U.S. residents inside shelter housing.
“These allegations are both incorrect and unfounded. DHS has a legal mandate to insert voter registration-related language in shelter contracts, which is applicable solely to citizens who are eligible. This does not extend to asylum seekers housed in shelters,” a spokesperson instructed FOX Information.
“As our teams continue to provide vital case-management services to connect asylum seekers to supports to help them move out of shelter, we strongly caution against lending any credence to such dangerous misrepresentations of the City’s response to this humanitarian crisis,” it added.
The revelation of this data arrives not too lengthy after a state decide overruled a 2021 Metropolis Council statute that permitted noncitizen residents to vote in municipal elections. This authorized choice stemmed from a lawsuit that included Malliotakis as one of many plaintiffs, with an ongoing attraction being lodged by the town alongside migrants’ rights advocacy teams.
“The right to vote is a sacred right given only to U.S. citizens, & certainly not to those who crossed our border illegally & came to NYC last month. After we sued, a judge ruled noncitizen voting unconstitutional & NYC Mayor must respect the decision!” Malliotakis wrote.
