FROM INDIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING

Indiana Secretary of State Diego Morales and Attorney General Todd Rokita are questioning the citizenship of more than half a million registered voters as Election Day draws closer.

The Republican officials sent a letter to the federal government with voters’ names and birth dates, asking it to confirm their citizenship status.

The more than 585-thousand registered voters Morales and Rokita are questioning fall into three categories: those who registered without providing a driver’s license number or Social Security number; registered voters located overseas; and those who registered simply without a driver’s license number.

Under federal and state law, you can register to vote using a paper form without having a driver’s license or Social Security number and many voters located overseas are members of the military.

If the federal government does potentially flag people as non-citizens, federal law doesn’t allow counties to remove them from the voter rolls.

And there are questions about whether Morales and Rokita are allowed under state law to share voters’ birth dates with federal officials.