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Organizations teaching English as a Second Language classes offered to sign students up to vote without informing them that they were not allowed to vote.

Posted by unDivided with Brandi Kruse, Checked

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Sources
5 context
Said
1 time·
Confidence
20%
unDivided with Brandi KruseOct 27, 2026
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None of the provided sources addresses the claim that ESL-class organizations signed students up to vote without disclosing they were ineligible. The only source on the topic is the claimant's own remarks in the post, which cannot corroborate it; the extraction faithfully reflects the passage. As of 2026-10-27 the claim cannot be graded in either direction.

A guest makes this claim. Listeners heard it, so it counts against the post, and on the guest's own record.

This claim is about the present, so it is judged as of the day it was checked.

What was said

… And they don't tell them that they're not allowed to, you know, vote. And then a couple of them, they went to English for Second Language classes. Um, we're looking into the organizations that were teaching those classes because they offered to sign them up to vote and didn't tell them that they weren't allowed to vote. Have you, or someone with the DOJ or an investigative arm, uhm, spoken to these people? We're going through the list. We've interviewed a lot of them, so we're starting to see some patterns. …
unDivided with Brandi Kruse · · from the transcriptPost →

What we found

Context. The claimant's post says the speaker is 'looking into' organizations that taught ESL classes and allegedly offered voter registration without disclosing ineligibility, but no provided source confirms or disputes this.

Context. Sources on noncitizen voting rules (Snopes, PolitiFact) and on ESL and citizenship services in Washington and King County do not mention any organization signing ESL students up to vote or any investigation of such conduct.[1][2][3][4][5]

Context. The PolitiFact item concerns a different claim about registration at DMV and welfare offices, so it does not address the ESL-class allegation.[2]

Sources

5 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 3 primary

  1. 1Noncitizens don't vote in large numbers in US elections. Here ...snopes.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
  2. 2Mike Johnson's false claim about noncitizens registering to vote at ...politifact.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
  3. 3Education and outreach - King County, Washingtonkingcounty.gov · primary source · cited for: context
  4. 4Immigration / Anti-Deportation / Naturalization Resourcescapaa.wa.gov · primary source · cited for: context
  5. 5New Citizen Program - Immigrant and Refugeeseattle.gov · primary source · cited for: context

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