{"id":56009,"date":"2024-08-06T09:08:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T13:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=56009"},"modified":"2024-08-06T09:08:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T13:08:10","slug":"the-states-are-taking-action-because-congress-is-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=56009","title":{"rendered":"The States Are Taking Action Because Congress Is Not"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday, The Daily Signal<\/a> posted an article about eight states that are going to put citizen-only voting on their ballots in November.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

States set to vote on whether to amend their constitutions to prevent noncitizens from voting are Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Wisconsin.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In previous election cycles, such amendments to state constitutions passed overwhelmingly.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see how the voters vote this time.<\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

The House last month passed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act<\/a>, or SAVE Act, which would require that states obtain documentary proof of U.S. citizenship from someone before he or she may register to vote. The bill would amend the 1993 National Voter Registration Act, known as the \u201cmotor voter law.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Democrat-controlled Senate, however, is unlikely to take up the House bill.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the states, the proposed constitutional amendments in effect would prevent local governments from expanding voting rights to noncitizens, as has occurred in California, Maryland, and Vermont.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cStates can take action constitutionally to protect citizen voters,\u201d Kerri Toloczko, executive director of the Election Integrity Network, told The Daily Signal.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOpponents [of banning noncitizen voting] say it\u2019s already illegal for foreign nationals to vote. It\u2019s also illegal to steal a car,\u201d Toloczko said. \u201cThere are so many loopholes in the National Voter Registration Act.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

As noted in my book \u201cThe Myth of Voter Suppression<\/a>,\u201d there have been numerous adjudicated cases of foreign nationals registering to vote and voting in past elections.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

A 1996 federal law<\/a> specifically prohibits noncitizens from voting in federal elections for president or members of Congress. However, the law doesn\u2019t dictate what local governments can do.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In addition, the 1993 National Voter Registration Act requires voter registration at states\u2019 motor vehicle departments and social services agencies.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are some cities in America that allow non-citizens to vote in local elections, but what happens when a local election is included on a national ballot? When America was first founded, only land-owners were allowed to vote. The idea was that they were ‘stakeholders’ and were going to protect their own interests. What interest does someone who is not a citizen have in America’s success?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Sunday, The Daily Signal posted an article about eight states that are going to put citizen-only voting on their ballots in November. The article reports: States set to vote on whether to amend their constitutions to prevent noncitizens from … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5758,2287,7921,13188,10397,16775,3568,9214,13538],"class_list":["post-56009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-citizenship","tag-constitutional-amendment","tag-federal-law","tag-non-citizens","tag-the-daily-signal","tag-voter-eligibility","tag-voter-registration","tag-voter-suppression","tag-voting-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56010,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56009\/revisions\/56010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}