Noncitizen Says She Voted In Multiple Georgia Elections

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Clayton County resident Melanie Pickett is a Bahamian native but has lived in the Peach State for approximately 30 years.

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ccording to Pickett, she does not “know” “how it happened.”

“I got a driver’s license … and then I started getting” voting-related information “in the mail, and I said, ‘Oh, OK.’ And then I got a jury duty [summons]. So I went to jury duty, and at the end of the information [sheet] you had to fill out, it said, ‘Are you a U.S. citizen,’ and I said, ‘no’ and they told me I could go home,” Pickett said.

“This year, I think, this was my second time trying to vote, and this year they told me I couldn’t vote, and that was about it,” Pickett said during the Dec. 9 SEB hearing. Pickett said, however, that she was informed she was ineligible to vote, apparently due to her noncitizen status.

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But Pickett subsequently said she “maybe” voted three times.

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Twenty noncitizens who were registered to vote had simultaneously declared they were not citizens when summoned for jury duty. Pickett noted during her hearing that she accurately noted on a jury summons form that she was indeed not a citizen.

Though Pickett indicated she voted a handful of times, SEB member Dr. Janice Johnston cited an investigation that found voting records showing Pickett voted 23 times between November 2000 and December 2022.

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The SEB ultimately voted to send this case to the district attorney, state attorney general, and Department of Justice.

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