The majority of Americans want elections decided by citizens. Non-citizens voting makes no sense. If someone is not an American citizen, why should they be able to vote in American elections? Can you name any country in the world where people who are not citizens of that country are allowed to vote in the country’s elections? The Trump administration is attempting to make sure that only American citizens vote in American elections.
On Tuesday, The Daily Signal reported:
The Supreme Court’s Monday decision cleared the way for the Department of Homeland Security to establish a state-by-state list of eligible voters based on a crosscheck of citizenship data, the Social Security database, and other government information.
“The DHS can determine who is eligible to vote because the federal government does not want to be complicit in fraud through sending mail-in ballots to noncitizens,” Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project, told the Daily Signal. “So it makes sense as to why the administration would want to prioritize this.”
The list would be shared with states, but states are not obligated to use the list to police voter rolls.
High-profile Democrat election lawyer Marc Elias expressed alarm over the high court’s ruling in a statement on his website, Democracy Docket.
Regarding the DHS list of eligible citizens, Elias said, “It orders the federal government to compile a list of Trump-approved eligible voters to be sent to the states.”
The above statement is spin. These voters are not Trump-approved–they are people confirmed as American citizens eligible to vote. By putting President Trump’s name into his statement, Elias hopes to distract from the validity of the idea of only citizens voting and appeal to the people who suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).
The article at The Daily Signal concludes:
Though it was a decision on standing rather than the merits of the executive order, that is still significant in curbing what plaintiffs can do, and what national policy district court judges can block, said election lawyer Cleta Mitchell, chairman of the Election Integrity Network at the Conservative Partnership Institute.
“I obviously wish the Supreme Court had stepped up and stopped the challenge in its tracks,” Mitchell told the Daily Signal. “It may have been necessary to rule on standing to get the votes. At some point, the Supreme Court should step in with the tyrants in black robes and let them know they are not the president, they are not the legislature, and they are not the state election board.”
The tyrants in black robes need to stay in their own lane.