Status of non-citizen voting & citizen-only voting laws by state (as of April 2024). Image credit: Americans for Citizen Voting PAC.
Excerpt from The American Conservative
By Hayden Ludwig | May 2, 2024
Voter suppression is real—and it’s happening in blue states and ultra-“progressive” cities across America. Non-citizen voting is the left’s latest social justice craze, one that’s canceling out the constitutionally guaranteed votes of tens of thousands of American citizens, including naturalized immigrants who worked hard to lawfully obtain their citizenship.
Fortunately, there’s a cure.
[Author Hayden Ludwig] spoke with Paul Jacob, president of the Americans for Citizen Voting PAC, which is active across the nation to protect citizen voting rights by banning non-citizens from casting a ballot—including the illegal aliens pouring through our open borders.
“Americans should be very concerned about the threat of non-citizens voting in our elections, even in states where it’s not yet legal,” he commented via email. To date, the Left’s campaigns have focused on Democrat-controlled states like California and New York, but it’s only a matter of time before they turn to Republican states as well.
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Article Takeaways and links:
--Non-citizen voting is virtually non-existent outside the United States, though some European Union (EU) countries allow other EU citizens to vote locally under strict residency conditions.
--For many Americans it’s self-evident that only U.S. citizens should vote in U.S. elections.
--One party realized it needed millions of new voters to stay viable outside Manhattan and Hollywood. Around 2015, they found just the loophole to exploit.
--Congress and President Bill Clinton outlawed non-citizen voting in 1996 for federal elections, but ignored state and local elections as a non-issue (as it was at the time).
--That process began roughly a decade ago with gutting photo ID requirements in elections, hiding the existence of non-citizen voter fraud, and imposing automatic voter registration laws dramatically to expand the pool of registered ...voters—legal or otherwise.
--Collectively, each policy is designed to assist a sophisticated ballot harvesting machine
--The bigger project: Legalizing voting in all elections nationwide for the record 51 million non-citizens living in the United States, illegal aliens included. That starts with quietly normalizing voting by unassimilated foreigners...and blurring the lines between citizens and everyone else.
--“[Non-citizen voting] in federal elections is] already illegal,” NPR sneered earlier this month.
-- BUT "'dark money' fronts like the Arabella-spawned Voting Rights Lab—genuine experts—have detailed how illegal aliens have been voting in elections for years."
--Census Bureau data shows that roughly 2.2 million non-citizens voted illegally in the 2008 election, according to the fact-checking website, Just Facts. Later analysis showed that illegal votes by non-citizens netted... tens of thousands of votes in 7 battleground states in 2020.
--Author Hayden Ludwig traced well-funded lobbying campaigns by the Arabella “dark money” network to kill bills basing district maps on the number of eligible voters instead of the total population—all of them in red or purple states.
--Progressives need that high-powered election machine just to eke out the barest victory in normal America.
--What happens when patriots get serious about building their own get-out-the-vote machine?
--Fully 75 percent of voters oppose non-citizen voting in their local elections
--79 percent of voters in North Carolina and 80 percent in Georgia agree that “only U.S. citizens should vote in elections.”
--So far, 6 states—Florida, Ohio, Colorado, Alabama, Louisiana, and North Dakota—have passed citizen-only voting amendments in recent years. The one to watch is Colorado, where voters approved a 2020 initiative 63–37 percent with a winning margin of 814,000 votes.
--Rep. H. Morgan Griffith of Virginia introduced a bill in mid-April (H.R. 4460) specifying that “no State should permit non-citizens to cast ballots in State or local elections.”
--Wisconsin, Iowa, Kentucky, and Idaho have placed Citizen-Only Voting Amendments on the Nov. 5 ballot. We expect another four or five states to do so as well, including North Carolina.”
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