GOP county chair tells poll watchers to flag 'Hispanic-sounding' voters as 'suspicious'
James Womack, the Chairman of the Lee County, North Carolina Republican Party, was caught on camera telling poll watchers to be on the lookout for local voters with "Hispanic-sounding" names.
CBS News reports that Womack's remarks were made during a virtual meeting of 1,800 poll watchers in North Carolina.
""If you've got folks that you, that were registered, and they're missing information… and they were registered in the last 90 days before the election, and they've got Hispanic-sounding last names, that probably is, is a suspicious voter," said Womack.
"It doesn't mean they're illegal. It just means they're suspicious."
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Womack is the founder of the North Carolina Election Integrity Team, which CBS News describes as "a group of self-described patriots dedicated to investigating the election for what they perceive as incidents of fraud." Womack told CBS News that the group is mostly made up of retirees working at home with their computers to analyze voting records.
There has never been any evidence of undocumented immigrants voting in large numbers and Juan Proaño, the CEO of the League of United Latin American Citizens, told CBS News it would make no sense for such immigrants to take such a massive risk to vote in an election when many of them are in the United States to make money to send to their families in their home countries.
"It's very much a myth," he said. "But the campaigns have essentially used it as rhetoric, again, to try and suppress and intimidate the Latino vote."