Non-citizen Chinese immigrant is sworn in on SF’s Election Commission

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A Chinese immigrant has been sworn in to serve on San Francisco’s Election Commission despite her lack of US citizenship, raising national security concerns as one US senator warns that Chinese President Xi Jinping is playing the “long game.” Kelly Wong, an immigration rights activist who came to the US in 2019 from Hong Kong for graduate studies, was unanimously appointed by San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors to the city’s Elections Commission on Feb. 14. She is believed to be the first non-citizen ever to sit on the commission, after California voters approved a measure in 2020 to eliminate the...