Department of Homeland Security wants to help illegal alien who voted become a citizen

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Illegal Immigrant Manages to Vote In Election

by Brent Frazier

COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – It wasn’t her election, but it’s now Debbie Steidl’s problem: the 6-year-old case of a Cookeville man, with zero documentation to prove U.S. citizenship, being allowed to vote and now working backward to be naturalized the legal way.

Asked if the man, whose identity Steidl would not reveal, should have voted that fateful election day in November 2004, she replied: “No, because he’s not a citizen of the U.S., and you have to be a citizen of the U.S. to vote!”

Debbie Steidl is Putnam County’s administrator of elections, on the job just a year-and-a-half now. Steidl is refusing to keep quiet about the newly revealed case, she has notified, in writing homeland security; the TBI; office of the district attorney general; and the state election commission.

Her letter was prompted by this mystery man’s return to her office right around primary election time last week, to offer a confession about his casting a ballot in ’04, and now his quest to undo it. The immigrant, according to Steidl, came armed with a letter from the Department of Homeland Security, headquartered in Memphis. The letter instructed Steidl to ‘purge’ the man from the Putnam County voter registration rolls.

“If he doesn’t get purged, he can’t become a citizen,” Steidl told NewsChannel 5, in an exclusive interview Tuesday afternoon.